2nd house

The second house rules everything available for strictly personal use. Compared with the twelfth house, where personality is supported, or is both strengthened and weakened out of past experience and general background, the second is where personality expands itself, or where the native "spreads himself" among his fellows. Basically it rules resources, and this among other things is money, or the general medium of exchange
by which an individual most easily broadens his experience.


The spreading of personality, or this definite use of
resources, is illustrated by the four example charts. The
resourceful lady and Martin Luther have planets in the
second house. Their careers required that they have the
means for free contact with many people and situations.
Queen Victoria and Woodrow Wilson, who by contrast
were more like the actors in a drama, have no planets
in the second. In the latter two instances there was
never any real problem of personal means, but in the
first two cases the entire lives consisted of a quest for