The second house concerns money, possessions, and self-worth, and the Moon there makes the balance an emotional instrument rather than a financial one. Comfort is the object, not display. Such natives spend on food, bedding, warmth, and the small daily luxuries that make a house habitable, and they are unembarrassed about it. A full larder does more for the nerves than any reassurance. Poverty, when it occurs, is felt as a kind of exposure to the cold.
Income tends to fluctuate, sometimes through the native's own doing — earnings rise and fall with the state of the feelings, and work undertaken in a low season is done badly. There is real talent for the trades that supply comfort: food, property, hospitality, care, the making of soft goods. Money is handled by instinct rather than by spreadsheet, and the instinct is frequently better than the spreadsheet, though it cannot be explained to a bank.
The cost is accumulation. Objects are retained because they carry feeling, and the house fills with things that cannot be discarded for reasons no one else can see. The native is generous with food and strangely tight with capital. Security is pursued past the point where it has been achieved, since the underlying need is not for a sum but for a sensation, and no figure has ever produced it reliably.
What It Gives
- ◆Instinct for comfortable living
- ◆Sound financial intuition
- ◆Generosity with food and shelter
- ◆Resourcefulness in lean seasons
What It Costs
- ◆Hoards objects carrying memory
- ◆Income rises and falls
- ◆Security never feels sufficient
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