The second house is money, possessions, and values. Venus, which rules it by nature, works here without resistance. The native wants good things and is unashamed of wanting them: the well-cut coat, the heavy glass, the sheets that are worth the price. Purchases are made slowly and kept for decades. Such natives can enter a shop full of merchandise and put a hand directly on the one item worth having, and are seldom wrong about it.
Money arrives comparatively easily, often through pleasant channels — art, food, property, luxury trade, or the goodwill of somebody who simply enjoys the native's company. Generosity is real and specific: this native gives things rather than advice, and the things are well chosen. There is an underlying steadiness about worth, too. The native knows what their labour is worth and does not need the market to confirm it every quarter.
The cost is comfort's slow grip. The native will decline a worthwhile difficulty in order to keep the current arrangement pleasant, and a life optimised for ease produces very little urgency. Spending outruns income in good seasons, since denial is genuinely disagreeable. And there is a subtle confusion between being loved and being provided for, which can hold a native inside a comfortable relationship years after the affection has left it.
What It Gives
- ◆Unerring eye for quality
- ◆Money attracted through pleasant work
- ◆Generous in tangible ways
- ◆Settled sense of self-worth
What It Costs
- ◆Comfort discourages necessary effort
- ◆Spending outpaces income
- ◆Provision confused with love
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