Jupiter in the Second House

Jupiter in the second puts expansion and protection on wealth, family, speech and what you consume.

What's actually going on

Wherever Jupiter sits, it expands, protects and insists on meaning. In the second house, that lands squarely on savings, food, the voice, inherited values and the family you came from.

So this becomes the area you keep looking to for a philosophy, a teacher and room to grow. It is also the one you cannot leave alone.

What it gives you

• Growth, good counsel, generosity and timely luck, applied directly to wealth, family, speech and what you consume
• Resources that accumulate and a voice people trust

What it costs you

• Excess, complacency and preaching instead of doing
• Here it tends to show up as holding on too tightly, or spending without noticing

Work and money

Money is made through voice, stored value and family resource. Jupiter colours all of that with growth.

Love and marriage

Family opinion carries real weight in your relationships.

What actually helps

Teach something. Jupiter pays out when knowledge is given away rather than sold. Thursdays, and any real act of mentorship.

About the second house

The second house, the house of money and family, governs savings, food, the voice, inherited values and the family you came from. It also covers what you eat, the family you were born into, and whether money actually stays once it arrives.

About Jupiter

Jupiter, or Guru, expands, protects and insists on meaning. It is exalted in Cancer and debilitated in Capricorn, and it rules Sagittarius and Pisces. In the body it governs liver, fat, growth, thighs.