Sun in the Second House

Sun in the second puts authority and heat on wealth, family, speech and what you consume.

What's actually going on

Sun concentrates identity, authority and the need to be seen wherever it goes. Put it in the second house and that lands on savings, food, the voice, inherited values and the family you came from.

So this becomes the part of life you keep going back to, looking for recognition and a clear sense of self. It is also the part you find hardest to leave alone.

What it gives you

• Command, integrity and the ability to hold a room, aimed straight at wealth, family, speech and what you consume
• Resources that accumulate and a voice people trust

What it costs you

• Ego, rigidity and a quiet need to be right
• Here that usually shows up as holding on too tightly, or spending without noticing

Work and money

Money is made through voice, stored value and family resource. With Sun here, command is what you bring to it.

Love and marriage

Family opinion carries real weight in your relationships.

What actually helps

Early light. Honest self-appraisal. Work with your name attached to the result. And repair with the father figure, which pays disproportionately here.

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 Sun

Sun, or Surya, concentrates identity, authority and the need to be seen. It is exalted in Aries and debilitated in Libra, and it rules Leo. In the body it governs heart, bones, eyes, vitality.