The second house, ruled by Taurus, is the placement of the material plane and the resources that are needed to survive on it – in our current paradigm, it’s money and finances which hold the key to survival. But don’t be fooled, this is not the only resource you have. The second house in its true essence is not about money but about resourcefulness and worth. In Human Design I have my conscious Puto in Gate 14, which is the gate of Power Skills. This gate talks about the gold you have inside you, that is the power skills, to make money in the way you desire to aka doing what you love to do. Your resourcefulness and worth don’t come from money – even though we have been taught so time and again, which is why we are so stuck in the capitalist wheel. Our resourcefulness and worthiness come from within. It’s the genius we were born with. It’s the gold, the unique skills, we were born with to make money or generate abundance in order to serve ourselves and others.
I have been looking at my 2nd house placement in astrology for a while now, more like I have been forced to.
It’s been pulsating on and off as I tip-toe learning and digesting it. Of course, this has been holding a lot of charges as money and finances have become a focus in the last two-three years the way they have never been. If I look back, this has been the most unseen part of my life. When I graduated and started my career, I was all about ”chase your dreams, money will come”. I never really cared a lot about money until the last few years. I remember reading through horoscopes under every category except finances because it just never felt like a big deal to my dreamy Piscean sun. And if I get honest, it actually worked for me. Money has always found me in exciting ways and it’s been a matter of delightful surprises. If I think of it, it’s like money was never a problem until I made it a problem when I entered the coaching/manifestation industry and it became all about how to manifest xyz cash etc. I started hearing this question a lot in the industry on how to manifest money or how to make money or how to get clients. I also started attracting clients who actually had money as a problem and it’s almost like I had a solution – even when I didn’t know I did. I think for the first time I truly recognized that money is a problem in the world, a big problem.
This problem has led me to heal a lot of money beliefs and ancestral baggage + karma in the last two and a half years as of when I am writing this. It’s like I have held the mirror on the past and looked at how money has plagued my entire lineage actually. I can see through my parents’ eyes who felt like an outsider coming from a small town to a big city. I can see it through my grandfather who sits shrank taking as little space as he can. I can feel the inferiority coming from the roots and the belongingness.
What I understand is that this was my soul contract. I didn’t experience direct poverty but I felt the lack, I felt the scarcity and I felt that feeling of being less than someone because you don’t have enough abundance. These are very uncomfortable emotions and even if they were buried deep within me, they were never consciously evident and so to face them and feel them, it’s been really hard. It also reminded me of my childhood when I came to this new city and new school and I started to learn for the first time to judge myself and put myself below others because of money. I remember we had a blue Maruti and I used to ask my Dad to drop me at the back gate so that no one sees which car I have. I remember feeling that the reason why teachers or popular kids would not select me in the competitions or groups is that I didn’t belong to the ‘rich group’. I would have never admitted this loudly but in full honesty, it made a difference to how I started seeing myself and shrinking myself.
As I am integrating this piece of my life by writing this post, I can understand how and why it all conspired. Pluto is the planet of ancestral karma and healing. Having Pluto in my second house is a soul / ancestral assignment to separate my worth and resourcefulness from money. There have been a lot of moments in these years where I have found myself feeling unworthy because of my finances. It feels like helplessness and lack. It feels very frustrating to feel less than someone when you know you are not. This actually means that our worth never really came from money and it’s been an illusion that we have been living under. Because the thing is, even when I didn’t have the finances and the numbers, I had so much value, wisdom, knowledge, love, and kindness to give. I mean I truly had so much to give in a way I never had before. It’s so interesting how this is sinking in even more deeply as I write it down.
Pluto is the planet of transformation and rebirth. But before rebirth, there needs to be death and destruction. Pluto, a Scorpion planet, is also about unpredictability, intensity, and alchemy. It teaches us to be okay with unpredictability and cultivate a greater sense of faith in the Universe.
At the same time, It brings painful experiences to the surface so that the trauma beneath can be alchemized and healed. The trauma needs to be alchemized and healed because there is indeed a bigger purpose and journey weaved with it. For example, I know one of the things I am here to also teach and have even taught, is about healing money trauma. But how would I have gained this wisdom and experience if I hadn’t experienced it by myself? If I hadn’t experienced this transformation of money energy through these years, I wouldn’t have ventured into the deep abyss of exploring money trauma and healing. Why would I have?
As the furthest planet from the Sun, Pluto has an orbit of 248 years. This is a very long time, approximately 3 human lifetimes! It spends a lot of years in each zodiac sign, from 10-12 up to 27 years. Because of this, its position by sign affects whole generations rather than individuals. I belong to the Pluto in Scorpio generation (1983-1995) which is here to introduce the world to breakthroughs in shifting old psychological patterns which are no more serving us in our evolution. Scorpio is death for evolution. And so, as we can already this generation has come into adulthood experiencing some catastrophic transformational events like the Pandemic of 2020 which is challenging the way we see things on a mental plane and shifting the old destructive patterns. This also means transmuting control and manipulation. For me, having this in my second house, I can say I have been having a tough time letting go of control and power with respect to money. If I reflect, our generation is very insecure about wealth and money and has inherited patterns that make us control the world outside us, in fact including our own selves, through money. But in the same breath, I would also want to add that this doesn’t truly feel good. Control, power, and manipulation in the paradigm over money & economy feel icky to the Scorpion who wants to evolve and yes, rule and have power, but for the greater good, not for serving the self. I believe this is something that my placement is bringing for me to transform in my energetic field and experience.
Where do you have Pluto in your chart? This is your place of transformation and alchemy. This is where your gold lies but there’s a journey to be had to unearth it. Most likely, it will come to you because it’s written in your soul contract.
What planets do you have in your 2nd house? These planets will impact your finances and sense of worth. As always, there’s no placement as good or bad, it just is. If you don’t have any planet in your 2nd house, it simply means that you won’t have anything majorly impacting your finances.
I am hosting an online workshop on 26th Nov 2022 called Worth & Money via Astro where I will guide you through 2nd house placements and signs along with sharing some embodiment practices to seal in the wisdom. This is a workshop for Jewel members, but you can attend it as a drop in too. DM @dreamlifelounge on IG to book your spot!
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