Part of Fortune in the 2nd House: Meaning and Ruler

A malefic ruling Fortune or the Ascendant, with Fortune in the second, can signify work as a cemetery guard living outside the city gates. When Mars rules a Lot in this place and has its own sign or degrees, the occupation can be that of a jailer. Saturn ruling Fortune from the second is associated with bodily weakness and confinement. These are specific configurations in a harsh account of earning under restriction.[1]

Even Jupiter receives an unfavorable delineation here: expenses consume what the person has.[1] The practical judgment is that money can pass through the hands without accumulating. Income tied to penalties or compulsory expenditure is particularly precarious; a dependable surplus matters more than a large amount briefly received.

A ruler that can act from an angle and aspect the Lot gives a better foundation than a ruler submerged in another difficult place. A benefic in Fortune’s sign, or in an angular sign counted from it, also contributes to the judgment.[2] Strong planets there can put the earning of a living on firmer terms.

Counting Fortune’s sign as the first, the tenth from a second-house Fortune is the natal eleventh. Friends and patrons can therefore occupy the place of rank in Fortune’s own chart.[3][4] A planet there may describe the contact through which income becomes available, or the organization that pays for the work.

For Aries rising with Fortune in Taurus, Aquarius is that tenth sign. Saturn in Aquarius is at home and angular from Fortune, although it is in the natal eleventh. This gives Saturn a strong position from which to act on the livelihood. The reading becomes one of income sustained by lasting associations or institutional responsibility.