Mercury in the 2nd house
What Mercury in the 2nd house can mean in your birth chart: how it may show up day to day, what the house covers, and the astrology behind it.
How Mercury in the 2nd house can show up
Here are two ways a Sky & Story reading may describe this placement. In a full chart, the sign and its links to the rest of the chart shape how it reads.
Your thinking is practical: you want to know what an idea is worth and how it can be used. Skills you can earn money with tend to hold your attention. Ask whether you're dismissing ideas just because they don't pay right away.
You may think a lot about money: comparing prices, planning budgets, weighing options. That care can help you avoid mistakes. Set a limit on how long you'll research a small purchase, so it doesn't eat an evening.
Mercury in a birth chart
Mercury is the way you think, talk and take in information: how you explain things, ask questions and make sense of what you hear.
Its house shows which conversations and subjects tend to occupy your mind.
The 2nd house
The second house covers money, possessions and what a person finds valuable. These themes tend to come up when you have to name your price, decide on a big purchase, or choose what to do with money you've earned. Something to try: look at what you measure your worth by: income, other people's opinion, or what you know how to do.
What the houses are
A birth chart is divided into twelve houses, each linked with an area of life: money, home, partnership, work and so on. A planet in a house brings its themes into that area.
Houses depend on the exact time and place of birth. As the Earth turns, every planet passes through all twelve houses in about a day, so without a birth time the houses can't be placed reliably.
Your birth chart shows which house each of your planets is in and how they work together. The reading on Sky & Story is free; for houses, you'll need your birth time.
Create my free chartBehind this reading
- Mercury: thinking and communication in modern astrology.
- Mercury in the second house: money, possessions and what a person finds valuable.
Sources
- Alan Leo. Astrology for All (1899); How to Judge a Nativity (1903) — psychological meanings of signs and planets, modern rulers
- Dane Rudhyar. The Astrology of Personality. New York: Lucis, 1936 — the chart as a whole picture of a person, planets as psychological functions
- Liz Greene. Saturn: A New Look at an Old Devil. New York: Samuel Weiser, 1976 — difficult placements as points of growth, not a verdict
- William Lilly. Christian Astrology (1647), books 1–3 — the table of essential dignities, meanings of the houses, strength of angular planets
- Howard Sasportas. The Twelve Houses. Wellingborough: Aquarian Press, 1985 — the psychological spheres of the twelve houses
Mercury in the other houses
Other planets in the 2nd house
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