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Mars · house 2 · succedent
Mars in the second house
In the second house Mars turns its drive toward money, possessions and whatever the person counts as worth having. Earning tends to be active rather than passive: income comes from effort, initiative, sometimes physical work or competition, and it moves as fast going out as coming in. Values are held with heat, and an argument about resources can become an argument about principle within a sentence. The steady requirement here is patience with accumulation, since what Mars can seize quickly it can also spend quickly.
What the second house covers
Money, movable goods and the resources a person holds and can dispose of freely. The full second house →
Which sign holds it
Under whole-sign houses the rising sign settles every other house at once. If you know your Ascendant, this is the sign your second house holds and the planet that rules it.
| Aries rising | Taurus · ruled by Venus |
|---|---|
| Taurus rising | Gemini · ruled by Mercury |
| Gemini rising | Cancer · ruled by Moon |
| Cancer rising | Leo · ruled by Sun |
| Leo rising | Virgo · ruled by Mercury |
| Virgo rising | Libra · ruled by Venus |
| Libra rising | Scorpio · ruled by Mars |
| Scorpio rising | Sagittarius · ruled by Jupiter |
| Sagittarius rising | Capricorn · ruled by Saturn |
| Capricorn rising | Aquarius · ruled by Saturn |
| Aquarius rising | Pisces · ruled by Jupiter |
| Pisces rising | Aries · ruled by Mars |
Quadrant systems such as Placidus cut the houses by the angles instead, so a planet near a cusp can land in a different house from the whole-sign answer. The chart page shows both.
Reading it in context
A keynote is a starting point, not a verdict. What Mars actually does in your second house depends on its sign, its aspects, its dignity, and whether it is in sect. Two people with the same placement and different charts around it live it differently.