The Second House – Dwadash Bhav Rahasyam

What the 2nd house shows

This is the 2nd house, the dvitiya bhava. Make notes as I give you these points, because when we look at your charts I will ask you about them. If you have made notes, you will see everything phat-phat, instantly, when we predict. Here is everything we read from it.

How you speak. The very first thing we see from the 2nd house is how a person talks: the voice, the tone, the speed, the vocabulary, and the weight and truthfulness of the words.
The power of your word. How much power there is in your vachan, the word you give and the things you say.
The family you belong to. Which family you are born into: the environment and the ancestry, and whether it is a rich home.
The kutumb. The household: what the people of your home are like.
The wealth you can accumulate. How much dhan (wealth) you can save, the tangible assets you can build, and what you believe real capital is.
How many people you can feed. For how many people you can do bharan-poshan, providing their food and upkeep. This is a very important point, so I repeat it: how many people you can feed, we see from the 2nd house.
Food. Whether you eat sattvic, rajasic or tamasic food. The 2nd is anna, food. It is the door of your mouth.
Face value. How good you look: the face and the neck.
The father's faults and misfortunes. Your father's dosh (faults) and anarth (misfortune), what we call rog, rin, shatru: disease, debt and enemies. It shows what problems are coming to him, because the 2nd is the father's 6th house.
The mother's desire. What your mother's ichchha, her wish, is.
The grandfather's karma. The 2nd also shows your grandfather's karma.

Understand these calmly and attentively. When you understand calmly, things become clear.

The house of foundational resources

The 2nd house shows the foundational resources that sustain a person.

This is your resource, your sampada (assets, wealth). The lagna is the personality of the person: the things he starts. Whether those things will be able to remain, we see from the 2nd house. How much resource you have, and how valuable you are: this is the 2nd house.

When a person has everything, there are many people around him. When that resource starts to run out, the same kutumb becomes marak, the killer.

As we go through the houses, I keep introducing rashis along with them. Please do not feel overwhelmed. I give you extra points now so that when you revise in a month or two, you will say, "Ah, he taught this there, and now I understand it." Treat it like a crash course: fast, but to the point. When we practise afterwards, you will enjoy it.

Bring your friends and family into this too. Everyone should have the knowledge of jyotish, at the very least enough to read their own chart.

In my first class I gave you the flavour of this house. A child who cannot speak: a problem in the 2nd. A broken family, a child who never got love, a family without money: 2nd house. A child is born and Lakshmi arrives, and money starts raining on the family: 2nd house. "Your ancestors were giants": 2nd house. Now let us go deeper.

Speech: how the grahas talk

The first thing the 2nd shows is speech: the voice, the tone, the speed, the vocabulary, and the weight and truthfulness of the words. I wrote this line after a lot of experience. Every graha speaks in its own way.

Graha in the 2nd	How it speaks
Brihaspati	With pauses. Even in writing he pauses, and drops capital letters into the middle of a sentence. He speaks of knowledge, very directly, with wisdom and vision
Mangala	Bold and fast. "You need to do it." He says little and hits more. Logical and assertive: "Do this." He is not asking
Budha	With full expression: "You know what? You know what he was doing?" A chatterbox who talks in logical points
Budha with Shukra	"Can you please do this one?"
Shukra	Soft, beautiful and charming
Chandra	Moody: "You can't understand how I feel. Do you know what goes on inside me?" Sweet, and then he turns around: "I said it in a mood."
Surya	"If you were told to do this, you should do it. If your father tells you to do something, you should do it. If these things were explained to you, you should have done them." Authority and control, without violence, and ego in the speech
Shani	He lies, because Shani represents the lower level, the judgement of the lower level. He speaks slowly, and puts you under pressure
Rahu	Half the truth, told wrong, inflated, with the truth compromised. Baseless talk, and poison in the speech
Ketu	"Hmm. Thank you. Good morning." Two or three words, never finished: "What can I even say? I don't have the words to express it." He speaks little

The rashi gives the flavour

The rashi colours the speech too. There is a flavour of the rashi and a flavour of the graha.

Mithuna in the 2nd: the person does not let you speak at all; he keeps talking himself.
Makara in the 2nd: the person always marks boundaries: "Don't come in here. This is my area. I don't like you in my personal space. Why don't you leave me alone, yaar? Shut the gate. Go out."
Dhanu in the 2nd: the person holds you to your word: "You promised. Why didn't you deliver? You should have done it, or you should have told me before. How can you say something and not do it?" That is the flavour of Brihaspati and Dhanu.
Mina in the 2nd: the person gives: "Take it, brother, take it, no problem. Use it. It will come back to me." Mina is about giving.
Kanya in the 2nd: the person speaks in SOPs: "First we do this. Then we go to the second floor. Then father comes, then mother, then it's done." And because Kanya in the 2nd means a Simha lagna, he speaks the way a king speaks: "Mantri-ji, you will do this; Mantri-ji will look after this; he will look after that." Clear-cut instructions.
Tula in the 2nd: the person is diplomatic, a little diplomacy and a little compromise: "Let's solve this through the relationship. Let's not go beyond this. This is creating conflict. Let's stay together."

Three students, three voices

Tula with Brihaspati in the 2nd

Gives gyan in the relationship

What she says

Advice about the marriage: "As husband and wife, you must learn how to behave with each other and how to talk."
Gyan about finances, and about promises: "You said you would be home at seven. Why are you coming at eight-thirty?" She agreed: "Yes, it should be time-bound."
She always gives her husband guilt, the guilt of moral values: "Look ji, you promised you would get this next month. Now you have to do it."

Why

That is how Brihaspati works in Tula.
She also takes her financial gyan from her husband, because with Jupiter in Tula, the husband is the guru as well. Half of what she knows about saving money, her husband taught her. (When I named PhonePe, Google Pay and Paytm, she said no, she knew those already.)
Jupiter writes long. Her notes are big paragraphs in story form, and her answers fill pages. She laughed: "Today's notes are already five or six pages." Jupiter writes like a granth, so that it can be understood.

Tula with Shani in the 2nd

Patience, and the lie that saves

What she says

"Be patient, be patient. Wealth will come slowly." A person who works regularly and patiently makes money; wealth builds slowly.
Don't keep switching jobs. Don't bring instability. Never spend money all at once; spend slowly, thoughtfully, on lasting things.
"If two or three lies have to be told to save a relationship, tell them. It keeps peace in the family." She said, "Absolutely, sir."

Why

I used relationship for Tula and the lie for Shani. She lies, but to save something, because Shani is exalted in Tula. When would she lie in a hurry? With Shani in Mesha.

Simha in the 2nd, empty

Says what he does

A student with Simha in the 2nd and no graha there speaks straightforwardly: "Look, what I say, I do. And I like only people who do what they say. I don't like people who work behind your back."

Family lineage

The 2nd also shows the lineage: the environment and ancestry, the kutumb you are born into. If the 2nd lord is exalted, or sits in an exaltation circuit, the person was born into a rich home. This is why I asked you to print the notes on one side and keep the other side blank. Write examples like these next to the text.

Along with the lineage comes the household itself: what the people of your home are like, and how many of them you can feed. Mesha in the 2nd can easily hold a bhandara, a communal feast. Kanya in the 2nd has some members whose upkeep is very difficult. You will see these differences rashi by rashi below.

The father, the mother and the grandfather

The 2nd is the 6th house counted from the father, his house of rog, rin, shatru. So your 2nd shows your father's dosh and anarth: what problems are coming to him. The same house shows your mother's desire, and your grandfather's karma. These threads run all through the rashis and grahas below. Here they are together, so that you can find them quickly.

In your 2nd	What it shows about the father or the mother
Vrishabha	The mother gets a jolt, a shock
Mithuna	The mother is fond of travelling and roaming about
Kanya	Quarrels in the father's family, and a fight over land and resources between the father and the chacha (paternal uncle)
Vrischika	The father has many hidden enemies, on the mama's side (the maternal uncle's side); the mother holds on to grudges
Dhanu	The debt of the ancestors, the guru and the temple sits on the father
Makara	The father's debt
Mina	The father has a habit of forgetting
Chandra	"Papa, you say it, and then you don't give it."
Brihaspati	The father has enmity with a guru in the temple and does not get the support of fortune; the mother is great

Wealth: what you believe capital is

The 2nd shows the capacity to save and build tangible assets. It also shows something more interesting: what the person considers wealth.

Simha in the 2nd: the student with Simha here will always think: "Only politicians earn money. The rest are passing time. Money is with the neta (the politician). Whoever has power has money. Whoever has authority, servants, whoever keeps his word, has money."
Surya in the 2nd: "Study, son. Education is capital. A degree is capital. A government job is capital." Because these are stable. He wants a source that keeps giving power, a regular income, not a lot one day and nothing the next.

If I unmute another student, I will start talking like him. Learn this: you can match your rhythm to your client's, taal se taal, how he thinks and how he talks. Then you will understand everything about him.

Will the money stay?

A viewer asked me about storage, whether the money stays. Storage depends on the graha in the house. But the rashi already tells you a great deal:

Mesha in the 2nd: there is no storage. The money does not stay; the person spends it.
Vrishabha and Tula in the 2nd: these are rich signs, and the person accumulates comfortably.
Kanya in the 2nd: storage is good, in bonds, insurance and legal documents.
Vrischika in the 2nd: the money is kept hidden. Some people even bury it.
Dhanu in the 2nd: the person holds his capital as books, granth (scriptures) and knowledge.

Food and diet

Now the kitchen: sattvic, rajasic and tamasic eating. This is the 2nd house at its most entertaining.

Sattvic food is the way sadhus and mahatmas eat: three times a day, peacefully.
Rajasic food is chaat and pakodi, all of it eaten heartily, ragad ke.
Tamasic food is non-veg, alcohol and intoxication: daru (liquor), cigarettes, drinking.

Makara or Shani in the 2nd

The fridge, and the dhaba

Tamasic food, eaten from the fridge. Everything goes into the fridge, even cut fruit. He uses it like his storage box and would die without it.
A habit of cold food, so regular vata problems.
At a party he goes for the expensive things and eats like a madman. Someone who has never seen something goes mad when he sees it.
A Shani link to the 2nd enjoys poor man's food more: the cheapest dhaba, natural food. Those are Shani's raw qualities.

Simha in the 2nd, at the table

Fresh, balanced, and on time

"No fridge items. Give me fresh food. Fresh vegetables. I won't eat in this restaurant; they serve old food and use bad oil."
"We'll spend a little more, eat simple, but in a good place."
"Balanced food: neither too hot, nor too cold, nor too spicy." Surya balances kapha, pitta and vata.
"On time. If it's four o'clock, then every day at four. Breakfast at eight, every day at eight." Eight, twelve, snacks at five, dinner at seven or eight.
Regularity: not a lot one day and nothing the next. So the fight is always about timing: "You don't give it on time." A standard is set in the 2nd house.

Brihaspati in the 2nd

Sattvic, sweet, and fruit

Sattvic food.
A lot of sweets.
Plenty of fruit: "Bring me fruit. I'll eat lots of it."

Mangala in the 2nd

Eats fast, throws what he dislikes

Eats very fast.
If he doesn't like the food, he throws it away: "Twelve years you have been cooking, and you still can't make food!"

Rahu in the 2nd

Endless hunger, no filter

Exotic food, something new and different. Junk food, and smoking too.
Photographs his plate: "Oh my God, so yum!" He must show off his food. An expensive pizza, exotic Latin food. He tries food everywhere, in every fancy restaurant: "You have to try it at least once."
No filter: he eats anything, any amount, at any time, with no timetable, while watching a film.
A gap between the teeth. A big mouth, because Rahu has no lower end.
Endless hunger. He is never full. Pran jaye par bhojan na jaye: let life go, but not the food.
A student asked whether Rahu has a very good sense of taste. It is the tangy taste: put oregano on it and suddenly he likes it. No chatka, no fun. He likes European herbs: he will not like methi, he will like basil leaves. Rahu is illusion, and the more illusion you create, the more he enjoys it.

Ketu in the 2nd

Cheese, frozen food, and the street cart

Cheese.
With Shani, frozen food: frozen pizza, daily. I tell you about Shani-Ketu because I have it myself. I could not understand my obsession; you have to control it slowly.
Mummy says, "He's mad, mad number one. He eats anything. He has become a donkey, eating Maggi at night!" It is a kind of madness. Ketu is the soul that never got its food, so the thirst remains.
Repeat mode: once he likes something, he likes it, with no sense to it. He prefers the street cart to the five-star.

Shukra in the 2nd

The five-star and the candle-light dinner

Five-star hotels, fine dining, candle-light dinners. Fancy.
With Tula, a very good place. With Mina, the rooftop restaurant, because Mina is the roof. With Kumbha, a restaurant reached by stairs. With Makara, a huge buffet, so many options you go mad eating, because Makara represents mines.

The other grahas have their own plates too: Surya eats on time and sattvic, Chandra is choosy and fonder of drinks than of food, and Rahu's late-night Maggi and pasta come with a taste for non-veg and alcohol. You will find them in the graha profiles below.

The face

The 2nd also shows the face and the neck: your face value, how good you look. In my original material "throat" was written here, and that is wrong. Cut it. The neck you may read here, but the machinery inside the throat belongs to the 3rd house.

Each rashi and graha marks the face in its own way. You will meet them again in the profiles; here they are together:

Mesha: mouth ulcers, and a mouth and throat that keep drying up.
Vrishabha: a very strong neck. Its energy goes into the 3rd house.
Simha: a prominent nose.
Kanya: number six limits whatever it touches, and here it touches the face.
Mangala: marks of injury on the face, and a face that goes red with anger.
Budha: very good features, a good "face cutting".
Shukra: a good face.
Rahu: a gap between the teeth, and a big mouth.
Ketu: a drained face, gums that show when he laughs, small teeth, dental problems and mouth ulcers.

The rashi in the 2nd house

The rashi in the 2nd flavours both speech and resource management. Each one also tells you the lagna, so I often speak of the ascendant directly.

What is a rashi? It is sampada; it is currency. India's currency is the rupee, America's is the dollar, Japan's is the yen: each country has its own. In the same way, each rashi tells you its own guna, dharma, dosha, its qualities, its nature and its faults. It is these that we have to understand in detail, rashi by rashi.

A student asked: "Is the bhava important or the rashi?"

Both are very important. The bhava is important, and the rashi is also important. In this chapter you see both: first what the house shows, then what each rashi does there, then what each graha does there.

Rashi in the 2nd	Lagna	In one line
Mesha	Mina	Fast speech, money that does not stay, a provider who feeds the family
Vrishabha	Mesha	Strong savings, rich lineage, the bull's stubbornness
Mithuna	Vrishabha	A person who collects gadgets and pens; everything is "mine"
Karka	Mithuna	An emotional family, and a monthly quarrel over money
Simha	Karka	A person who wants to head the family, and gives orders
Kanya	Simha	Everything by SOP, money in bonds, quarrels over shares
Tula	Kanya	Diplomacy in the family, with Lakshmi's grace
Vrischika	Tula	Secrets, grudges, hidden money, and the father
Dhanu	Vrischika	A lot of talk, with scripture behind it; knowledge is capital
Makara	Dhanu	Three of everything at home; talk of struggle and karma
Kumbha	Makara	Networks, SIM cards, group money, and fraud in the family
Mina	Kumbha	A person who gives his resources to the family

Mesha in the 2nd

Fast, logical, and the family's provider

Mesha is fiery, technical, logical and fast. It is pitta-pradhan, dominated by pitta, and it brings quite a lot of anger. It is a rashi of samhar, destruction, and a rashi of new things.

Speech

Fast, logical, sometimes aggressive speech.
Fiery. He talks about technical things, logically, and very quickly.
Because Mesha is of samhar, he always says very strongly: "We want this thing."

Wealth

May struggle to save, because Mesha lacks storage energy.
Money does not stay with him. He spends it.
Because Mesha is of new things, he is the one who starts new things.

Family

Takes strong responsibility for feeding the family.
Mesha is the rashi of the army commander. Such a person takes great care of his home and family.
He arranges the ration at home, by jugaad if he has to, and can easily hold a bhandara.

Face and health

He always says he has a pitta problem.
Mouth ulcers. The throat and the mouth dry up regularly.

Vrishabha in the 2nd

Savings, a rich lineage, and stubbornness

Vrishabha is the sign of the bull, and it is a very good rashi here. Why is it good? Because milk, curd and things to eat and drink will always be there, since it is the rashi of Maa Lakshmi. It is also Parashurama's rashi. I have seen it again and again: Vrishabha in the 2nd is always very good.

Wealth and food

Excellent at accumulating wealth. He accumulates a lot of things.
Plenty of food, plenty of dairy. Milk, curd and things to eat and drink are always there.

Speech

Can be very stubborn, adiyal. Once he has decided, "I have to go this way," and you come in between, he will knock you down and go through. That is the nature of the bull.
Ego: "My word must have value." And: "We are no less than anyone."

Family

A rich family lineage. He comes from a good khandaan (lineage).
Touch any member of his family and he becomes Parashurama. Understand it as Parashurama come into the 2nd, the house of the family. If he wants, he can destroy you immediately.

Neck and health

A strong neck, a very strong neck. You will ask, "The neck comes in the 3rd house; how do you relate it to the 2nd?" Because its energy goes into the 3rd house.
Health gets spoiled quickly, and the mother gets a jolt.

Mithuna in the 2nd

Gadgets, information, and "mine"

Mithuna in the 2nd is about keeping the family joined together, and yet the people of the house think of themselves first.

Speech

Brilliant communicators who gather information.
A pandit in speaking: shlokas, songs, lokokti (proverbs), he memorises them all instantly. He talks a lot.

Things

Love collecting stationery and electronics.
Earphones, headphones, mobiles, sketch pens: the things of Budha. A child with Mithuna in the 2nd always has a full geometry box, with lots of pens and pencils and sketch pens. He will have a four-colour pen and a three-colour pen as well, pens of many colours.

Family

In my material I wrote that the family may be "somewhat self-serving". I put it softly because you get offended. What I mean is: they think of themselves first. In this sense Mithuna is a very mean sign: wherever it goes, the thinking is of oneself first. My money, my communication, my device, everything is mine. And the family will be "me, me" too.
The people of the house are matlabi, selfish. They will not help.
The mother is fond of travelling and roaming about.

Karka in the 2nd

An emotional, unpredictable family

Family

A highly emotional family, with regular turmoil: emotional drama at home, klesh (domestic strife), and strife in his relationships too.
Nobody knows what will happen at home: who will cry, who will die, who will throw something.
Very unpredictable, and no logic. They tell the elder brother: "You built the house, yes, but you earn anyway. Leave the property; give it to your younger brother. You earn, so why do you need it?"
He seeks happiness in the family and wants peace there. And in the end comes the wish: "I should go far away from the family."

Speech and mood

Speaks sweetly, but suffers mood swings. Today he talks, tomorrow he will not, the day after he talks again.
Tantrums like a queen's, nakhre.

The monthly quarrel

One day every month he calls everybody and asks for his money back: "You took money from me, give it back. There was this, and there was that." On that day there is a lot of klesh, every month. It comes when Chandra transits Karka, the rashi in his 2nd.
He is badbola, one whose tongue runs away with him. Afterwards: "Why did I say it? Why did I say it? I should not have said it." That is Chandra's nature: "Why did I tell him?"

Nature

These people always want to stay near water and near nature.
Go and match this against charts with Karka in the 2nd. You will find plenty.

Simha in the 2nd

The head of the family

Simha is the king's rashi, and the 2nd becomes the raj darbar, the royal court.

Speech

Speaks with authority; orders rather than asks. These people do not really speak, they give orders. Working with them you will not hear "Do this"; you will hear "This should happen."
Ego in speech: "Why didn't you listen to me?"
A diplomat, because here it becomes the sign of speech and of diplomacy.

Family

A respected lineage, with good kul-maryada, the dignity and honour of the family line.
Wants to be the head of the family, and values justice: "I am the head of this family. You should respect me." "At home, my word should run." He works to establish nyay, justice.
Respect in the family, not in society.
To keep the family together, he takes them to movies and shows. Entertainment belongs to the royal court.

Face

The nose is very prominent. With Simha in the 2nd, the sign of number four becomes the lagna; it goes from four to five. This is the queen's chart.

Kanya in the 2nd

Simha lagna · everything by SOP

Speech

Strictly point-to-point speech, without emotion, according to the rules. People complain: "Why are you so emotionless? I can't work like a machine every day."
Wherever number six goes, it creates problems there. Actually it limits that thing, and it limits the body parts there. The 2nd is the face, and this is a bit of rog-rin-shatru. So he should speak carefully, because things get spoiled by his words.

Family

Can show disputes over family land and resources: kalah, quarrelling, especially in the father's family. The father has a conflict over land and resources with the chacha.
Some members of the family are of the kind we say na nigalte banta hai na ugalte: you can neither swallow them nor spit them out. Their bharan-poshan is very difficult.
At home you cannot apply too many rules. But Kanya in the 2nd wants everything by the rules: everything 50-50, and if there are three brothers, all three contribute 33 percent each. That cannot happen every time, so the chances of kalah in the family increase.

Wealth

Everything by SOP: what to eat, wear, say, and where to invest. "This one gives five percent; put some here. This one can be withdrawn fast; put one and a half or two lakh here. Keep some liquid cash. The rest in bonds."
Bond papers, insurance and legal documents are his resources; he invests in these. Storage depends on the graha, but with Kanya here storage is good.
That is why, when Simha ascendants get their salary, their EMIs are already fixed.

Food

A fixed menu: idli today, rice tomorrow, khichdi after, then chhole bhature.

Tula in the 2nd

Kanya lagna · the family diplomat

Speech

Balanced, diplomatic speech. He creates balance.
He talks business class: always business, diplomacy, partnership, working together.
You will see Tula in the 2nd in the charts of managers in banks and corporates, who create balance among their subordinates with their speech. Theirs is napa-tula talk, measured and weighed.

Wealth

Excellent resource management. He accumulates resources comfortably.
Tula is a rich sign. Maa Lakshmi's grace is very good here, so if good grahas sit in the 2nd, his resources stay good.

Family

Always balancing family and wealth. He often has to choose one of the two.
Because of the family, there is always a problem in the marriage.
"Bua's children spent seven thousand at our wedding. We'll spend seventy-five hundred; there's seven percent inflation. And they always bring something, so we should give too."
"I need some work done by him. Let's give him a little." Always thinking like a diplomat.
Kanya ascendants are very good at managing the family: who should get how much money, who deserves how much. They are always creating that balance.

Vrischika in the 2nd

Tula lagna · secrets, grudges, and the father

Speech

Secretive about money and family matters. He does not tell his matter fully and clearly; something or other stays hidden.
He speaks little in the family, and hides things from its members. Today we call him an introvert, one who says nothing about himself. In the village they say gum rehna, lost in himself.
Solves problems quietly, but can suddenly explode with words. He watches, watches, watches, and then suddenly says a great deal.

Family

An unsolvable problem in the family, one that cannot be solved.
Here the family holds a khanjar, a dagger. With Vrischika the blow comes slowly, very much in hiding, and many things happen behind such a person's back.
Deep grudges: "This family has never been of any use to me." "You can't imagine what these people do to me, after all I have done." He holds grudges towards his own family and keeps them hidden.
Always some drama.
The mother holds on to a lot of grudges.
The father has many hidden enemies. The people on the mama's side are always waiting for him to make a mistake, ready to catch him and pull him right down.
Tula ascendants' biggest problem is with the father. You will understand this slowly.

Money

Slowly the family becomes rich. If he was rich in childhood, slowly he becomes poor. If he has seen poverty in childhood, slowly he accumulates a very great deal of money.
This is the combination of keeping money hidden. Some people bury their money; this is that combination.

Dhanu in the 2nd

Vrischika lagna · talks a lot, with scripture behind it

Speech

In my material I wrote that Dhanu in the 2nd speaks little. That is wrong. With Dhanu in the 2nd, a person speaks a lot. A Vrischika ascendant friend will talk to you endlessly in private, roasting everybody.
He speaks against the background of religion, dharma and scripture, and is very good in religion too.
A pandit, a learned man, in speech, who talks about knowledge.

Family

He comes from a good kul and gotra, family line and clan.
On the father there is a rin, a debt, of the pitars (ancestors), of the guru and of the temple. When this child is born, problems start coming.
Not being able to pay for a consultation, or to the temple, or to a sadhu: this becomes his biggest karmic connection. Whenever he meets someone, say an astrologer, he feels, "This one has come to cheat me. Now he will take my money."
These are general symptoms. I am not saying it will be exactly like this; some of it changes according to the grahas.

Work

This is the combination of teachers, professors and trainers.
Such people are also agents, in RAW and in other departments. They hold khufiya, secret information that cannot be given to everyone.

Wealth

His resources are books, granth and knowledge. Having knowledge is his biggest resource.

Makara in the 2nd

Dhanu lagna · three of everything at home

Speech

Very practical, a powerful speaker, often talks about struggle or career, and is demanding of his resources. Strong speech; a very strong and powerful speaker.
He asks straight off about money, or about your salary. He always talks about career.
He talks about problems, deaths and disease: always the sorrows of the world. He talks about karma, about saza (the sentence) and punishment. Very rough.
He is dheeth, stubborn and thick-skinned. The negative things he says come true.

Things

A habit of accumulating things. Marks everything at home: "This is mine." He is a crocodile; you cannot live in his house, because every item belongs to him.
A Dhanu ascendant cannot use anyone else's things. He knows he will be treated like a servant, and he feels bad that he is using other people's things; there is already a sense of inferiority in the 2nd. So he buys everything for his own home himself, because Shani collects.
Stay at my house and you will think two or three families live there. So many utensils you will go mad, a microwave, an air fryer, three or four of everything. Dhanu ascendants are good at collecting things.
There is no shortage of things. Rice comes in five-kilo bags even when only one or two people live there; he cannot order one kilo. Tofu comes in two packets, or four. Shani collects as much as he can.

Family

The family is always asking him for money, and he is troubled by them.
The father's debt.

Kumbha in the 2nd

Makara lagna · networks and group money

Speech

Makes big promises, talks about networking. He talks big, makes a lot of promises, and tells everyone his own desires.
An extrovert, who always talks about his status and position. Badbola.
In the flow he says a great many things, so there is a lot of trouble with the government too.

Money

May face sudden fraud or losses in family wealth. Fraud in wealth: whatever the kutumb takes, it does not give back.
A very large family, and fraud within the family.
Wants to make money in a group: "We'll eat together, and feed you too."
The peon takes two hundred rupees. Fifty goes to his senior, a hundred to me because I sign, and fifty is shared among the rest. That is a Makara ascendant's system.

Network and home

Kumbha is also SIM cards: three or four SIMs, phones and networking devices.
Friends and groups become family. That is why Makara ascendants have such big corporate circles. He has a great many connections.
Lights, beautiful items: all the pretty things you see in a home will be there.
The house is broken down and rebuilt, again and again.

At work

The manager troubles him a lot. First he takes a promise from him, then he harasses him. You know the saying about the elephant's teeth: one set for showing, another for eating. It is the same with Kumbha in the 2nd.

Mina in the 2nd

Kumbha lagna · gives his resources away

Speech

Speaks about spirituality and abstract ideas.
He says something and forgets it, says and forgets. When he speaks, he shoots arrows in the dark, andhere mein teer chalana.

Resources

Often gives his personal resources to the family: whatever has to be given, he gives.
His world is knowledge, networking, social media and the occult.

Family

The father has a habit of forgetting.
He is troubled by his wife.

In consultation

Many of my clients are Kumbha ascendants. They take consultations very respectfully, and I have sometimes given them very strong sadhana. Their punya actually shows. They are very strong, and they follow things. If a wrestler becomes a sadhaka, I watch how much he can bear.

So I have given you the full predictions of the twelve rashis in the 2nd. You will not find them in so much detail anywhere. Now let us see how the grahas work when they sit here.

The grahas in the 2nd house

Now the grahas: which graha is sitting in the 2nd. I have laid each one out the same way, so that you can compare them: how he speaks, what he does in the family, how he holds wealth and work, what he eats, and what shows on his face.

A student asked: "Does the prediction change with the rashi?"

Yes, it will. You have to mix the two and use them together. That is exactly why jyotish is tough. I told you the rashis; then I told you the grahas. Now you have to fuse the two and tell the prediction. That is what we practise.

Surya

Pride in the lineage

With Surya in the 2nd, discipline comes.

Speech

Speaks with pride about the family and lineage. He starts bringing in the khandaan, the family name.
Ego in speech.

Family

He comes from a good kul, a good family line, and respects his lineage.

Work

Highly practical.
He can work with subordinates: people can work under him. But he cannot work alongside people as an equal.

Food

Discipline in eating. He eats on time.
Sattvic in his eating.

A student asked: "What about the degree?"

The degree matters, but these things will remain. They will remain 110 percent. With the degree the effect may become less or it may become more, but if Surya is in the 2nd, the person will have these things, because Surya is sitting there.

Chandra

Sweet words that change

Wherever Chandra is, there is klesh, quarrel. And wherever Chandra is, aarop, accusation, falls on the person. Blame is put on him.

Speech

A sweet talker, but the words change with the mood.
He says something and then turns around: "Yesterday I said it in a mood. I just said it in a mood."
Do not trust his word. If he is happy today, get it in writing today; later he will change.
Moody, with a lot of nakhra, fussiness and airs.

Family

The family goes through heavy emotional cycles: emotional turmoil, and a lot of nautanki, drama. Problems come into the family.
An extra-marital affair in the family can happen.
A monthly klesh.
In the father's chart: "Papa, you say it, and then you don't give it."

Food

Choosy in food.
An interest in drinks. These people like drinking more than eating.

All the signs of Karka are seen in Chandra here.

Mangala

Puts food on the plate

Will Mangala do mangal, good, for the family? In the 2nd he is the senapati, the commander-in-chief. If you see "Ma" written in the 2nd house of a chart, understand that this person is very responsible at home.

Speech

Logical, quick, sometimes aggressive speech. He speaks very fast.
Assertive sentences: "Do this." He is not asking.

Family

Heavy family responsibility: "Eat what's on your plate; we earned it. And do as you're told." He is the most responsible son of the house.
Mangala knows how to bring food to the plate. That is why Mina ascendants are responsible from an early age and start teaching tuitions young.

Food

He eats very, very fast.

Face

Marks of injury on the face.
When he gets angry, his face goes completely red.
Self-image conscious: "What is my image like?" This is very important to him.

Sadhana

With Mangala in the 2nd, sadhana becomes siddh, accomplished, very quickly.

Budha

Plays with numbers

Speech

A chatterbox: he talks a lot.
He talks in logical points.
A pandit in speaking, very learned and skilled in speech.

Work and money

An excellent communicator, consultant and diplomat who earns by counselling and solving problems. A consultant, an officer, a teacher, a business person: someone prakhar, sharp, in conversation.
Making money from other people's sorrows.
Connects two parties and gives information: "The neighbour's land is selling for ten lakh. How much is he selling it to you for? Twelve lakh? I'll get it done for you at ten." And he had got it sold to him for eight. Budha is always playing with numbers.
This is a good placement.

Face

Very good face cutting: good features.

Family

The problem of an extra-marital affair in the family.
A unique mama (maternal uncle) or bua (father's sister). Those people follow a new religion, in a new way.

A student asked: "If a beggar's chart is good, how can it be compared with Shah Rukh Khan's?"

Such a chart does not actually occur. I will show you practically. In such a case there is no strength in the 2nd house. We can speak theoretically, but the effects show there.

Brihaspati

Wisdom, banking, and everyone's money

Speech

Speaks directly, with wisdom. He speaks of knowledge, very directly, and there is very good vision in his speech.
He always says "Radhe Radhe".

Work and money

Good at banking and investing in gold. An analyst, a banker, investment, gold: all these things.
A teacher or professor, because Guru is the karaka of knowledge.

Family

Uses knowledge to solve the family's problems. He solves family matters through a guru.
The mother is great. She has a very good nature.
The father has enmity with a guru in the temple. There is a problem there.
The 2nd is the father's 6th house, so the father does not get the support of bhagya, fortune.

Everyone's money

Brihaspati is temple money, trust money, government money, money that belongs to everybody. When Jupiter is in the 2nd, we also say that someone at home has used such money for his own gain, and so curses come into the 2nd.

Shukra

Wealth and charm

Shukra Maharaj in the 2nd brings all the good things you can think of. It only should not be afflicted.

Wealth

Excellent for wealth. Very good for wealth.

Speech

Speaks beautifully and charmingly. Very good in speech.

Family

A good lineage.
The partner's extra-marital affair: here you should choose the partner properly, because there is a chance of it.

Food

Deeply attached to luxury and fine dining.

Face

A good face.

Shani

Slow speech and old history

Shani is in the house of vani, speech. Shani Dev gives discipline, but he also brings tamas, inertia and darkness. Shani's position is very good in the 10th house; in the 2nd it creates these problems.

Speech

Speaks slowly.
He lies.
Creates a high-pressure speaking environment. While talking, he puts the other person under such pressure that he becomes completely albala, rattled and flustered.
Shani repeats history. Argue with a Dhanu ascendant and he will recite your behaviour back to you: "You did this then, then this, now this, later you will do this, and earlier you promised this." He tells your behaviour patterns again and again. He digs up the buried corpses, gade murde.
Karmath, devoted to action. He talks about karma, and is very practical.

Wealth and home

May face early poverty or delays in building wealth: daridrata, poverty, at home.
He collects old, old things. You will find kabaad, junk, in the house.
Panicky about changes.

Food

Eats a lot of fridge items, cold things.
Does not eat on time.

Rahu

Outsiders as family

Speech

Speaks without boundaries.
He flies hawai jahaz, aeroplanes: baseless talk, regularly.
Poison in speech. He puts someone down completely: "Hey, just sit down and stay put."
He lies. He is the father of diplomats.

Money

Desires massive wealth.
Nobody can digest his money; nobody can swallow it and get away. He is very aggressive about money: "It is my money, my money."
With Rahu in the 2nd it is either family or money. As the money keeps increasing, the people keep decreasing.

Friends and network

Treats friends as family and always gets along with outsiders.
Rahu's energy builds great links: with this one, with that one, a big circle, in touch with absolutely everyone.
Normal friends will not be his friends. His friends are the heavy ones.

Food

May enjoy tamasic food.
It gives the lat, the addiction, of alcohol.
He likes non-veg and Chinese food very much. And what counts as Chinese? Maggi. Lots of Maggi, sandwiches, pasta, and it keeps going at night.

Ketu

Few words, and they come true

Speech

Speaks very few words, but they often come true. In four or five words the story is over; he cannot talk more than that.
An introvert who speaks little.
He says unique things.
He gives gaali, abuse.
Anxiety shows in his talk.

Family

Detached from family wealth.
First moh, attachment, to the family, and then vairagya, detachment.
Away from the gotra, the clan line. People say, "Some other person has taken birth in our house."

Face and mouth

May have dental or mouth problems, because in the 2nd the karaka of dhatu is Mangala, and Ketu makes sure something goes wrong there.
Always troubled: the face looks drained, as if the colour has gone from it.
The gums show when he laughs.
Small teeth, teeth problems, mouth ulcers.

Readings from the live class

After teaching all twelve rashis and all nine grahas in the 2nd, I took the charts of students and viewers on the live class and showed how what we had studied was working. Here they are in order, with what was confirmed and what was not.

A student who wants to become a doctor

The chart, as given in class. Chandra on the lagna. Vrishabha in the 2nd, with Mandi there. Surya, Shukra, Mangala and Ketu together in Kanya. Shani in the 4th. Brihaspati and Budha in the 7th. Ketu in the 10th. In the Dashamsha, a Mangala-Shani combination in the 6th, Brihaspati-Shani and Brihaspati-Chandra combinations, and the 9th lord exalted in the 6th.

His questions. "Will I succeed in NEET in 2026? Is there a yoga for becoming a doctor? And for some time I have been very distracted and unproductive."

The lagna. First, what we studied yesterday. With Chandra on the lagna the person is moody, with an issue of continuity. Emotional, not logical, and he cannot handle pressure, because Chandra is not made for handling pressure. But Chandra is the karaka of herbs, jadi-booti. So from here the medical field has come.

Mandi in the 2nd. If Mandi is in the 2nd house there is trouble. We will see that later.

Vrishabha in the 2nd. I asked the class to write one point each from today's teaching. I had said health gets spoiled quickly and the mother gets a jolt. The class predicted the rest:

A stubborn, adiyal nature. In speech: "We are no less than anyone."
Ego.
Accumulating a lot of things.
Parashurama: the case of fighting and violence.
A very strong neck. "He is like a bull."
A person of a good khandaan.

The father. He is still a child, so I read the father. The things this father brings home will always be very big things, and often unnecessary ones. He will not even remember what things there are. A small thing is needed, and he brings a big one: big utensils, everything king size. The TV at home is very big. This is the sign of Mina: whatever things he gets for you, he gets big; whatever he likes for the house, he likes big. Nothing small. And Shani sits in the father's 8th house.

The mother. In the mother's 4th house there are Brihaspati and Budha, so the mother is a very strong figure in the house. Why is she a government teacher? Because Surya is in the mother's 3rd house. "I am very dominant": you will see all of that, because the mother is very dominant. Chandra in the mother's 10th house is a good combination, and a Shani-Chandra combination forms from here too. At her workplace people must know her strongly: "This is a very strict madam."

Can he become a doctor? 110 percent, he can. Here is why.

Kanya is the sign of rog, rin, shatru, the sign of disease. In it sit Surya, Shukra, Mangala and Ketu.
The Mangala-Ketu combination gives surgery. This is a surgeon's chart.
The Shukra-Ketu combination is a very good gynae combination.
The Surya-Mangala combination makes a government doctor.
In the 4th there is Shani: emotional dryness. So this person will practise at home too: a clinic at home.
The Brihaspati-Budha combination in the 7th is very good.

The Dashamsha. We look at the Dashamsha to see whether he can become a surgeon. In the 6th there is a Mangala-Shani combination: cheer-phaad, cutting and tearing open. There is also a Brihaspati-Shani combination, and a Brihaspati-Chandra combination is forming, which inspires him towards higher studies. The 9th lord is exalted in the 6th house. Yes, the yoga of becoming a doctor is in this chart.

The timing. Rahu is running now, and the dasha of Mangala begins in 2026. Brihaspati gives a good time between 2025 and 2027, and 2025 was also a good time. So why did the exam not clear in 2025?

Now a Mangala-Shani combination is running, and Shani is putting a lot of pressure on the child. The exam is on 3 May. There is a little difficulty: he can get stuck here, because Shani has no power. Shani is in the 4th house, though it gains power together with Surya and Chandra. Ketu in the 10th is good. A very strong chart is not forming for this attempt, but Mangala is coming, and the combination is fine.

Ketu is the lord of his 10th house, and with the Mangala-Ketu combination that is actually good. The signal for 2026 is not like 2025, and it is a weak signal, but it is there, and the Dashamsha shows it too. Shani will make him work very hard and create a lot of pressure, and he will get less support of bhagya. But I say it clearly: there are chances, strong chances.

Studies abroad. There is a connection of the 5th with the 10th, so there is a yoga of going abroad for studies. In the Dashamsha the circuit of his 5th house is completing. He will go abroad to study.

A viewer asking whether he will get a job

The chart, as given in class. Brihaspati's mahadasha is running, and within it Mangala's period is about to begin, which is ashtam, the 8th. There is a Surya-Shani combination. He is studying for UPSC, along with state exams.

His question. He was in distress. "Will I get a job?" Later he also asked whether he should marry between December and January.

The reading, in order.

The dasha of the 9th house gives the person trouble.
I am getting one strong signal: are you thinking of packing up, of leaving the preparation? Your phase of only studying is ending. The time for doing something else is visible, because the Mangala period will start.
Have you filled some form related to teaching, a government teaching job?
You have a down time until 2026. After that you can get success. There are chances of a job at the end of 2026. The job will happen in 2027, not in 2026.
With the Surya-Shani combination, give the PSC, give the state police exam, give UPSC.
The exam on 30 November 2025 will have difficulty. In that one the chances are low; you will make calculation errors.
Next year, try everything after May. After May your luck will open. This time there is less chance. Next year your final will come; you can do it then. The chances are forming in 2026, not in 2025. Apply in 2026; it will come in 2026.
Marriage: the yoga is certainly forming. I can see a yoga for marriage in December, and your engagement is happening on 29 September. There is a connection with the 3rd house.

This is actually a difficult consultation; for this you would have to meet me personally. On YouTube I cannot tell you many things.

A chart I did not read

A mother had been waiting a long time for me to look at her daughter's chart. But the girl was three years old. I do not take a small child's chart on a public platform, so I did not look at it.

A student hoping for a government teaching job

The chart, as given in class. He had not said whether his birth time was morning or evening, so I read it as morning. The Jupiter period is running within the Sun.

The reading.

Your time is going well.
Try for a government job. In teaching it will happen for you. Prepare for a government teaching job and you will get it.
A singing teacher in a government job: that is the combination in your chart. A good yoga for a government job has formed here.

Remember

The 2nd is foundational resources: speech, the power of your word, lineage, the kutumb, savings, how many people you can feed, food and the face.
It is your sampada. The lagna starts things; the 2nd decides whether they remain. When the resource runs out, the same kutumb becomes marak.
It is the father's 6th house, his rog, rin, shatru. It also shows the mother's desire and the grandfather's karma.
Speech: the graha gives the character (Shani lies, Rahu inflates, Ketu barely speaks); the rashi gives the flavour (with Kanya the speech runs on SOPs, with Tula on diplomacy, with Makara on boundaries). Fuse the two to predict.
An exalted 2nd lord, or one in an exaltation circuit, means a rich birth. Sthana bala shows the family base.
The 2nd shows what a person thinks capital is. With Mesha there is no storage; with Vrischika money is hidden, even buried; with Kanya it sits in bonds; with Dhanu it is knowledge.
Food: Shani the fridge and the dhaba, fresh food on time with Simha in the 2nd, Budha the same dish in a nice bowl, Rahu endless hunger, Shukra the five-star.
Mangala in the 2nd is the commander: the responsible son, and sadhana that becomes siddh quickly. Ketu's few words come true, so he must speak carefully.
The inner throat belongs to the 3rd.

Check yourself

1. Tula is in the 2nd house with Shani sitting there. What advice will this person give?

2. Which graha in the 2nd makes a person say, "Half our land went into the Ganga and we donated the rest"?

3. Simha is in the 2nd. What does this person consider real wealth?

4. A person keeps eating the same dish and wants it in a nice bowl with "that masala". Which graha?

5. Kanya is in the 2nd house. How does the person handle money?

6. Why do Dhanu ascendants tend to buy three or four of everything?

7. A father kept bringing soap and surf home free from his factory. Which placement do I connect with such "everyone's money"?

8. Is the inner throat (voice box) a 2nd-house matter?

9. Mesha is in the 2nd house. Why does money not stay with this person?

10. With Brihaspati in the 2nd, why does the father not get the support of fortune?

11. Vrischika is in the 2nd and the person saw poverty in childhood. What happens to his wealth?

12. Which graha in the 2nd makes sadhana become siddh very quickly?