A Deeper Understanding of the 2nd House in Astrology

A Deeper Understanding of the 2nd House in Astrology...

Each house symbolizes
a level of human development.
The 2nd house is symbolic of toddlerhood.
It is a house of personal self-development

In the metaphoric journey of the soul through the houses, you have established who you are by developing your self-image in the first house. Now, in the second house, you notice the amazing array of things around you. You realize that you can not only affect things, you can also own them and enjoy them. This house of Taurus symbolizes toddlerhood. You move from feeding at your mother's breast, to eating real food. Here, you discover the textures, tastes and smells of food. Your brain is developed enough to appreciate music. You notice when things are beautiful or ugly. You know the difference between things you want and things you don't want. You notice what you have versus what other people have. It is a house of wants. Desire seeps into your life and you begin to decide what you really like in life.

A process of defining yourself based on your values, your possessions and your desires takes place. You move beyond the wonder of discovering your effect on the world and realize the importance of building a life rather than just an existence. Only the second house in the order of the zodiac, things are still very primal here. It's all about sensory information. You haven't reached your first air house yet, so you aren't intellectualizing anything. You haven't reached your first water house, so you haven't really developed an emotional outlook yet either.

It's simply physical here. The second house is about physical wants and needs. It's about hunger, thirst, warmth, and comfort. Wants aren't intellectual or emotional, they are based on physical desire and need. They range from these most basic issues to a need for shelter and money. The most abstract level the second house reaches is in dealing with the concept of value. Yet, even this is done on a primal level. In the second house you can value freedom or independence as concepts, yet you value them because of the way they make you feel physically. Freedom may allow you to buy what you want or spend your time doing the things that give you physical pleasure. No matter how you try to twist the issues of this house into anything beyond the physical to make it seem more evolved, you can always trace the root back to the physical world.