⊗ Part of Fortune · Succedent house
Part of Fortune in the 2nd House
The Part of Fortune in the second house puts the easy ground in resources: earning, holding, and the use of what is owned.
The second house is possessions and worth, and the Lot here is one of the more straightforwardly favourable placements the older sources describe.
It is read as a natural facility with money and materials, and as prosperity that comes through the person's own effort rather than through anybody else.
The classical emphasis is on sufficiency rather than accumulation: what this placement is described as producing is a life that is not short of what it needs.
What this placement does well and what it costs
What it is good at
Earning through skill, and managing what has been earned.
What it asks for
The comfort is real enough that risk can look unnecessary, which is sometimes right and sometimes not.
The two halves of this placement
A planet says what, a house says where in a life it happens. The sign it sits in says how, and that is a third reading again.
This placement needs your birth time
Your Part of Fortune sign depends only on the date. Its house depends on the horizon at the moment you were born, and the whole framework rotates by one house roughly every two hours. An hour of error moves about half a house, which is frequently the difference between this page and the one next to it.
If a free chart gave you houses without asking for a time, it assumed one, usually noon or midnight. Check the placement before you build anything on it.
Where is your Part of Fortune?
The chart is free, takes a birth time, and gives you every planet by sign and by house, with the aspects between them.
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