House 2

Lilly 1659 fills this house with things a person can carry off: money lent, movable goods, profit and loss. He also gives it the friend who stands by a person in a lawsuit and the second in a duel, an odd extension that makes sense if the house means whatever backs a person up. Some Latin authors, he notes, called it Anaphora.

It is a succedent house, one of the four that follow the angles, and Lilly places it fairly low in his order of strength. Sepharial 1920 reduces it to finance and commerce, and Broughton 1898 keeps the older list of goods and gain or loss at law.

Modern popular astrology adds personal values and self-worth, which none of these writers state. Lilly's estate was a matter of goods that could be counted, and the modern heading moves the house inward. None of this is financial or legal advice.