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Chiron in the second house

Chiron (2060 Chiron) in the second house, read in the modern Western manner

What the tradition reads

No older authority reads Chiron in the second house, since the body was found in 1977; the delineation here is Cafe Astrology's, written by the astrologer Annie. Alan Leo, in a textbook first published in 1903, gives the second house finance and monetary prospects, and reads it as the outcome of the labour or profession in financial advantage, remuneration and monetary condition generally. Cafe Astrology reads Chiron there as putting weight on exactly those matters, resources, money, talents and worth, and reads a powerful need to build a safe, sound and comfortable world for oneself and for those close, a need its owner is not always in touch with. Something in early experience is read as having attached guilt to the enjoyment of material things and comforts, so that the entitlement to occasional indulgence is granted in the head and not believed beneath it, while others are convinced of their own worth with skill. The page reads compensation running either way, too much indulgence or too little, with the surplus guilt constant, and reads the person's approach to money, belongings and ownership as distinctly their own. A second set of delineations on the same page, from the site's Character Profile report, reads early affection as having been scant or misplaced, and a capacity to teach self worth once one's own account of it is settled.

The story

The second house was long settled before the body was found. Alan Leo heads his chapter on it wealth and finance, and hereditary position, judges money matters largely but not exclusively from its state, and leaves money inherited and money coming through other people to the eighth. He classes the second succedent, among those he says carry matters of feeling and emotion not yet ripe for physical expression but maturing for future development. Chiron's own name was settled far more recently and by committee: Kowal's find of 1 November 1977 was catalogued first as 1977 UB, and the naming citation for 2060 Chiron was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 April 1978, the article recording that the minor planet was named for the centaur of Greek myth, son of the Titan Cronus and the nymph Philyra, wisest and most just of all centaurs and an instructor of the Greek heroes. The object also holds property of a kind unusual for its class: occultation events through the 2010s and early 2020s showed that it has rings, making it one of four minor planets known to have them and the only comet.

Written from

• Cafe Astrology, Chiron in the Houses of the Natal Chart
• Alan Leo, How to Judge a Nativity (first edition 1903), Chapter I, The Twelve Houses of the Horoscope, pp. 7 to 9, and Chapter IX, The Second House, Wealth and Finance, and Hereditary Position
• Wikipedia, 2060 Chiron

Corpus key point:Chiron:house:2.