Sun in the 2nd house

You remember your first pay cheque to the dollar, and what you bought with it, and why.

Your second house is the house of money, possessions and what you value, and the Sun, your sense of who you are, was in it when you were born. Here the self is something you build and keep. You feel most like yourself when you have made something solid and it is yours.

Things that last

You choose carefully and keep for a long time: one good watch instead of three, the same pen for years, a house you mean to stay in. Your taste is your signature, and people who know you can pick out a present you would like from across a shop.

Money, for you, is proof rather than greed. Earning your own way says something about you that no compliment could.

Slow and sure

You do not rush a decision that involves what you own, and you are hard to talk into anything. Once you have decided what something is worth, a person, a job, a price, you hold to it, and you are usually right. The patience is a talent. The stubbornness is its other face.

When worth gets confused

On a bad week you measure yourself by your bank balance or by what the year has to show for itself, and the numbers are never kind enough. Your worth comes first; the money follows it, not the other way round.

Write down three things you are proud of that no one paid you for.

What you keep

The people in your life are, like your belongings, few and well chosen, and every one of them knows you would not trade them for anything.