Cancer in 2nd House: Shells and Savings
Personal Wealth
These natives are typically exceptionally careful with money. They’re rarely eager to overspend or give away too much. This is mainly because they worry about their future financials even if they’re doing fairly well by most people’s standards.
Being born habitual savers and budgeters, many of them save and budget as soon as they start to earn an income. And they seem to be blessed with an uncanny degree of resourcefulness which often surprises and inspires those around them.
A really good example of clever 2nd house Cancerian frugality and resourcefulness would be a friend of mine who bought a whole second hand kitchen on eBay for a mere $500. She and her husband managed to fit it themselves and she decorated it in beautiful French cottage style. She probably saved her family about $20,000! Buying a new kitchen with custom made units is never cheap!
She also found lots of smart tips and hacks online which helped her to create the exact style she wanted with a tiny budget. She went shopping at her local dollar stores and found a wealth of beautiful kitchen items that complimented the theme and looked very fancy and expensive. I was so surprised with what she’d managed to create from an almost shoestring budget.
Being highly imaginative, many of them aren’t at all content with working for someone else. Cancer enjoys “giving birth” to new concepts and loathes creativity and imagination being stifled so many of them prefer to run their own show.
With strong connections to their family, many of these people work in a family business. If not, they might feel compelled to start one themselves and aim to include their children (or younger friends) once they’re adults.
Cancer, being so strongly associated with the home, means that many of them work from home. And if they don’t, maybe they would prefer to if they were given the chance.
Cancer in this house also indicates the type of profession someone might undertake. Caring professions are Cancerian type careers. Home related careers are also related to this placement. Some examples would be renovator, painter, and interior designer.
I have this placement and although I could have flourished in an orthodox career and worked outside of my home, all kinds of situations kept pulling me back to it. To this day I still work from home although it’s been decorated to my taste and it’s cozy, comforting, and peaceful — and I love it.
Safe, secure investments are typically preferred by those with this placement. For instance, placing money in a normal savings account in an old bank with a solid reputation. And they’ll diligently research the institute before saving or investing with them.
To use myself as an example, I absolutely favor secure investments over risky ones. In the UK, we have NS&I which was formed in the 1950s and is backed by the treasury. So every now and again when I have some spare cash to squirrel away, I buy Premium Bonds. Nearly ever month, I win something. Normally, a bunch of bonds win £25 to £100 each but one month last year I won £500 on a single bond!
Physical Belongings
When buying things for their home or doing anything to improve their home, they’ll gladly spend generously to make it a happier place to exist in. Their home is not only their pride and joy but the one place on this planet where they feel most secure, relaxed, and safe.
They might own many things that were handed down to them by older family members and keep mementos of their family about their home like photos and gifts from them. They deeply cherish things like family heirlooms or things owned as children and feel emotionally connected to them. They wouldn’t wish to part with them.
Despite having a strong emotional connection to their belongings, they might not openly and freely talk about them. This is often because they might be too personal to them and they feel too shy to discuss them with most people.
In some instances, they may fear being ridiculed or the things they love being laughed or scoffed at which would really hurt their feelings. As we all see varying degrees of value in things and being so sensitive, they might consider it better to just keep shtum about the objects and memories they hold dearest to avoid them getting hurt.
I’m very emotionally attachment to a lot of things I own, especially family photo albums and things belonging to my parents and grandparents. I cherish the things that were given to me by those I love and still hold onto childhood toys and games that I just can’t bear to part with — especially my dinosaur collection! I still also have a lot of stuff my exes gave me to help me fondly recall the good times we shared.
Stability and Security
Those with this placement could be financially supported by a family member until later in life or perhaps they were given a substantial inheritance.
They feel very strongly connected to their family and wish to be respected by them. The family home means a great deal to them and may double as a place of business. Either way, both are connected to their self esteem. If their home is quite large and grand, they’ll feel more secure and accomplished than if it were small and/or in a sketchy neighborhood.
They feel especially content in life when they have a good amount of money saved and are able to take good care of their family.
Their self worth and emotional security is directly linked to how much they make and what sort of job they have. Cancer is a traditional sign so they could have a traditional career. If not, they may feel like they could have done better in life if they had one. Of course, this isn’t necessarily true. Plenty of people with this placement pursue unorthodox careers and absolutely thrive in them. It all depends on what your calling is. I have this placement and I run this astrology website for a living, which I absolutely love and feel truly blessed to do!
Self Esteem and Self Worth
With this placement, self esteem is inextricably tied to family reputation, as well as how much they personally earn. Additionally, they value themselves according to the skills associated with homemaking like cooking, decorating, general housekeeping, and gardening.
These are the sort of people who can’t stand to have their homes in disarray and might panic a little at the sight of mess. When I have guests over, even if a childhood friend comes over, my place has to look neat and clean — and it must smell good, too! I just can’t have people think I’m a slob.
They’re very proud of their family, especially their parents and grandparents — particularly of their achievements, personality traits, and perhaps also their physical appearance. Members of their family, partners, friends, and other loved ones may remain in their memory and close to their hearts forever.
Because much of their self esteem and self worth is based on their family, their home, and the environment they grew up in, if they had a difficult upbringing, or poor relationships with their family members, their self esteem may require some work as they may feel a bit lost and insecure in life, even as adults.
Personal Values and Ethics
They deeply value emotional intelligence in themselves and others. They pride themselves on being emotionally intelligent and being able to understand others and have compassion for them.
Positive values include having a caring outlook, especially at work, looking after people, and working with family members. They may also work with their children, or wish to leave them with a thriving business. On the downside, they can be a tad moody and defensive at work. If they aren’t happy in their place of work, these natives can become perpetually cool and distant.
Cancer is also associated with self employment so these individuals may feel compelled from a young age to strike out by themselves. They might build a business and select loyal, sincere, and diligent employees who they know they could come to see as family. They might even allow their staff to take their pets to work to help create an atmosphere that feels warm, joyous, and family-like. They would hate to treat them poorly, but they also would be capable of letting go staff members who are a poor fit.
Cancer likes to collect things so they should guard against hoarding.
Skills and Talents
They’re naturally skilled at managing and nurturing the money they make. They save and budget well to avoid getting into debt — which would only cause them a great deal of worry and anxiety anyway.
People might admire how they’re able to effortlessly live on a shoestring budget and save enough to afford large home projects home like kitchen or yard renovation work. But they may also enjoy doing some or all of the building work themselves at home because renovation projects satisfy their active imaginations and save them money — it’s a double win for them!
Skilled at creating beautifully stylish, warm and welcoming spaces, they might choose to help others with their own renovation and decoration work in a personal or professional capacity. Their intuition is very strong and they just “know” what colors, patterns and textures work well together.
This intuition extends to sensing what may or may not be a good financial decision. This includes being able to tell who would make a good staff member, as well as what direction their business should move in.
If they feel appreciated and protected at work, they are very helpful, and often give off a healing type of energy. They desire to do all they can to become a valuable team member in the work place — and elsewhere for that matter.
Dominant Element
Understanding the element that dominates your birth chart can provide interesting and helpful information about your character and overall life path.
Fire Dominant
There’s a strong need to create a comfortable and secure home environment. They work tirelessly to support themselves, their family, the home, and other loved ones like friends and neighbors.
Their financial and material security is closely tied to their emotional well-being so they have a tendency to be especially prudent with their money and material possessions.
Interesting ventures, jobs, and investments are generally well considered but occasionally, owing to the chart being dominated by fire, they may leap into situations without adequate forethought and planning.
Earth Dominant
These individuals feel vulnerable and insecure without a solid financial foundation. They tend to worry about the future but are skilled at preparing for their retirement years. They are the least likely to dive into any kind of financial situation. Instead, they are cautious, realistic, and will take plenty of time to examine any sort of investment before making a decision.
They work exceptionally hard to keep a good home and support themselves and their loved ones. Even if they aren’t particularly keen on their job, they’ll stick to it if it provides them with a decent pay check each month. Taking care of their home and family, as well as all of their other responsibilities, is their top priority in life.
Their sense of financial security is heightened when they are surrounded by things of value. They might also collect items, in particular, items that are meaningful to them in some way. In some extreme cases, this could lead to hoarding.
Air Dominant
Objective, analytical, and rational, these people take all the time they need to think about their next financial move. Whether that means buying a new home, car, business, or whatever. With Cancer in the 2nd, their decision making is extra shrewd.
Their powerful intellect and intuition means they’re capable of achieving virtually whatever they set their sights on, however, they must guard against overthinking and idealism. No investment, job, or business is perfect and every choice they make will carry some degree of risk.
Water Dominant
Their excellent intuition guides, and to some extent, protects them. This is especially true when it comes to financial matters. They aren’t easily duped into get-rich-quick schemes and will take their time to “feel” out an investment, new job, or other financial situation.
These individuals would feel terrible if they weren’t equipped to look after their loved ones. They make sure to be extra careful with their finances and work earnestly to bring in an income that’s sufficient for their needs and the needs of those in their household.
Being sensitive, they know that they must be able to take care of themselves because if they don’t have a safe, quiet, secure place to live, it could very negatively impact their mental — and physical — well-being.
My Personal Experience With This Placement
I personally enjoy having a strong connection to my personal belongings. I also consider it rather sweet and charming to observe others cherish and proudly discuss the things they hold dear, especially their family heirlooms. I throughly admire those who are proud of their roots and heritage and hold beloved memories of the past.
With regard to self-worth being tied to the family home and their own income as adults, I believe this is fairly common and understandable. In today’s world, especially in the West, one’s self-worth is frequently connected to career and income no matter what lies within this house. Although I agree that this tendency is amplified when certain signs fall on the cusp of the 2nd house, like Cancer, Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn (the traditional signs).
From what I’ve seen, and from my own personal perspective as someone with this placement, intuition is very strong, especially if Gemini or Cancer is in the first house. I believe that all humans are psychic to various degrees but these two Rising signs increase that ability. And when good intuition is used for making financial choices, the results stand a greater chance of being fruitful.
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