Meghan - 2nd House
Here’s the second installment of “The Meghan Project”. It’s about 1 800 words long, and really should be around 800! so please let me know what you think is most interesting … (Don’t forget to use the glossary if there are terms that are unfamiliar).
2 Second House
The second house represents a person’s financial security and their ability to meet their responsibilities. It can also relate to speech, things we ingest and the person’s experience of early childhood. The second house in this chart has many indications for prosperity including that the houselord is awake, young and aspecting his own house. The house is also receiving rasi aspect from two benefics and has manifesting support from both Jupiter and Mercury. Unfortunately, the house has almost an equal number of indications for annihilation including rasi aspects from four malefics and the houselord being posited with the lord of two inauspicious houses. This means that the house will give mixed results.
2.1 Person’s Life Experience
Meghan was born into an atypical family. Her parents were both independent, creating their own paths in life and from different backgrounds as Meghan herself described … “growing up in a homogeneous community in Pennsylvania, the concept of marrying an African-America woman was not on the cards for my dad” (O'Malley 2018). She had older half-siblings that had been living separately from their father, but moved in when her parents got married. Her parents then divorced when she was 6 years old and she spent weekdays at her father’s house and weekends at her mother’s during her school years. Her father won $750,000 in the state lottery and used it to send Meghan to a private school. She worked successfully as an actor and became financially independent. By the time she married Prince Harry, she was wealthy on her own terms. After leaving the Royal Family in 2020, she is once again on her way to financial independence. (Petit 2020, section: "They're Financially Independent") She follows a vegan diet. From a young age, she has used her voice to inspire others and advocate for human values. She was able to lobby at age 11 to get the wording of a TV commercial changed to be less sexist. (Biography.com 2018, section: "Early Life")
2.2 Sign
The second house is taking place in Leo. Leo is a fixed, sattvic, dharmic, fire sign. Its places are fortresses and mountains. These Leo indications echo the themes in the person’s life experience of being independent and following one’s own path to financial security.
2.3 Planet
The second house in this chart is ruled by the Sun. The Sun is cruel, masculine, fiery and inspiring. It is a karaka for the soul, the father and self-confidence. It is intelligent and consistent.
The Sun in this chart is located in Leo making it in moolatrikona dignity and proud lajjitaadi avastha. It is also in jagrat and kumara avasthas. It is 2nd in Shad bala and not being attacked by any enemies. When the Sun is proud, it shines purely in a way that inspires, supports and protects others. It brings intelligence and right action to the chart and is capable of self-sacrifice that brings greatness for all.
This proud avastha highlights again the theme of protecting others. It also underlines why Meghan has chosen to pursue inspirational speaking in her numerous charity roles over time. (Wikipedia 2020, section: "Charity work")
2.4 Planets in the Second House
2.4.1 Rahu
The first planet in the 2nd house is Rahu. Rahu is unconventional and amateur. It has great desire but no practical knowledge or experience and this can lead a person to be impulsive and inept in the area of life in which it is placed. Rahu is cruel, tamasic, of the air element and of vata constitution.
When it is in the 2nd house, Rahu is encouraging the person to take responsibility for their own worth and resources. From a karmic evolutionary perspective, Rahu is opposing the karmic history of being dependent on others as shown by Ketu in the 8th house. Rahu might create chaos in the family or the family resources in order to detach the person from relying on others financially. Meghan’s father, mother, half-sister and half-brother have all filed for bankruptcy (Grigoriadis 2018, “Samantha filed for bankruptcy in 2003, joined by Thomas junior in 2012. … Doria also filed for bankruptcy.”). It could also indicate chaos in early childhood, which in this case may have been the separation of Meghan’s parents and the unconventionality of living between two homes during her school years. This chaos is all to provoke balance in the person and to encourage them to loosen up in the fear of not being financially supported so that Rahu doesn’t have to provide such instability in the family.
Rahu in Leo is indicating that the person must follow their own inspiration. This can make a person goal-orientated and perhaps expecting that all others are also so driven (see comments in 1st House blog about being demanding of aides: Section.1.3)
Rahu is also interacting with all the planets conjunct in Leo.
2.4.1.1 Rahu and Sun
Rahu with the Sun indicates that the person will be motivated to develop their own individuality (especially as this is taking place in Leo). The person will see everything as an opportunity to manifest their goals and might appear self-centred to others. This seems to be one of the major criticisms by Meghan’s half-sister, Samantha (Bird 2020). Rahu will make the Sun appear even more magnetic and confident to others, but inside the person, there may be an awareness of that not being truly justified. This outer magnetism may cause others to see the person as special, different from the rest, and cause them to place a great role on the person. This role might not match up with the person’s natural inner truth, but being as Rahu is making that inner truth unknowable, the person has no choice but to take on these great roles. Becoming a duchess is an obvious example of a great role, but even Meghan’s choice to be an actor was perhaps thrust upon her by her father, who worked in the industry, believing in her more than herself. (Grigoriadis 2018, “believed in this grand dream of mine well before I could even see it as a possibility.” and "my daughter has been a princess since the day she was born") These great roles can make it hard for the person to know who they truly are.
2.4.1.2 Rahu and Mercury
When Rahu is located with Mercury it promotes original thinking and forces the person to learn through trial and error. Mercury rules the 3rd House and the 12th House for this person and these are houses which relate to travel and foreign places. Rahu is also a karaka for foreigners. This indicates that there may be opportunities to learn from mistakes made in foreign lands or with foreigners. Meghan has lived and worked in countries outside her native United States (internship in Argentina, TV Show in Canada and Duchess in the United Kingdom).
2.4.2 Mercury
The second planet in the second house is Mercury. The qualities of Mercury will be discovered in the next blog post. Mercury rules the 3rd and 12th Houses of this chart linking travel and foreigners with financial resources. Meghan has worked in foreign lands. Mercury represents friends and she has famous, successful, exotic and foreign friends (bringing in the royal qualities of the Sun in Leo with Mercury and Rahu) (Grigoriadis 2018, "hanging out with an international crowd")
Mercury is being delighted, agitated and shamed by the Sun in the second house. This complex planetary relationship echoes the themes exposed by the Sun being in the same sign as Rahu because the delight of the Sun is going to generate lots of connections, opportunities and friends. But the agitation by the Sun is going to make the person overly identify and perhaps become enmeshed with greatness. However, the Sun finally shaming Mercury points to not being able to fulfil the vision of greatness, of nevertheless applying Mercury’s ability to manage the implementation of this great project, secretly knowing all along that it was not the calling the person was truly meant to fulfil and finally being exposed as not being, in fact, great or the greatness not being meaningful.
A recent example of this shamed avastha can be seen in the scandal involving Meghan’s close friend Jessica Mulroney. Jessica has been accused of bullying a black colleague into not publicly supporting the “Black Lives Matter” movement. This accusation has led to Jessica being removed from many of her high-status positions on television and in brand partnerships. The actions of Meghan’s friend (Mercury) have brought Meghan shame because Meghan is inadvertently a figurehead (Sun conjuct Rahu) for race equality. Meghan’s public standing (Sun) has caused her to have to sacrifice (Sun) this friendship (Mercury) because it brings shame to Meghan’s principles and status (Sun) (Coy 2020).
It is worth noting that this shaming scandal happened as,
· Sun, Venus and Rahu were transiting the same sign (Gemini – natural 3rd sign of the zodiac bringing in karakas like peers) causing Venus (11th lord of influential friends) to be shamed by the Sun,
· Saturn (a cruel planet and 8th lord of sudden changes) was transiting Ketu and in direct opposition to Meghan’s natal Rahu, and
· Meghan (who is in Jupiter dasa) was in the dasa sub-periods of Venus/Rahu/Mercury/Rahu bringing together many of the main contributors to this scandal.
2.4.3 Sun
The final planet in the 2nd House is the Sun. Please see Section 2.3 for a description of the qualities of the Sun and Section 2.5 for the Sun’s role in this second house.
2.5 Bhava Yogas
2.5.1 Ascendant Yogas
The Sun rules the maraka 2nd house for a Cancer ascendant. This can make it a difficult planet to work with and it is important to look at its unique situation and to the planets it is with. The Sun in this chart is very healthy as described in Section 2.3. However, it is with a malefic Mercury and Rahu causing it to be misled into greatness that takes it away from its inner calling. Therefore, wealth, inspirational speaking and immediate family may be double-edged swords for this person.
2.5.2 2nd in the 2nd
The 2nd lord in the 2nd house links speech and wealth. Meghan’s first post-royal employment was recording the “voice-over for a Disney documentary about elephant migration in the Kalahari”. (Mead 2020) The 2nd lord in the 2nd house also indicates someone with a beautiful face with refined taste in food, style and appearance. These attributes sum up the description Meghan had for her website “The Tig” “a hub for the discerning palate—those with a hunger for food, travel, fashion & beauty.” (Mead 2020) (The addition of travel to the mix is the perfect acknowledgement of Mercury, the 3rd lord of short journeys, also being in the 2nd house).
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