Skandha / Character / Values

"Skandha" = "heap".

2nd-house of "character" is the repository of the huge "heap" of psychic constructs which define and structure the mind.  The psychic structure is generated by a "pile-up" of imprints left on the field of the subconscious by past experiences. 

In English, the word "character" comes from the Greek "kharakter" meaning "an engraved mark". (From "kharax" meaning "pointed stake.")  Character means the traits which are "engraved" or "carved into" the personality.  Any parent will attest that children show individual character almost from the first moment of birth. 

The elaborate psychic structure which contains the vast accrual of past-life and developing present-life experiences is represented by dhana-bhava, the house of accrued wealth. The individual's moral and aesthetic values, speech patterns, family lineage, knowledge of historical tradition, material wealth - even his hair and nails! - are considered "outflowings" or  "sravana" of his enormous subconscious accumulation of past experience.

By default the subconscious creates a massive network of unexamined presumptions, expectations, automatic actions and reactions, etc., until its material comes to conscious attention.  At this point of awareness the samskara / character can begin to be intentionally changed.

Favorable occupants and aspects to dhana bhava gives strong straight clean teeth; a well formed mouth with soft, full lips; and clear, truthful speech.  Moral and aesthetic values as well as vocal tone are pleasingly elegant.  Wealth accrues naturally as the fruit of his labor.  The native intrinsically appreciates his wealth, and thereby gains happiness from it -- whatever its comparative value.

Unfavorable conditions in dhana bhava will be obvious in damaged or crooked teeth, unclear or offensive speech, and under-developed moral values.  Such a native may do well in other areas of life, but they will likely never be happy in regard to their wealth.  

Should they acquire some form of wealth, it will seem distasteful or inadequate compared to his neighbors.  Normally the native with a corrupt mouth will suffer jealousy of others' wealth and remain in the mental state of poverty.

If the chart allows, a person born into a low family may evolve higher values   independently of the family habit.  As this individual develops morally and aesthetically, one of his first priorities will be to clean the mouth, straighten the teeth, and cease vulgar speech.  They will begin to choose cleaner food, often becoming vegetarian and refraining from alcohol.  Watch this person with interest.  After fixing mouth and speech, their wealth will dramatically improve.

Modes of Hoarding and Preserving:

• Languages - all languages store a priceless oral tradition and information-organizing system of categories, labels, and relationships between objects of sense & mind

• Libraries - historical knowledge & information storage, paper & digital. 

• Oral traditions which conserve the stories, songs, and epic legends of a people.

• Banks - food storage banks, money banks, seed banks, musical recordings banks, blood banks, organ banks.

• Collections: public art museums, private art & valuables collections, family photo albums, family Bible, parish registries, government record-keeping (e.g. USA social security). 

• Warehouses full of inventory, silos, barns, sheds, granaries, any type of storage container (small, large, or gigantic.) (Under influence of Kuja, can include weapons or poisons storage.)

• Historic buildings or any landscape that can be read as a historical narrative "text", historical preservation values,  recordings of endangered peoples and languages 

• Environmental conservationism, all movements to preserve and restore historic conditions in "nature"

• Priority values: political conservatism, resistance to innovation, worship of the past, "Golden Age" mythology, reverence for family traditions, ethnic definitions of beauty, 

Languages

Both physical Eyesight and power of observation, along with intuitive sight, are encompassed in Dhana Bhava.  

Traditionally dhana is more the profile of one's right eye (left brain), while vyaya bhava more completely describes the left eye (right brain).  Thus the rishis taught what we have recently discovered:  while right brain or vyaya bhava is the spatial imagination, left brain or dhana sthana is the domain of speech.

" If Dhana lord is endowed with strength, the native will possess beautiful eyes." 

-- BPHS, Ch 13, shloka 12

Method of Acquiring Wealth

• L-11 is a primary indicator of method of earning, i.e, new wealth coming in.

• L-2 is a primary indicator of hoarding, i.e., existing wealth in storage.

L-2 coordinated with L-11 is a powerful dhana yoga. 

• L-2 wealth may originate in the family's historic values (distinctively, lineages which value knowledge) or directly in the family's stored capital wealth. If the native is to parlay existing family capital into a greater array of self-made wealth, the L-2 and the L-3 (self-made wealth) must be strong. 

• L-2 is a hoarder and not prone to share the wealth, except with other family members.

• L-11 wealth originates in the native's own marketplace behaviors. 

• L-11 is a gainer, and prone to share the wealth only within mutually profitable marketplace friendships.

The precise methods used for earning and hoarding will be known through the character of L-2 and L-11.

• L-5 is a primary indicator of winnings from creative adventure, games and speculation.

• L-9 is a primary indicator of guidance from religion, including guidance from beneficent spirits such as deities.

L-5 coordinated with L-9 is also a powerful dhana yoga, but the means and methods are quite different. Putra bhava and dharma bhava are "bhagya" (good fortune, bhaga) houses which derive their happiness from "poorva poonya" - credit from good works accomplished in past lives.

• L-5 wealth is accomplished through personal genius, which is really the native's ability to channel divine intelligence. 

• L-5 handles one's wealth in a highly ethical fashion (the stronger is the connection of Surya vis-à-vis L-5, the more ethical). (See Bill Gates Jr.)

• L-9 grants the ultimate wealth empowerment, which does not involve earning, hoarding, or gambling. The wealth derived from L-9 is best described by Paramahansa Yogananda:

"Success is not to be measured by how much material wealth is possessed, but whether you are able to create at will what you need."

Additional aspects to dhana bhava and its lord, the condition of 2nd-from-chandra and perhaps the 8th navamsha (wealth after marriage), will reveal the full wealth-earning capacity.  

Face, Speech, Talking

Dhana bhava's profile includes:

• quality of face, hair, 

• mouth, teeth, tongue, jaw, & voice; 

• spoken & facial  expression, 

• and the speaking part of language ability.  

Venus in dhanastana gives a beautiful face (and a nice voice), although the type of beauty depends very much on rashi & drishti.

"Physical penance (tapas) means celibacy and non-violence. Mental penance is restraint of the mind and speech. "

~~ Mahabharata Shanti Parva 217.17

Family narrative, source of values and lineage identity

The second most basic form of wealth or well-being is belonging within the family, and the social identity we develop through speech communication within the family. 

Dhana rules family blood lines, our early childhood, and acquisition of primary moral & aesthetic values.  We learn what to eat, what to say, how to treat each other - from not only parents and siblings but also the larger tribal unit, including grandparents, aunts & uncles, cousins, house servants, etc.  Social cooperation, recognition of worthiness, and verbal support from the extended family is a basic signification of dhana bhava.

The "family narrative" can be read through 2nd-from-Chandra and the 2nd navamsha. 

Individual family members will participate in the family lineage history, but each person can also be known and experienced as distinct personalities:

•  Mother is individually known through bandhu sthana, the Moon, 4th-from-Moon, and either Moon or L4 in dwadashamsha (whichever is stronger).  

• Father is individually known through dharma bhava, Surya, 9th-from-Surya, and the stronger of either Ravi or L9 in dwadamsha (D-12).

If your dhana bhava and its lord are in good condition there will be harmonious conditions within your family, ensuring a happy childhood.  Malefic aspects on dhana bhava indicate lack of cooperation in early childhood, and the well known later struggle for happiness that emerges from childhood suffering.

More Family information from Dhana Bhava

• As 6th-from-9th, look to dhana for information on father's enemies, debts, and disease.  

• As 11th-from-4th, dhana tells about mother's immediate older sibling; however, don't forget the often-more-revealing 11th-from-Moon.

• As 4th-from-11th, dhana shows your immediate elder sibling's house

• Your children's career, especially the career of your first child, is seen in 10th-from-5th dhana bhava.  (Also see 10th-from-L-5, and second house within saptamsha.)

History and Tradition

Dhana includes all the the core traditional values passed through the family line. How to treat the land, and how to treat each other.  How to remember the ancestors, through songs and stories.  How to celebrate the passage of time. 

Core morality, timing of religious ritual & celebrations, knowledge of sacred texts, old stories, history, ancestry, ritual foods, "comfort foods", mother tongue, speech dialect and intonation, old songs - form one's basic cultural education through oral tradition.  

Cultural education, knowledge of history, banking, conservation, understanding of public values, and creation of public social policy are all encompassed within the second house.  

Enemies of religion

Money may not be the "root of all evil" but clearly house-2 for wealth is 6th-from-dharmasthana - making money a natural "enemy of religion".  

There is a natural domain conflict, a natural & normal imbalance, between the values which underlie advanced social morality such as equitable distribution of wealth, and value which underlie the tradition of each family accumulating wealth for itself.

There is natural animosity between the call to tribal or cultural priesthood, which requires the native to communicate ritually with the  spirit world full of beings who lack human bodies, versus the call to cultivate material wealth which has predominantly material properties.  

Consider the similar natural domain conflict between the parochial, localized education of house-4 and the cosmic, universalized education of house-9.  

If a person applies all their attention to cultivating the local morals of their region, they will have no energy left for dealing with people & spirits who are different from them.  

By the same token, if a person focuses exclusively on a universal view which is so inclusive that all sentient beings - perhaps all beings of any structure - are recognized and respected, there is no energy left to protect or promote the local customs, and one becomes a stranger in one's own home.

Such is the natural animosity or permanent competition for attention & resources into which dhana and dharma are permanently juxtaposed.

Second Marriage

As the 8th-from-7th, dhana bhava shows players & circumstances which create end-of-cycle of the first marriage.  

Periods of L-2 or L-8 indicate the death of the first spouse.  Divorce, which equals the saturation (2nd-from-7) or destruction (8th-from-7) of marriage, also occurs during period of L-2 or L-8.

The first marriage is more oriented to balancing with a partner who is significantly opposite to oneself, who has traits of the maternal grandmother (4th-from-4th) plus provides a post-childhood home & security (4th-from-4th) . 

The first spouse will be a member of the father's or guru's network of associations (11th-from-9th) or will be a "friend to your religion".  Thus the first spouse promotes one's overt moral beliefs.  In an arranged marriage the parents ensure social compatibility (similar caste etc.) and in a love marriage the young couple talk over how they want to live, what they believe, and how to raise their children.  Either way, compatibility in external mores is achieved.  (If house-7 is distressed then social morality is one of the first stressors, of course!)

However the spouse's value's being 2nd-from-7th the native's house-8, are always problematic in marriage; in-laws have been a problem in marriage since time immemorial.

The first spouse's fantasies & long foreign journeys, being 12th-from-7th = the native's house-6, are a source of conflict & animosity by default.

These defaults can be corrected if the native has auspicious 6th or 8th houses, but generally the downside of the first marriage is established by seeing what houses become dusthana from the 7th.

If a second marriage is indicated, look to house-2 for its public face.  (Look to navamsha-2 for its private face.)  Using house-2 as lagna, see which houses become subha-sthana and which become dusthamsha.  

House-2 is lagna for the second spouse.  Therefore, ceteris paribus, we attract a 2nd-marriage partner who is less our opposite (7), and more shares the culture and experience of our early childhood (7). 

The naturally auspicious kendra houses counting from dhana bhava are house-5, house-8, and house-11.  Thus, children & personal creativity; healings - including shared finances of marriage; and gains/friendships, are all by default enhanced in the second marriage.

The natural dusthanas within the 2nd marriage become:

• animosity of 6th-from-2nd =house-7 (surviving partners from first marriages)

• destruction/transformation of 8th-from-2nd = house-9 (religion & social morality)

• dissolution/spiritualization of12th-from-2nd (one's social identity).

As always, if these dusthanas-from-2nd are occupied by good planets, receive helpful drishti etc. then the experience of spouse's previous partners, or religious sanction, or dissolution of identity can be highly favorable.

To evaluate the second marriage partner and timing of second marriage, Jyotishi will consider:

1. 2nd-from-lagna and its Lord

2. 2nd-from-Moon and its Lord

3. 2nd-from-Venus and its Lord

4. 2nd house within navamsha

5. dasha timing of these controlling planets

Death

A major duty in the portfolio of Dhana bhava and the L-2 is to ensure that, according to the script of the incarnational intent, "something must die so that something else may live."

L-2 is a fierce maraka.

Dhana- bhava and yuvati bhava, the second and seventh rashi houses, are "maraka" or death houses which show saturation with sensual experience signaling physical death.  

Compare 2nd house to 8th house randhra bhava. Domain-8 shows the circumstances of one's own death not the timing. 

As lord of 2nd-from-7th, the lord of Randhra can show timing of death of first spouse, final cessation of contracts and agreement, termination of negotiation processes that signals the death of a relationship, etc.

However L-8 is not itself a maraka for the native.

Timing of the spirit's departure from the physical vehicle is known by time-lordship of L-2, L-7, lord of 2nd-from-Moon and 7th-from-Moon.  2nd-from any house can indicate saturation of matters in that house.  Saturation indicates that one's complete agenda regarding matters of that house has been fully accomplished and permission to move to a new energy body has been earned.

Divorce

L-2 = a significant timing agent for divorce and the announced end-point of established relationships.

Circumstances of an L-2 timing for divorce are such that  the native has exhausted all options for further negotiation in the current partnership  *and* based on that fixed state of saturation or terminal non-movement in the discourse of the original partnership, has already initiated another relationship.

That is, when divorce or final separation occurs during a period of L-2, the lagna of domain-8 [death point of negotiations] has already given rise to a new relationship, so that the 7th-from-8th has already manifested. This is a divorce in which the native has already connected with "someone else". (Something has died and something now lives.)

Example from Hollywood:

Immediately at the onset of the mahadasha of Brad Pitt's powerful and auspicious L-2 Guru,  Mr. Pitt surprised the public by enacting a separation from his first wife, the beautiful and popular Jennifer Aniston. Despite Ms. Aniston's many charms, there was indeed a life-defining relationship with "someone else" already sprouting.

L-6

By contrast, divorce or final separation of partnership that is announced during periods of L-6 simply indicates the dissolution of the legal marriage contract. In the period of L-6, the marriage alliance has collapsed, and a state of animosity exists within the former partnership. However there is no implication during a period of L-6 that another life-defining partnership has been generated. In fact, L-6 suggests that the conflicted parties are largely consumed with fighting between themselves or chewing on the details of the disagreement, so that very little life-force energy would be presently available with which to initiate a significant new relationship.

L-8

Divorce announced during a period of L-8 shows a focus on the re-distribution of the marriage values, particularly money. Most attention is paid to settlement of the joint financial estate. Emotionally, psychologically, and sexually, there is rarely (yet) a new partnership growing. The native is probably in a state of shock or profound reflection, and not yet energized to rebuild. Unlike L-2, L-8 may indicate the physical death of the spouse.

Performance benefits from dhana bhava

From the nativities of those who enjoy a strong dhana bhava, there emerge historians, priests, singers, artists, bankers, cooks. These natives serve as curators of the ancient hoards in food, money, songs, tales, works of art, values, images, traditions, truths.  

They are good singers and speakers, natural entertainers and storytellers with a great sense of humor.  Dhana bhava in strength confers a powerful sense of stewardship for public lands, possessiveness of private lands, a deep and abiding personal connection to Nature, and natural talent for wealth development in many forms.

If Dhanasthana be afflicted

Food

There will be insufficient or poorly prepared or non-nutritious food.  The person may ingest improperly prepared food (spoiled, chemically altered, or otherwise damaged) and other poisons through the mouth. 

Depending on the specific malefic influence: Shani will delay but does not destroy. Kuja is aggressive and can kill. Rahu is hungry & demonic. Ketu is passive & inert.

• Too much preservative (e.g., salt)  in the food, leading to tumors, is associated with Shani in domain-2.  

• Too much spice or stimulant in the food, leading to ulcers, is associated with Kuja in domain-2. 

• Too much taboo food, whatever nutrient is proscribed by the ethics of one's people, is associated with Rahu in domain-2.  (E.g., Muslim or Jew eating pork, Hindu eating beef, American eating horse-meat, religious teetotaler drinking alcohol, etc. Rahu = boundary-breeching by mouth.)

• Poisoned food or drink (such as rakshi) often leading to death, is associated with some awful combination of malefics with Chandra in Vrischika. 

• Mouth, teeth, tongue, or jaw may be misshapen.  

• Incomplete articulation of speech, or vulgar aggressive speech. 

• Learning to speak new languages may be difficult or impossible.

Finance

The native may suffer chronic financial problems due to insufficient  hoarding skills. These folks just cannot save money. Typically one is born into a family line that does not have a lineage tradition of wealth development; this lineage cannot transmit wealth values to their children.  Thus a malefic dhana bhava suggests being born into a lineage of ignorance and poverty.  

Knowledge

The native's acquisition of knowledge may be slowed or blocked, depending on the nature of the damage. Reduced or blocked access to traditional values in art & song, collections of beautiful objects, historical records, and reduced instinct toward conservation/preservation may also result in willingness to destroy the source of all material value, planet Earth. 

Shani: Improves over Time

If Shani in domain-2 is the cause of acquisitional difficulties, the situation will improve. The wisdom of experience provides chronological and moral maturity, which eventually re-creates historic values. 

The native will have to repeat basic training in knowledge acquisition skills over many iterations. One has to "re-create the wheel" in many cases, due to the lack of guidance and direction from the family of origin. However, with Shani, persistence is the key to success.

Best improvement for Shani-related disability in matters of domain-2 occurs for yogakaraka L 4-5 or L 9-10 Shani (Thula & Vrishabha lagnas) or Shani in swakshetra or uccha condition. Despite poor family transmission of historical values, these natives often become quite wealthy and acquire much beauty & knowledge, albeit only late in life.

"If Dhana's lord is in Randhra Bhava, the native will be endowed with abundant land & wealth. 

But he will have limited marital felicity & be bereft of happiness from his elder brother."

 ~~ BPHS  Ch. 24, Shloka 20 

Studies in Power of Dhana Bhava

Shri Aurobindo: 

This pre-eminent spokesperson for contemporary Indian independence, the profound beauty and eternal value of ancient Indian spiritual culture, and for the future spiritual evolution of all mankind has an exemplary 2nd house.  

His salutary effect on global consciousness is widely acknowledged by other spiritual leaders.  His poetry became world-renowned.  

Not everything he said was true or perfect of course - especially during his incendiary political years!  Nevertheless his displays very good function for L-2, aspects, 2nd-from-Moon, 2nd-navamsha, etc. 

"Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. 

Capital in some form or other will always be needed. "

~~ Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948) ; www.gandhiserve.org

updated: 11 March 2010  

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