The 2nd Lord in the 10th House

The 2nd lord in the 10th house is the ruler of the 2nd, the Dhana Bhava, placed in the 10th, the Karma Bhava. The 2nd is in none of the four classes and the 10th a kendra and an upachaya. Which graha that lord is depends on the ascendant, so the table below answers for all twelve.

Counted from the 2nd, the 10th is the 9th house, which from any house is a trikona position; counted back from the 10th, the 2nd is the 5th, a trikona position from it.

On the Parashari reading, in which a lord carries its house’s matters to wherever it sits, the 2nd lord in the 10th reads the 2nd’s matters — savings and wealth, family of origin, speech and voice, and values — through the 10th’s: career and profession, public reputation, authority, and achievements. For the 2nd lord in the 10th that is a frame, not a forecast; what it comes to depends on the graha, its dignity below, and the rest of the chart.

The 2nd Lord in the 10th, Ascendant by Ascendant

Across the twelve ascendants the 2nd lord in the 10th is exalted for Cancer and Capricorn, in a friend's sign for Aries, Leo, Virgo, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Aquarius and Pisces, in a neutral sign for Taurus and Gemini and debilitated for Libra. The Sun and the Moon rule one sign each, so for Gemini and Cancer, where one of them is the 2nd lord, it rules no other house; for the other ten the last column gives the second house the 2nd lord brings with it to the 10th.

The Reverse: the 10th Lord in the 2nd

Where the 10th lord sits in the 2nd in the same chart as the 2nd lord in the 10th, each lord occupies the other’s sign, an exchange the texts call parivartana. For all twelve ascendants the 2nd and the 10th have different lords, so the exchange is possible whatever the ascendant.

Related

The 2nd lord in each of the twelve houses is on the 2nd lord page; the houses themselves on the 2nd house and the 10th house. For the method, see the 12 houses guide and our 10th house article.