The 5th Lord in the 2nd House

The 5th lord in the 2nd house is the ruler of the 5th, the Putra Bhava, placed in the 2nd, the Dhana Bhava. The 5th is a trikona and the 2nd in none of them. Which graha that lord is depends on the ascendant, so the table below answers for all twelve.

Counted from the 5th, the 2nd is the 10th house, which from any house is a kendra and an upachaya position; counted back from the 2nd, the 5th is the 4th, a kendra position from it.

On the Parashari reading, in which a lord carries its house’s matters to wherever it sits, the 5th lord in the 2nd reads the 5th’s matters — children, creativity and arts, romance, and higher learning — through the 2nd’s: savings and wealth, family of origin, speech and voice, and values. For the 5th lord in the 2nd 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 5th Lord in the 2nd, Ascendant by Ascendant

Across the twelve ascendants the 5th lord in the 2nd is exalted for Virgo and Sagittarius, in its own sign for Taurus and Scorpio, in a friend's sign for Cancer and Capricorn, in a neutral sign for Pisces, in an enemy's sign for Aries, Gemini, Leo and Libra and debilitated for Aquarius. The Sun and the Moon rule one sign each, so for Aries and Pisces, where one of them is the 5th lord, it rules no other house; for the other ten the last column gives the second house the 5th lord brings with it to the 2nd.

For Taurus ascendant the 5th lord, Mercury, also rules the 2nd, so in the 2nd it sits in its own other sign, Gemini. For Scorpio ascendant the 5th lord, Jupiter, also rules the 2nd, so in the 2nd it sits in its own other sign, Sagittarius.

For Cancer ascendant (Mars, ruling the 5th and 10th), Libra ascendant (Saturn, ruling the 4th and 5th) and Capricorn ascendant (Venus, ruling the 5th and 10th), the 5th lord rules both a kendra and a trikona other than the 1st, and in the 2nd it is in a friend's sign for Cancer, in an enemy's sign for Libra and in a friend's sign for Capricorn.

The Reverse: the 2nd Lord in the 5th

Where the 2nd lord sits in the 5th in the same chart as the 5th lord in the 2nd, each lord occupies the other’s sign, an exchange the texts call parivartana. That is possible for ten ascendants. For Taurus (Mercury) and Scorpio (Jupiter) one graha rules both the 5th and the 2nd, so there is nothing to exchange.

Related

The 5th lord in each of the twelve houses is on the 5th lord page; the houses themselves on the 5th house and the 2nd house. For the method, see the 12 houses guide and our 5th house article.