The 9th Lord in the 2nd House

The 9th lord in the 2nd house is the ruler of the 9th, the Bhagya / Dharma Bhava, placed in the 2nd, the Dhana Bhava. The 9th 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 9th, the 2nd is the 6th house, which from any house is a dusthana and an upachaya position; counted back from the 2nd, the 9th is the 8th, a dusthana position from it.

On the Parashari reading, in which a lord carries its house’s matters to wherever it sits, the 9th lord in the 2nd reads the 9th’s matters — luck and fortune, father's influence, higher learning, and pilgrimage — through the 2nd’s: savings and wealth, family of origin, speech and voice, and values. For the 9th 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 9th Lord in the 2nd, Ascendant by Ascendant

Across the twelve ascendants the 9th lord in the 2nd is exalted for Aquarius, in its own sign for Virgo and Pisces, in a friend's sign for Taurus and Cancer, in a neutral sign for Libra, Scorpio and Capricorn and in an enemy's sign for Aries, Gemini, Leo and Sagittarius. The Sun and the Moon rule one sign each, so for Scorpio and Sagittarius, where one of them is the 9th lord, it rules no other house; for the other ten the last column gives the second house the 9th lord brings with it to the 2nd.

For Virgo ascendant the 9th lord, Venus, also rules the 2nd, so in the 2nd it sits in its own other sign, Libra. For Pisces ascendant the 9th lord, Mars, also rules the 2nd, so in the 2nd it sits in its own other sign, Aries.

For Taurus ascendant (Saturn, ruling the 9th and 10th), Leo ascendant (Mars, ruling the 4th and 9th) and Aquarius ascendant (Venus, ruling the 4th and 9th), the 9th lord rules both a kendra and a trikona other than the 1st, and in the 2nd it is in a friend's sign for Taurus, in an enemy's sign for Leo and exalted for Aquarius.

The Reverse: the 2nd Lord in the 9th

Where the 2nd lord sits in the 9th in the same chart as the 9th lord in the 2nd, each lord occupies the other’s sign, an exchange the texts call parivartana. That is possible for ten ascendants. For Virgo (Venus) and Pisces (Mars) one graha rules both the 9th and the 2nd, so there is nothing to exchange.

Related

The 9th lord in each of the twelve houses is on the 9th lord page; the houses themselves on the 9th house and the 2nd house. For the method, see the 12 houses guide and astrology for beginners.