posted November 05, 2004 01:56 PM              

Also, if your Mars and Pluto are conjunct, that'll add a differnet dimension to it, as when planets are conjunct, they act together always. So their energies become meshed and an interpretation that applies to one planet may not be very well on the mark in your case. It's a little touch and go with things like that.

Also, try to look at the interpretion for a different presepective - or be daring and ask if other people (parents, siblings, coworkers ) see those traits in you. Sometimes there are things to ourselves that aren't obvious to us, and the 2nd house still rules the sphere of ourselves that is primarily about our ego. Those "personal" houses can be problematic because their infleunce resists being put into perspective by the perspectives of others. So we may not quite realize we are behaving in a certain way, because it's rooted in our ego (which only has one impetus - "I want to" - and thus doesn't necessarily need a rationale to make us reflect or consult others before it acts). ALso in many cases, especially among younger people, we've not the opportunities to be confronted about it (or we *were* confrotned and just didn't listen).