Mercury in the 2nd house

The 2nd house covers earning, possessions and what a person values. Mercury here thinks about money: budgets, prices, deals, the practical arithmetic of a life. Income often comes through words, trade or information, and more than one source at a time is common. These people talk a purchase through before making it and can judge value with a merchant's precision. The cost is worry that circles the same figures without moving them, and a habit of putting a price on things that are not for sale.