For me, the word "values" doesn't conjer up the same images at all.   What kind of values are you talking about?  Moral values? Family Values? Work ethics?  Religious values?  Okay, I'll buy material values, but the others belong to other houses.

When you talk about the second house, you have to talk about money.   In this case, it refers to the money you work for, money that you exert yourself to get, whether through a highly respected position in business or through the dark streets of the underworld.  The issue is getting the money so that you can get the things you want with it.  On the most basic level, the focus of the second house is our possessions...those things we call “mine”.

There are many ways that money can impact your life.  The lack of it can cause immense stress and feelings of hopelessness and inferiority.  It can be given up in the name of religious fervor.  It can be foregone in the name of true service to others.  Or, it can be abundant in your life.  If it is, what then?  Do you become arrogant and lord it over those who have less?   Do you use it as a tool to better the lives of others or do you hoard it, keeping it all to yourself?

The issue of possessions weighs heavily on the second house. “Things” need to be used and taken care of.  If they are not taken care of, your needs and desires cannot be fulfilled.  But at some point, the responsibility of owning “things” can begin to weigh you down.  Getting free of them, however, is the domain of the eighth house.