What Your Kundli Says About Your Taste Buds and Food Choices

Moon in the second house tilts you towards eating sweets, milk and milk products. However, the Moon also represents a wavering mind. So don’t be surprised if you skip your usual tastes and opt for foods that are just not your choice.

If you have an afflicted Moon, you may prefer rice, breads and fruit juices. An afflicted or weaker Moon, or the one connected with Rahu or Ketu could also give you a tendency of over-eating and a profound liking for alcohol. Food items like breads, creams and cookies could be your personal favourites.

Remedies - To rectify the lunar energies in your second house, try fasting on Mondays. Avoid eating cold and putrid things at night. Eat fresh foods and juicy fruits. Eating dairy products, starchy foods (like sweet potatoes and potatoes), soups and soothing foods will also strengthen the Moon in your second house.

The Sun in your second house tilts you towards eating hot and spicy foods. When connected with Rahu, Ketu, Saturn or Mars (all malefic planets), the Sun could lead to a tendency to over-eating.

You may also like eating non-vegetarian foods. You’d also like to gorge on high-calorie foods like butter, cheese, cream, dried fruits, oil and sugar.

Remedies - Avoid eating non-vegetarian food-even if you do, keep a check on the quantity you consume. To further rectify the solar energies in the second house of your natal chart, drink more water, cut down on your alcohol intake and stay away from unpalatable food.

If you have weaker Sun, make sure you include adequate salt in your diet. Also eating pungent foods and including spices like cinnamon and pepper in your diet will enhance the Sun in your second house.

You’re more inclined towards eating green leafy vegetables. All kinds of salads, lady fingers, bottle gourd and cauliflower could be your personal favourites.

A well-balanced Mercury makes green leafy vegetables an essential part of your diet, a weaker one could tilt you towards eating more eggs.

Remedies - To balance the distorted Mercury in your second house, include more wheat, mint and barley in your diet. These three ingredients are particularly powerful in strengthening your Mercury.

Eating plants and plant-based foods on Wednesdays will help your Mercury gain power and improve your nervous system. Include green mung beans in your diet, especially on Wednesdays.

You might be fond of fast food too. So watch out when you eat pizzas, burgers or any kind of processed foods. To strengthen your Mercury, include more bananas, pomegranates, apples and cranberries in your regular diet.

Venus in the second house gives you a refined taste. You might particularly be fond of eating sweets and fattening foods.

Fancy foods and the ones that are attractively packaged particularly appeal to you. You could be fond of sweet potatoes, honey, breads, cornflakes, chocolate cakes and truffles. An afflicted Venus could cultivate a liking for curds, and foods prepared in desi ghee and lead you into overindulgence.

Remedies - Curd and ghee are some of the best foods to strengthen the Venusian energies in your second house.

Mars in the second house makes you fond of non-vegetarian foods. A strong Mars also gives you an intense liking towards chocolates and deep-fried foods.

You might also be inclined towards consuming hot and spicy foods. Halwa could be your personal favourite.

When aspected by malefic planets like Rahu, Ketu or Saturn, there are high chances of you developing addictive patterns and substance abuse. Eating disorders could also come on very quickly.

Remedies - Cut down on the portions of non-vegetarian foods. You also need to keep your alcohol content (if at all you consume) in check.

To balance the energies of Mars in your second house, make your diet predominantly sattvic in nature. Also, include more sweets in your diet and eat them with your siblings. If Mars is weak or has lost its vitality, eat red stuff like tomatoes and chillies (within limits).

A second house Saturn makes you fond of energy-giving foods. You may also display an intense liking for bitter and cold foods. Though you might be thin, your blood sugar always tilts on the higher side.

Saturn itself is a malefic planet, and when further expected with other malefic planets (like Rahu. Ketu or Mars) leads to addictions and chewing tobacco. A well-balanced Saturn (in your second house) cultivates simple eating habits and a love for sattvic food.

You might also prefer eating a simple thali over the other foods when Saturn is wedged in your second house. If your Saturn in the second house is strong enough or positively placed, you might prefer eating less and light food.

Remedies - Avoid eating old stale foods, fast and frozen foods. You might be extremely fond of urad daal, but watch out for the heavy quantities that you might end up consuming.

To enhance Saturn's powers radiating from your second house, include more of black food items like grapes and black gram in your diet.

The second house Jupiter(strong one) gives you a fondness for yellow foods like papaya, banana, yellow gram, citrus fruits, ghee, nuts, seeds and oil. Desserts hold a special place in your life!

You like nourishing food and going to the supermarket (specifically to shop for food) gives you a deep sense of abundance. A deranged Jupiter inclines you towards overindulgence and an excessive fondness towards fattening foods.

Remedies - To balance Jupiter in your second house, include more chana daal and food items made of besan in your diet. Watch out for (food) over-indulgence and cut down on the quantities of fattening foods that you consume. In a nutshell, watch out for gluttony!

If you have a weak Jupiter, include more tomatoes, garlic, lemon, aromatic fruit juices and iron-rich food items in your diet. Cut down on eating crispy food items.

Rahu is a malefic planet, and when sitting in your second house, can give rise to gluttony. You may spend too much money on food and also get attracted to eating foreign cuisine.

Rahu is often associated with unusual food cravings. Sitting in the second house and associated with Scorpio, Aries, Leo, Cancer or negatively aspected by Mars gives rise to alcohol addiction and other substance abuse(tobacco, drugs).

You may also eat your meals too quickly when Rahu is wedged in the second house in your natal chart.

Remedies - The second house Rahu could trigger unusual food cravings, but make sure you stick to a simple staple diet.

Eating your local basic diet will ensure your good health and keep your cravings under control. To further strengthen Rahu in your second house, cut down on your junk food (especially fried foods) and alcohol consumption.

Rahu in the second house will enable you to convert eating into a powerful spiritual practice. All you gotta do is eat your meals consciously without rushing through them.

Ketu, like Rahu, when placed in the second house gives rise to an attraction towards foreign and exotic foods (especially when placed in Pisces. Sagittarius, Leo or Scorpio).

When afflicted by malefic planets like Mars or Saturn or placed in Virgo, Gemini or Aquarius gives rise to poor eating habits and addictive patterns.

Mindless eating could be observed if your Ketu is placed in the second house in your natal chart. There are also higher chances of eating disorders sprouting from the emotional emptiness in/around your family.

Remedies - Ketu in the second house could lead to nutrition deficiency in your diet. To strengthen it, be aware of the nutritional elements in your food while you eat. Again, eating your meals consciously is of prime importance to improve the energies of Ketu.

To ensure the overall wellness of Ketu in the second house, combine a well-balanced diet with regular physical exercise.

Second house governs the food we eat, our dietary habits, and the overall health of our mouth and teeth. It is through this house that we are able to function in the material (and also) in the spiritual world (through the body).

The planets wedged here and the aspects they make with the other planets in your natal chart significantly influence your ideas of nutrition, body growth and the relationship you establish with food.

Looking at the planets in your second house enables you to understand your eating patterns and induce corrections. In his book, ‘How to Eat’, the Vietnamese monastic Thich Nanh Hanh clearly explains how to incorporate food as a form of meditation.

Checking for the simple food remedies and following them, one at a time (as per the planets in your second house) will enable you to establish a positive connection with your mind-body complex.