The second mansion belongs to Yama, who receives the dead. Its symbol is the yoni, and its subject is the whole business of bearing something through to its end.

Birth and death filed under one heading is not a contradiction here: Bharani means 'the bearer', and the tradition reads it as the pressure of carrying and the discipline of restraint. Its lord is Venus. It sits on a small triangle of stars in Aries that nobody would look at twice without the map.