House 6 of 12

Work and health

Daily routine, service, the body and the habits that maintain it.

What lands here

Any planet falling in the Sixth House expresses its function through work and health. Mars here pursues in this area; Saturn here meets its limits in this area; an empty house is not a deficiency, only an area without a planet emphasising it.

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Other houses

1 Self and appearance 2 Money and values 3 Communication and siblings 4 Home and roots 5 Creativity and pleasure 7 Partnership 8 Shared resources and transformation 9 Belief and distance 10 Career and reputation 11 Community and hopes 12 The hidden

Where this house sits in the structure

Natural sign Virgo — Earth, Mutable
Natural ruler Mercury
House type Cadent
Opposite house Twelfth House — The hidden
Trinity Houses of substance — houses 2, 6, 10

This is cadent: precedes an angle and disperses — adaptation, learning and transition. It pairs with the Twelfth House across the chart, and those two are read together — Work and health against the hidden. An axis, not two separate topics.

In Virgo right now

Bodies currently transiting this house’s natural sign. In your own chart the house holds whichever sign your ascendant puts there — but the natural sign is what the house means before any chart is cast.

Sun 20° of Virgo