Astrology basics – 6th House – Ari – House of Enemies

This is the 6^th house of any birth chart. This is the house from where you see your Service, Job Enemies, Diseases.

It also denotes, types of diseases – curable or not, nursing, food, services, employees, subordinates, servants, debts, cattle, tenants, jealousy, enemies, maternal uncles, mental anguish, untimely death, Dispute, litigations, Health, illness, divorce, daily work routine (office life), daily struggle, beggars, service industry (who service people), debts, prarabhd karma (unchangeable karma), mistress, theft, accident (through enemies or prarabhd karma).

6^th House is an Upachya house (which matures and improves with time). Generally Malefic planets do well in this house. However the finer details do need to be considered for any conclusion.

This house also called Ari Bhava as it represents your Enemies.

Relatives it signifies are – uncles (maternal), step mother, relatives, mistress, paternal grandfather (way your grandma looked at him).

The body parts signified by this house are Small Intestine

Placements of different planets and lords of different houses in the 6^th house play a very crucial role to judge the entire well being of the house.

Below are the basic and general permutation and combinations, as given in the texts, if the 6^th lord is placed in the 12 different houses. This is at a very basic and mundane level. The actual impact can be judged when we combine the Lord placement with the sign and planet placements. But from a basic comprehension aspect, this will be helpful to understand as we go along. So, this is not to be taken literally as full diagnosis is required. You also have to understand, that these texts were written when our society and culture had much different values and norms. You have to be intelligent enough to interpret these according to today’s time place and condition. These are just excerpts. We shall cover this in details a different series on “Lords in the Houses”.

6^th Lord in the 1^st house: Native will be sickly, famous, inimical to his own men, rich, honourable, adventurous and virtuous.

6^th Lord in the 2^nd house: Native will be adventurous, famous among his people, will live in alien countries, be happy, be a skilful speaker and be always interested in his own work.

6^th Lord in the 3^rd house: Native will be given to anger, be bereft of courage, inimical to all of his co-born and will have disobedient servants.

6^th Lord in the 4^th house: Native will be devoid maternal happiness, be intelligent, be a tale bearer, be jealous, evil-minded and very rich.

6^th Lord in the 5^th house: Native will have fluctuating finances. He will incur enmity with his sons and friends. He will be happy, selfish and kind.

6^th Lord in the 6^th house: Native will have enmity with the group of his kinsmen, but be friendly to others and will enjoy mediocre happiness in matters, like wealth.

6^th Lord in the 7^th house: Native will be deprived of happiness through wedlock. He will be famous, virtuous, honourable, adventurous and wealthy.

6^th Lord in the 8^th house: Native will be sickly, inimical, will desire others’ wealth, be interested in others’ wives and be impure.

6^th Lord in the 9^th house: Native will trade in wood and stones (‘Pashan’ also means poison) and will have fluctuating professional fortunes.

6^th Lord in the 10^th house: Native will be well known among his men, will not be respectfully disposed to his father and will be happy in foreign countries. He will be a gifted speaker.

6^th Lord in the 11^th house: Native will gain wealth through his enemies, be virtuous, adventurous and will be somewhat bereft of progenic happiness.

6^th Lord in the 12^th house: Native will always spend on vices, be hostile to learned people and will torture living beings.

By now you would have started to get an idea of what would your 6^th house means? Hold on, do not reach to conclusions. There is much more to come. In the next article I shall take you through the 7^th House.

Stay tuned…