House 6(Health/Service/Routine)

The sixth House refers to daily work, service, diet, health and physical sickness, physical ability to work, employees. This includes volunteer labor, civil service work, caretaking, and mundane daily tasks. The 6th house really involves the quality of your work, the quality of the jobs you perform, as opposed to an actual career (career is represented by the 10th house). Daily mundane tasks include personal hygiene and our method of responding to everyday crises.

The 6th house rules a person’s health and sickness, diet, debt, labor, service, work, daily routine, co-workers, maternal uncles and aunts, sin, wicked act and fear. The sixth house indicates disease and sickness, the real state of the disease, recovery from it and whether it is of a long or short duration. This is also related to food, dietary habits and daily routine as most of ill-health is often due to improper management of these. The sixth house is also connected with work and the service rendered by the individual. It also denotes his employees, subordinates or servants —whether he is in the service of others or he has others as his employees. The condition and faithfulness of his inferiors is to be ascertained from this house. The sixth house is the house of debt or borrowing. This house also governs pet animals and small cattle, domestic creatures, tenants, dress and hygiene, sanitation, dietetics, food and clothing.

This house refers to the sixth sign of zodiac, the Virgo or the Kanya. The natural significator of the sixth house is the planet Mercury. The parts of the body ruled by the sixth house are the pancreas, stomach, intestinal tract, duodenum and the digestion process. As per Mundane or State or Political Astrology, the sixth house rules the working class, sanitation and public health. It signifies the army, navy and air forces, which are the main line of defense of a country. It governs all the matters signified by the ministry of health, defense, labor, employment and human resource development.