The 6th House, the thoughtful social function
- Attached to Virgo (and to Mercury), symbolizing “I serve”
- Axis of health, duties
- Mode : Mutable (Cadent)
- Element : Earth (matter)
The 6th House represents your daily life, your work (your relationship with your employees or subordinates, business reports), material, critical and discriminatory analysis, the synthesis’ ability to make an inventory, memorization, obligations and duties, the services you render, the constraints and servitudes, the hygiene and the health (small acute illnesses as opposed to the chronic illnesses of the 12th House).
The 6th House represents the completion of the individual within socialization, the end of the Individuation process initiated in the 1st House with Aries, as such it is the house of personal growth’s crisis, it is the collective consciousness (emergence of the relationship to society, then later of the transpersonal).
In the family, some astrologers attribute to it the representation of uncles and aunts or even the father-in-law.
The Sign of the 6th House will therefore influence your faculty of analysis and discrimination in the sense of “distinguishing”, of making the difference, the sign bringing its character in this perception, in this “separation”.
The Planets in the 6th House of your birth chart and their Aspects, communicate the tone of their energies and therefore influence the orientation of your daily life and your overall acuity (see Harmonic and Dissonant Aspects).
The transits in the 6th House, in their way define whatsoever your “concrete present”, your current activities, precisely all professional or other news, but also your physiological balance and/or a possible fatigue.
Analyzing the 6th House :
- First look at its opposite house, the 12th House, symbolizing introspection.
- Then look at the Squares : the 9th House, the 3rd House (Cadent Houses, representing adaptability)
- Take into account the Trines : the 10th House, the 2nd House (Earth Houses, representing matter)
Planets Rulerships Analogy :
With the 6th House we end the hemisphere of introversion, of our secret world, of matter, of inner life.
See the Astrological Houses.