The 6th House in Astrology: Meaning and Planets
The 6th house is daily life: your job as opposed to your career, routines, habits, health and the way you help and serve others.
| Also called | House of Work and Health |
|---|---|
| Covers | daily work, routines, health, service, pets |
| Natural sign | Virgo |
| Natural ruler | Mercury |
| Type | Cadent house |
What the 6th house covers
Where the 10th house is the career people see, the 6th is the ordinary working day: colleagues, tasks, schedules and how you handle being managed. It also covers the body's maintenance, from diet to rest.
Many people with a strong 10th house are unhappy at work because their 6th house does not suit the actual job, which makes this house worth reading in any career question.
Planets in the 6th house
Mercury or Virgo emphasis here likes systems and detail. Mars here works hard and fast. Saturn here is diligent and can overwork. Neptune here needs work with meaning and can be vague about routines.
An empty 6th house
Read the cusp sign for your working style and the ruler's house for where the work takes you.
A worked example
Capricorn on the 6th house cusp with Saturn in the 2nd: a careful, reliable worker who connects daily effort directly to income.
Every planet in the 6th house
Each page below gives the meaning of one planet in the 6th house and which sign it has to be in for each rising sign.
Find yours
Find which sign is on your 6th house and which planets sit in it. Houses need your birth time and place. Birth chart calculator
See what is moving through your 6th house
Transits through your 6th house bring its themes forward. A Precision Horoscope shows which planets are crossing your houses today. Get my free personal reading