6
6 deals with daily work, routines, health habits, service, coworkers, and small pets. It naturally resonates with Virgo themes: skill, care, and refinement.
6: what it really shows
This house covers your daily systems: schedule, tools, health routines, coworkers, and the services you provide. The first relevant link points to House 6 as the place where effort becomes skill.
What the 6th House rules
- Daily work, tasks, SOPs, and teamwork
- Health habits, nutrition, recovery, hygiene
- Service, clients, and useful skills
- Small pets and practical caretaking
- Time-blocking, tools, and measurable improvements
Virgo and Mercury correspondences
Traditionally, the 6th resonates with Virgo and is colored by Mercury qualities: analysis, iteration, precision, and helpful language.
Ruler of the 6th: where effort pays
Take the sign on your 6th House cusp; its planetary ruler shows the arena where routines produce results. If that ruler is in the 10th, establish public credibility; in the 2nd, monetize skills; in the 12th, protect rest and mental space.
Planets in the 6th House (snapshot)
- Mercury: agile workflows; writing, analysis, UX, data.
- Sun: leadership in teams; visible craft.
- Moon: care cycles; rhythms matter for output and mood.
- Venus: pleasant client culture; design, beauty, hospitality.
- Mars: high tempo; watch overuse injuries and conflicts.
- Jupiter: growth via teaching, systems, or service scale.
- Saturn: standards, audits, durable habits; slow and steady.
- Uranus: flexible schedules; novel tools, automation.
- Neptune: healing arts; guard clarity, scope, and boundaries.
- Pluto: deep fixes, crisis response, transformative service.
- North Node: growth edge through routine and reliability.
6th–12th: work and restoration
House 6 is doing; House 12 is undoing. To sustain output, pair routines with rest, retreats, and solitude. Read the counterpart at House 12 to balance service with recovery.
Aspects: how work and health shift
Supportive aspects ease teamwork and habit-building; challenging ones demand clearer boundaries and better tooling. For fundamentals and examples, visit the Aspects hub.
Transits & timing: when the 6th activates
- Mercury transits: optimize processes, edit, ship drafts.
- Venus: improve client fit and team morale.
- Mars: sprint windows; prevent burnout with buffers.
- Jupiter: scale service or education; add supportive pros.
- Saturn: audits, certifications, compliance; long-game health.
How to read your 6th House
- Generate your chart at Birth Chart.
- Note the sign on House 6 and identify its planetary ruler.
- List planets in House 6; check aspects to the ruler and Mercury.
- Define 2–3 habits and one support system that protect output and health.
- Balance with House 12 so rest is built in, not optional.