The 6th lord in the 6th house is difficulty handled where it belongs. Service, competition, disputes, debt and daily work are all governed in the house that owns them, by the planet that rules it, with nothing routed elsewhere. This is the placement classical tradition names Harsha Yoga, and it is the first configuration in … Read more
The 6th lord in the 5th house routes service, competition, disputes and daily work through children, creativity, intelligence and speculation. The faculty is put under pressure: what these natives are naturally good at gets exercised in contest rather than in comfort, and it develops accordingly. This is the classical placement for competitive examination and for … Read more
The 6th lord in the 4th house routes service, obligation, disputes and daily work through home, mother, land and emotional foundation. Obligation has moved into the base: the place that is supposed to supply rest supplies duty instead, and the arrangement is structural rather than a run of bad luck. Two ascendants land exalted, three … Read more
The 6th lord in the 3rd house routes service, competition, disputes and daily work through effort, skill, communication and siblings. The fight is fought with craft here: what these natives are up against gets handled by acquired competence rather than by force or by waiting, and the competence keeps improving because both houses reward exactly … Read more
The 6th lord in the 2nd house routes service, debt, competition and daily work through wealth, family and speech. Money and obligation are connected here: what these natives earn comes from work that is genuinely demanding, what they hold has claims attached to it, and the way they speak carries the 6th’s edge. Two ascendants … Read more
The 6th lord in the 1st house brings service, obligation, competition, illness and debt into the house of the self. What these natives are known for is the work they do and the difficulties they handle, and the pattern establishes itself early enough that they generally assume everyone lives this way. This is the first … Read more
The 5th lord in the 12th house routes creativity, intelligence, children and inherited merit through release, expenditure, solitude and distance. The faculty turns inward. What these natives are good at is exercised privately, spent rather than accumulated, and pointed at subjects that do not return anything measurable. Two houses apart from the 5th lord in … Read more
The 5th lord in the 11th house routes creativity, intelligence, children and inherited merit through gains, income, networks and elder siblings. This is the placement where the creative faculty actually converts: what these natives make reaches people, earns, and returns something, which is not true of every configuration this lord can take. There is a … Read more
The 5th lord in the 10th house turns the creative and judging faculty into the profession. What these natives are naturally good at is what they are paid and known for, which is a closer alignment between aptitude and occupation than most charts manage. This is the strongest position in the 5th lord series. No … Read more
The 5th lord in the 9th house connects the two houses through which classical astrology says grace operates. The 5th carries purva punya, the merit brought forward from past effort, and mantra. The 9th carries dharma, the father, the teacher and fortune. Placing the lord of one in the other joins them, and what it … Read more