The 7th lord in the 2nd house routes partnership, marriage, trade and the public through wealth, family and speech. The partner joins the family here: what these natives share with somebody becomes part of the household’s resources, and the arrangement is understood in terms of what it holds rather than only what it feels like. … Read more
The 7th lord in the 1st house brings partnership, marriage, trade and the public into the house of the self. Other people are not a department of these natives’ lives, they are part of how the native is constituted: the relationship shapes the person, and being unpartnered feels less like solitude than like incompleteness. This … Read more
The 6th lord in the 12th house routes service, competition, debt and daily work through release, expenditure, solitude and distance. The obligation is discharged rather than carried: what these natives handle, they let go of, and the work is done in places nobody is watching. This is the last of the three positions producing Harsha … Read more
The 6th lord in the 11th house routes service, competition, disputes and daily work through gains, income, friends and elder siblings. This is the placement where the effort registers. What these natives do difficult work for actually reaches them, which is not true of every position this lord takes and is the plainest reason this … Read more
The 6th lord in the 10th house makes the profession out of the difficulty. Service, competition, disputes and daily work become the career itself rather than a condition of it, and public standing is built on the native’s demonstrated capacity to handle what other people cannot. Both houses are upachaya, which as set out on … Read more
The 6th lord in the 9th house routes service, competition, disputes and daily work through fortune, belief, the father, teachers and long journeys. The difficulty acquires a frame here: what these natives struggle with is understood in terms of principle rather than as bad luck, and the struggling is generally conducted on behalf of something. … Read more
The 6th lord in the 8th house routes service, competition, debt and daily work through transformation, hidden things, inheritance and other people’s resources. This is the second of the three positions producing Harsha Yoga, and it is the one where the doctrine is most often stated carelessly, because the 8th brings the longevity question with … Read more
The 6th lord in the 7th house routes service, competition, disputes and daily work through partnership, marriage, trade and the public. Partnership is a working relationship here rather than a restful one: things get negotiated, arrangements get argued into shape, and what these natives share with another person involves effort as a matter of structure. … Read more
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