posted May 27, 2019 05:18 PM            

The sixth house, on the whole, is a highly misunderstood house, both in natal interpretation and in composite. In basic astrology, it covers health, service, the mundane tasks of our daily routines, and pets (or anyone else dependent on us for livelihood, hence, servants). That’s a lot of ground to cover, most of it a dogs dinner of rulership. I’m going to be covering the sixth house in detail, soon, in another article, but there is a common link between all these things that comes out especially clearly in composite charts.

The sixth house is the crossroads of the chart; it’s a mutable house, a Virgo house. As such, it’s about crisis–the crisis of becoming. It’s where we consolidate the unit so that it’s strong enough to meet the outside world. The sixth house is where we’re tested and refined. It’s where we discover what we’re about. Couples with the sixth house emphasized can lead a life of tests and trials to the relationship that either serve to make it stronger or allow it to fall apart. If there are afflictions and challenges to the sixth house, it often feels as if they come from ‘out of the blue’, and can feel very Job-like in their intensity. The question becomes, how strong, how whole, are we as a unit? Strength comes from working out our priorities as a couple and learning to live on an even keel. If we fill our lives with mundane details and superficial trivia, and never have a direction or a purpose to our existence, how strong are we? The sixth house rules health because health requires balance–body, mind and spirit working together. When the unit is strong, it becomes a vessel for the higher energies of the 12th house, which will use it to bring good into the world, and have our partnership become a living illustration of the way the divine is housed in the ordinary details of life. Sixth house crises are about becoming the vessel. If we fail our tests, the higher energies break us, and we may fail our tests and fall apart.

posted May 27, 2019 07:01 PM            

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Originally posted by ChildofVenus:
What about transit Saturn, Mars, Pluto and Jupiter to the composite 6th house?

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posted May 27, 2019 07:04 PM            

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Originally posted by Dons2angelss:
I have a packed 6th house in my natal so I don't really like the negative spin it always gets. It can be a very magical and spiritual house when you understand it's purpose. This is a quote from a site that describes it in a positive light

The sixth house, on the whole, is a highly misunderstood house, both in natal interpretation and in composite. In basic astrology, it covers health, service, the mundane tasks of our daily routines, and pets (or anyone else dependent on us for livelihood, hence, servants). That’s a lot of ground to cover, most of it a dogs dinner of rulership. I’m going to be covering the sixth house in detail, soon, in another article, but there is a common link between all these things that comes out especially clearly in composite charts.

The sixth house is the crossroads of the chart; it’s a mutable house, a Virgo house. As such, it’s about crisis–the crisis of becoming. It’s where we consolidate the unit so that it’s strong enough to meet the outside world. The sixth house is where we’re tested and refined. It’s where we discover what we’re about. Couples with the sixth house emphasized can lead a life of tests and trials to the relationship that either serve to make it stronger or allow it to fall apart. If there are afflictions and challenges to the sixth house, it often feels as if they come from ‘out of the blue’, and can feel very Job-like in their intensity. The question becomes, how strong, how whole, are we as a unit? Strength comes from working out our priorities as a couple and learning to live on an even keel. If we fill our lives with mundane details and superficial trivia, and never have a direction or a purpose to our existence, how strong are we? The sixth house rules health because health requires balance–body, mind and spirit working together. When the unit is strong, it becomes a vessel for the higher energies of the 12th house, which will use it to bring good into the world, and have our partnership become a living illustration of the way the divine is housed in the ordinary details of life. Sixth house crises are about becoming the vessel. If we fail our tests, the higher energies break us, and we may fail our tests and fall apart.

Couples who have the sixth house prominent are often interested in health and well-being; they may also be devoted to expressing the higher energies. If this is the case, the strength of their convictions will be tested. In all cases, a composite chart with a prominent sixth house will ask a couple to find devotion in the day to day. Their work in the world will have to encompass both their thoughts about their environment (3rd) and their visions and beliefs (9th). In the sixth house, we need to open ourselves to a higher power in order to make sense of life. The more we let the higher powers influence our decisions, the more successful we will be as carriers of those powers. The sixth house is about transition–the transition from the meaningless to the meaningful, a place where the the smallest thing can be the most significant. We find our compassion, because we understand that the smallest and the greatest things in life are one and the same.

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posted May 28, 2019 02:36 AM            

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Originally posted by itsmeyaz:
I wish I've read this before ^^". I had a heavy 6H with a guy I dated and I let the negative side of our 6H get to me and I stopped showing interest and f****d it up. I know... I'm dumb lol!

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posted May 28, 2019 02:59 AM            

"Couples with the sixth house emphasized can lead a life of tests and trials to the relationship that either serve to make it stronger or allow it to fall apart. If there are afflictions and challenges to the sixth house, it often feels as if they come from ‘out of the blue’, and can feel very Job-like in their intensity. The question becomes, how strong, how whole, are we as a unit? Strength comes from working out our priorities as a couple and learning to live on an even keel. If we fill our lives with mundane details and superficial trivia, and never have a direction or a purpose to our existence, how strong are we?"

posted May 28, 2019 05:14 AM            

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Originally posted by Hikaru29:
I extract this from Dons2angelss's post:

[b]"Couples with the sixth house emphasized can lead a life of tests and trials to the relationship that either serve to make it stronger or allow it to fall apart. If there are afflictions and challenges to the sixth house, it often feels as if they come from ‘out of the blue’, and can feel very Job-like in their intensity. The question becomes, how strong, how whole, are we as a unit? Strength comes from working out our priorities as a couple and learning to live on an even keel. If we fill our lives with mundane details and superficial trivia, and never have a direction or a purpose to our existence, how strong are we?"

Like what it says above, people don't like the Composite 6th house because the r/s can feel that it's filled with trivial mundanes (like daily operations), and often times there's "unequal-ness" in this type of partnership as one may end up doing much more than the other. If you're not evolved enough as a couple to have some kinda common goals/vision, you may start to feel restless esp. if you're a progressive type of person. [/B]

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posted May 28, 2019 02:05 PM            

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Originally posted by Hikaru29:
You mean you let that relationship go because of the reading you got on LL?

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posted May 28, 2019 02:41 PM            

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Originally posted by itsmeyaz:
Not in that sense... I stayed focus on the negative aspects about it until I started "noticing" them more in the rs.

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