6/8 angles

6th-from: Exploitation, Disagreement, and Giving Too Much

8th-from: Shocking Change, Destruction, and Sudden Rebirth

6th-from-Chandra

Difficulties of transitioning 

between the domains which lie 6/8 from each other:

• 6th-from indicates a scarcity of supporting resources. Scarcity-thinking is type of mentality. Mentality is ruled by Budha.

• 6th-from angles trigger the scripts that generate victimization and conflict

• 6th-from angles indicate servitude caused by past-life theft or harm to another. In the current life, one will enter relationships wherein one is forced to give more in effort than one receives in reward.

• In particular, 6th-from angles require engagement with poverty, exploitation, forced labor,  hatred, and disease.

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  Negotiating periods of 6th-from requires conscious allocation of scarce resources.  The "resources" may be very basic food-clothing-shelter; the resources may also be emotional such as touch, support, commitment to a shared future; the resources may even be spiritual, such as a punitive teacher who may withhold information needed for one to progress upon the spiritual path.  On the social level, one is forced into an inferior position in relationships, and denied validation of equality. On the emotional level, expect to enter and endure exploitive relationships, where one person is withholding resources from the other. In general a very difficult time.

• 8th-from indicates sudden  transformation from one field of perception to the next. Forceful movement is a strength of Mangala.

• 8th-from angles trigger fear of the unknown and trauma

• Transitioning 8th-from requires cooperation with the shamanistic force of consciousness that pushes one violently into the next field of perceptual awareness. 

• In particular, 8th-from angles require engagement with the circumstances of death. 

Starting Domain

Relative 6th house

Causes inner arguing and outer imbalance vis-à-vis the starting house. 

Planets 6th-from-starting domain create exploitation, conflict, & loss of agreement toward matters of the original domain

Relative 8th house

Causes a crisis of sudden, forced changes vis-à-vis the starting house. 

Planets 8th-from-starting domain transform, destroy, & rebirth the matters of the starting domain.  

(half-cycle destroys; full-cycle transforms)

House 1

physical identity / material body /Visual appearance

House 6 - imbalance /shortages / enemies/ disease

there is a natural animosity between the healthy material body & disease. The individual's body's need for balanced food & support naturally conflicts with the victim reality (6) of socially restricted access to food, medicine, and money.

House 8 - secrets/ healing/ magic

there is a natural required transformation of the surface physical-identity when magical powers are activated through house-8.  Identity is destroyed when we discover that bodies are mere "guest houses" for an eternal migrating spirit.

House 2

Sustenance  / values / food / wealth /  birth family

House 7

marriage/agreements

there is a natural animosity between birth family and spouse, between the ancestral family values and the worldview of someone not from that family - the spouse. The two domains perpetually compete for resources.

House 9

father/religion/ social morality

there is a natural required transformation of family lineage values, especially the tradition of hoarding wealth, at the higher level of public religion.  As demonstrated by Christ overturning the money tables at the temple!

House 3

siblings / teamwork / Local group / mental  process

House 8

secrets/healing/magic

there is a natural animosity between communicative, rational small group/team process  and secret, privileged, magical  knowledge.  Mistrust & fear exists in the 6th-from gap between those who communicate normally, and those who use magical powers.

House 10

profession/dignity

there is a natural required transformation of local, sibling-type, extension-of-family communications into a much broader viewpoint, when the native undertakes public leadership.  The neighborly circle of associations operates on common assumptions that break down at a higher level.

House 4

home / foundations / education / security

House 9

father/religion

there is a natural animosity between the ritual space of home or Low Religion, versus the ritual space of the temple or High Religion.  There are important spirits protecting or harassing both locations which must be tended.  But parochial & universal domains always compete for attention & resources. Mother's domain and father's domain are naturally incommensurable, & imbalanced.

House 11

marketplace/networks

there is a natural required transformation of the home-bound behaviors & assumptions when the native enters the much broader socio-cultural domain of the marketplace.  To make profitable exchanges of goods & information, the native must "grow out of" their maternal comfort zone, and learn to adapt to the culture of friends & business associates.

House 5

children / willfulness / Gambling / Games / celebration / fame

House 10

profession/dignity

there is a natural imbalance & animosity between personal creativity & the conservative rules of public dignity; between free-wheeling celebrity & public  responsibility; between individual publications & daily administration; between children & career.

House 12

dreams/meditation/ sanctuary

there is a natural required transformation of the ego-expressive personality (5) when ego-dissolving meditation is activated through house-12.  Celebrity is destroyed when we discover that egos are mere "scaffolding" for the wisdom-edifice of an eternal migrating spirit.

House 6

Loss of balance / enemies / disease / Poverty / Crime

House 11

marketplace/networks

there is a natural imbalance & animosity between the state of financial imbalance (6) and the state of gainful income.  They cannot simultaneously coexist.  Throughout the lifetime, neither win definitively "win" the conflict, but they will always dislike each other.

House 1

identity/body

there is a natural required transformation of the scarcity-thinking which drives reality of house-6, into prosperity-thinking which encourages spirits to remain in human bodies.  If this transformation fails, life is crippled by illness.  If it succeeds, all flourish.

House 7

Balance / marriage / contracts / agreements

House 12

dreams/meditation

there is a natural incommensurability  between mutually-agreed partnership decisions and the private visions & fantasies a person develops in their own head.  There is conflict by design between under-the-table or covert dealings (12), and public legal contracts (7).

House 2

values/wealth

there is a natural required transformation of the two-sets-of-values lifestyle of egalitarian relationships such as marriage, into the fully merged condition of two people having the same values.  Once the partners have identical values I.e., have become a family), major wealth can be obtained.

House 8

secrets / healing / Sacrifice / transformation / magic

House 1

identity/body

There is a natural imbalance & animosity between the invisible world of magic and the material world of the body. Delusory appearance of the world is sacrificially transformed into a higher truth - for those who can see.  Those who can't see feel blind and angry at the apparent loss.

House 3

sibling/small group/ communal process

There is a natural required transformation of invisible reality and secret powers into pragmatic, daily mental practice in order to accomplish good communication.  Secrets must be explained in practical teachings.

House 9

father / religion / Priestly Ritual / Human Communication with world of Spirit

House 2

'real' values / wealth

there is a natural imbalance & animosity between the intangible values expressed in priestly ritual of house-9 

• symbolic ritual foods such as holy wine and communion host

• priceless spiritual wealth

• universal religious symbolism

versus the the tangible, material values of house-2

• sustaining food

• real money

• traditional culture art & aesthetics

Both dharmabhava and dhanabhava are good houses.  The only difference is that the Earth-bound values of dhanabhava perish at death, while the more universal values of dharmabhava persist across incarnations.  

These two worlds of value do compete for the resource of the native's earthly time, and therein lies the 'conflict'. 

House 4

home/foundations/security

there is a natural required transformation of the guru-father's domain - communication with peoples different from us, those who do not share our customs, do not own things and often do not have bodies -- translating from the human world to the spiritual world and back --

into the goddess-mother's domain - loving relationships between people very similar to us, detailed practices for how to own things, for managing our lands and kinship, sustaining emotional and physical security in our familiar world ruled by our mother, Earth.

The 4/9 transformation is an endless negotiation of two essential but incommensurable worlds.  Each apparent loss of physical/emotional security followed by a gain in 'yang' creative spiritual wisdom which forces a return to the 'yin' world of security & ownership under the Great Mother.  

Houses 4 & 9 are both susthana's, both houses of happiness.  This ongoing transformation is part and parcel of the human condition, and with skill can be deeply enjoyed.

House 10

profession / Leadership / Prestige / dignity

House 3

sibling/small group/ communal process

There is a natural animosity between the larger, national or international scale of leadership and the smaller communal or tribal unit.  Global vs. local.  The greater dignity applies to the better house, which is karmaasthana. Undoubtedly,  local affairs drain away energy for grand scale leadership; meetings and business procedures leech the grand structural vision; petty affairs consume the power of great leaders everywhere.

House 5

children/fame

There is a natural required transformation of 

House 11

marketplace /  networks / interconnected communities 

House 4

home/foundations/security

There is a natural animosity between the large-scale connectivity of the marketplace, mingling amongst peoples with many different customs, versus the small, culturally homogenous, emotionally protected home environment wherein everyone was raised to follow one set of rules: mother's rules.

House 6

imbalance/shortages/ enemies/disease

There is a crisis of transformative destruction starting from Labhasthana's robustly gainful free market spiraling downward to Ari Bhava's tightly policed, weak, exploitive, impoverished victim state.

8th-from Labha's peak speculative creativity of negotiation (11th is 5th-from-7th, peak creativity of balancing) shows the terrible underbelly of capital markets:  Ari's world of master-slave exploitation.

In order to return to good health, the crisis cycle must end with another jump of 6th-from-6th.  As always, true evil destroys itself.  6th-from-6th imbalances the imbalance by returning to 11, throwing the energy forward to a state of social equilibrium, characterized by openness to new ideas and opportunity for all.

House 12

dreams / meditation / sanctuary /subconscious / private worlds

House 5

children/fame

As any parent will testify, there is a natural animosity between private peace of the adult bedroom and meditative sanctuary, versus the boisterous, effusive, loud, & infinitely demanding energy of children.  

Although spirits in young bodies are delightful in their own way, they definitely are the enemy of grown-up peace and quiet :) Just so, fame and speculation, all that glitters, including literary creativity and the full range of life's fascinating psychodrama - all matters of putrasthana - are the natural enemies of deep inner sanctuary.

House 7

marriage/agreements

There is a natural required transformation of the private, inner world of personal subconscious dream & fantasy, into the conversational interactive partnership of marriage and business agreements.  The crisis involves learning to live in two worlds.  This is always the message of 8th-from: there are many levels of reality. 

The skillful observer of self and other who can define the various domains clearly, can negotiate the realms.  They know when to apply the rules of their private world and when to acknowledge the world of their partner.  

The less skillful, or those with strong planets in relative 6/8 angles, will find themselves angry and frustrated when they try to use rules from a private world in a shared psychic space, or vice versa.