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Ari Bhava
Satkona / Ripu /Roga
DOMAIN 6
Loss of Balance - Loss of Agreement - Loss of Respect
Illness - Imbalance -Clinical Medicine - Drugs & addiction - Loans - Jail - Police - Divorce -Domestic Violence - Victims - Seva - Social Work
Ministry of Service to poor & sick
6th-from-any-house ; 6th-from-Chandra
Conflict - Enemies
Jails
War - Hatred - Ethnic conflict
Evil - Diabolical influence
Disputes
Police, criminals
violence
'gaol' (prison = domain-12)
losses from failed partnership
failure to honor agreements
chances & life in foreign place
relationships with foreigners
Superstition, fears
Perseverance
anguish, insanity
struggle, annoyance
opponents/ oppositions / animosity
unsporting competition, poor losers
Poverty - Loans
Underclass
Ghettoes
Usury - Loans - Loan Interest - Mortgages
Exploitation
Work
Trades, trade unions
Skilled crafts
Servants, employees
social work
religious service ministry
manual labor, servitude
miserliness, acrimony
Gains from Secret Knowledge
working animals, domesticated animals
Import-export/ international trade
long journeys of spouse
foreign residence of spouse
Illness - Poisons
Medicines
Pollution, Toxicity
digestion
Drugs (legal & illegal)
self-medication
plant cures, healing foods
herbs, plants, oils & drugs
Health Sciences
visiting nurses
health professionals of all kinds
nursing profession
clinical medicine
ambulatory health clinics (emergency room = domain-8)
non-residential treatment of patient (hospital = domain-12)
Domain-6 is a toxic environment
toxic waste management
Ari:
assiduous, not liberal , envious , hostile
an enemy
a hostile planet
name of the sixth astrological mansion
in arithmetic, the number six
a species of Khadira or Mimosa L.
Satkona:
six-angled
a six-angled figure
the thunderbolt of Indra
a diamond
the sixth astrological house
Ripu:
deceitful , treacherous , false
a deceiver , cheat , rogue
an enemy , adversary , foe
a hostile planet
name of the 6th astrological house
gall-nut (more about gall-nut, see http://www.sakthifoundation.org/gall-nut.htm )
Roga:
breaking up of strength
disease , infirmity , sickness (also personified as an evil demon)
a diseased spot
Costus Speciosus or Arabicus
1st-from-6th
(body parts, physical level)
body out of balance, bodies in conflict, illness, medicine, clinical treatments
2nd-from-5th
speech, wealth, and values of one's children, telling the history and traditions of the mother's tribe.
3rd-from-4th
(Sales)
mother's siblings. Attachment to mental patterns formed in the home culture. Discussions about property & vehicles. Sales (3rd-from) of property & vehicles.
4th-from-3rd
Homes built from self-made wealth. Education of the (younger) siblings. Educational values which emphasize mental processes, discussion, small-group communications, administrative processes (Ari bhava is Budha's natural home.)
5th-from-2nd
being not only 5th-from-2nd but also 2nd-from-5th, and as well 9th-from-10th & 10th-from-9th, Ari bhava is a money-making house. L-6 brings instability, imbalance, indebtedness and conflict into the house where it resides. But house-6 itself can be very profitable for creative, intelligent people.
6th-from-1st
animosity/imbalance with and for your children; health/financial imbalance for eldest child; debts of children (including expenses for public advancement such as children's education & health care; these are dignified debts.)
7th-from-12th
relationships with sequestered or confined persons & environments; imaginary, subconscious, & foreign partnerships, contracts with sanctuaries, ashrams, hospitals, monasteries, prisons.
8th-from-11th
transformation of gainfulness & income, hidden effects of the marketplace, the underbelly of commerce
9th-from-10th
powerful good fortune in career and public leadership duties
10th-from-9th
career develops from basis of university education or training in the priesthood, the public career of the father, public expressions of religious belief and principles.
11th-from-8th
Marketplace dealings in secret, taboo, unlabeled, mysterious, or polluted or untouchable persons & things. Gains - often spectacular - from hidden or confidential sources.
12th-from-7th
loss of marriage agreements, loss of balance and equity. Perpetual inability to locate points of agreement. Private aspects of partnerships, long journeys away from the spouse. Losses from legal decisions, losses from judgment of law courts.
Ari bhava & L-6 = three classes of people (gana)
Healing Service Professionals who address conflict at spiritual, social, mental, emotional, and physical levels: ministers, clinical health workers, social workers, criminal judges & attorneys, physicians, police, etc. Anyone who deals with medicine, money-lending, law-breaking, deep disagreements, or war.
Agents of the disorder: criminals at all levels (includes warmongering politicians & the criminally insane), unscrupulous businesspeople, tyrants, abusers of all stripes
Victims of the disorder: Prostitutes (not only sexual but anyone who must sell their soul), victims, slaves, and the underclass as a whole.
If the overall karma of the nativity is good, the nativity showing much engagement with Ari Bhava will have pure service motives & their professions highly respected.
intend to create conflict
Personally engaged in breaking agreements
thieves, criminals, drug-dealers, victims, usurers, charlatans
intend to manage conflict
Not personally a law-breaker but rather a social control force that identifies with disorder
Sustains unresolved conflict.
police, military, money-lenders, divorce attorneys, bankruptcy agents, Repo man,
intend to rebalance conflict
Address & define conflict, suggest solutions.
Not a victim of imbalance but a professional handler of imbalance.
physicians, nurses, health managers, pharmacist, pollution/hazardous waste managers, financiers, debt managers, trade union organizer
Sixth house stands for enemies, relatives, strength, illness, and stomach problems etc.
-- Madhya Parashari, Ch. 9 , Shloka 6
The 6th from Budha be also considered in regard to indications derivable from Ari Bhava.
-- Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra Ch. 7, Shloka 39-43
The 6th house is both for friends & enemies, health & sickness, attachment & hatred, maternal relatives, cousins, servants & inferiors.
Its results are full of opposites-sharpness of the opposites is felt according to the influence of the planet, its association, conjunction, or as aspected.
The 6th house protects against enemy, sickness, sorrow & debt.
--Das/Behari
In the physical body, Ari bhava signifies:
digestive system
kidneys
large intestines
These are the organs which process the emotion of Fear in the physical body.
Dushthana = Difficult
Ari bhava is considered the most severe "dusthana" or "difficult house" because it is the natural house of the victim-mind. "Dush" means "difficult" and "sthana" means house. Often when it comes time to discuss the 6th house in a reading, astrologers stammer a bit and look at the ground.
Primary significations of Ari Bhava are traditionally, Enemies/Conflict, Debt/Finance, and Disease/Imbalance. Ari Bhava's portfolio includes subjects like fear, superstition, illness, enslavement to debt, and people who instinctively dislike you. These karmic disabilities appear to some degree in every incarnation, because everyone has a rashi sixth house. But they are not very pleasant to talk about!
Pretty much everything that happens in Ari Bhava requires patient, neutral effort. If there is excessive ego-defensiveness in matters of this house, there can be big trouble. But with sufficient compassionate detachment, Ari bhava can produce great saints and healers.
Ari is a dusthana house bringing difficulty but Ari is also an upachaya house which improves over time. Slow, gradual acceptance of the terms of the incarnation will counteract any tendency toward victim mentality or ego-bondage to "becoming your losses".
It's all a matter of neutrality.
BTW, Ripu bhava signifies Fear, but not Anger per se. We can see active anger in Mars, and suppressed anger in Saturn, but unless these two marakas influence Ripu bhava there is no natural signification for anger in the sixth house.
Enemies and Fear of Enemies
Everybody's got 'em. Jesus had 'em. Mother Teresa had 'em. The Dalai Lama has 'em. You and I have 'em too.
Enemies occur when social agreements are imbalanced, when love is eroded, when anger controls. Enemies are people we have harmed in past lives. Most likely we harmed them inadvertently, out of ignorance - seeking short-term gain, not thinking of the longer-term spiritual consequences.
But the harm was done, and the action along with its immoral motivation was recorded for all time in the akashic record. The spirit is responsible for tidying up this record, converting the ignorance into wisdom, and clearing the way for our reunion with the divine. A certain amount of negative backlog is converted to wisdom in each incarnation.
Were you a thief in past lives? Very few of us can remember. But if you were, and your spirit has determined that this incarnation is pay-back time, you will be caught for petty infractions that other people sail through, saddled with debt, and sick from stress. Life will be a struggle - and why? You might feel like quite the victim.
Traditional Jyotisha offers numerous ritual remedies for purging the evils of Ari bhava. Being an American, I continue to respect the deities, but I also prefer empowering solutions such as education, healing, personal responsibility, creativity, and awareness. Here are some practical psychic and emotional suggestions about how to handle enemies.
Good Effects of house-6
Domain-6 surely contains many miseries, such as marital conflict, poverty, & disease. But do any good things happen in domain-6? The answer is - surprisingly, yes!
House-6 rules finance, loans, credit. Of course for the common people, debt - especially inherited debt - can be a terrible curse. But in capitalistic cultures, debt can be a good thing. Bankers & financiers of all stripes will have functional planets in house-6 and also 6th-from-6th, labha bhava, known as the house of income.
All the good people whose incomes depend on giving & managing financial credit, on repossessing defaulted purchases, mortgaging & foreclosing homes... they all earn out of the sixth & eleventh houses.
Also the people who treat diseases, physicians of all cultures, flourish in house-6.
Even attorneys, mediators, marriage counselors - the famous ones that take the really tough cases - must have strong 6th-house effects to handle the intense conflicts from which they earn.
As 11th-from-domain-8, Ripu Bhava gives the fruits of hidden matters. L-8 in domain-6 is usually very profitable, with gains resulting from confidential financial arrangements, "private equity", undercover deals, etc. These arrangements may be legal or illegal (the nature of L-8 will tell) but for various reasons the transactions remain hidden from public view, and the profits are often substantial.
So yes, domain-6 gives good effects sometimes. But those good effects arise from skillful management of the dark side of human interaction. Professionals with strong domain-6 markers may profit considerably from handling the negative materials of conflict/imbalance, hatred/animosity, ignorance/bad choices, exploitation/victimhood, and illness/debt.
However those same professionals must walk the line between serving victims and becoming a victim.
L-6 and any occupants of Ripu Bhava must have dignity to ensure ethical results.
Domain-6 is a toxic environment.
Anyone who functions in this dangerously imbalanced domain will be affected by its negativity. Therefore those who profit from its evils need special awareness, greater sensitivity to the psychic realities of the victim complex, and higher than average levels of compassion.
If some well-meaning (?) friend gifts you with a beautiful gem that happens to be the gem of your 6th lord, donate that gem to charity in the name of that fine friend :)
Amusingly, sometimes good things come from bad people. Parashara tells us that our enemies could make us rich!
"When Dhana's lord is in Ari Bhava along with a benefic, the native will gain wealth through his enemies."
-- BPHS Ch. 24, shloka 18
Day-to-day conflict is a part of normal life for most people. Everyone has a 6th house, so everyone has to deal with the phenomenon of imbalance in relationships. Remember the 12th-from-any-house contains the seeds of that house's destruction. The wheel of birth and death grinds on.
The 6th house is the 12th-from-7th, so it contains all the forces that erode 7th house Marriage and Relationships Balance. Actions of the 6th Lord will trigger animosity with the spouse, especially the first spouse.
Enemies occur when social agreements are imbalanced, when love is eroded, when anger controls.
(Fear-based thinking with the second spouse would be 6th-from-2nd, or the 7th house itself. Since 7th house is the first spouse, the first spouse can create lots of stress in your second marriage. You probably didn't need astrology to know that!)
As 8th-from-11th, Ripu bhava profiles the hidden forces that destroy income. Debt is another yicky 6th-house energy that everyone fears. Imbalance caused by guilt, grief, and fear, carried over from past lives. Debt is caused by having exploited others in past lives. It's carry-over slavery habit, outdated punishment expectation, antique fear of being judged for not having enough, not being good enough, or simply being wrong.
Debt and its causing fears are rooted deep down in the subconscious. It seems odd that in America, a country founded on hatred of debtor's prisons, where inherited debt is outlawed, and both personal and corporate debt-forgiveness through legal bankruptcy very easy to achieve, that so many people would be tortured by guilt and despair over debt.
But it's only odd until you look into those folks subconscious expectations, hear the self-fulfilling negative prophecies chanted by their families, and watch their self-defeating choices in the marketplace... and there you see the manifestations of ancient humiliations and servitude. Some unfinished karmic business.
Luckily, with conscious personal responsibility and a profound willingness to release the matter into the hands of the Almighty, Debt can be rebalanced. Here are some psychic and emotional suggestions for handling debt.
import-export/international trade
International business is all a matter of import-export. Like any business its success depends on management of debt. A person who intends to succeed in international business should have strong financial planets in Ari Bhava.
This man has been very successful at the corporate executive level of international finance. Note his financially auspicious 9th and 11th lords in Ari Bhava: L-9 Chandra and the gainful 11th lord Mercury. Note also the 6th lord exalted 10 houses from swakshetra, exceptionally auspicious for corporate leadership.
11th house rules gains and income. As 8th-from-11th, Ari bhava profiles the destruction of gains and income through debt. With sufficiently beneficial conditions in the 6th house -- such as 6th lord in the 12th from itself, which gives dissolution of debt -- even a crippling debt may be resolved through legal bankruptcy.
Randhra bhava - the 8th house - gives rejuvenation and healing. After bankruptcy is declared all debts are forgiven or reorganized to become more easily payable. By admitting one's liability and also seeking justice within the court system, the root of slavery is destroyed through the turning of the cycle of birth and death. After bankruptcy comes financial rebirth. Look for a favorable 8th lord to guarantee complete financial healing.
Note the access to the privilege of bankruptcy comes with sufficiently high birth only. In many world cultures inherited debt and ancestral slavery are still contemporary realities.
If you have experienced the privilege of bankruptcy you can assume you have earned that privilege through compassionate actions toward those in debt to you, in past lives. You forgave the debt of others now your debt is forgiven.
Imbalance. House 6 shows karma which sets health balance at birth. Illness is a form of bondage to the physical body, which like enemies and debt is a carry-over from slavery in past lives.
Bad planets in this "bad" house often have excellent effects - see Healers Who Handle Toxins below. Surprisingly, it's "good" planets in the 6th house that spell "dis-ease." Since "dis+ease" means "not easy" or "uncomfortable" the good news is that most disease can be cured through self-knowledge and sincere desire to be well. However the funny effect of a good planet here in the house of illness it that it makes the person not care too much about correcting the imbalance. Jupiter, which is normally a lovely planet, in house-6 creates excess. If house-2 which rules the mouth is also out-of-whack, you might see obesity. Venus, the pleasure planet, in house 6 creates all the diseases of love - "venereal" diseases.
However, don't panic if you see scary stuff in your 6th house. Check house-12, which is the release house, for corrective influences. House-12 gives "dissolution." Dissolution is not helpful for starting a business but it's very helpful for getting rid of disease. So check over there in house 12 and see if karmic imbalances in your own health are righted by your willingness to Let God and Let Go.
Often, sickness is a temporary part of spiritual growth - it shows the physical body taking a vibrational step up, doing some internal reworking -- so even if you do see illness, relax and enjoy. The spirit is magnificent.
Fourth house profiles vehicles. The 3rd-from-any-house shows sale, purchase, exchange, conversation about, or negotiations concerning, matters of that house. So, logically, 3rd-from-4th which is Ari Bhava, indicates buying and selling of vehicles with all the negotiation that naturally involves.
Friends are labha bhava, the 11th rashi house. As 8th-from-11th, Ari bhava profiles the destruction of friends. Often when a friendship is destroyed, an enemy is created. Ari is certainly the house of enemies! When your 6th lord becomes bhukti-pat, be especially sensitive to triggers which could damage your most important friendships. With conscious awareness, the destructive implications of the 6th lord for friendships can be largely avoided.
Sometimes the destruction or recycling of friends includes their physical death - but for physical death we prefer to first see the 2nd-from and 7th-from a house. Actual death of friends may be more closely predicted by period of 2nd-from-11th or Vyaya Bhava.
Domain-5 represents the first child. Second house profiles wealth. Therefore the 2nd-from-5th house, Ripu-sthana, shows the wealth of the first child/
Wealth of 2nd child would be 2nd-from-7th, or Randhra bhava.
Wealth of 3rd child would be 2nd-from-9th, or Karmaa bhava.
etc.
Follow this pattern to see wealth of all your children & grandchildren.
Relationships to lower caste people, animals & servants ( = employees in the modern West) is profiled in Domain-6 & 6th-from-Chandra. The domain which lies 6th-from-Moon, if well-disposed, will show the person having compassion toward those socially positioned lower than themselves. If the career setup is right (e.g., L-6 in Domain-10 and Surya in 11) such a person may succeed in large-scale efforts to eradicate poverty, end exploitation, or improve animal welfare. Psychologically, people who may be ego-attached to a victim mentality are also generally speaking highly sensitive to the feelings of animals.
Venus the love planet when occupying or favorably aspecting Ripu bhava or 6th-from-Chandra means love of animals so strong that one takes an animal or servant as a pet - not asking it to perform any work, simply admiring & indulging the servant or animal as one would a family member.
Many people in the modern west have strongly affectionate & intuitive relationships with their pets. Even Odysseus would not enter heaven unless his faithful dog was allowed to accompany him!
Affliction to Domain-6 shows the ignorant treatment of those positioned below oneself, particularly animals, or people whose karmic predicaments make them victims of poverty or disease. Usually the native receives a 'boomerang' effect of this type of cruelty within their own lifetime. If not, you can be sure they are storing up plenty of evil effects for themselves in future lives!
If the 6th house is strong while the 4th & 7th are weak, the person may prefer the company or animals, employees or servants to the companionship of human peers.
"You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, 'My God, you're right! I never would've thought of that!'"
-- Dave Barry
Bad planets in a bad house usually give good results
In Jyotisha: "Bad planets in a bad house usually give good results."
Rahu-Ketu, Shani and Kuja - the 'bad boys' of earth's solar system - can give excellent results in Ari Bhava if they are not encumbered there. However they will always produce some degree of health concern, according to the sign and aspects.
Malefic grahas tend to function rather well in dusthanas. Malefics give particularly good results in the uber-dusthana, Ari Bhava. Malefics are not generally harmed by Ripu sthana's environmental toxins. Rather, they seem to enjoy the challenge. Malefics in a dusthana seem to be saying "no more mister nice guy."
Often malefic planets in domain-6 draw the native into service of the chronically ill or imbalanced, rather than to be chronically ill in themselves. Serious malefics in Ari bhava such as Saturn, Mars, & dusthana lords - combined with other virtue-laden graha - often show "Imbalance professionals" such as public health workers, clinic doctors & nurses, environmental activists, hazardous waste managers, debt counselors (including financing debt to poor countries) and others who work with spiritual, social, emotional, mental, or physical illness.
However malefics in Ripu bhava do cause illness, according to the nature of the malefic and the specialties of the rashi.
Shani causes aging, cold and dryness; arthritis, stiffening, brittleness
Surya gives biliousness and burning; skin eruptions, heart disease
Mangala brings accidents, breakage, fevers and wounds
Rahu gives poisoning, including iatrogenic disease
Ketu causes the native to disconnect from medical treatment, to not seek help
For example, Surya in Ari bhava yuti no other planets, makes a person somewhat prone to egotistical overheating due to excess pitta (bile). Eventually they will develop heart disease from the stress of self-assertion (not necessarily fatal, just a known stress zone.)
However Surya with other malefics such as Kauja, Shani, or Rahu-Ketu in domain-6, can make profound digestive sickness if Kuja's anger, or Shani's repression, or Rahu's drug poisoning amplify the basic ego-overload of Surya.
Benefics in Domains 6, 8 & 12 are inevitably damaged.
Benefics in Domain-6 become victims of the toxic, imbalanced environment in that evil house. The expected positive effects of benefics which fall into a dusthana are not realized. Depending on the strength of the benefic, results typically "backfire" - which is to say that the best motivations give unexpectedly nasty results.
Benefics in a dusthana exemplify the old saying, "the road to hell is paved with good intentions."
Shukra gives addictions, sexually transmitted disease, sugar disease/diabetes
Guru brings obesity, excessive feasting, swellings, gout
Budha encourages mental illness, worrying, anxiety
Sixth house Sun conjunct one malefic and also aspected by another malefic, is called Pittaroga Yoga.
--(B.V. Raman 300 Yogas, p.281)
Healers Who Handle Social and Physical Illness
Here are two examples of How Good Service can emerge from Bad Houses:
This much-loved low-income clinic worker has an exalted Shani in Ripu bhava (6).
With professional excellence, she handles chemical medicines (poisons), dangerous medical conditions, poverty, alcoholism, drug abuse, domestic violence, and the full range of 6th-house sorrows . Note her exalted Shani approaches benefic status by receiving drishti from Guru and lord Shukra in auspicious dharma bhava.
This environmentalist attorney has L-6 Kuja in yuvati bhava for Law Courts while malefic L-8/L-9 Shani carries prognosis for professional success in conflict-management, into Domain-6.
Bodhicitta is the medicine which revives and gives life to every sentient being who even hears of it. When you engage in fulfilling the needs of others, your own needs are fulfilled as a by-product.
-- H. H. Dalai Lama The Path to Tranquility: Daily Wisdom
"It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business."
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948) Non-Violence in Peace & War, vol. 2, ch. 248 (1948) -- www.gandhiserve.org
"Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know."
-- M. K. Gandhi (1869–1948) Non-Violence in Peace & War, vol. 1, ch. 256 (1942) www.gandhiserve.org
"If you harbor negative feelings towards others, and yet expect them to be friendly to you, you are being illogical. If you want the atmosphere around you to be more friendly, you must first create the basis for that. Whether the response of others is positive or negative, you must first create the ground of friendliness. If others still respond to you negatively after this, then you have the right to act accordingly."
-- from The Dalai Lama's Book of Love and Compassion
Encountering sufferings will definitely contribute to the elevation of your spiritual practice, provided you are able to transform the calamity and misfortune into the path.
~~ H.H. Dalai Lama, The Path to Tranquility. www.snowlionpub.com
"Dr. Cutler: "...one of the reasons I brought up the topic of challenge at work," I said to the Dalai Lama, "is because it relates to a concept that seems to come up frequently these days in psychological literature, the concept of flow.* This concept is increasingly mentioned in articles on human happiness, and this state can commonly occur at work.... while engaged in activity, there's a feeling of effortlessness, a sense of total control over what one is doing.... Although flow can occur in any activity, some investigators have found that Americans experience more flow at work than they do in their leisure time."
The Dalai Lama: "You really like this flow, Howard!" the Dalai Lama exclaimed with an amused chuckle. "...no matter how nice that state may be, I don't think it is the most important source of satisfaction, fulfillment, or happiness.... For one thing, you can't be in that state at all times.... So through this flow, even if you get some temporary kind of happiness, it will not be an ongoing thing.
I think this flow state is not reliable or sustainable, and I think it's much more important to develop other sources of satisfaction through one's work that are brought about by training one's mind, shaping one's outlook and attitude, integrating basic human values in the workplace.
For example, dealing with one's destructive emotions while at work, reducing anger, jealousy, greed, and so on, and practicing relating to others with kindness, compassion, tolerance, these are much more important and stable sources of satisfaction than simply trying to create flow as much as possible."
Dr. Cutler: ...To the Dalai Lama, true happiness is associated with a sense of meaning, and arises on the basis of deliberately cultivating certain attitudes and outlooks. True happiness may take longer to generate, and requires some effort, but it is this lasting happiness that can sustain us even under the most trying conditions of everyday life."
* flow is defined here as [people] being so completely absorbed in their work that they lose track of time.
~~ H. H. Dalai Lama, & Dr. Howard C. Cutler, M.D. (1998, 2004). The Art of Happiness at Work , Riverhead Trade Pub.
"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them as much."
--Oscar Wilde
The Twelve Solar Domains (Bhava, Sthana, Kshetra)
updated: 14 July 2008
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