Broken Partnerships - Distrust - Enemies Crime and Criminals Victims and the Victim-Mind Jails (not prisons) Dushthana - Difficulties Losses from Litigation (attorney fees, lost cases, unfavorable judgment) War - Hatred - Ethnic conflict Blaming, accusations, Disputes Police and Military violent conflict losses from failed partnership marital disharmony , Marital Violence, Partner's imagination Partner's long residence in foreign lands A nd other draining of the marriage vitality failure to honor agreements , divorce chances and life in foreign place relationships with foreigners Superstition, fears, mental slavery Perseverance anguish, insanity death of friends struggle, annoyance opponents/ oppositions / animosity unsporting competition, poor losers thievery, stealing Artha Money-Maker /td>

Poverty - Usury - Exploitation Debt/Finance Underclass (esp w/ Rahu) Usury - Loans - Loan Interest - Mortgages Exploitation, prostitution, slavery Bankruptcy Work and the workplace Working trades, trade unions Servants, employees social work, human services ministry manual labor, servitude miserliness, acrimony, fear of poverty due to mental slavery Gains from Secret Knowledge wealth of first child Pets, Livestock, working animals, domesticated animals Import-export/ international trade purchase / sales of vehicles Ministry of Service Empowerment or victimization Dignity of one's belief system spouse takes long journeys, foreign residence of spouse relationships that are 'naturally' power-imbalanced (master-slave etc.) Leadership of universities, houses of worship, religious training centers. Contracts and Agreements with sanctuaries, ashrams, hospitals, monasteries, prisons span Remedial Seva

Fleshly Imbalance - Illness - Toxins Medicines, Drugs (legal and illegal) Pollution, self-medication ( Addiction) plant cures, healing foods herbs, plants, oils and drugs kidney, large intestines digestion Health Sciences visiting nurses (hospital nurses = 12) health professionals of all kinds clinical medicine, nursing profession ambulatory health clinics (emergency room = 8) non-residential treatment of patient (hospital = 12) Good things from bad people Domain-6 is a toxic environment toxic waste management Professionals who handle Toxins Business relationships in "import-export" Social-Mental illnesses conflicted relationships, jealousy, divorce Disfigurement, injury

From ~~ Cologne Sanskrit Dictionary 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

• Periods of the lord of Ari Bhava (L-6) are typically very stressful.

• Events triggered by Vimshottari periods of the L-6 include the breakdown of marital agreement (sometimes leading to litigation and divorce), physical imbalance (leading to disease conditions), and social conflict (on a large scale may include war, on a local scale includes exploitation and crime.)

• Every nativity has an L-6. Whichever graha = the L-6, the periods of that graha will be problematic during one's lifetime. Much depends on the disposition of the L-6 in terms of rashi, bhava, drishti, and angular relationship to the current mahadasha pati. However even the best graha becomes handicapped through loss of agreements (12th-from-7th) when that graha becomes the L-6.

• L-6 from lagna tends to bring physical-material disharmony. L-6 from Chandra brings psycho-emotional disharmony.

The good news about L-6

• Untoward effects of periods of the L-6 may be substantially mitigated through selfless service to the less fortunate.

• Periods of the L-6 are the perfect time to undertake a ministry of service.

• Personal misfortune which might be predicted through the negative effects of the L-6 can be averted by serving those who are victims of the same conflicts as oneself, however the beneficiaries of service should be suffering that imbalance in a slightly worse intensity than oneself. For example most of the karma of disease can be averted through ministry of charitable service in medicine.

"Ubi vir us, ibi vir us" = "the strongest poisons make the best medicines"

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy. ~~ Paracelsus

Emotionally, from Chandra lagna

The bhava which occupies the 6th position from Soma and the graha which is Lord of the 6th from Chandra give highly problematic agency during the current incarnation. In their Vimshottari periods, the lord of sixth-from-Soma as well as the lord and content of the house which is 6th-from-Soma will cause much travail.

• The fundamental mechanism of 6th-from angles is chronic imbalance. Results include argumentativeness, exploitation, illness, conflict, and servitude arising from the emotional relationship with the agent of L-6 from Chandra and graha associated with the bhava which occupies 6th-from-Chandra.

• The end result of these inconveniences (often severe suffering) is the desirable outcome of intended payback of moral errors in past lives. (Usually the error is caused by intentional or inadvertent appropriation of the power of others.) However it is especially difficult to remember one's spiritual intentions at birth when engaged in the fast-paced lifestyle of the modern world. One intended the benefit of recovery of balance through payback; yet in the present moment the experience is one of acute disrespect, imbalance, and emotional pain.

• Vimshottari periods of the L-6 from Chandra are likely to contain significant emotional suffering and feelings of servitude or exploitation by a manipulative master. Most notably period of L-6 from Chandra are distinguished by the experience of giving much more into the matters of that house than one is receiving in return.

If the bhava pati is benevolent then one's servitude will be well-rewarded in some social, material, or spiritual form of payment, yet the feeling of having been exploited is emotionally definitive and the native suffers from the breakdown of contractual agreements, the loss of relationship integrity, and the feeling of having been cheated or betrayed by the agent (L-6) of victimization and crime.

The 6th-from angle from Chandra represents chronic and often severe imbalance in emotional expectations, which is normally manifest in expectation that a particular relationship (with the agent of 6th-from) will be loving, caring, balanced, or otherwise provide equity and respect of contractual agreement. Respect and equity will not be forthcoming due to the condition of servitude and exploitation implied by the 6th-from angle.

Should the L-6 from Chandra permanently occupy some critical relationship house such as 7th-from-radix-lagna or 7th-from-Chandra, there may be a repeating cycle of victimization and broken promises in key partnerings and unions. If the L-6 from Chandra and the house which occupies 6th-from-Chandra are neutral and do not contain key relationship karakas (such as Shukra for the first wife or Guru for the first husband) then the only problematic item will be the actual Vimshottari periods of that graha which is lord of sixth-from-Soma.

• If Guru (karaka for husband-1) or Shukra (karaka for wife-1) should occupy the 6th-from-Chandra, emotional exploitation and suffering related to the health or debt of the first spouse will occur.

• Guru for Thula
  lagna and Budha for Mesha lagna are both particularly inauspicious graha. Should Guru or Budha also occupy the 6th-from-Chandra in a nativity, expect periods of Guru (for Thula
  lagna) or Budha (for Mesha lagna) to generate a narrative of intense argumentation regarding the illness, debt, or broken promises of the partner-spouse.

Each lagna has particular pre-programmed karma of inherent conflict + disappointment (6).

•   The se victim-mind past-life based attitudes and expectations are embedded in responses to the karaka people, ideas, and environments of the L-6.

•  If there are graha in Ari Bhava, expect an increase in the number and variety of people, ideas, and environments regarding which the native is pre-disposed to find broken agreements, ongoing conflict and social or physical imbalance.

• A loaded 6th house = nearly always a call to conflict-mitigation service via medicine, military, or human-needs ministry. Naturally these professionals deal with a relentless flow of animosity, exploitation, and disease.

•  Fewer graha in 6 means that the L-6 will carry more of the conflict karma.

•   L-6 in domain-10 gives a leadership career that is fraught with social conflict. The native becomes a public icon for fomenting society-wide disagreements, usually in nations that are unstable because they are on the verge of formulating a new social contract. (Examples: Martin Luther King 1968 civil rights, M Reza Pahlavi Shah of Iran 1979 revolution, Richard Nixon 1973 Vietnam war)

• class="style31">Although the default animosities are also present from radix lagna, the Chandra lagna should be used to show Emotional Reactivity - read the below table from the rashi of Chandra.

•  When Chandra occupies domain-8 in any rashi, the flesh-body domain-1 becomes the 6th-from-Chandra; naturally body-image, vitality issues, and discomfort with the physical body can arise.

•  When Chandra occupies Chandra occupies domain-2 in any rashi, the marriage house domain-7 becomes the 6th-from-Chandra; naturally marital discomfort can arise.

•   6th-from-Chandra shows the past-life embedded discomfort, animosities, and enslavements in the mind.

How to Resolve the Karma of Domain-6

Domain-6 is indeed the house of the victim-class, and its denizens tend toward extremes of poverty, illness, and perpetual social conflict. The default identity of one with strong markers in domain-6 or 6th-from-Chandra is an underclass personality who is always arguing and embedded in a victim mentality. The native is sick from lifelong effects of irresolvable conflict originating in negative thoughts (Budha).

However, it is worth noting that many of those who hear the clarion-call toward a ministry of service are gracious personalities who hold deeply religious or humanitarian beliefs. They are typically well educated, and born into the privileged classes.

Domain-6 is the house of "serve or suffer". Therefore one with strong markers in Ripu Bhava need not suffer personal animosity or illness, if one chooses to serve.

The cure for all ailments of Roga Bhava is commitment to a spiritual practice of serving the needs of others. The particular Others who require the service of one who has karma in domain-6 are those who have not yet achieved the consciousness to resolve their own imbalances.

A ministry of service directed to the care of criminals, the outcast, the exploited, the sick, and the poor may address all personal karmas of Ari Bhava with great success.

Sixth house stands for enemies, relatives, strength, illness, and stomach problems etc. ~~ Madhya Parashari, Ch. 9 , Shloka 6

6th from Budha be also considered in regard to indications derivable from Ari Bhava. ~~ BPHS Ch. 7, Shloka 39-43

6th house is both for friends and enemies, health and sickness, attachment and hatred, maternal relatives, cousins, servants and inferiors.

Body Parts

In the physical body, Ari bhava signifies:

• digestive system

• kidneys

• large intestines

The se are the organs which process the emotion of Fear in the physical body.

Dushthamsha = Difficult

Ari bhava is considered the most severe "dusthamsha" or "difficult house" because it is the natural house of the victim-mind. "Dush" means "difficult" and "amsha" means portion.

Often when it comes time to discuss the 6th house in a reading, astrologers stammer a bit and look at the ground, because matters of the Sat-kona, the sixth angle, are always difficult to discuss..

Primary significations of Ari Bhava are traditional ly, 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 dusthamsha 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.

• Domain-6 = 5th-from-2nd + 2nd-from-5th

• Domain-6 = 9th-from-10th + 10th-from-9th

Ari bhava is a member of the 2-6-10 Artha trine (material acquisition, employment, social position).

Wealth can be developed here, through personal labor, dedicated servitude, ministries to victims, service catering to the working classes, theft, exploitation, loan-making, medicines, war, divorce, litigation, various crimes, and other domain-6 behaviors.

• Cf. Michael Jackson, Shukra =  karaka for Wealth = 6th-from-Chandra  (unfortunately, Shukra also = karaka for drug addiction)

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 contracts erode, when internal arguments burst from the mind and control the manifestation of the inner narrative. 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.

"Relieving others of their suffering is the highest worship of god." ~~ Bhagavata Purana 8.7.44

Good Effects of house-6

Domain-6 surely contains many miseries, such as marital conflict, poverty, and disease.

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.

Yet, in capitalistic cultures, debt can be a good thing. Bankers and financiers of all stripes will have functional planets in house-6 and also 6th-from-6th, l class="style14">All the good people whose incomes depend on giving and managing financial credit, on repossessing defaulted purchases, mortgaging and foreclosing homes... they all earn out of the sixth and 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.

"The internal suffering of the person who does not reciprocate the criticism and abuse hurled at him burns down the abuser aking away all the latter's merit." ~~ Mahabharata Adhiparva 87.7

Domain-6 is a toxic environment.

class="style14">Anyone who functions in this dangerously imbalanced domain will be affected by its negativity. Therefore those who are karmicly positioned to profit from its evils need special awareness.

Physicians, attorneys, and human services ministers need 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 :)

• Periods of L-6 = acute conflict, injury, accident, disease; usually a rapid process; the native remains attached to the body - even in the case of chronic conditions, the native stays in the body and remains ego-engaged with the disease-disagreement process

Good things from bad people

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 (satra-mooladdhana yoga)

6th-from-Chandra = emotional response to conflict

• Graha in 6th-from-Chandra will indicate the habitual method of numbing or comforting the unbalanced self when confronted with emotional conflict.

• Surya here = self righteousness; Budha = excessive chatter and perhaps sexual behavior; Mangala is directly confrontational; Guru is cheerful and expansive, He overeats, philosophizes, and travels to relieve stress; Shukra prefers alcohol, sweets, other drugs and ladies; Shani goes to work - often a workaholic, and denial of conflict. Rahu seeks risk, and Ketu is apathetic.

Marital Disharmony

12th-from-any-house contains the forces which drain and dissolve matters of the that bhava.

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.

Ari Bhava = 12th-from-7th = all the forces that erode yuvati bhava's Marriage and Relationship Trust.

Actions and attitudes of L-6 show the nature of marital and partnership conflict - especially the cause of lack of trust re: the first spouse.

Enemies occur when social agreements are imbalanced, when trust 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!)

Cautions for Marriage

Shukra in 6th-from-Chandra

• for males, Shukra in 6th-from-Chandra or Shukra in 6th-from-Lagna may indicate that the native cherishes a love of argument which will eventually erode the trust of marriage. Both husband and wife are implicated.

  • the husband is (subconsciously) attracted to women who are interested in medicine or human services ministry, but who are also argumentative in marriage.

  • The wife is prone to conflict and contentiousness. Her nativity often features a conspicuous Kuja Dosha. However the male native also enjoys a good argument. It is an aesthetic taste for him too; the plaint of the victim is amusing to him.

  • The marriage will suffer from some amount of petty disagreement and bickering.

    • The best cure for the "love of conflict" is a medical or social work career for the female (including nursing, or police work, and volunteer labor is fine).

    • If the male is a physician he should work with sexually transmitted diseases, women who are sickened or abused by loss of balance in their relationships. Then the marriage bickering will be discharged to much better purpose and harmony can reign.

  Guru in 6th-from-Chandra

  • for females, Guru in 6th-from-Chandra or Guru in 6th-from-lagna may indicate that that first husband is much prone to illness in his own body as well as prone to philosophical disagreement with the female.

    • The first husband may have numerous good qualities, but amongst the benefits one may find a strong tendency toward imbalanced life conditions in the male.

    • The woman with Guru in 6th-from-Chandra suffers from a repeating pattern of taking emotionally inharmonious or "setback" type of decisions, often because she is trying to "help" someone. This is not wrong, it is simply karmic, but it is a truth for this female native that her first husband will be a colossal handicap, who drains the energy from marital agreement (12th-from-7th-from-Chandra). He is much weaker and needier than expected (6 = disappointed expectations), and the medical implications of 6th-from are quite straightforward.

    • If Guru occupies 6th-from-Chandra he is emotionally polluted due to conflict with his own mother, or stuck in another variety of trauma which will manifest as contentiousness, conflict, and illness even while there is a general good-will and philosophical viewpoint expressed in the arguments.

    • Also 6th-from is characterized by refusal to accept legal and medical advice (12th-from-7th, dissolution of advising relationships).

    • If Guru occupies 6th-from-radix lagna without adverse drishti, the husband may be a successful physician or a wealthy divorce attorney, but even so he will become ill due to his self-medication habits which can include overeating as a response to conflict.

    • For Guru in radix 6, as with Shukra in radix 6, both spouses are implicated, and both will have overweight or some variety of digestive overload. If Guru is lord of 6th-from either lagna or Chandra the situation is quite fixed into self-caused illness and cheerful but extensive incompatibility due to principled disagreement as the level of weltangschauung - There is nearly always a separation in the first marriage when Guru occupies the female's 6th-from - the male's scope of imbalance, illness, conflict, and overall toxicity continues to expand (Guru) until some vimshottari lord such as L-2 or L-8 or Ketu causes the separation. However there is no call for divorce unless a malefic graha such as Mangala or Shani, possibly the Sun, casts drishti upon Guru. The couple live in a state of disappointment and discomfort, always wishing it were better, and the spouse may live with a chronic (self-caused) illness but the marriage may continue indefinitely unless some stronger malefic interrupts it.

    Shani in 6th-from-Chandra

    • for females whose nativity may indicate a second marriage, Shani in 6th-from-Chandra or Shani in 6th-from-lagna = a second husband who is much prone to illness in his own body as well as prone to scarcity or fear-based disagreement with the female.

      • Ironically this situation is much easier to live with, due to the general rule of a bad planet in a bad house giving a good result. Unlike Guru in a relative dushthamsha, Shani there is not trying to be cheerful. Shani is sour, dry, fearful, and cold. Shani brings material poverty via scarcity thinking, harsh survivalist realism, age and its debilitation, and either a great respect for human law or the punishment which comes from disregarding it.

      • Depending on Shani's disposition, the second husband may have the illnesses of age and dryness, ailments of the bones and sinew, be too attached to work and poverty, or otherwise somber and serious. For the female these characteristics are a source of unhappiness in the marriage; however Shani in 6 tends toward staunch acceptance of the conflict as a structural reality of human nature -- rather than any attempt to alleviate it.

      • Divorce is not predicted as the native is inclined to simply live with the disappointment rather than challenge it.

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      Debt

      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.

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      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.

      Example:

      This man has been materially successful working for banks which specialize in international money-lending. 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.

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      Bankruptcy

      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.

      The privilege of bankruptcy is earned through compassionate actions toward those in debt to oneself, in past lives. One forgave the debt of others now youne'sr debt is forgiven.

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      Disease and How to Fix It

      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.

      The root cause of the disease is "inner argumentation" Of which the native may not be conscious. There is a constant inner narrative which repeats conflict, criticism, jealous rages, vindictive accusations, and a litany of victimization claims which eventually program the physical body into a state of chronic imbalance, lack of trust, and pain.

      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.

      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, normally a lovely planet, in house-6 owned by His enemy Budha, creates dietary excess that over-uses the intestines and harms the health ("Oprah Winfrey Syndrome"). 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.

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      Purchase/sales of vehicles

      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.

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      Death of friends

      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.

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      Wealth of first child

      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 and grandchildren.

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      Pets and Livestock

      class="style12" 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

      Relationships to lower caste people, animals and servants ( = employees in the modern West) is profiled in Domain-6 and 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.

      Shukra within or favorably aspecting Ripu bhava or 6th-from-Chandra = love of animals so delightful that one takes an animal or servant as a pet - not asking it to perform any work, simply enjoying and indulging the servant or animal as one would a family member.

      class="style29">Many people in the modern west have strongly affectionate and intuitive relationships with their pets. Even Odysseus would not enter heaven unless his faithful dog was allowed to accompany him!

      class="style12">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 and 7th are weak, the person may prefer the company of animals, employees or servants to the companionship of one's human peers.

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      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 dusthamshas. Malefics give particularly good results in the uber-dusthamsha, Ari Bhava. Malefics are not generally harmed by Ripu sthana's environmental toxins. Rather, they seem to enjoy the challenge. Malefics in a dusthamsha 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, and dusthamsha lords - combined with other virtue-laden graha - often show "Imbalance professionals" such as public health workers, clinic doctors and 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.

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      Benefics in Domains 6, 8 and 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 dusthamsha 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 dusthamsha 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, generous but unsustainable promises, gout

      • Budha encourages mental illness, chronic argumentation, worrying, anxiety

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      Remedial Seva
      
      Q: Madame, I am facing a horrible consequence of my actions. My beloved wife has left me, finally, after discovering my sexual indiscretions after marriage, with a former lover. I desperately want to restore the trust in my marriage to my beautiful and devoted wife... but she has filed the divorce petition now and her entire family stands against me. I feel great misery and humiliation ... want terribly to reconcile with her, whom I love deeply... but she will not speak to me. I know that what I have done is wrong... and I have no feelings for my old lover. (In fact, I hate her.) What can I do? Is there a remedy?
      

      A: Here is a brief recommendation. It will only work if you are really ready to change:

      • selfless service (Seva) offered toward those who are suffering in a similar way as oneself,

      • the beneficiaries of your Seva should be those who suffer a worse intensity -- therefore a worse case of ignorance regarding the cause of their suffering.

      • This method transforms ignorance into wisdom

      The best response in situations of grave difficulty , such as the onethat you presently are suffering, is to offer service to those who have A worse degree of the problem than you have.

      In your case, the karmic problem is breaking a trust.

      • Therefore , look for an opportunity to offer Seva tomen who whose inability to respect trusts and agreements has landed them in prison.

      • Being already in physical prison, they are in more severe and more long-lasting trouble than you who are in the quicker-changing psycho-emotional prison of guilt and grief.

      • Find a charitable opportunity to serve men who have grossly mistreated their wives (e.g., domestic violence or even spousal murder) or who have otherwise severely harmed a trusting partner (even a business partner).

      • During the process, you can learn about this repeating karmic pattern which they have quite vividly but which you have probably to a lesser degree because you are more intelligent and more self-controlling.

      • At the moment of accepting a targeted Seva, you can take solace in knowing that your cloud of ignorance is breaking up!

      • But clearly you share the karmic pattern, and watching those lower than you as they do the same dysfunctional thing will be very enlightening.

      Time, past and future

      • Due to the way that humans perceive Time, wecannotchange the past. What we can do however is to eliminate the cause of the moral error, thereby preventing the unhappy past occurrence from repeating in the future.

      Worship and Service

      • Shri Ganesha empowers the removal of obstacles from the path of enlightenment.

      • Shri Shri Ganapati may be petitioned for assistance in removing an obstacle of ignorance from one's path toward a good life in the future.

      • However after enlisting the moral support from Shri Ganesha, it is essential to get out in the material world and perform remedial service.

      • Not just as a penance but as an active quest for wisdom.

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      Q: The lord of Ari bhava is my strong and compassionate Guru in His own rashi.
      I'm heading into the mahadasha of my L-6 Guru, and starting to feel worried about landing in the poorhouse from debt, or worse yet getting tricked into doing something low-class. I'm a good, religious person with a solid family life, and I also have a responsible job with employees and superiors. It seems unlikely that anyone in my family or professional environment would get me into trouble.
      Can I avoid most of the forecast consequences of the major period -- indebtedness, mainly -- if I am scrupulously committed to refusing all loans? Just don't do it? Forewarned is forearmed? Is there a way to outsmart the Wise Lord Guru?
      
      

      A: Good question!
      Generally, the conscious (but not superstitious) attitude you're describing will take the sting out of periods of L-6. When promises are broken and it seems like you owe more than you can pay (6), a wise smile and neutral attitude can allow the problem to get solved much quicker. Yes the problems will pop up due to karma but the fix can be swift and pragmatic when one knows what to expect.

      Things to be aware of: the biggest debt, illness, or injury (physical or social) events are likely in L-6 Guru-Guru and the bhukti periods of graha which occupy the 6th-from-L-6

      • Benefic in dushthamsha = "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
        Because your L-6 is a super-strong benefic, the main agents of the difficulties with animosity, debts, criminal acts, prostitution, illegal activities are not the typical bad guys. Not the usual suspects at all. Trouble comes from Guru-type figures, such as religious teachers, university professors, priests of the temple, philosophers, physicians, and even veterinarians (domain-6 rules animals).
        Beware of those preaching compassion; beware of claims upon your generosity (Guru).
        
        The key is to clearly distinguish between sympathy and compassion -- acts of pity or rescue of apparent victims is (During Guru L-6 period) a set-up for loss.

      • Domain-6 = broken promises and unsustainable agreements.

        Naturally if excess generosity and getting suckered into a bit of debt by mistaking sympathy for compassion are your two worst problems, this L-6 period is not so brutal. You'll be quite fine overall.

        For mere mortals it's not realistic to expect that there would be no manifestation of financial, social, spiritual, mental or physical imbalance during the 16-year period of Guru... but you're absolutely right that the attitude of preparedness wins half the battle.

      The karmic purpose of periods of L-6 is to help the native transform the ignorance of victim-mind into an awareness that one is, at the level of beliefs, actually causing the problem by via negative expectations.

      • So, the more awareness one can muster regarding the power to control the outcome not simply by a financial tactic of refusing new loans but a higher consciousness of family patterns, relationship expectations, personal history, and religious beliefs -- the faster one can locate and eradicate the seed belief which is causing the victim experience.

  • In sum, yes, a policy of no loans will certainly help. But if circumstances seem to be generating undue animosity, debt, or disease -- look not to the spreadsheet, but to the belief system for the key to rebalance.

  For quickly releasing expectations of physical illness and injury during periods of L-6, I recommend Louise Hay's book "you can heal your life" because of its extremely useful index of ailments matched to negative beliefs (worth the price of the whole book). To cut down the rebalancing time, use this index.
  Sincerely, Barbara

  Pittaroga Yoga, #279 - B.V. Raman 300 Important Combinations "Definition: The sixth house must be occupied by the Sun, in conjunction with a malefic, and further aspected by another malefic. Results: The subject suffers from bilious complaints. Remarks: "According to Ayurveda, the entire psychological activities of the body are controlled and brought about by three important forces or basic factors called thridoshas. hey are Vatha (wind), Pitta (bile) and Sleshma (phlegm). [BPL note: phlegm factor also called "Kapha"] Pitta is said to be responsible for metabolic activities. The thridoshas when excited or disturbed are said to cause diseases. Each dosha has got its own attributes. For instance, the attributes of pitta are heat, keenness, lightness, and slight oiliness. When there is excitement of pitta, the effects are burning, warmth, suppuration, gangrenous ulcerations, secretions, and redness of complexion. Where there is Pittavriddhi (increase of bile) there will be disposition to jaundice, sleeplessness, and increase of hunger. Pittakshakshayam (decrease of bile) give rise to colic troubles. I would refer the reader to standard works on Ayurveda for greater details. he Sun's position in the 6th by itself is good. When the Sun is in the house of diseases, joined and aspected by malefics, the native's health will not be good and he will always suffer from one complaint or the other due to excitement or pitta or bile." ~~ B.V. Raman, Three Hundred Important Combinations. (10th ed., Delhi, 1991. Originally published in 1947.) p.281

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  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.

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  "...in order to practice compassion, you should have an enemy." Real compassion extends to each and every sentient being, not just to friends or family or those in terrible situations. To develop the practice of compassion to its fullest extent, one must practice patience. Shantideva tells us that if the practice of patience really moves your mind and brings about a change, you will begin to see your enemies as the best of friends, even as spiritual guides. Enemies provide us some of the best opportunities to practice patience, tolerance, and compassion. Shantideva [in "A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life"] gives us many marvelous examples of this in the form of dialogues between positive and negative aspects of one's own mind. His reflections on compassion and patience have been very useful in my own practice. Read them and your whole soul can be transformed. Here is an example: For a practitioner of love and compassion, an enemy is one of the most important teachers. Without an enemy you cannot practice tolerance, and without tolerance you cannot build a sound basis of compassion. So in order to practice compassion, you should have an enemy. When you face your enemy who is going to hurt you, that is the real time to practice tolerance. Therefore, an enemy is the cause of the practice of tolerance; tolerance is the effect or result of an enemy. So those are cause and effect. As is said, "Once something has the relationship of arising from that thing, one cannot consider that thing from which it arises as a harmer; rather it assists the production of the effect." ~~ H.H. Dalai Lama. (2003). How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life. Jeffrey Hopkins (Trans., Ed.) www.snowlionpub.com

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  "I have simply stopped arguing with reality. ~~ Byron Katie How do I know the wind should blow? It's blowing. How do I know this is the highest order? It's happening. Arguing with 'what is' is like teaching a cat to bark. It's not very fulfilling. I am my friend and no longer confused. The way I know that reality is good is that, when I argue the point, I experience tension, fear and frustration. I lose - not sometimes, but 100% of the time. It just doesn't feel natural inside: no balance, no connection. I want reality to change? Hopeless. Let me change my thinking. Some of us mentally argue with 'what is.' Others of us attempt to control and change 'what is,' and then tell ourselves and others that we actually had something to do with any apparent change that took place. This leaves no connection or room for God in my life. In the peaceful experience of no opposition to God, I remain aware of my nature: clear, vibrant, a friend, a listener. "

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  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 and Renuka Singh. (2002). The Path to Tranquility. www.snowlionpub.com

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  "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 and War, vol. 2, ch. 248 (1948) -- www.gandhiserve.org

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  "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 and War, vol. 1, ch. 256 (1942) www.gandhiserve.org

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  "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." ~~ H. H. Dalai Lama. (2002). The Dalai Lama's Book of Love and Compassion.

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  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

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  I want you. I shall find you.

  I shall take you to bed and have my way with you.

  I will make you ache, shake and sweat till you moan and groan.

  I will make you beg for mercy.

  I will exhaust you and leave you weak for days.

  All my love... ~~ THE FLU .

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  "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, and Dr. Howard C. Cutler, M.D. (1998, 2004). The Art of Happiness at Work , Riverhead Trade Pub.

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  he Twelve Solar Domains ( Bhava, Sthana, Kshetra ) and he Radix Houses
  Tanu Bhava - House 1	Putra Bhava - House 5	Dharma Bhava - House 9
  Dhana Bhava - House 2	Ari Bhava - House 6	Karma Bhava - House 10
  Sahaja Bhava - House 3	Kalatra Bhava - House 7	Labha Bhava - House 11
  Bandhu Bhava - House 4	Randhra Bhava - House 8	Vyaya Bhava - House 12