Ripu
How to read it
- Pending work and a daily routine
- Debt, illness and open competition
- Problems that yield to effort
- Workplace criticism needs care
Ripu bhava is the house of what must be dealt with: service, rivals, loans and the body’s complaints. Mars signifies conflict and the will to finish a task. Saturn is also read for chronic illness and servants. Because the 6th is an upachaya as well as a dusthana, steady work can improve what begins as an obstacle.
In a birth chart this house is counted from the lagna. On today’s rashifal, “Moon in the 6th” is six signs from that rashi. It is not the natal 6th house.
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Questions
6th House
What does the 6th house mean?
Enemies, disease, debt, service and the daily work of solving problems.
Is the 6th house only difficult?
It is a dusthana, so it shows struggle. It is also an upachaya, so effort can turn that struggle into skill.
Who signifies disease in the 6th?
Mars is the natural significator of enemies. Saturn is read for chronic illness and for service. The 6th lord shows how this house works in one chart.