चंद्र · Ripu Bhava · Apoklima · Dusthana · Upachaya
Moon in the 6th house
The Moon in the sixth is a delicate placement: the mind in the house of disease, debt and enemies. It gives sensitivity to health and a tendency to worry, but also genuine capacity for service and healing. Many good doctors and carers have this. Enemies tend to be women or to come through emotional entanglement.
What it gives
- •Real capacity for service and care
- •Health-aware; good at routine
- •Understands others’ suffering
What to watch
- •Anxiety and psychosomatic complaints
- •Digestive and chest sensitivity
- •Debt; entanglement with opponents
Where Moon actually is today
Computed at sunrise for the reference place. A planet sits in a given house for exactly one ascendant at a time — the sign it occupies is the 6th house of only one lagna.
Moon right now
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Who has Moon in the 6th today
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It depends on your ascendant
The same placement reads differently from each of the twelve ascendants, because the 6th house is a different sign for each — and Moon is exalted in one sign and debilitated in another. This table is computed from the classical rulership and dignity tables, not written by hand.
| Ascendant | 6th house sign | Sign lord | Moon’s dignity | Moon rules |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aries | Virgo | Mercury | Friend’s sign | 4th |
| Taurus | Libra | Venus | Neutral | 3rd |
| Gemini | Scorpio | Mars | Debilitated | 2nd |
| Cancer | Sagittarius | Jupiter | Neutral | 1st |
| Leo | Capricorn | Saturn | Neutral | 12th |
| Virgo | Aquarius | Saturn | Neutral | 11th |
| Libra | Pisces | Jupiter | Neutral | 10th |
| Scorpio | Aries | Mars | Neutral | 9th |
| Sagittarius | Taurus | Venus | Exalted | 8th |
| Capricorn | Gemini | Mercury | Friend’s sign | 7th |
| Aquarius | Cancer | Moon(own house) | Own sign | 6th |
| Pisces | Leo | Sun | Friend’s sign | 5th |
Strongest from Sagittarius — Moon is exalted in Taurus. Weakest from Gemini, where it falls in Scorpio.
What it aspects from here
From the 6th house, Moon aspects the 12th houses. Every planet aspects the 7th house from itself; this planet has no special aspects. An aspect carries the planet's nature into those houses, so a placement is never confined to the house it sits in.
The 6th house
The sixth is a dusthana and an upachaya at once — a house of difficulty that rewards those who work at it. It rules enemies, debts, disease and daily service. Malefics here often help: they fight what the house signifies. Benefics can suffer, because there is little for them to protect.
Karaka: Mars, Saturn · Signifies: enemies, competition and litigation; debt and obligations; disease and daily health; service, employees and routine work
Moon as a planet
Chandra is the manokaraka — the mind. He rules the mother, the emotions, memory, the public and everything that fluctuates. His nature is variable by definition: waxing he is a full benefic, waning a malefic. Because he moves fastest of all, the Moon is the most sensitive indicator in the chart and the basis of the rashi system.
Nature: Variable · Karaka of: the mind, the mother and emotional life · Day: Monday
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FAQ
Moon in the 6th house — common questions
What does Moon in the 6th house mean?
The Moon in the sixth is a delicate placement: the mind in the house of disease, debt and enemies. It gives sensitivity to health and a tendency to worry, but also genuine capacity for service and healing. Many good doctors and carers have this. Enemies tend to be women or to come through emotional entanglement. The 6th house (Ripu Bhava) rules enemies, competition and litigation, debt and obligations, disease and daily health, and Moon is the karaka of the mind, the mother and emotional life. Classically it is a apoklima, dusthana, upachaya house, which shapes how a variable planet behaves there.
Is Moon in the 6th house good or bad?
It depends on the ascendant, and this is where most articles stop. From an Sagittarius ascendant the 6th house is Taurus, where Moon is exalted. From Gemini it is Scorpio, where Moon is debilitated. The table on this page gives the dignity and rulership for all twelve ascendants.
Which houses does Moon aspect from the 6th house?
The 12th houses. Every planet aspects the 7th house from itself; this planet has no special aspects.
Which ascendant has Moon in the 6th house right now?
Exactly one at any moment: the sign Moon currently occupies is the 6th house of a single ascendant. The card on this page computes it from today's ephemeris and says when Moon moves on. In a birth chart, though, what matters is where Moon stood at your birth — the free kundli calculator gives that.
Does Moon in the 6th house affect marriage?
Not directly. Marriage is read from the 7th house, its lord, Venus and the Navamsa. A 6th-house placement matters only through the houses Moon rules and aspects from there — which this page's table sets out per ascendant.