The 6th house · Work and routines
The Moon in your 6th house
Work, health, routines. Two or three days a month.
The sixth house is daily work, health, service, routines, and the maintenance of the body and the systems you live in. It is the house of the things that have to be done whether anyone notices or not.
The Moon in the sixth wants order: the list, the appointment, the inbox, the routine you let slide. Small useful things get done and feel good. It is the stretch for keeping the machine running, and a poor one for big decisions.
Do
Do the maintenance: the inbox, the appointment, the routine you let slide.
Not today
Big decisions.
For a business
How owners use these days
Operations. The process that keeps breaking, the staff routine, the bookkeeping backlog, the health appointment you keep moving. If the business has a checklist, run it now. Decisions about direction wait for the 9th and 10th.
Find yours
Which sign is your 6th house
Whole sign houses: your rising sign is your 1st house and each sign after it is the next. Find your rising sign in the left column; the right column is your 6th house, and the Moon is in it whenever the Moon is in that sign. Each link opens the wheel with your sign chosen.
| Rising sign | Your 6th house | |
|---|---|---|
| ♈︎Aries rising | Moon in Virgo | Is it there now? → |
| ♉︎Taurus rising | Moon in Libra | Is it there now? → |
| ♊︎Gemini rising | Moon in Scorpio | Is it there now? → |
| ♋︎Cancer rising | Moon in Sagittarius | Is it there now? → |
| ♌︎Leo rising | Moon in Capricorn | Is it there now? → |
| ♍︎Virgo rising | Moon in Aquarius | Is it there now? → |
| ♎︎Libra rising | Moon in Pisces | Is it there now? → |
| ♏︎Scorpio rising | Moon in Aries | Is it there now? → |
| ♐︎Sagittarius rising | Moon in Taurus | Is it there now? → |
| ♑︎Capricorn rising | Moon in Gemini | Is it there now? → |
| ♒︎Aquarius rising | Moon in Cancer | Is it there now? → |
| ♓︎Pisces rising | Moon in Leo | Is it there now? → |
The meanings follow the classical lists: Vettius Valens, Anthologies (2nd century), and Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis (4th century), as summarised in Chris Brennan, Hellenistic Astrology (2017). Whole sign houses are the oldest house system: the rising sign is the 1st house and each following sign is the next house.