BPHS Ch.24 — 6th Lord in Houses 1–3: Diseased + Honorable + Atma Satru (1H), Famous in Lineage + Lives Abroad (2H) & Angry Paradox + Enmity with Brothers (3H)

6th Lord in the First, Second and Third Houses

6th Lord in the 1st House

Parāśara's results:

• Rogavān — diseased
• Kīrti-saṁyuta — famous
• Ātma-śatru — enemy of his own people, or of himself
• Dhanī — wealthy (the teacher translates it and gives no derivation)
• Mānī — honourable
• Sāhasī — brave, adventurous
• Guṇavān — of good qualities, virtuous

Diseased (rogavān):

• The 6th is a dusthāna. Its job is to give obstacles and disease. Its lord sits in lagna, the body. Health is not good.

Famous (kīrti) — from the 5th house of following and fame:

• The 6th lord is the 2nd lord in the 9th from the 5th.
• 2nd = resources, the house that feeds. 9th = fortune. From lagna this combination makes one rich; from the 5th it makes one rich in fame. "The fame of the person derives from abundant resources."
• A student objects: the 2nd lord is also a māraka, so he can hamper the fame. The teacher agrees it is possible and depends on strength, context and the relation with the 5th lord. Parāśara is giving the good variation here.

Enemy of himself or of his own people (ātma-śatru) — two readings:

• Himself: the lord of obstacles sits in lagna, the self. He acts with fire and energy and ends up hurting himself without realising it.
• His own people — from the 2nd house of family and close kin (the 7th is all people, not his own): the 6th lord is the 5th lord in the 12th from the 2nd. The 5th lord shows the family's emotional stability and state of mind; the 12th is loss.
• "It is not so much that he fights with his family, but he creates situations where his family is at a loss." He robs his own family of its emotional happiness.

Honourable (mānī) — from the 10th house:

• The 5th shows people liking and following you. The 10th shows the status and respect that come from your work, whether people like you or not.
• From the 10th, the 6th lord is the 9th lord of bhāgya in the 4th, a kendra, with argala on the 10th. The strongest trine lord in a quadrant, influencing the 10th.
• He does a lot of good work and has good standing in society because of it.

Brave (sāhasī) — from the 3rd house:

• From the 3rd he is the 4th lord in the 11th, and has argala on the 3rd.
• The 6th is the house of fighting and overcoming obstacles. One upachaya lord has argala on another upachaya; this planet merges the 6th and the 3rd.
• "It is almost like somebody who has the wherewithal to fight for you giving you encouragement." Not foolish bravery; bravery with the ability to follow up.

Virtuous (guṇavān) — from the 9th house of dharma:

• The 6th lord is the 10th lord in the 5th from the 9th — a quadrant lord in a trine — with argala on the 9th.
• As with the 10th, this planet makes the 9th prosper. He is dharmic and does good karma.

The lesson of this verse:

• People assume a dusthāna lord in lagna is bad. Parāśara gives only two bad results here — rogī and ātma-śatru. The rest are good.

"What is good for 10th house need not be good for lagna. What is good for 9th house need not be good for lagna. What is bad for lagna need not be bad for 5th house or 9th house."

• Do not say "8th lord, he is bad for you". He is some other lord for some other house — the 8th lord is the 11th lord from the 10th. Judge a planet's effect on each house from that house. Lagna is the standard reference because it shows the body, but the body is not the only thing you want to know about.

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6th Lord in the 2nd House

Parāśara's results:

• Sāhasī — brave
• Kula-viśruta — well heard of in his kula (lineage, family, his circles)
• Paradeśī — one who lives abroad
• Sukhī — happy, comfortable
• Vaktā — a speaker
• Svakarma-nirataḥ sadā — always engaged in his own work

Brave (sāhasī) — "this is a weird one":

• The 2nd is the 12th from the 3rd. From the 3rd, this is the 4th lord in the 12th — a bad combination; he has to give up. Do not expect much initiative from this planet.
• But from the 6th house of overcoming enemies, he is the lagna lord in the 9th — "terrific". The lord is in the best trine and protects that house.
• So this is not a man of great initiative. It is a man who, once he takes something up, fights every obstacle to the finish and destroys his enemies. Strong in executing, not in initiating.

Famous in the family (kula-viśruta):

• From the 2nd house of family, he is the 5th lord of fame in lagna. The 5th lord in lagna makes one famous; the reference is the 2nd, so the fame is within the family. "Maybe the rest of the world doesn't think so, but for his family he is a famous person."
• Other readings the class allows: famous for his wealth, or — a student's point — famous for his speech.

Lives abroad (paradeśī):

• The 9th and 12th show foreign residence. The 6th lord in the 2nd does not aspect the 12th. The only logic the teacher finds: from the 12th house of residence abroad, he is the 7th lord in the 3rd.
• 7th (desire) and 3rd (initiative) are both kāma trikoṇas. Whenever the kāma trikoṇas from a house are connected — 7th lord in 3rd, 7th lord in 11th, 11th lord in 3rd — there is a strong desire for the matter of that house.
• So he strongly wants to live far from where he was born and takes initiative toward it. Whether he actually goes depends on Rāhu, the 9th lord, the 12th lord. The teacher reads paradeśī here as "interested in going abroad", not "certainly living abroad".

Happy (sukhī):

• From the 4th house, he is the 3rd lord in the 11th, with argala on the 4th. Initiative in the house of gains and fulfilment.
• He pursues 4th-house things — a good car, a good fridge, a good TV — and gets them. Here sukhī is better read as "one who gains many comforts and luxuries".

Speaker (vaktā):

• From the 2nd house of speech, a trine lord (the 5th lord) sits in the house itself. The 5th is ability; he has skill in speech.

Engaged in his own work (svakarma-nirata):

• He does not interfere in other people's work, and does his own sincerely.
• From the 10th, he is the 9th lord in the 5th — one dharma-trikoṇa lord in another dharma trikoṇa — with argala on the 10th.
• The argala on the 10th gives honour through work, as it did for the 6th lord in lagna. In addition there is dharma in the work: a sense of proportion, of right and wrong. "You can put it as somebody with good work ethics."

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6th Lord in the 3rd House

Parāśara's results:

• Krodhī — angry
• Vikrama-varjita — without courage
• Bhrātā śatru-samaḥ — the brother is like an enemy
• Bhṛtyaś cottara-dāyakaḥ — the servant answers back

Angry (krodhī):

• The 6th is fighting and overcoming obstacles; the 3rd is initiative. One dusthāna lord is in another dusthāna, and both are fiery. He is a go-getter who can fight.

"I will translate this krodhī not just as angry, but somebody with a fire in the belly."

• When the fire is not contained, it comes out as short temper.

No courage (vikrama-varjita) — the paradoxical result. Two ways to see it:

• From lagna: any house where the 6th or 8th lord sits is damaged. The 6th lord gives obstacles in the matters of the house he occupies — here the ears, communication, the brother, determination. He has trouble motivating himself.
• Bhāvāt bhāvam, from the 3rd: this is the 4th lord in lagna. Normally that is good — the lord of sukha in lagna, you are content. But the 3rd is the house of fire and initiative, not of contentment.

"It's basically like you are pouring some water in the house of fire, so the fire is extinguished."

• He is not a great fighter. He has to fight his own tendency to be contented before he can fight anything else.

Enmity with the brother:

• This is a result about the native, not about the brother — nothing is being said of the brother's success or dharma. So lagna stays the reference.
• The 6th lord's agenda is enmity; he sits in the 3rd of brothers. The native has enmity with his siblings.

The servant answers back (bhṛtyaś cottara-dāyakaḥ):

• The servant says "no, I think it is better if I do it like this". A disobedient servant.
• A student's logic, accepted: the 3rd is the 12th from the 4th, so there is loss of peace of mind on account of servants.
• The teacher's logic: the native has to show 3rd-house initiative and fire in dealing with servants. That should not be needed — you tell a servant, he does it. If you need fire to deal with him, he is giving you trouble.
• From the 6th house (servants) as lagna: the lagna lord is in the 10th. The lagna lord is intelligence; the 10th is work. Such a person applies his intelligence to his work and asks "what should I do?" From lagna that would be good. Here it describes the servants.

"The servants are actually thinking logically before they do things, but you don't want them to think. That is why there is a problem."

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