The 4th Lord in the 6th House

The 4th lord in the 6th house is the ruler of the 4th, the Sukha Bhava, placed in the 6th, the Ari / Shatru Bhava. The 4th is a kendra and the 6th a dusthana and an upachaya. Which graha that lord is depends on the ascendant, so the table below answers for all twelve.

Counted from the 4th, the 6th is the 3rd house, which from any house is an upachaya position; counted back from the 6th, the 4th is the 11th, an upachaya position from it.

On the Parashari reading, in which a lord carries its house’s matters to wherever it sits, the 4th lord in the 6th reads the 4th’s matters — mother's influence, home and property, inner contentment, and vehicles — through the 6th’s: debts and loans, service and routine, and enemies. For the 4th lord in the 6th that is a frame, not a forecast; what it comes to depends on the graha, its dignity below, and the rest of the chart.

The 4th Lord in the 6th, Ascendant by Ascendant

Across the twelve ascendants the 4th lord in the 6th is exalted for Leo, in a friend's sign for Aries and Pisces, in a neutral sign for Gemini, Cancer, Virgo and Libra, in an enemy's sign for Sagittarius, Capricorn and Aquarius and debilitated for Taurus and Scorpio. The Sun and the Moon rule one sign each, so for Aries and Taurus, where one of them is the 4th lord, it rules no other house; for the other ten the last column gives the second house the 4th lord brings with it to the 6th.

For Leo ascendant (Mars, ruling the 4th and 9th), Libra ascendant (Saturn, ruling the 4th and 5th) and Aquarius ascendant (Venus, ruling the 4th and 9th), the 4th lord rules both a kendra and a trikona other than the 1st, and in the 6th it is exalted for Leo, in a neutral sign for Libra and in an enemy's sign for Aquarius.

The Reverse: the 6th Lord in the 4th

Where the 6th lord sits in the 4th in the same chart as the 4th lord in the 6th, each lord occupies the other’s sign, an exchange the texts call parivartana. For all twelve ascendants the 4th and the 6th have different lords, so the exchange is possible whatever the ascendant.

Related

The 4th lord in each of the twelve houses is on the 4th lord page; the houses themselves on the 4th house and the 6th house. For the method, see the 12 houses guide and our 4th house article.