The 6th Lord in the 10th House

The 6th lord in the 10th house is the ruler of the 6th, the Ari / Shatru Bhava, placed in the 10th, the Karma Bhava. The 6th is a dusthana and an upachaya and the 10th a kendra and an upachaya. Which graha that lord is depends on the ascendant, so the table below answers for all twelve.

Counted from the 6th, the 10th is the 5th house, which from any house is a trikona position; counted back from the 10th, the 6th is the 9th, a trikona position from it.

On the Parashari reading, in which a lord carries its house’s matters to wherever it sits, the 6th lord in the 10th reads the 6th’s matters — debts and loans, service and routine, and enemies — through the 10th’s: career and profession, public reputation, authority, and achievements. For the 6th lord in the 10th 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 6th Lord in the 10th, Ascendant by Ascendant

Across the twelve ascendants the 6th lord in the 10th is exalted for Libra, in a friend's sign for Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn and Pisces, in a neutral sign for Aries and debilitated for Sagittarius and Aquarius. The Sun and the Moon rule one sign each, so for Aquarius and Pisces, where one of them is the 6th lord, it rules no other house; for the other ten the last column gives the second house the 6th lord brings with it to the 10th.

The Reverse: the 10th Lord in the 6th

Where the 10th lord sits in the 6th in the same chart as the 6th lord in the 10th, each lord occupies the other’s sign, an exchange the texts call parivartana. For all twelve ascendants the 6th and the 10th have different lords, so the exchange is possible whatever the ascendant.

Related

The 6th lord in each of the twelve houses is on the 6th lord page; the houses themselves on the 6th house and the 10th house. For the method, see the 12 houses guide and our 10th house article.