The 6th Lord in the 2nd House

The 6th lord in the 2nd house is the ruler of the 6th, the Ari / Shatru Bhava, placed in the 2nd, the Dhana Bhava. The 6th is a dusthana and an upachaya and the 2nd in none of them. Which graha that lord is depends on the ascendant, so the table below answers for all twelve.

Counted from the 6th, the 2nd is the 9th house, which from any house is a trikona position; counted back from the 2nd, the 6th is the 5th, 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 2nd reads the 6th’s matters — debts and loans, service and routine, and enemies — through the 2nd’s: savings and wealth, family of origin, speech and voice, and values. For the 6th lord in the 2nd 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 2nd, Ascendant by Ascendant

Across the twelve ascendants the 6th lord in the 2nd is exalted for Virgo and Pisces, in a friend's sign for Aries, Taurus, Cancer, Leo, Libra, Scorpio and Sagittarius, in a neutral sign for Capricorn and Aquarius and debilitated for Gemini. 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 2nd.

The Reverse: the 2nd Lord in the 6th

Where the 2nd lord sits in the 6th in the same chart as the 6th lord in the 2nd, each lord occupies the other’s sign, an exchange the texts call parivartana. For all twelve ascendants the 6th and the 2nd 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 2nd house. For the method, see the 12 houses guide and astrology for beginners.