The 6th Lord in the 4th House

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

Counted from the 6th, the 4th is the 11th house, which from any house is an upachaya position; counted back from the 4th, the 6th is the 3rd, an upachaya 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 4th reads the 6th’s matters — debts and loans, service and routine, and enemies — through the 4th’s: mother's influence, home and property, inner contentment, and vehicles. For the 6th lord in the 4th 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 4th, Ascendant by Ascendant

Across the twelve ascendants the 6th lord in the 4th is exalted for Sagittarius and Aquarius, in a neutral sign for Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn and Pisces, in an enemy's sign for Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer and Leo and debilitated for Libra. 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 4th.

The Reverse: the 4th Lord in the 6th

Where the 4th lord sits in the 6th in the same chart as the 6th lord in the 4th, each lord occupies the other’s sign, an exchange the texts call parivartana. For all twelve ascendants the 6th and the 4th 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 4th house. For the method, see the 12 houses guide and our 4th house article.