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General:

This paper is written in order to bring forth the awareness on some important practical aspects of dusthanas and to understand the implications indicated by these houses in a chart. An effort is made to present the relevance of dusthana from the simplest approach.

The elaboration of dusthanas and its judgment methodology is being done in separate papers planned to be published one after the other with a few example cases in the last paper. This is to maintain brevity of the contents in each paper.

Sage Parashara has categorized the trio of 6-8-12^th houses as The Dusthanas or Trika Houses. He, as well as the subsequent writers recognised dusthanas in a chart as the malefic houses in principle and the remaining as the benefic/neutral houses. Thus the demarcation of evil and good houses in a chart emerged.

Whatever said and done, each house in a chart has both the good and bad portfolios attached to it and in the same spirit, even dusthanas have a lot of usefulness. Since, dusthanas are said to hold more of malefic traits rather than the benefic ones, the ancient scriptures have considered them as malefic to the native in general.

The 6^th House:

The 6^th house offers an interesting study.

Classically, the 6^th house is said to indicate the misfortunes, struggle, enemies, debt, disease, sufferings and opposition. It also indicates the working environment, disappointments, dissatisfaction, humiliation, subordinates, servants, litigation, theft, maternal uncles and pet animals. To add more on the list, it also indicates worries, anxieties, anger, cruelty, the mindset or habits more of vicious nature which are necessary to pull down others, fear from calamities, anguish of mind, step mother and wounds. The wounds represented by this house may be understood to be due to injuries, during fighting or wounds received through surgical treatments.

From the point of view of prarabdha karmas, which a native brings with him in the present birth, the 6^th house brings with it the poison of negativities and the compulsions that caused the birth just like the 5^th house that brings punyas in the form of blessings out of the sanchit karmas of the past births.

The 6^th house represents shadripus – the six enemies or the six weaknesses, which the prarabdha brings with it, involving five senses and mind.

It would be interesting to note that the 5^th house receives the argala from the 6^th house and this is where, the 6^th house representing our weaknesses overtakes the fructification of poorva-punya (5^th house), thus dictating the poorva-punyas to discharge their roles under the shade of the shadripus (6^th house). Thus, it may be said that the 6^th house dictates in dispensing the results of the 5^th house.

Perhaps, because of this account, the realized people of past generations were very conscious to devote much time in remedial measures through vrata and tapas to cleanup the past sins (6^th house) in order to dispense the quota of blessings (5^th house).

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This is the house, which indicates our visible enemies, debts and disease contents. In principle, the sufferings/frustration of any nature take starting kick from the 6^th house only. As an example, for cancer lagna natives, if Jupiter gets placed in exaltation in lagna, it would cause miserable sufferings (because of being 6^th lord in strength in lagna) and would surface a lot of frustration in ceremonising the event of marriage, primarily because of Jupiter as 6^th lord powerfully aspecting the 7^th house.

This is the only dusthana out of 6-8-12^th houses, which shares the portfolio of being an upachayasthana as indicated by Sage Parashara. The upachaya houses are designated as the houses of growth and progress where free will is likely to be exercised. For a ready reference, the 3-6-10-11^th houses constitute the upachayas. 3^rd house indicates efforts, 6^th indicate material gains at the cost of others, 10^th is the actual doing and 11^th is the fruits of efforts reaped as the dividend of the 10^th house.

It is paradoxical that although the upachaya is meant for the growth and progress, the 6^th house has yet not been admitted as a benefic house but is considered to be an evil house in its entirety, perhaps from holistic karmic angle. Let it be seen in some details.

The 6^th house is the house of growth but of materialistic nature. If we want to grab other’s cash and kind or other’s credit, this is the house par excellence. This goes with the simple logic that any thing gained (6^th house) is at the cost of loss caused to whomsoever we interact (7^th house). The placement of benefics in the 6^th house is considered good as it softens the sufferings, softens the way of approach and makes life holistic whereas the malefic influence on this house makes the situation reverse by resorting to the aggressive ways the native follows to receive gains, though inviting the wrath of mighty opposition as well.

In totality, the 6^th house adds a lot of malicious kriyaman karmas, if it is under malefic influence.

Since, the kriyaman karmas done in this birth add to the already existing sanchit karmas of the past births, the gains obtained through 6^th house under malefic influence particularly cause negativities on the karmic profile and with this intent, perhaps, the 6^th house has been branded as the evil house in general, even though it is an upachayasthana.

The 6^th house happens to be one of the Artha-Trikona (2-6-10), hence this house becomes instrumental to control the financial prospects for the native. This seems to be justified from the fact that the 6^th house is 10^th from 9^th house from where the destiny of Karma is ruled by this house as well as being 9^th from the 10^th house ruling the luck of the profession. The 6^th house being the 5^th of the 2^nd house indicates the wisdom of earning and receiving the gifts etc. In all pursuits, the 6^th house happens to be an important house to deal with the material status of the native and thus gets justified to be the upachayasthana indicating the growth and progress in the material pursuits.

The 6^th house indicates the competitive environment as its most important portfolio and it therefore indicates the progress through the process of competition and rivalry. There, it means that the success in competitions whether be it for exams, admission, race for promotion, litigation or any facet of similar nature require the strong 6^th house as a must for ascending the road of success. It is because of this virtue that the 6^th house may be considered as a benefic house for the present day world, which is full of desires of competition in all walks of life.

It may be pertinent to mention here that the ancient living ordeal did not want much materialism to come in the way of the life pattern of the self realization and of highest virtues. Since the materialism was obviously the hurdle for the pious attributes of the ancient living, this was perhaps the good reason for considering the 6^th house as an evil house in its general definition. However, in the present scenario of today’s age, blessed are the ones who have strong the 6^th house to win over the others and become financially sound at the cost of others. Would you now consider the 6^th house good or bad?

One of the important portfolios ruled by the 6^th house is the support from relatives particularly the maternal sided relations. It would be worthwhile to note that if the 6^th house is well disposed from Lagna, the dasha periods of 6^th lord bring in the role of some relative or a friend to help the native at the time of need. Similarly, a relative or a friend may spoil the credits of the native in the similar periods if the 6^th house is badly disposed or the 6th and Lagna lords are placed in mutual hostility.

In conformance of the benefic nature of the 6^th house, we may be reminded of the Quote from Uttarakalamrita, Chapter 4, shloka 4 that The raja yoga of the decreasing order gets manifested to the native by the conjunction of the lords of 9^th and 10^th house as seen from Lagna, 9^th house and 10^th

ASTROVISION ISSUE # 4 APRIL 2008 house which mean the conjunction of the Lords of 9-10^th, 5-6^th and 6-7^th houses from lagna. This also amply establishes that the 6^th house has a lot of benefic attributes and may do well to the native, of course from materialistic angle.

The 6^th house is said to represent subordination, indicating the subordination, which the native is subjected to and the quality of subordinates the native has. In a parallel meaning, the servants/maids are represented by the 6^th house. The meaning of subordination may be extended to mean the service (paid salaried job) being either of the government (where the native is generally called as a government servant) or that of the private sector. In this context, the 6th house taints the service conditions and a strong 6^th house in good relation with the Lagna makes a native comfortable in the job.

On the negative side, the 6^th house in the conventional way is the house of harm from the opponents and indicates fight and rivalry where the native could be let down. In this way, strong malefics in the 6^th house cause strong enemies and strong opposition causing harm to the native. As an example, Pramod Mahajan (Gemini lagna) had strong Mars in his 6^th house and his rivalry surfaced by his own younger brother (Mars being the karaka of the younger co-born) and caused a disaster of his death by shooting (a perfect way that Mars operates).

Since, 6^th house mobilizes the six weaknesses (shadripus) within the native, it is sufficient to cause dis-ease to the physical self, causing disease and suffering. It may be interesting to note that all disease and sufferings originate from the 6^th house and unless a planet gets linked with the 6^th house/lord, it does not cause disease.

An important facet of the 6^th house is raising funds through loan. This attribute of loan may be generalized to mean the financial commitment born by the native himself or it could be carried forward through the parental lineage. Thus, any financial loan raised for any purpose necessarily involve the 6^th house completing the signification of debts indicated by the 6^th house. The native who have the linkage of 6^th house with the 11^th house and 2^nd house have strong tendencies to bury themselves in the voluntary financial debts caused by multiple loans raised from various financial institutions.

Medically, the 6^th house stands for the diseases and its recovery in general, represents the umbilical region, disorders pertaining to respiration and phlegm, tuberculosis, tumorus growth, skin disorders involving rashes such as measles-small pox etc, disorders of eyes, intestinal disorders such as the complaints of hernia, urinary ailment and dysentery. It also represents the six flavours as advocated in Ayurveda.

The 6^th house stands as the 8th from 11^th house and 12^th from 7^th house. In accordance to it, the 6^th house thereby indicates the difficulties in material gains and problem to the zone of marital life respectively.

The 6^th house when gets weak and gets linked with the malefics or with the other Dusthanas (8^th and 12^th house) make a real havoc and most of its negative qualities get surfaced.

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The author hails from the Electronics and Communication Engineering background. He has been engaged in the Research and Development wing of the Telecom. Industries throughout his career and is presently heading a senior managerial position at The Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT), Bangalore.

He has been a student of astrology on his own since 1978 and has formally qualified Jyotish Visharad in 1998 from the Bangalore Chapter of ICAS. Apart from his acumen in parasharic and jaimini System of astrology, the author has special interest in the krishnamurthi paddhati (KP). The author is pursuing the teaching of astrology as a senior faculty member at ICAS, Bangalore.

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