Aries in the Sixth House

House

Sixth House — Work, routine and health

Sign on the cusp

Aries

Ruler to follow

Mars

House type

Cadent

Opposite cusp

Libra on the Twelfth

When Aries sits on the cusp of your sixth house, this whole area of life takes on Aries's manner. The sixth house is ordinary time: the job rather than the career, daily habits, diet, illness and recovery, pets, and the people you work alongside.

The sixth house naturally belongs to Virgo, so having Aries here tilts it: the daily grind and the body's upkeep handled directly, quickly, and without waiting for permission rather than in Virgo's way.

What it looks like

How do I work, and how do I keep myself well? With Aries here, you answer it directly, quickly, and without waiting for permission. The strengths of the sign land squarely in this department:

• Starts things other people only discuss
• Courage that arrives before the fear does
• Says the direct thing when everyone else is hedging

At its best, this corner of your life is decisive, brave, refreshingly unpretentious.

Follow the ruler

This is the step most people skip. Aries is ruled by Mars, so the condition of your sixth house depends on where Mars sits in your chart — its sign, its house, and the aspects it makes. A Aries sixth cusp with Mars in the tenth reads very differently from the same cusp with Mars in the twelfth.

Get your birth chart report and find Mars — then read the sixth house with that placement in mind.

Where it strains

Under pressure Aries goes reactive, blunt, impatient with anything slow, and here that shows up specifically in routine, service, health.

• Boredom once the beginning is over
• Heat that spends itself before the finish
• Reads patience as defeat

The axis it belongs to

Every house cusp has an opposite. With Aries on the sixth, Libra sits on your twelfth house. The two work as a pair: what you do in one, you balance in the other.