6th House - 12th House
The Sixth House affects the individual's health, service to others and work through choices under his or her own control; whereas the twelfth inhibits and represses as a result of others' reactions to him or her.
The Sixth House has signification over employees, servants and slaves; tenants; agricultural labourers, farmers, shepherds and hogherds; farmed animals such as sheep, goats, hogs and cattle (except oxen), and the profit or loss that they bring; rabbits and hares; health, and especially illness, disease, and physical infirmity and defects; uncles and aunts (especially on one's father's side); overwork and toil; ill-fortune; loss of property; misery and bane; enmity; the colour black; and the lower part of the abdomen, including the intestines and kidneys.
The Sixth also signifies clothing; food and diet; hygiene and sanitation; domestic pets; other small animals; comforts; the capacity to serve personally, in routine and unobtrusive ways; the nature of those in one's own service; duties, practical responsibilities, mundane chores and tasks; daily work; employment in general; and mental conflicts resulting from the externalisation of the ego, leading often to mental illness or physical disease.
The Twelfth House has signification over large cattle such as oxen; horses, elephants, and other exceptionally large animals; (private) enemies; witches; tribulation, affliction and misfortune; prison, and imprisonment; bail; servants and slaves; fines, and debt; fear and anxieties; self-undoing; toil; sorrow, misery, bane and adversity; danger; illnesses, disease, infirmities and defects; death; foreign countries; exile; those who maliciously undermine or secretly inform on their neighbours; harbours; the colour green; and the feet.
The Twelfth also signifies secret feelings and aspirations; sins, and negligence, that haunt one's conscience; karmic liabilities; atonement for errors through compassionate self-sacrifice and charity; character defects seeming to necessitate a spiritual rebirth; repressions; deceptions and treachery; neuroses, and psychogenic illnesses; hidden and underhanded opposition, and behind-the-scenes manoeuverings; hospitals and hospitalisation; asylums; institutions; work in seclusion or behind the scenes; the inclination to think at variance with or change society and national consciousness; the attainment of ultimate understanding; occultism; meditation; inner self-development; uncles and aunts on one's mother's side; and position in the afterlife.
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01.10.2006.