Latin name: Valetudo (Health).
Greek name: Bad Fortune (Κακη Τυχη — Kakē Tuchē).
Arabic name: House of Illness (بيت السقم — Bayt as-Saqam).
House type: cadent (decline).
House of ‘Joy’: for the figures of F Mars (Puer, Rubeus).
House of ‘Sorrow’: for the figures of L Saturn (Carcer, Tristitia).
Mundane Planetary Ruler: B Mercury.
Direction: north-west.
Quotes on the Sixth House
Because it (the sixth house) lies beneath the Earth, it signifies “hidden wars”, that is, illnesses and deformities.
A planet in the sixth house is like a weak man who runs away.
The sixth house does signify infirmities and sickness, chiefly afflicting these: servants and maids. By the same house we may also judge all that shall happen before old age or the end of life; also changings and removings from place to place. And all small beasts and cattle are signified. And it rules the inferior part of the belly. The joy of F Mars.
The sixth house has signification of servants, day-labourers, and of the lesser sort of cattle, such as sheep, hogs, goats, hares, coneys, etc. It signifies the nature and qualities of sicknesses, shepherds, warreners, and such as look after small cattle. It signifies uncles, or the brothers and sisters of the querent’s father. It rules the belly and the inferior parts, etc.
It concerns men and maid-servants, galley-slaves, hogs, sheep, goats, hares, coneys, all manner of lesser cattle, and thereby sickness: its quality and cause, the principal humor offending, whether curable or not curable, whether the disease be short or long; day-labourers, tenants, farmers, shepherds, hogherds, neatherds, warreners; and it signifies uncles, or the father’s brothers and sisters. It rules the inferior part of the belly and the intestines even to the arse: this house is a feminine and cadent house, unfortunate, as having no aspect to the ascendant… F Mars rejoices in this house… We usually find that F Mars and C Venus in conjunction in this house are arguments of a good physician.
