Budh in the 6th House
Mercury in the 6th house, by Phaladeepika and Lal Kitab
What Budh gives in the 6th house by Lal Kitab and by Phaladeepika, its upay, the houses it looks at from there, and what it means for each lagna.
Mercury in the 6th house is exalted in Lal Kitab. It makes a self-made person who gains through intellect, trade, writing, printing or land, and whose words carry weight; lawsuits tend to go their way. A north-facing home and greed weaken it.
Lal Kitab reads Budh in the 6th house by the house, not by your lagna; Parashara’s view for your own lagna is further down, and Phaladeepika and Brihat Jataka may differ. How Lal Kitab and Parashara differ · Lal Kitab: pakka ghar, rin and upay
Lal Kitab upay
Bury a bottle of Ganga water in agricultural land. The spouse (the text says the wife) should wear a silver ring on the left hand. Begin important work in the presence of a daughter or a young girl, or with flowers in hand.
This is Lal Kitab’s one upay for Budh in the 6th house, to keep its good results strong; it is a suggestion, and your whole kundli may call for another. All upay for Budh
What Phaladeepika says
Mantreswara, Adhyaya 8, sloka 12Phaladeepika 8.12 holds that Budh (Mercury) in the 6th house (the house of enemies and disputes) makes a person quick to anger in quarrels, harsh in speech and idle. The text adds that such a person breaks the power of their enemies.
How much of this holds turns on the rest of the chart: the rashi Budh sits in, the 6th house’s lord and the grahas with it or looking at it. The old texts speak of a man; their readings apply to anyone.
What Brihat Jataka says
Varahamihira, sloka 20.6BJ 20.6: Budh in the 6th gives freedom from enemies.
When Budh in the 6th house shows, and where it looks
Its results show most in Budh’s own mahadasha (17 years) and in its antardashas inside the others. The 6th house’s matters also come forward in the periods of the house’s lord, which depends on your lagna.
Its drishti (a graha’s glance: the houses it looks at feel its influence) from the 6th, by the rules our kundli reading weighs houses with:
- on your 12th house (expenses): is counted neither way in our reading
The 6th house, Ripu bhava, rules illness, debt, rivals, service and daily work; it is a dusthana (the 6th, 8th and 12th houses, the hard houses of illness, sudden events and loss) and an upachaya (the 3rd, 6th, 10th and 11th houses, which grow better with time and effort); its karaka (the graha that naturally signifies a house’s matters, whatever the lagna) is Mangal, Shani. The 6th house, and every graha in it
Budh in the 6th house, for each lagna
the rashi it sits in, and the houses it rules| Lagna | Budh sits in | Its state there | Lord of your | For this lagna |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mesh (Aries) | Kanya (Virgo) | Exalted | 3rd and 6th | Malefic |
| Vrishabh (Taurus) | Tula (Libra) | Friendly | 2nd and 5th | Mildly malefic— lord of the 2nd and 5th, which the verse calls 'somewhat inauspicious' (34.23) and does not name among the killers |
| Mithun (Gemini) | Vrishchik (Scorpio) | Neutral | 1st and 4th | Lagna lord— the lagna lord, which the verse leaves unjudged: 34.25 names only Shukra auspicious for Mithun |
| Kark (Cancer) | Dhanu (Sagittarius) | Neutral | 3rd and 12th | Malefic |
| Singh (Leo) | Makar (Capricorn) | Neutral | 2nd and 11th | Malefic— lord of the 2nd, but the killers the verse names for this lagna are Shani and Chandra (34.29–30) |
| Kanya (Virgo) | Kumbh (Aquarius) | Neutral | 1st and 10th | Benefic · Yoga— gives yoga together with Shukra (34.32) |
| Tula (Libra) | Meen (Pisces) | Debilitated | 9th and 12th | Benefic · Yoga— gives yoga together with Chandra (34.34) |
| Vrishchik (Scorpio) | Mesh (Aries) | Neutral | 8th and 11th | Malefic |
| Dhanu (Sagittarius) | Vrishabh (Taurus) | Friendly | 7th and 10th | Benefic · Yoga— gives yoga together with Surya (34.38)— lord of the 7th, but the killers the verse names for this lagna are Shani and Shukra (34.37–38) |
| Makar (Capricorn) | Mithun (Gemini) | Own rashi | 6th and 9th | Benefic |
| Kumbh (Aquarius) | Kark (Cancer) | Enemy | 5th and 8th | Neutral— gives mixed results (34.42) |
| Meen (Pisces) | Singh (Leo) | Friendly | 4th and 7th | Malefic · Maraka |
The 6th is a dusthana, one of the hard houses. Where the table calls Budh a yogakaraka (the graha that brings yoga, success and standing, to a lagna: the best it can have) or a benefic for a lagna, sitting here it gives less than its lordship promises.
Budh’s state in each rashi, and the houses it rules for each lagna, as our free kundli reads them (BPHS chapter 34); each house links to what Parashara says of its lord sitting in the 6th. “Its state there” is how that rashi treats Budh: exalted, own, friendly, neutral (sam), enemy or debilitated. “For this lagna” is Parashara’s verdict on the houses it rules. The two answer different questions.
The labels, from Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, chapter 34:
- Yogakaraka: the strongest graha a lagna can have: the one Parashara names as bringing yoga, or the one lord of both a kendra (1st, 4th, 7th, 10th) and a trikona (1st, 5th, 9th) (34.13)
- Benefic, Malefic, Neutral: works for the lagna; brings its harder matters; neither
- Lagna lord: the lagna’s own graha, where the verse calls it neither good nor hard
- Maraka: a killer Parashara names for the lagna, watched for health and longevity; printed alone, or after another label. It is not always the lord of the 2nd or 7th: where it differs, the line under it gives the verse
- · Yoga: one of two grahas he says give yoga together for this lagna
One lagna, read through
Take Tula lagna. Budh sits in Meen there (debilitated) and rules your 9th and 12th houses, which makes it a benefic for Tula lagna (BPHS 34). The two pull apart: the label says what it does for this lagna, the rashi how much strength it has to do it, so it gives less of that good than its label promises, unless a neecha bhanga (a cancelled debility) lifts it. The Lal Kitab reading above is the same for every lagna; this row is the part that changes with yours.
By Brihat Jataka 20.11, Budh in the 6th house gives its good in full for Mesh lagna, half for Makar lagna, a quarter for Vrishabh, Dhanu and Meen lagna, little for Kumbh lagna and none for Tula lagna, by the rashi it sits in. The verse gives no share for a neutral rashi, which is where it sits for Mithun, Kark, Singh, Kanya and Vrishchik lagna. BJ 20.10–11
Budh in the 6th house: where it works best, and where hardest
read off the table aboveBudh passing through the 6th from your Moon
the gochar of Budh, not the birth chartNot the birth placement above: here Budh is moving through the 6th counted from your Moon rashi. Phaladeepika counts the 6th among Budh’s good transit houses (all twelve, on the Budh page). Our Monthly Prediction reads it as good: wins in disputes, clear thinking, watch your health.
Common questions
3 questionsIs Budh in the 6th house good?
Lal Kitab counts it a good placement, one of the 10 houses where Budh does well (with the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 9th, 10th and 11th). By its rashi, it is strongest for Mesh and Makar lagna; it is debilitated for Tula lagna.
What is the Lal Kitab upay for Budh in the 6th house?
Lal Kitab’s upay for it: Bury a bottle of Ganga water in agricultural land; the spouse (the text says the wife) should wear a silver ring on the left hand; begin important work in the presence of a daughter or a young girl, or with flowers in hand.
Which houses does Budh look at from the 6th?
The 12th (expenses).
A graha reads the same for everybody. Your chart does not.
Where each graha sits in your kundli, which bhavas it rules for your lagna and which dasha is running decide what it does for you. Make your free kundli to see all nine.
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