Capricorn on the 6th house cusp
earth · cardinal · ruled by Saturn
Capricorn suits the sixth house's classical themes almost too well, joining the sign of toil to the house of labor. Traditional sources associate the pairing with heavy, patient, hierarchical work, long apprenticeships, administration, trades of stone and time, with duty carried without complaint and rest deferred. Subordinates were read as sober and reliable, the native exacting toward staff and toward self alike. Medieval melothesia gave Capricorn the knees, joints, and skin, and older texts, treating the sixth as the house of illness, associated the placement with chronic and lingering complaints, a delineation kept strictly as historical record.
Traditional reading
Saturn becomes lord of the sixth, and classical authors found the rulership fitting, since Saturn traditionally signifies laborers, burdens, and endurance, the very matter of the house. His condition and sect were weighed carefully, for the greater malefic presiding over Bad Fortune was judged far milder in day charts, where he belongs to the ruling sect, and harsher by night. Mars retains his joy here, doubling the note of effort. A traditional dictum gave Saturn slow results rather than none. Modern reading translates the signature into discipline, long-horizon routines, and structures of work built to outlast enthusiasm.
6th house (Work)
Traditionally tied to illness, servants, and daily labor.
Hellenistic name: Bad Fortune
Capricorn archetype
Capricorn is the nocturnal domicile of Saturn and exaltation of Mars. Cardinal earth, traditionally tied to structure and accomplishment.
Other signs on this house cusp
Reference, not advice
This is cultural and astronomical reference, not personal prediction or advice.
House-cusp sign assignments depend on the chosen house system and on the chart's birth time and latitude. Whole-Sign astrology collapses cusps to sign boundaries; Placidus and other quadrant systems compute intermediate cusps. See methodology.
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