The sign marks a generation; the sixth house is where this particular native's force is buried, and it is buried in the working day. Labour is undertaken with an intensity the task does not warrant. The native cannot do a job partially, rebuilds any system they inherit, and holds a standard so exacting that colleagues assume ambition where there is actually compulsion. Nobody outside sees this, since the house is cadent and the work unglamorous.
The body becomes the arena. A serious illness or injury, usually somewhere in the thirties or forties, forces a complete reorganisation of habits, and the native emerges from it with an authority about health that no reading could supply. Many such natives end up in medicine, research, or the caring professions afterwards, having become expert through their own case first. Regimens are followed with severity or abandoned entirely; moderation is not on offer.
The cost is control exercised where it does not belong. The native manages the details of a routine obsessively as a way of managing a fear that has nothing to do with routine. Workplace conflicts run deep and silent, with power struggles conducted through procedure over months. And a constitution driven this hard eventually presents the bill, generally at the moment the native has decided they cannot possibly stop.
What It Gives
- ◆Rebuilds systems thoroughly
- ◆Hard-won authority about health
- ◆Endures work others abandon
- ◆Recovers fully from serious illness
What It Costs
- ◆Routine controlled to manage fear
- ◆Silent power struggles at work
- ◆Body driven past its limits
This is one line of a whole chart. The rest of it — every placement, house and aspect at once — is a birth date away.
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