The sixth house is work as routine, health, and daily craft. Venus there makes the ordinary day the object of affection. Such natives care about the conditions of labour — the light at the desk, the quality of the tools, whether the workroom is a pleasant place to spend eight hours — and they will improve those conditions for everyone, at their own expense, without being asked. The work itself tends toward the aesthetic trades practised as a daily discipline.
Colleagues matter enormously. The native's happiness in a post depends less on the salary than on whether they like the people, and many marriages of this placement begin at a workplace. Service is offered with real warmth rather than duty. Health is pursued through pleasure rather than austerity — the native improves by walking somewhere beautiful and eating well, and abandons any regimen that requires suffering.
The cost is a workplace treated as a family, with the disappointments that follow. The native accommodates difficult colleagues far past the point of good sense and takes reorganisation personally. Standards of comfort can slide into indolence, particularly in the afternoon. And there is a tendency to make oneself agreeable in a post rather than excellent in it, so that the native is universally liked and repeatedly passed over.
What It Gives
- ◆Makes workplaces genuinely pleasant
- ◆Craft practised with real care
- ◆Health improved through enjoyment
- ◆Warm, willing service
What It Costs
- ◆Tolerates difficult colleagues indefinitely
- ◆Comfort sliding into indolence
- ◆Liked more than promoted
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