Employment Is the 6th House, Rank Is the 10th

The 6th house rules employment, conflict, and the daily obligation to show up. The 10th rules the post people can name. A strong 6th lord with a weak 10th lord often describes a capable employee who does not hold the title. A strong 10th lord with a weak 6th can describe rank that hates routine. When the two lords are conjunct or exchanged, job and status move together, which is the cleanest career yoga of this pair. The Sun karakas authority, so government service looks for the Sun as well as for these houses. That test is lagna-specific. For Karka lagna the 10th lord is Mars, and the profession leans martial or technical. For Simha lagna the 10th lord is Venus, and it leans toward arts and agreements. The birth date's digit is identical for every lagna born that day.

If the choice is a skilled profession, watch Mercury's mahadasha of seventeen years and Mercury's condition: exalted in Kanya, debilitated in Meena, combust near the Sun, or retrograde. If the choice is a long institutional path, watch Saturn's nineteen years, his exaltation in Tula, and his debilitation in Mesha. An antardasha of Saturn inside Mercury mahadasha lasts 17 times 19 divided by 120, a little over two and a half years, often the stretch where skill meets a heavy workload. The 10th lord's own period can matter more than either karaka if the lord is Jupiter or Venus. Numerology has no antardasha. It cannot say which of these windows is open.

A practical order is: cast the lagna with the city and the minute, name the 6th and 10th lords, read their nakshatras, then see which dasha is running. Jyothish SI does the cast with Lahiri ayanamsa and Swiss Ephemeris. A free account can generate the kundli and chat through the lords. The profession that fits is the one those lords signify, entered in their period. A digit can be remembered for fun. It should not pick the college course while the 10th lord is still unknown.