What to look at and what to look for

daily craft, health, service, routines, and the unglamorous labour that keeps a life running. a 6th-house year asks what you practise, how you eat and sleep, who you help, and what habits actually hold.

the year lord is Mercury: messages, contracts, commutes, and the stories you tell. Mercury retrogrades and transits to your natal Mercury are the year's edit passes.

In your natal chart

Start here before you chase transits.

• the sign on your 6th-house cusp and the year lord: your natal relationship to work and wellness.
• Mars and Saturn: drive, stamina, chronic tension points.
• planets in the 6th: what the body complains about first.
• aspects to the year lord from Neptune: fog, sensitivity, or leaks in routine.
• the 12th opposite the year's grind: burnout hides there; watch monthly 12th-house months for exhaustion.

In the sky this year

Mark dates when the year lord or profected house is touched; those are the year's loudest weather.

• Mars transits to the year lord: inflammation, urgency, or surgery timing; take the body seriously.
• Saturn through the 6th: restructuring duty and health protocols.
• Mercury retrograde hitting the year lord: redo schedules, lab results, or job descriptions.
• eclipses on the 6th/12th axis: illness, recovery, or leaving a job that costs your nervous system.
• Jupiter in the 6th: hire help, expand a practice, but do not skip the details.

Inside the twelve months

string together three good weeks of the same habit and the 6th-house year starts to pay compound interest. monthly lords that rule your natal 6th are especially loud.

Where it goes wrong

martyr service, obsessive optimisation, or using busyness to avoid feeling. the 6th house can turn punitive.

What the year is asking

build one practice and keep it. fix the health issue you keep postponing; simplify the day until it is survivable.

success is a body and a routine you can live inside next year without collapse.