When Saturn transits the 6th house the need for security and achievement influences your job, daily habits, diet and health. This house is often seen as a boring place (unless you’re a Virgo!) but what happens during this transit is essential for what comes when Saturn crosses your descendant.
When Saturn transits the 6th house you enter a period of self-adjustment and re-organisation where you can change your thinking and how you work and create positive health habits. You may realise that you need to be more disciplined in the practical areas of your life, perhaps because of a crisis that forces you to face up to problems with your job or health.
Saturn will help you to decide what you need to do and to discriminate between what’s useful to you and what isn’t. You can find out how effective you are in doing what you’re trying to do and how useful you are to other people that you serve.
You might feel restless and be very busy, but if you waste your energies on unnecessary activity you could end up with health problems. You may also be too critical of yourself which can lead to depression or psychosomatic illnesses. Health problems may also be traced back to bad dietary habits or lack of exercise.
If you experience burnout, exhaustion, or a collapse in health and vitality, it’s a sign that you need to rethink what you’re doing. This is especially likely if you’re stuck in a dead-end job or spending too much time on meaningless tasks. You might also lose your job through illness or redundancy but this provides an opportunity to find a better way forward.
Saturn can help you to take responsibility for sorting out your health and this is the perfect time to establish positive habits in diet and exercise. You can rebuild your strength and energy and develop positive habits that will support your life into the future.
Possibilities with Saturn transiting the 6th:
- Changing jobs or the way you work
- Undergoing therapy or counselling
- Improving your diet
- Starting an exercise regime
- Learning new skills
Watch out for:
- Depression
- Chronic health problems
- Working too hard
- Burnout
Saturn in the 6th is about learning to take responsibility for how you operate in daily life and how you relate to and use your body. You’re preparing for the moment when Saturn moves back above the horizon and enters the 7th house when you’ll need to put all your skills and abilities to use in the outer world in a more visible way.
You could discover the seeds of new career goals for the future if you put the work in now, and you can learn new skills or refine and improve the ones you already have. With hard work and dedication you can begin to manifest your dreams and make some serious progress towards embodying your potential as an individual.
To get the best out of your Saturn transits it helps to prepare in advance and get organised. You can do this using the Saturn Transits Workbook available here! This is a comprehensive guide to working with Saturn transits that includes worksheets to track and explore your experience. For more details click the image to visit the store!
References:
- Planets in Transit – Robert Hand
- Saturn in Transit – Erin Sullivan
- Astrology, Karma, & Transformation – Stephen Arroyo
More Transits: 1st house – 2nd house – 3rd house – 4th house – 5th house – 6th house – 7th house – 8th house – 9th house – 10th house – 11th house – 12th house
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Jessica Davidson 
Back in 1997 when Saturn transited my 6th house my life changed completed. I owned and ran a management consulting business on the East Coast. I moved to CA, trained as an actor and started writing, painting, sculpting and ten years ago started to produce my own films, because no-one else would. There were signs in the years before this, that it might occur – I started getting involved in creative pursuits as a hobby while Saturn transited my 5th house. The shift into the 6th occurred very abruptly. My old life suddenly died on the vine, literally overnight. Creatively and Spiritually it has been an exquisite journey. I found my true nature, where the inner life matched the outer life. Financially, it has been exquisitely painful. As Saturn is now about to transit my 6th house again, I am wondering if the final piece of the puzzle i.e. the financial aspect can be put into place? I am a Scorpio sun, Gemini rising with my Sun, Mercury and Neptune in the 6th under Scorpio. I know what I am doing in film is part of a destiny, but getting it off the ground has taken 30 years and is still a work in progress. My rising is now transiting my 10th house under Pisces with Saturn conjunct Chiron.
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Thanks for sharing your story, D – it’ll be interesting to see how things develop from here…
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Hi
I am never sure if sun sign or ascendant point is more important. My ascendant libra makes Pisces the 6th house but Leo my sun sign makes 8th house Pisces. So which is it? Both? How about moon sign in Sagittarius ? Is that also important to use in a predictive.?
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It depends which house system you use. Some astrologers use charts that place the sun sign in the first house, but most use systems based on the sign that was rising at your birth location and time. Which you use is up to you.
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Since Catherine knows her rising sign I would typically see using the rising sign as dictating the 1st house. Usually I see sun house systems being used for people who don’t know what time they were born. Catherine, I would suggest looking at the previous transit and see whether Saturn seemed to be influencing your 5th house of children and hobbies or 7th house of relationships. Also see what relationship Saturn has to other planets in your natal chart. That could give more insight.
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Hi fellow Libra ascendent!! Your rising sign dictates your personal house system. Libra will always be your first house since it’s your rising sign (ascendent). Your sun in Leo means that your sun falls in your 11th house. Saturn moving through pisces means it will be transiting our 6th house of health and routines. Looking forward to this but am still a bit scared!
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Yes so am I. Health is THE issue with the entire globe. I focus on the 6th house health issues being more psychosomatic not real. Thank God. Better to think you have a problem health issue than actually have an issue.
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This is the best write-up of Saturn transiting the 6th house I’ve ever read. Thank you for the information and the inspiration!
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Glad you found it helpful, Katy!
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Thank you for this! I really enjoyed this article! Saturn JUST entered my sixth house and I recently decided to take astrology seriously as my business. Now it’s time to build the habits.
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