Moon, Venus and Ketu in the 6th house at a glance
When Chandra + Shukra + Ketu (Moon + Venus + Ketu) share a sign, a yuti, the chart fuses Moon’s the mind, emotions and nurturing instinct, Venus’s love, beauty and the pleasures of life and Ketu’s detachment, spirituality and liberation, and here all of it works through the 6th house (Ari / Shatru), the house of health, service, competition and the obstacles you overcome (Dusthana (difficult), Upachaya (growing); natural sign Virgo).
Each graha in the 6th house
Chandra (Moon) in the 6th houseBenefic (waxing) / Malefic (waning)
The mind pays a price: worry, emotional stress and digestive or health sensitivity; capable in service and healing, but peace is hard-won.
Shukra (Venus) in the 6th houseBenefic
Relationship stress, secret liaisons or debts and reproductive/urinary health lessons; it can serve in beauty or the arts, but love is tested.
Ketu (Ketu) in the 6th houseMalefic
Healing, defeating enemies through detachment, and skill in service, medicine and the occult; Ketu fights well without ego in this Upachaya house.
Where each is strong or weak by sign:
| Graha | Nature | Own sign | Exalted (uchcha) | Debilitated (neecha) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chandra (Moon) | Benefic (waxing) / Malefic (waning) | Cancer | Taurus | Scorpio |
| Shukra (Venus) | Benefic | Taurus, Libra | Pisces | Virgo |
| Ketu (Ketu) | Malefic | None (chhaya graha) | Scorpio | Taurus |
Moon, Venus and Ketu in the 6th house: the reading
Ketu is well placed in the 6th house and the Moon and Venus are strained there, so Ketu leads the trio here. Inside the trio, Moon and Ketu do best here: Ketu with the Moon in the 6th house gives healing intuition, detachment from enemies and a quiet capacity for service, with emotional withdrawal and vague health complaints. Moon and Venus are the pair to watch: The Moon and Venus in the 6th house give service through hospitality, nursing, beauty or the arts and charm that disarms enemies, but both soft grahas suffer in a dusthana: romance carries conflict, health has urinary or hormonal complaints, and comfort is disturbed.
When it works
- Success in nursing, hospitality or beauty work
- Charm that softens enemies
- Healing intuition
- Peace with enemies
What needs care
- Conflict in love
- Hormonal or urinary complaints
- Emotional withdrawal
- Vague illness
Moon, Venus and Ketu in the 6th house by lagna
Strongest for Tula, Makar and Karkat lagna; hardest for Meen, Kumbh and Dhanu lagna.
| Lagna | 6th house sign | Moon | Venus | Ketu | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mesh (Aries) | Kanya | Friend, lord of 4th | Debilitated, lord of 2nd & 7th | Neutral, no lordship | mixed |
| Vrishabh (Taurus) | Tula | Neutral, lord of 3rd | Moolatrikona, lord of 1st & 6th | Enemy, no lordship | mixed |
| Mithun (Gemini) | Vrishchik | Debilitated, lord of 2nd | Neutral, lord of 5th & 12th | Exalted, no lordship | mixed |
| Karkat (Cancer) | Dhanu | Neutral, lord of 1st | Neutral, lord of 4th & 11th | Friend, no lordship | good |
| Simha (Leo) | Makar | Neutral, lord of 12th | Friend, lord of 3rd & 10th | Enemy, no lordship | mixed |
| Kanya (Virgo) | Kumbh | Neutral, lord of 11th | Friend, lord of 2nd & 9th | Enemy, no lordship | mixed |
| Tula (Libra) | Meen | Neutral, lord of 10th | Exalted, lord of 1st & 8th | Friend, no lordship | strong |
| Vrishchik (Scorpio) | Mesh | Neutral, lord of 9th | Neutral, lord of 7th & 12th | Friend, no lordship | mixed |
| Dhanu (Sagittarius) | Vrishabh | Exalted, lord of 8th | Own Sign, lord of 6th & 11th | Debilitated, no lordship | mixed |
| Makar (Capricorn) | Mithun | Friend, lord of 7th | Friend, lord of 5th & 10th | Neutral, no lordship | strong |
| Kumbh (Aquarius) | Karkat | Own Sign, lord of 6th | Enemy, lord of 4th & 9th | Neutral, no lordship | mixed |
| Meen (Pisces) | Simha | Friend, lord of 5th | Enemy, lord of 3rd & 8th | Neutral, no lordship | mixed |
Moon, Venus and Ketu in the other houses
Aspects (drishti) this conjunction casts
When these results appear
Venus mahadasha with Moon antardasha is the sharpest window (dasha years: Venus 20, Moon 10, Ketu 7).
A node beside a luminary is the chart’s own eclipse, a grahan yoga: how Rahu and Ketu swallow the light.
For the 2026 Shukra transit cycle, see when Venus retrograde ends and which houses it crosses.
See Chandra + Shukra + Ketu (Moon, Venus and Ketu) in the 6th house in your own kundali
Your own chart shows which house Chandra + Shukra + Ketu (Moon, Venus and Ketu) in the 6th house activates for you, how strong it is, and when your dasha brings it out.