![]() It opposes the twelfth house, which is the place of isolation. The best way to describe the sixth house is that it is the place of needed interdependence. I am fighting for an interdependence that embraces need and tells the truth: no one does it on their own and the myth of independence is just that, a myth.” I am not fighting for independence, as much of the disability rights movement rallies behind. “With disability justice, we want to move away from the “myth of independence,” that everyone can and should be able to do everything on their own. Mia Mingus writes about interdependence and disability and says: It’s about exchanging life for livelihood. This is also why the sixth house is the place of labor, because labor is about wearing ourselves down. Firmicus describes the sixth house as the house of “physical infirmities and sickness,” calling it Mala Fortuna for bad fortune or bad form. It’s the place of illness and disability. The sixth house is not the place where health lives. ![]() ![]() ![]() A lot of the time, the sixth house is misunderstood to be the place of health or of the things that shape health, like routine. ![]()
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