Re: please keep house system discussions off the basic astrology forums, to all
Freedomlover, I am not sure I follow your train of thought....so let me just express mine again, in the hope that you're better at figuring out my meaning than I was with yours!
[BTW there is a newer book out on this technique by Alan Oken, Rulers of the Horoscope. Noel Tyl uses it a little bit in his book on careers, where he discusses it as his "midheaven extention method" but the technique is a lot older than his book.]
So danieycc has several planets in Virgo, with Leo on the cusp. Leo is ruled by the sun. This is called the "lord" or "accidental ruler" of the house cusp. I see that Tim has deleted a bunch of posts by Joseph, who was making a case for the whole sign house method, in which one sign=one 30-degree house. The accidental house cusp ruler system wouldn't work the same way in the whole sign house system, because the house cusp would always be ruled by the "natural" ruler of the sign.
OK, but in Placidus and most other systems, you will usually get one sign on the cusp and then another sign picking up deeper into the house, as in danieycc's case. So the house cusp ruler will often be in a different sign than the sign of any planets in that house.
A Virgo planet is a Virgo planet, so I wouldn't see its qualities "tinted" by Leo unless it might conjunct a nearby Leo planet. Signs indicate "how" or "in what manner" planets function.
But if we shift the question and ask how danieycc's 6th house planets function, then we would look to the sun (6th house ruler) by its own house and aspects to learn something about danieycc's 6th house. Sometimes a planet is actually in the house it rules; but 11/12 times it will be in some other house.
Just for example, my MC is in Gemini. Well, to find something about my career or public image, we would look for the position of Mercury. My Mercury is in Aquarius in the 5th house, conjunct Venus but opposite my moon. My job did not relate to children, gambling, love affairs or recreation; but more to my feeling [moon] that my job (a) had to be fun to do, and (b) that my hobbies often seemed more important to me than my paid work. [Like, oh, astrology--traditionally ruled by Mercury.]
If the ruler of someone's 6th house is in the 2nd house, then we might consider whether work and service are tied to her income in some way: maybe she would be good at working in "financial services" or maybe she would volunteer to be a fund-raiser. If the ruler of the 6th is in the 3rd, however, she might serve people through writing and communicating.
I hope this makes sense!