One palace a day
A chart is not one answer, it is twelve. Each palace below covers one department: what it governs, what to look for in it, and what it refuses to say. Read one a day and the chart stops being a diagram.
01 · Life 命宫
who you are when nothing external is deciding for you
The Life palace is the seat of the chart: it sets the tone every other palace is read against. Where the ruler sits, and how bright it is, decides whether the rest of the chart reads as range or as strain. This is the first thing to look at and the last thing to argue with.
02 · Siblings 兄弟
brothers, sisters and peers who stand level with you
The Siblings palace covers the near-equals of your life: brothers and sisters by blood, and the friends who function that way. It describes how support arrives, where rivalry began, and what you still owe or resent. It also carries the tone of short working partnerships.
03 · Spouse 夫妻
the person you build a private life with
The Spouse palace is what you want from intimacy and what you keep doing instead. It shows the kind of partner you are drawn to, the terms you negotiate without saying so, and the pattern that repeats across relationships if nobody interrupts it.
04 · Children 子女
children, and the work that outlives you
The Children palace speaks to children and to anything you raise: a studio, a body of work, a business you intend to outlast you. It shows how authority and play sit together in your life, and where your own childhood expectation still runs the room.
05 · Wealth 财帛
how money arrives, and how you keep it
The Wealth palace describes the movement of money rather than the size of it: the way it comes, the way it leaves, and what you believe it is for. Read it beside Career, because how you earn and how you hold are two different stories.
06 · Health 疾厄
the body's habits and where strain lands first
The Health palace is not a diagnosis. It shows where stress settles in the body, which systems carry the load, and what the chart says you neglect. It is the palace most useful for changing something small and early.
07 · Travel 迁移
how you appear abroad and away from your base
The Travel palace is the outside view: away from home, in unfamiliar cities, in an interview, among strangers. It often reads stronger than the Life palace, which is why so many people do better further from where they started.
08 · Friends 仆役
friends, colleagues and the people you keep around you
The Friends palace covers the wider circle: subordinates, colleagues, allies, the people you choose rather than inherit. It describes whom you attract and what that circle costs you. Read it beside Siblings for the difference between equals and dependents.
09 · Career 官禄
the work itself, and the standard you hold
The Career palace is about the work rather than the wage. It shows the kind of problem you are built to solve, the environment you survive in, and where your competence actually sits. Most practical questions about a working life land here.
10 · Property 田宅
home, property and the base of your life
The Property palace is the base: the house, the family holdings, the room you return to. It shows whether a settled base comes easily to you, what the household feels like from inside, and what you are willing to pay for stability.
11 · Fortune 福德
your inner life, and what you do with your own time
The Fortune palace is the private register: what you enjoy, what you do when nothing is required, and the mood you return to. It is the best predictor of whether a life that looks correct from outside feels correct from inside.
12 · Parents 父母
your elders, and the authority that shaped you
The Parents palace covers the generations above you: parents, grandparents, mentors, the institution that raised you. It shows what you inherited in temperament and standard, and how much of your adult life is spent answering or leaving it.