The Travel palace 迁移
Travel
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.
The same palace, by ruler
What changes when a different star sits here
The Travel palace is coloured by whichever ruling star lands in it. Below is the same house with each of the fourteen rulers in it, in one line each. Find the star in your own Travel palace and read across.
- Emperor 紫微 — Away from home you are treated as more senior than you feel, and you grow into the title.
- Strategist 天机 — Travel and distance widen you; a change of place is often the reset you were looking for.
- Sun 太阳 — Visibility comes easily abroad; distance does not dim you.
- General 武曲 — You do best in unfamiliar ground, where competence is judged on results.
- Harmony 天同 — You adapt to new places quickly and can lose your own outline in doing so.
- Judge 廉贞 — You do better away from the place where the old rules were written.
- Treasury 天府 — You do well in new places when you arrive with resources and a plan.
- Moon 太阴 — You travel well but need somewhere to return to; exposure drains you faster than distance does.
- Wolf 贪狼 — New places feed you genuinely; you are at your best in movement and at your worst in a rut.
- Great Gate 巨门 — Away from home your bluntness reads as honesty rather than rudeness, and it travels better.
- Minister 天相 — You do well in roles where you support or represent something larger than yourself.
- Sage 天梁 — You are safe and useful in unfamiliar places, and people tend to trust you on sight.
- Marshal 七杀 — You thrive away from your starting point; distance is not a loss for you.
- Vanguard 破军 — You are built for new ground; the move is not a crisis for you, it is the method.
Example, 紫微 in this palace: Away from home you are treated as more senior than you feel, and you grow into the title.