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Alexander Fleming's Zi Wei Dou Shu chart

Bacteriologist who discovered penicillin, Nobel laureate · born August 6, 1881 in Darvel, UK

The Scottish bacteriologist who discovered penicillin. His Life Palace has no main star and is read through the opposite palace's Tai Yang (Bu) with Hua Quan (Transformation of Power) and Tai Yin (Miao); his Body Palace falls in the Fortune Palace.

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Communicators · Empty Palace (borrows Tai Yang)1881 · M7 D12 · Chou hour
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Life Palace

You are gentle with people and measured in what you do.

Terms in this palace · Tap for a plain explanation

You are gentle with people and measured in what you do.

Whether someone gives you a hand makes a big difference.

Stars
Tai Yang NatureYou are warm and love looking after people, giving without keeping score. When you shine this much, save some light for yourself.
Tai Yin NatureYou are gentle and perceptive, attentive to feelings and good at building up reserves. When a lot is on your mind, saying it out loud helps.
Tai Yang and Tai YinTai Yin opposite is at Miao in Chou, and Tai Yang is at Bu. You are gentle and refined, with your warmth kept mostly inside.
No Main StarClassical texts say a Life Palace with no main star means growing up tied to two family names. Today, it means you may grow up connected to two households, or have to stand on your own early.“Star Combinations: Jie Kong, Shang Shi, and the Life, Body, Wealth and Property Palaces”
Borrowed StarsWith no main star in your Life Palace, your basic character is borrowed from Tai Yang and Tai Yin opposite, with less force than if they sat here. The people and setting around you shape you more deeply than most.
Life Master Wu QuDeep down you are practical and hardworking, and you believe only results count. Leave some room for feelings too. Your Life Master sits in your Friends Palace, so your thoughts often circle around your circle of friends.
Patterns
Quan Lu Xun Feng (Power and Wealth Meet)Hua Lu and Hua Quan both shine into your Life Palace: you have resources and the power to steer. When opportunity comes, you can catch it and drive it forward.Later pattern
Transformations
Trines: Lu · QuanShining in from the Wealth Palace (Ju Men Hua Lu) and the Travel Palace opposite (Tai Yang Hua Quan): resources back you up; you push with more force.
This part follows the Flying Star school: where this palace's stem sends its transformations. It is a different method from the classical reading above.
Lu to WealthYou are your own source of income and can earn on your own ability. Investing in yourself pays best.
Ji Clashes BackWhat happens outside tends to come back and shake you, and things go back and forth. Out in the world, aim for steady before fast.
Minor Stars
Tian YaoYou have a hard-to-name pull and know how to set a mood. Charm is a gift; how far to take it is your call.
En GuangYou are easily appreciated, and someone often gives you a hand at key moments. Make the most of every chance to be seen.
TaiThings are still brewing, and many ideas have not taken shape. Give them time, and do not reveal them too early.
Qing LongGood news and unexpected gains come often. Be ready to catch opportunities when they arrive.

The Life Palace is about: Who you are at the core: your temperament and innate makeup. Every chart reading starts here.

What the Quan Shu says about this palaceThe sun and moon guarding the Life Palace are not as good as shining on it from elsewhere; where Yin and Fu gather, one need not fear danger.“Tai Wei Fu” ›When Yin (Tian Liang) and Fu (Tian Tong) are present, there is no fear of malign stars striking; the sun and moon (Tai Yang and Tai Yin) meeting together is not as good as their shining in from the trine.“Chong Bu Dou Shu Gou Lü” ›Master Xiyi answered: Tian Yao guarding the Body or Life Palace makes the nature dark and venomous, much given to suspicion and fear, fond of beauty, dashing with many maids, and lewd. In Miao or Wang it means wealth, rank and many servants; in Hai, learning. Meeting evil stars, the family is ruined and the property lost, and one runs foul of the law through lust. Meeting the Six Harmonies over and over, death in youth. If it comes upon a luck period, with no need of a matchmaker one marries at a wave of the hand. Or with Zi Wei and lucky stars added, hardness and softness balance each other, and it means a charming rake; with Hong Luan added, lewder still; with Tian Xing and Qing Yang (punishment and blade) added, it means an early death.“What Does Tian Yao Govern?” ›My Quan Shu (9 lines on this palace) ›

Where the chart lines up

The Petri dish of 1928

On September 3, 1928 (nominal age 48), Fleming came back to his laboratory from holiday and found a culture dish contaminated with mould, with the staphylococci around the mould destroyed, famously remarking "That's funny". He identified the mould as belonging to the genus Penicillium. In 1928 his annual Life Palace reached the natal Children Palace, and in the annual Four Transformations You Bi takes Hua Ke (Transformation of Fame) there as well. Hua Ke is scholarly achievement and a lasting name; falling in that year's annual Life Palace, it lines up with the year's discovery.

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Not letting go when no one paid attention

When he published on penicillin in 1929, few took notice; when he spoke about its medical value at the International Congress of Microbiology in 1936, no one backed him either. He bore the disappointment quietly and kept working: he preserved, grew and distributed the original mould for twelve years, and in 1940 he was still looking for chemists to help. His Body Palace falls in the Fortune Palace, with Wen Chang (Miao) and Hua Ji (Transformation of Obstruction). Hua Ji is where effort and attention go, which lines up with the effort he put into penicillin over these years.

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Warning audiences around the world

Fleming saw early on that if penicillin was used in too small a dose or for too short a course, bacteria would become resistant, and he warned about it in many talks around the world. In his 1945 Nobel Lecture he said: "The time may come when penicillin can be bought by anyone in the shops. Then there is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose himself and ... make them resistant." His Travel Palace holds Tai Yang (Bu) with Hua Quan. The Travel Palace covers going out; Tai Yang shines outward, and Hua Quan gives words weight, which fits his warnings everywhere.

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Life Palace

Alexander Fleming's Life Palace has no main star (an Empty Palace); it borrows Tai Yang from the opposite palace. Xingge's name for this persona: The Traveler. With the Metal 4 Bureau, that makes the Metal 4 · Empty Palace type among Xingge's 75.

Empty Palace · The Traveler ›Metal 4 · Empty Palace type ›

Birth-year transformations

The stem of Alexander Fleming's birth year transforms four stars:

Birth data

Local time 1881-08-06 02:00, from Astro-Databank, Rodden rating AA (birth certificate or record). In true solar time at the birthplace that is 01:37, the Chou hour.

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