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Charles de Gaulle's Zi Wei Dou Shu chart

French general, first president of the Fifth Republic · born November 22, 1890 in Lille, France

The founder and first president of France's Fifth Republic. His Life Palace is an Empty Palace, read through the opposite Travel Palace's Tai Yang (Miao) with Hua Lu (Transformation of Wealth) and Tian Liang (Miao).

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Communicators · Empty Palace (borrows Tai Yang)1890 · M10 D11 · Yin hour
YearGengYin
MonthDingHai
DayDingWei
HourRenYin
Life Master Wen Qu
Body Master Tian Liang

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Life Palace

You hold to principle and carry responsibility, and with challenging stars here, you meet more resistance.

Terms in this palace · Tap for a plain explanation

You hold to principle and carry responsibility, and with challenging stars here, you meet more resistance.

Don't overdraw your body or your feelings.

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.
Tian Liang NatureYou are mature beyond your years and protective, often the one others lean on. Help without lecturing, and people warm to you more.
Tai Yang–Tian Liang at MiaoIn the opposite palace the Sun and Tian Liang are both at Miao in Mao. You act openly and look after others, and elders and friends trust you.
Borrowed StarsWith no main star in your Life Palace, your basic character is borrowed from Tai Yang and Tian Liang opposite, with less force than if they sat here. The people and setting around you shape you more deeply than most.
With Qing YangClassical texts say Qing Yang in the weak Mao or You palace stirs up trouble and brings injury and lasting ailments. Today, it means reining in both your temper and your hands, and not meeting conflict head-on.“The Nature of Qing Yang”
Life Master Wen QuYou are naturally expressive and artistic, and you get noticed through expression. Write, speak and make things. Your Life Master sits in your Children Palace, so your thoughts often circle around children and younger people.
Patterns
Mixed SupportSan Fang Si Zheng brings in Zuo Fu, You Bi and Tian Kui, and also Huo Xing, Di Jie and Ling Xing: you have both support and pressure in your own life. When help is there, keep your pace steady.
Transformations
Trines: Lu · JiShining in from the Travel Palace opposite (Tai Yang Hua Lu) and the Career Palace (Tian Tong Hua Ji): resources back you up; when things stall over there, they stall here too.
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 to FortuneYou often wrestle with your own thoughts and think a lot. Find something that lets you switch off.
Mu YuThings are still in flux and unsettled, and new things easily pull your attention away. Hold off on conclusions.
Li ShiYou can hold your ground and make the calls. Use your strength to get things done, not to push people around.

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 palaceWhen the stars as a whole are auspicious, even meeting a malefic star is auspicious. When the stars as a whole are malefic, meeting a malefic star is malefic.“Tai Wei Fu” ›Qing Yang (in the Life Palace): the body suffers injury; if it meets Huo Xing, Ling Xing or Ju Men (the dark star), the person is sure to have an unusual mole. If it also meets the Hao star (Po Jun) or Qi Sha, the person is sure to be ugly in form and coarse in features.“Xing Xing Fu” ›The metal of Shen and You is the qi of Tai Bai in the west. Wu Qu sits in Shen and likes to generate; Qing Yang is in You and deals in killing. If Ju Men, Lu Cun and Tuo Luo are added to help it, it becomes all the fiercer, and it must go against the flow: meeting benign stars that transform the evil is its fine use.“Xing Yuan Lun” ›My Quan Shu (47 lines on this palace) ›

Where the chart lines up

Years of arguing for mechanized forces

Between the two world wars, from 1918 to 1939, de Gaulle argued for mobile armored divisions. In 1934 he wrote Vers l'Armée de Métier (Towards a Professional Army), proposing mechanization of the infantry and an elite force with 3,000 tanks, and afterwards he often wrote to the politician Paul Reynaud. In his chart, the Career Palace holds Tian Tong (Bu) with Hua Ji (Transformation of Obstruction), and this palace is also his Body Palace. Hua Ji is where thought and effort go. Pressing his case again and again within his own profession lines up with this position.

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A reader of Bergson's philosophy

De Gaulle enjoyed philosophy by writers such as Bergson, Péguy and Barrès; his biographer Jean Lacouture suggests he was in fact better suited to be a writer and historian than a soldier. In his chart, the Fortune Palace holds Tai Yin (Miao) with Hua Ke (Transformation of Fame). The Fortune Palace covers interests and inner life, and Hua Ke is learning and a literary name: his line of reading and writing carries a glow. That lines up with his later War Memoirs becoming a staple of modern French literature.

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Founding the Fifth Republic in his Travel Palace decade

In 1958 (nominal age 69), at the request of President René Coty, he became Prime Minister and pushed through a new constitution, approved by referendum, establishing France's Fifth Republic; on December 21 that year he was elected President, taking office in January 1959. These years fall in his Travel Palace Decade Luck (nominal ages 62–71). In the decade's Four Transformations, Tian Liang (Miao) takes Hua Ke and returns to the natal Travel Palace, the decade's Life Palace itself. Hua Ke is reputation and being seen, which fits his return to the center of politics in this period.

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Life Palace

Charles de Gaulle'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 Water 2 Bureau, that makes the Water 2 · Empty Palace type among Xingge's 75.

Empty Palace · The Traveler ›Water 2 · Empty Palace type ›

Birth-year transformations

The stem of Charles de Gaulle's birth year transforms four stars:

Birth data

Local time 1890-11-22 04:00, from Astro-Databank, Rodden rating AA (birth certificate or record). In true solar time at the birthplace that is 04:12, the Yin hour.

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