Hua Ji from the Life Palace into all twelve palaces: how Flying Star readers see each line

Life Palace Self-Hua Ji chart: the Hua Ji star sits in the Life Palace itself

There are 21,827 such charts, 8.3% of the total. All ten Hua Ji stars occur, from Tai Yang Hua Ji at 8.8% to Wu Qu Hua Ji at 11.5%; the two ends differ by nearly three percentage points, so no ranking can be drawn; Wen Chang and Wen Qu together make 20.1%. In the sample only about 3.7% have an empty Life Palace, against about 16.5% for charts in general: when the Life Palace has no main star, the Hua Ji star that sits there can only be Wen Chang or Wen Qu, which is the only way to make Self-Hua Ji.

Take an actual chart: the Life Palace is in the Wu (午) palace with stem Geng, holding Tian Tong (Xian) and Tai Yin (Bu); the Hua Ji of the Geng stem is exactly Tian Tong, circling in place inside the Life Palace. Where the Hua Ji star sits alone in the Life Palace the share is about 38%; among charts with a co-seated main star, Tian Xiang, Tian Fu and Tai Yin each make about 8% to 9%. Brightness leans bright, with Miao or Wang at 46.8% and Xian plus Bu at 20.6%. Xingge does not write how to read bright or dim; some teachers say that when it is bright this concern acts like a standard, and when it is dim it acts more like inner friction.

For Life Palace Self-Hua Ji: leave an exit for going over things

Self-transformation fades fast, so the point is not to suppress the thought but to give it somewhere to end: when you finish a task, write down what went well and what to adjust next time, then close the notebook; when you cannot stop thinking, turn the question into one small action you can take today; tell a person you trust, because saying it aloud often lets go faster than three days of thinking alone.

About 9.7% of these charts have a Self-Hua Ji star that is also the birth-year Hua Ji; there the Life Palace happens to be the Origin Palace (Lai Yin) and the birth-year Hua Ji sits in the Life Palace. Read the two layers separately: the birth-year Hua Ji speaks of the one thing you were born unable to let go of, while the self-transformation speaks of how the thoughts flow. The San He school does not look at palace stems, only at the Life Palace’s stars and brightness; the same star at the same brightness is not rewritten by whether there is a self-transformation. This line describes where your attention flows and is not a verdict on character; if you do not tend to go over things, there is no need to force it.

The Siblings Palace receives the Life Palace Hua Ji: siblings and peers take up your thoughts

The Siblings Palace governs sibling bonds, and also the cooperation and rivalry in dealings with peers. The scenes are concrete: a message in the family chat that you weigh for a long time before replying; a decision a brother or sister made that you turn over for days; a peer in trouble that you cannot help stepping in to help.

Here is one chart: the Life Palace is in the Yin (寅) palace with stem Wu, holding Zi Wei (Wang) and Tian Fu (Miao); the Hua Ji of the Wu stem is Tian Ji (Xian), sitting alone in the Chou (丑) palace, which is the Siblings Palace. If you are an only child, read it as classmates, cohort-mates and a steady circle of friends. One school reads it not as preoccupation but as “owing” (「欠」) — feeling you owe your siblings, or that the other side should respond and has not; Xingge does not adopt this reading.

Chart counts for the Siblings Palace, Hua Ji star spread, and the Hua Ji clash to the Friends Palace

There are 22,252 charts on this line, about 8.5%. Tai Yin Hua Ji is 11.0%, Tian Ji Hua Ji 10.4%, Wu Qu Hua Ji 10.3% and Tian Tong Hua Ji 9.3%, a little fewer; the gap among the ten stars is under two percentage points, so no ranking can be drawn. Brightness is close to the baseline: Miao or Wang 42.1%, and Xian or Bu 23.9%. In the Siblings Palace the Hua Ji star sits alone in about 45% of charts, and Tan Lang, Ju Men, Po Jun and Qi Sha each share the palace in about 8%. The Life Palace is empty in about 11% of charts, lower than the general rate; in those empty-palace charts the Hua Ji star is a main star about 63% of the time.

The Hua Ji clash strikes the opposite palace, the Friends Palace, reaching the circle of friends beyond peers: sibling matters affect how you get along with coworkers and friends, or keep you tense even in front of friends. You can split time for helping siblings from time for your own affairs, and set a fixed rhythm of contact for sibling matters instead of being on call; for the sense of comparison among peers, first sort out whether you are the one comparing or whether the other person really is.

The Life Palace Hua Ji in the Spouse Palace: you take intimate relationships to heart

The Spouse Palace governs how you appear in love and what you value most in a partner. The scenes look like this: a single remark from the other person that you replay for a long time; plans you want carried out thoroughly; high standards for the quality of how you get along. For someone with no partner at present, it can be read as your expectations of intimate relationships.

A chart worked out: the Life Palace is in the Chen (辰) palace with stem Geng, holding Tai Yang (Wang); the Hua Ji of the Geng stem is Tian Tong (Li), which sits in the Yin (寅) palace together with Tian Liang (Miao), and that is the Spouse Palace. This is a Geng-year chart, where Tian Tong is already the birth-year Hua Ji, so the palace-stem Hua Ji and the birth-year Hua Ji pile onto the same star and the concern is more visible than from a single line, but it is still only the direction of attention. One school reads it as “I owe the other person” (「我欠對方」) — feeling you must give a bit more; Xingge does not adopt this reading.

Numbers for the Spouse Palace end: leaning bright, often self-transforming, rarely flying back

There are 22,090 charts, 8.4%. Tan Lang Hua Ji at 11.1%, Tai Yang Hua Ji at 10.7% and Ju Men Hua Ji at 10.5% lead, with Lian Zhen Hua Ji and Wu Qu Hua Ji at 9.4% each at the back; none pulls away by two percentage points. The Hua Ji star’s brightness leans bright: Miao or Wang is 47.8%, and the weaker brightness (Xian, Bu) is 19.7%. In about 39% of charts the Hua Ji star is the only main star in the Spouse Palace; when there is a co-seated star, Tian Liang and Tai Yin are each about 8%.

Two more numbers are unique to this line: the Spouse Palace’s own stem also producing Hua Ji that lands back in the Spouse Palace as self-transformation is about 22%, against about 10% in general; the Spouse Palace’s Hua Ji flying back to the Life Palace is only about 1.0%, against about 6% in general. Attention to love mostly circles in place and does not easily come back to find you. Facing the Spouse Palace across the chart is the Career Palace, and the Hua Ji clash touches work: concern for love can squeeze your focus at work, or the state of your work can affect your mood in love. In practice you can say what you want out loud rather than expecting the other person to guess; keep “I care” (「我在意」) apart from “what I want you to do” (「我要你怎麼做」); and when work is busy, set a fixed, uninterrupted time together.

The Children Palace holds the Life Palace Hua Ji: one look from a younger person and you are thinking

The Children Palace governs your bond and time with children, and also the people you have brought up. Scenes look like this: one look from a younger person and you wonder whether to ask one more question; a result handed in by a subordinate that you cannot resist adding to; a student’s progress that worries you more than your own affairs. The starting point is mostly care; what to watch is care gradually turning into doing it for them.

One example: the Life Palace is in the Xu (戌) palace with stem Jia, holding Zi Wei (De) and Tian Xiang (De); the Hua Ji of the Jia stem is Tai Yang (De), which shares the Wei (未) palace with Tai Yin (Bu), the landing palace being the Children Palace. Another school reads Hua Ji flying in as “owing” (「欠」), feeling you owe time and company; Xingge does not adopt this reading, and it is not a fact.

Chart picture for the Children Palace: a dimmer brightness, and almost no empty Life Palace

Of all charts, 21,912 (8.3%) fall here. Ju Men, Tian Tong and Tai Yang Hua Ji are tied at the front at 10.8% each, and Wu Qu Hua Ji at 8.8% is slightly fewer, differing from Tai Yin Hua Ji at 9.5% by under one percentage point, so no ranking. Brightness leans dim, toward the dark end: Xian or Bu is 26.9%, about 4 percentage points above the baseline, and Miao or Wang is 41.6%. The Life Palace is empty in only about 4%, and in those charts the Hua Ji star is always Wen Chang or Wen Qu.

The Hua Ji star sits alone in the Children Palace in about 49%, tied with the Property Palace; among co-seated main stars, Ju Men and Qi Sha are more common at about 8% each. Xingge’s descriptions of birth-year Hua Ji in the Life Palace, once reworded, can be used to think about it: when the Hua Ji star is Tai Yang, you are used to lighting things up for others and stay quiet when tired, and when leading people that is carrying it alone without saying how hard it is; when it is Tian Tong, you look after the mood first and put your own needs later, and when leading people you find it hard to let them go through a little difficulty; when it is Ju Men, words are swallowed back and turn over in your head. All of this concerns only how you get along with them and does not judge who is good or bad.

The Children Palace Hua Ji clash on the Property Palace: the energy of caring for people and the rhythm of home

The Property Palace and the Children Palace are each other’s opposites, so the attention you spend on those you lead may squeeze into the space and rhythm of home: always waiting for someone, always tidying up, home becoming the place where others need you.

You can adjust it this way: ask what the other person wants first, then decide how much to help, and give options rather than direct answers when you can; split “helping” (「幫」) and “letting go” (「放」) into two periods of time, and in the letting-go period really let them handle it themselves; keep one corner at home where you are not needed. If you have no children, these principles apply equally to students and subordinates.

The Wealth Palace welcomes the Life Palace Hua Ji: money becomes what you take most to heart

The Wealth Palace governs how you earn and spend money and your attitude toward it. It sits in one set of three together with the Life Palace and the Career Palace, so the Life Palace Hua Ji landing there is very close to your daily life: you calculate in your head when you see an account balance, you turn a single expense over repeatedly asking whether it is worth it, and a quotation can hold you up for a long time.

A real chart looks like this: the Life Palace is in the Xu (戌) palace with stem Bing, holding Wu Qu (Miao); the Hua Ji of the Bing stem is Lian Zhen (Ping), which shares the Wu (午) palace with Tian Xiang (Miao), and that is the Wealth Palace. This chart is interesting: the Wealth Palace’s own stem Ren produces Wu Qu Hua Ji and flies it back to the Life Palace, so you are concerned about money and money is also concerned about you. One school reads the Wealth Palace as a “storehouse” (「倉庫」), so Hua Ji flying in means money comes in but is guarded tightly and not easily let go; Xingge does not adopt this reading.

Numbers for the Wealth Palace end: the Life Palace receives an especially large share of returning Hua Ji

There are 21,502 charts, 8.2%, the fewest of the twelve lines. Tai Yang Hua Ji at 10.7%, Tian Tong Hua Ji at 10.4% and Tian Ji Hua Ji at 10.3% lead, with Wu Qu Hua Ji at 9.3% a little fewer; all ten crowd between 9% and 11%. Brightness leans bright: Miao or Wang is 46.3%, and the two weak grades Xian and Bu make about 20.9%.

Unique to this line is the flying back: the Hua Ji produced by the Wealth Palace’s own stem that lands back on the Life Palace is about 15%, against about 6% in general, one of two lines, with the Career Palace’s 14%, where flying back runs high; the Life, Wealth and Career palaces sit in the same set of three, so money and you pull on each other. In the Wealth Palace the Hua Ji star has no other main star beside it in about 37%; the companions Tai Yin, Tian Liang, Tian Fu and Tian Xiang each make about 8% to 9%. For the flavor of money, borrow the lines for birth-year Hua Ji in the Life Palace: Tian Tong Hua Ji looks after the mood first, and is reluctant to spend on yourself; Tai Yang Hua Ji carries things for others and says nothing of your own fatigue; Tian Ji Hua Ji counts the account again and again, and the finer the detail the harder the decision.

The Wealth Palace Hua Ji clash on the Fortune Palace: do not let the tension of earning eat the ease inside

The Fortune Palace is the Wealth Palace’s opposite, and worry over money can make it hard to truly relax, so that even rest and hobbies get weighed as worth it or not.

In practice: set your own set of rules for money, with amounts and frequency decided by you rather than copying anyone else’s numbers; fix one time to review, and do not keep calculating outside it; keep a small amount of spending that needs no explanation for the Fortune Palace, so that enjoyment does not have to pass a rational review first. This is adjusting habits, not predicting your wealth luck.

The Health Palace takes in the Life Palace Hua Ji: you cannot put down your own emotions and stress

The scenes look like this: when emotions rise you keep asking yourself why; when responsibility is heavy you feel you must hold on first; a stray remark from someone else is still on your mind when you get home. This sensitivity is sometimes good, because you often notice earlier that you cannot hold on.

Take a chart: the Life Palace is in the Hai (亥) palace with stem Yi, holding Zi Wei (Wang) and Qi Sha (Ping); the Hua Ji produced by the Yi stem is Tai Yin (Bu), landing in the Health Palace in the Wu (午) palace, where Tian Tong (Xian) also sits. One school treats the Health Palace as the “root” (「根」), saying Hua Ji entering here means taking many things into yourself and not easily saying them out loud; Xingge does not adopt this reading.

The Health Palace end: a higher share of empty Life Palaces, and a dimmer brightness

There are 21,660 charts, about 8.2%. Lian Zhen Hua Ji at 10.7% and Wu Qu Hua Ji at 10.6% are slightly more, and Ju Men Hua Ji at 9.3% slightly fewer; the range of the ten is under one and a half percentage points. Against the baseline of the eight main stars, Miao or Wang is only 37.7%, and poor brightness (Xian or Bu) is 27.0%, about 4 percentage points higher.

The Life Palace is empty in about 23.5%, against about 16.5% for charts in general; in those empty-palace charts the Hua Ji star is a main star about 84% of the time, and then you borrow the Travel Palace’s main stars to read the Life Palace. In the Health Palace the Hua Ji star is the only main star in about 46%, with the companions Po Jun and Qi Sha each about 9%. To describe how emotions flow, take the description of birth-year Hua Ji in the Life Palace as a metaphor: Lian Zhen Hua Ji is principles and feelings both hard, often fighting yourself; Tian Tong Hua Ji is looking after the mood first and pushing your own needs to the back. On the brightness of the Hua Ji star, some teachers say that when bright you notice yourself more, and when dim you tend to hold on until very tired before noticing. All of this is a reading of stress and emotions.

The Health Palace Hua Ji clash on the Parents Palace: separating stress from elders and rules

The other end of the Health Palace is the Parents Palace, so inner stress and the stress of dealing with elders, superiors and regulations easily magnify each other: the more is asked of you, the more eager you are to get everything right, and the more eager you are, the more you feel too much is being asked.

Two things you can do: finish the one or two most important things of the day first and push the rest back, so that stress has a ceiling; when you need to talk to an elder or a superior, say clearly what you need first, then discuss what the other side expects.

Why Life Palace Hua Ji into the Travel Palace is called Hua Ji clashing the Life Palace

The Travel Palace shows how you perform once you leave a familiar environment: being away from home, social occasions of all kinds, and where opportunities come from. It sits directly opposite the Life Palace, six squares apart, so when the Hua Ji star lands in the Travel Palace and the clash strikes back at the Life Palace, the to-and-fro is all on one line. The scenes look like this: being especially aware of others’ eyes when out, thinking for a long time before changing environment, replaying a conversation after an occasion has ended.

One chart: the Life Palace is in the Zi (子) palace with stem Bing, holding Po Jun (Miao); the Hua Ji of the Bing stem is Lian Zhen (Ping), which shares the Wu (午) palace with Tian Xiang (Miao), and that is the Travel Palace. The San He school does not look at palace stems and reads the stars of the Travel Palace directly; the two ways of reading can be compared.

The Travel Palace end: the share of empty Life Palaces is the highest of the twelve lines

All charts number 21,850, 8.3%. Wu Qu Hua Ji is 11.6% and Tai Yang Hua Ji 8.8%, nearly three percentage points apart, with the rest mostly around 10%, so Wu Qu is slightly more and Tai Yang slightly fewer, but no ranking is drawn. Miao or Wang is 46.6% and Xian plus Bu together 20.6%, so brightness leans bright. A reminder: schools lay out the Geng stem’s Hua Ke and Hua Ji differently, so people born in Geng years will differ by school.

Unique to this line is the empty Life Palace: about 39% in the sample, more than double the general rate (16.5%); in these empty-palace charts, about 89% of the time the Hua Ji star is exactly the main star of the Travel Palace, the star borrowed to read the Life Palace: the star borrowed to read yourself is also the star carrying Hua Ji. The Travel Palace’s own stem also producing Hua Ji that lands back in the Travel Palace as self-transformation is only about 3%, against about 10% in general.

After the clash reaches the Life Palace: separating the world outside from yourself

It is clearer to split this line in two: one half is that you take the outside world very seriously, the other half is that outside events pull back on your mood. Arrangements to match: before going out, decide the one thing you want to achieve, and you do not need to push hard at every occasion; after returning home, do one closing action, such as tidying a bag or writing a few lines of notes, so that outside matters stay outside; before decisions like changing environment or jobs, write one list of what the outside world expects and one of what you want, and compare them.

If the Hua Ji star is Tai Yang, the reworded description of birth-year Hua Ji in the Life Palace can be applied: lighting up the occasion first and not saying when tired, which in outside settings is you holding on first; this is borrowing, and not a conclusion unique to this line.

The Friends Palace holds the Life Palace Hua Ji: friends and coworkers become the people you keep in mind

The Friends Palace governs relationships among equals: friends, coworkers and subordinates, and also how you lead a team. The scenes look like this: a line in the coworkers’ group chat you think about all night; a friend in difficulty and you are more anxious than they are; leading a team where you want to look after everything.

An example: the Life Palace is in the Wu (午) palace with stem Geng, holding Qi Sha (Wang); the Hua Ji of the Geng stem is Tian Tong (Miao), sitting alone in the Hai (亥) palace, which is the Friends Palace. Some read this line as “owing” (「欠」), feeling you owe a friend a favor, or that the other person should respond and has not; Xingge does not adopt this reading, so treat it as one view.

Numbers for the Friends Palace end: the most charts of the twelve lines, brightness close to the baseline

There are 22,370 charts, 8.5%, the most of the twelve lines. Tai Yin Hua Ji at 11.0% is slightly more, and Tian Tong Hua Ji and Tai Yang Hua Ji at 9.3% each slightly fewer; the highest and lowest differ by under two percentage points. Brightness is close to the baseline: Miao or Wang 42.4%, and Xian or Bu 23.8%.

The Life Palace is empty in 24%, higher than the general 16.5%; the Friends Palace’s Hua Ji flying back to the Life Palace is about 8.3%, a little above general. The Hua Ji star stands alone in the Friends Palace in about 45%, while in the other charts Tan Lang, Qi Sha, Ju Men and Po Jun each share the palace in about 8% to 9%. For how this looks among people, you can borrow a few descriptions of birth-year Hua Ji in the Life Palace: Tai Yin Hua Ji is feelings gathered in deeply, so you keep a friend’s worries in mind; Tian Tong Hua Ji is looking after the mood first and putting your own needs last, so you are not good at refusing; Ju Men Hua Ji is words at the edge of the mouth and swallowed back, for fear of being misunderstood. When teachers speak of brightness, they say that with enough popularity and influence you can sustain this attention, and when it is not enough there is easily a sense of giving a lot and getting little in return.

Circle of friends and circle of siblings: the Friends Palace Hua Ji clash on the Siblings Palace

The Hua Ji clash touches the opposite palace, the Siblings Palace: the concern for friends pulls toward the siblings and peers side, for example missing a family gathering because of a friend’s matter, or a family matter leaving you absent-minded in front of friends.

A few concrete approaches: when a friend asks for help, first say the range you can help with, because saying it up front is easier than saying no halfway; before cooperating, spell out the division of work and money in writing; look at close friends and work colleagues separately, and do not use the same yardstick for both.

The Career Palace holds the Life Palace Hua Ji: work is your home ground and also the place you cannot put down

The Career Palace governs your work and career, and your results and your place in society are mostly read from here. The scenes look like this: still thinking about tomorrow after leaving work; being unable to move on from something that did not turn out as you wanted; seeing someone else appreciated and turning it over a few more times in your own mind.

One chart: the Life Palace is in the Chou (丑) palace with stem Ding, holding Tian Ji (Xian); the Hua Ji of the Ding stem is Ju Men (Wang), sitting alone in the Si (巳) palace, the Career Palace. The San He school ignores palace stems and reads the main stars and Three Harmonies and Four Directions of the Career Palace directly; putting the two readings side by side is more complete than reading one line alone.

The Career Palace end: leaning bright, with the Hua Ji star often returning to find the Life Palace

There are 22,232 charts in all, 8.5%. Tan Lang Hua Ji at 11.0% and Tai Yang Hua Ji at 10.7% are slightly more, and Wu Qu Hua Ji and Lian Zhen Hua Ji at 9.4% each slightly fewer; no two stars differ by two percentage points. The Hua Ji star is Miao or Wang in 48.3% and falls to Xian or Bu in only 19.5%, so brightness leans bright.

Two more numbers: the empty Life Palace is about 25% (general 16.5%); the Hua Ji produced by the Career Palace’s own stem that lands back on the Life Palace is about 14%, against about 6% in general. In about 39% the Hua Ji star has no other main star beside it in the Career Palace; when there is one, Tian Liang and Tai Yin are the commonest at about 8% each. For working style, take Xingge’s lines on birth-year Hua Ji, reworded: Tan Lang Hua Ji is knowing a lot and wanting a lot, often feeling not good enough, which at work means wanting to try everything and fearing it is not done well enough; Tai Yang Hua Ji is lighting things up for others and hiding your own tiredness, holding on for responsibility; Ju Men Hua Ji is arguing with yourself inside, so one remark in a meeting is thought over for a long time. Some teachers think a bright Hua Ji star can turn into expertise and reputation, while a dim one is more likely to mean hard work and not being seen.

The Career Palace Hua Ji clash on the Spouse Palace: do not let the attention for work squeeze out time together

The Spouse Palace sits at the other end from the Career Palace, so the attention work takes may squeeze the time for love and intimate relationships. If you are single, you can read the Spouse Palace as how much you invest in intimate relationships.

You can set yourself a finishing-work line: when the time comes, close the computer and turn off notifications, relying on an action rather than willpower; for important projects, let the people around you know which weeks will be busy and how you will make it up afterwards; outside work, keep one thing that makes only you happy. This is arranging work and life, and not a prediction of career success or failure.

The Property Palace stores the Life Palace Hua Ji: home is where your attention comes to rest

The Property Palace governs home and residence, and also touches how grounded you feel and whether things stay with you. The scenes look like this: you think for a long time about a decision to move or rent; you can only relax if the arrangement at home looks right to you, and only feel charged once you get home; whether things can be kept is also something you take to heart.

Look at a real chart: the Life Palace is in the Wei (未) palace with stem Gui, holding Tian Ji (Xian); the Hua Ji of the Gui stem is Tan Lang (Miao), sitting alone in the Xu (戌) palace, that square being the Property Palace. One school reads the Property Palace as “keeping” (「收藏」), so Hua Ji flying in means keeping things at your side and not easily letting go; Xingge does not adopt this reading, and counts it only as a side view.

The Property Palace end: leaning dim, with the Hua Ji star mostly sitting alone

There are 22,030 charts, 8.4%. Ju Men, Tian Tong and Tai Yang Hua Ji are 10.8% each, and Wu Qu Hua Ji at 8.8% is slightly fewer, differing from Tai Yin Hua Ji at 9.4% by under one percentage point, so no ranking. Miao or Wang is 40.9% and weak brightness (Xian, Bu) reaches 27.4%, about 4 percentage points above the baseline, in the same group as the Health and Parents palaces that lean dim.

A lone Hua Ji star holds the Property Palace in about 49%, tied for the highest with the Children Palace; when there is a co-seated star, Ju Men and Qi Sha are each about 8%. The Life Palace is empty in about 19%. For the mood of living at home, Xingge has a few lines on birth-year Hua Ji in the Life Palace that, reworded, can be used to picture it: Ju Men Hua Ji is words kept back, so what is said at home stays pent up inside; Tian Tong Hua Ji is fearing friction at home and leaving your own needs on hold; Tan Lang Hua Ji is wanting everything yet always feeling it is not enough, always wanting to make home better. As to brightness, some say a bright Hua Ji star can become practical management, while a dim one calls for care not to stake all your sense of security on owning things.

Arranging home and the people you lead: the Property Palace Hua Ji clash on the Children Palace

The Hua Ji clash from the Property Palace falls on the Children Palace, so matters of home easily affect how you get along with children, younger people and those you lead, for example school districts when moving, rooms that are not enough, and small frictions over sharing housework. If you have no children, it can be read as the space at home and the people you teach and lead affecting each other.

Practical approaches: list the big matters of home and order them by urgency, rather than deciding all at once; keep one corner of the home that is only yours; agree on tidying rules with those who live with you, so it does not depend on who cannot hold out first.

The Fortune Palace takes in the Life Palace Hua Ji: the mind is still turning during rest

The Fortune Palace governs spiritual satisfaction and leisure, and also how at ease you are inside. The scenes look like this: your head still turning while you rest, unable to settle though nothing is wrong; being very particular about what you love, working at it until you are satisfied; when alone, thinking more than you say.

Take a chart: the Life Palace is in the Xu (戌) palace with stem Jia, holding Tian Tong (Ping); the Hua Ji of the Jia stem is Tai Yang (Xian), sitting alone in the Zi (子) palace, which is the Fortune Palace. One school treats the Fortune Palace as a storehouse of blessings, saying Hua Ji entering here means putting happiness away and not easily showing it; Xingge does not adopt this reading. The San He school reads the brightness of the Fortune Palace’s stars and its auspicious and Sha stars directly to judge how strongly you enjoy life.

The Fortune Palace end: leaning bright, and the Fortune Palace often self-transforms

There are 21,556 charts (8.2%). Tai Yang Hua Ji at 10.7%, Tian Tong Hua Ji at 10.4% and Tian Ji Hua Ji at 10.3% lead, with Wu Qu Hua Ji at 9.3% a little fewer, a high-low gap of about one and a half percentage points. In brightness, Miao or Wang makes up 46.2% and the two grades Xian and Bu about 20.9%, leaning bright.

The Fortune Palace’s own stem also producing Hua Ji that lands back in the Fortune Palace as self-transformation is about 24%, against about 10% in general; the Fortune Palace’s Hua Ji flying back to the Life Palace is only about 1.4%, against about 6% in general. In about 38% of charts the Hua Ji star is the only main star in the Fortune Palace; the co-seated Tai Yin, Tian Liang and Tian Fu each make about 8% to 9%. For matters of the heart, borrow a few of Xingge’s descriptions of birth-year Hua Ji: Tian Tong Hua Ji is putting your own needs last, even rest; Tian Ji Hua Ji is calculating again and again, one thought after another; Ju Men Hua Ji is swallowing words back and starting to argue with yourself. When the Hua Ji star is bright, some teachers describe it as focus and taste, and when dim you need all the more to find an outlet for letting go. These are all the flow of your thoughts, not a diagnosis of emotional state.

When the mind is unsettled, how to see money: the Fortune Palace Hua Ji clash on the Wealth Palace

The Fortune Palace’s opposite is the Wealth Palace, so what the heart cannot put down may turn into spending money to buy peace of mind, or earning money to fill the emptiness inside. This is a common reading, not something everyone does.

You can arrange it this way: leave a short stretch each day to do nothing at all, without scrolling your phone; when you want to buy something, wait a night before deciding; set your own budget for interests, with the amount decided by you and no need to compare with others. The clearer the matters of the heart, the less your money decisions are led by emotion.

The Parents Palace takes away the Life Palace Hua Ji: elders, superiors and rules

The Parents Palace governs your bond with parents and elders, and also how you face authority and institutions. The scenes look like this: weighing your words before replying to an elder’s message; unpacking a superior’s one sentence in several layers; being especially serious about documents, exams and rules, which have a standard. This care sometimes becomes you setting the standard very high.

Take a chart: the Life Palace is in the Wei (未) palace with stem Gui, holding Tai Yang (De) and Tai Yin (Bu); the Hua Ji of the Gui stem is Tan Lang (Ping), sitting alone in the Shen (申) palace, which is the Parents Palace. In this chart the Parents Palace’s own stem Jia produces Tai Yang Hua Ji, and Tai Yang happens to sit in the Life Palace: the two lines point at each other, so you care about elders, and the elders’ side also pulls back on you. One school reads Hua Ji flying into the Parents Palace as “owing” (「欠」), feeling you should do more for your elders; Xingge does not adopt this reading, and it cannot be taken directly as a fact about how you get along.

The Parents Palace end: leaning dim, with fewer empty Life Palaces

In all charts it is 8.3%, 21,699 charts. Lian Zhen Hua Ji and Wu Qu Hua Ji are 10.6% each, Tian Tong Hua Ji is 10.3%, and Ju Men Hua Ji at 9.3% is slightly fewer, with only a little over one percentage point between top and bottom. Brightness leans dim: the Hua Ji star is Miao or Wang in only 37.9%, and poor brightness (Xian or Bu) is 27.0%, about 4 percentage points above the baseline.

The Life Palace is empty in only about 8%, about half the general rate; the Parents Palace’s Hua Ji flying back to the Life Palace is about 6%, level with general. In the Parents Palace a lone Hua Ji star is about 46%, and the co-seated Po Jun and Qi Sha are each about 9.5%. How you face authority is reworded from Xingge’s description of birth-year Hua Ji in the Life Palace: Lian Zhen Hua Ji is strong in both principles and feelings, so you are especially sensitive to rules; Tan Lang Hua Ji is a heart that lacks a kind of recognition, always feeling you are not yet qualified; Ju Men Hua Ji is not daring to speak and liking to turn things over inside. On brightness, when bright this care more easily turns into solid performance, and when dim you need self-affirmation all the more so that other people’s judgments do not lead you around. All of this concerns how you get along with them, and judges no elder.

When expectations press on you: the Parents Palace Hua Ji clash on the Health Palace

The Parents Palace and the Health Palace face each other across the chart, so the expectations of elders and rules easily turn into inner pressure, such as tension, overthinking and being unable to let go. This is a reading of stress and emotions.

What to do is turn expectations into concrete matters: with an elder, say clearly whether what you need is time, space or understanding; with a superior, confirm the standard before starting, and guess less; when other people’s judgments are loud, first keep some time for your own rhythm. You do not have to satisfy everyone, and doing the one or two most important things well is often enough.

How do I work out which palace the Life Palace Hua Ji flies into?

Is Life Palace Hua Ji from the Zi Wei Dou Shu Quan Shu?

What is the difference between Life Palace Hua Ji flying into a palace and birth-year Hua Ji in the Life Palace?

Does Life Palace Hua Ji flying into a palace mean that area goes badly?

Does Life Palace Self-Hua Ji mean overthinking and getting stuck in a corner?

I have no siblings. How do I read Life Palace Hua Ji flying into the Siblings Palace?

Does Life Palace Hua Ji flying into the Spouse Palace mean love will be harder?

What is the difference between Life Palace Hua Ji into the Spouse Palace and Spouse Palace Hua Ji into the Life Palace?

Does Life Palace Hua Ji into the Children Palace mean controlling children tightly?

I have no children. Can I still read Life Palace Hua Ji into the Children Palace?

Does Life Palace Hua Ji into the Wealth Palace mean being short of money or finding money hard to earn?

How does Life Palace Hua Ji into the Wealth Palace differ from Wealth Palace Hua Ji into the Life Palace?

With Life Palace Hua Ji into the Health Palace, where should I look after first when stress arrives?

Should someone with Life Palace Hua Ji into the Travel Palace stay put or develop elsewhere?

What is the difference between Life Palace Hua Ji into the Friends Palace and Friends Palace Hua Ji into the Life Palace?

What is the difference between Life Palace Hua Ji into the Career Palace and Career Palace Self-Hua Ji?

Does Life Palace Hua Ji into the Property Palace mean it is harder to save money or keep a house?

With Life Palace Hua Ji into the Fortune Palace, how should I arrange rest?

What should someone with Life Palace Hua Ji into the Parents Palace watch for in dealing with superiors?