Hua Ji from the Travel Palace into all twelve palaces: how Flying Star readers see each line
Want to know what the Travel Palace Hua Ji means and how to read it in each palace? Break it into three steps: take the Travel Palace’s stem, look up the Hua Ji star for that stem, and see which palace the Hua Ji star sits in. The Travel Palace governs you once you step outside, and wherever the Hua Ji star sits, your concerns about the outside world connect to that palace; if the star stays in the Travel Palace itself, it is called Travel Palace Self-Hua Ji. This page reads the twelve landing palaces in turn, from the Life Palace to the Parents Palace. Palace-stem flying transformations are a method the Flying Star school developed later; they cannot be found in the Zi Wei Dou Shu Quan Shu (the Quan Shu), so everything below is one school’s view, and it does not predict how your travels will go.
On this page
Where the Travel Palace stem comes from, and which star is the Hua Ji star
The Travel Palace stem is not fixed. First take the stem of the birth year and use the Five Tigers rule (五虎遁) to work out the stem of the Yin (寅) palace, then count along the earthly branches to the square where the Travel Palace sits. When the birth year changes, the stem of the same square changes with it, and so does the Hua Ji star. The lookup table is short: a palace stem of Jia turns Tai Yang into Hua Ji, Yi gives Tai Yin, Bing Lian Zhen, Ding Ju Men, Wu Tian Ji, Ji Wen Qu, Geng Tian Tong, Xin Wen Chang, Ren Wu Qu and Gui Tan Lang; each of the ten stars takes up about one tenth. If the landing palace is an Empty Palace with no main star, the Hua Ji star inside can only be Wen Chang or Wen Qu.
The 262,980 charts cover every double-hour of every day from 1950 to 2009. Each chart lands in exactly one place, so the chart counts of the twelve lines add up to exactly this number; a single line holds between 8.2% and 8.6%, about one chart in twelve. About 16.5% of charts have an empty Life Palace, and such a chart borrows the main stars of the Travel Palace; when the Travel Palace itself is empty, it works the other way round and borrows the main stars of the Life Palace.
What the Travel Palace governs, and how to read Hua Ji flying in, Hua Ji clash and self-transformation
On Xingge, the Travel Palace stands for going out, how you perform outside, and your relationship with the outside world. The Flying Star school’s saying 「祿隨忌走」 (“Lu follows Ji”) means that wherever the Hua Ji star sits, the Travel Palace’s concerns and the things you spend effort looking after shift to that palace. Another rule is the Hua Ji clash: when Hua Ji flies into a palace, the palace directly opposite is stirred as well, so each line should be read together with its opposite. The Travel Palace and the Life Palace face each other, so Travel Palace Hua Ji flying into the Life Palace is the special case, striking back at itself; Xingge’s opposite-palace table has the same pair in the reverse direction: Hua Ji in the Travel Palace clashes with the Life Palace. In Self-Hua Ji the Hua Ji star has not left the Travel Palace, so it is not discussed as a clash and is read only as matters of this palace coming and going quickly.
Other schools read things differently. Each section first gives the most common reading, and views from other schools are marked 「站上沒有收」 (“not adopted by Xingge”).
How to read the numbers in each section and the flavor of the borrowed Hua Ji stars
The chart counts and Hua Ji star counts in each section are real counts over all charts. The shares for brightness, co-seated main stars and Empty Palaces come from a sample: one day out of every seven, with all twelve double-hours charted for that day, 37,572 charts in total. 「廟旺」 (“Miao or Wang”) is Miao and Wang added together, and 「陷」 (“Xian”) counts only Xian (Fallen), not Bu (Unsupported). The example charts are generated by program, with star names and brightness left exactly as they come. Xingge has no settled view on how to read bright or dim; what each section quotes is the view of some teachers.
The flavor of each Hua Ji star is reworded from the Hua Ji lines on Xingge’s Life Palace page: for example, Tai Yang Hua Ji lights up other people, Tian Ji Hua Ji likes to calculate, Ju Men Hua Ji swallows its words, Tan Lang Hua Ji has many desires, Tian Tong Hua Ji looks after the mood first, Lian Zhen Hua Ji likes to compete, Tai Yin Hua Ji tucks its feelings away deep, and Wu Qu Hua Ji shoulders things stubbornly. The original lines describe people with a birth-year Hua Ji in the Life Palace; here they are used only as a metaphor for the texture of a concern.
The twelve lines
Travel Palace Hua Ji into the Life Palace · Travel Palace Hua Ji into the Siblings Palace · Travel Palace Hua Ji into the Spouse Palace · Travel Palace Hua Ji into the Children Palace · Travel Palace Hua Ji into the Wealth Palace · Travel Palace Hua Ji into the Health Palace · Travel Palace self-Hua Ji · Travel Palace Hua Ji into the Friends Palace · Travel Palace Hua Ji into the Career Palace · Travel Palace Hua Ji into the Property Palace · Travel Palace Hua Ji into the Fortune Palace · Travel Palace Hua Ji into the Parents Palace
Travel Palace Hua Ji into the Life Palace
When Travel Palace Hua Ji flies into the Life Palace, the Flying Star school reads what you notice when you go out, and what others say about you, as all coming back to you and becoming something you need to think through. The two ends of this line are one pair of opposite palaces: the Hua Ji that lands in the Life Palace also clashes back with the Travel Palace it set out from.
Travel Palace Hua Ji flying into the Life Palace: why the echo from outside lands on you
The Travel Palace governs going out, how you perform outside, and how others see you; the Life Palace is you yourself, and the two palaces face each other. When Hua Ji flies from the Travel Palace into the Life Palace, the common reading is that you care a lot about how the outside world sees you: one remark or one glance, and back at your place you are still using it to weigh 「我是不是哪裡不夠好」 (“am I lacking somewhere?”). Mind the direction: it is the exact opposite of Life Palace Hua Ji flying into the Travel Palace, where your effort is sent outward, whereas here the echo from outside is drawn inward. One school of teachers reads it differently, as the outside environment constantly making demands on you (not adopted by Xingge); the two readings describe the same phenomenon, and the only difference is whether the problem is placed first in yourself or first in the environment.
Charts where Travel Palace Hua Ji flies into the Life Palace: over twenty thousand, and none of the ten Hua Ji stars is rare
We charted all 262,980 charts one by one (every double-hour of every day from 1950); 21,537 of them have the Travel Hua Ji flying into the Life Palace, about 8.2%. The ten Hua Ji stars are close to each other, ranging from Tai Yin Hua Ji at 11.7% to Wu Qu Hua Ji at 8.6%. In the sample (37,572 charts), the Hua Ji star is Miao or Wang in about 56% and Xian (Fallen) in about 9%; the Life Palace is empty in about 4%, and the only stars that can turn Hua Ji in an Empty Palace are Wen Chang and Wen Qu. Among charts where the Life Palace holds a main star, Tai Yin is about 20%, more than three percentage points above the runner-up Lian Zhen (about 16.8%), and Tai Yang is about 16.2%. Separately, the Travel Palace is itself an Empty Palace in about 39% of charts; the Travel Palace then borrows the main stars of the Life Palace, and the Hua Ji star still flies out from the Travel Palace’s stem all the same.
For the character part, we borrow the lines Xingge’s Life Palace page writes for each Hua Ji star, reworded as follows: Tai Yin Hua Ji tucks feelings away deep, so a remark from someone can stay in the mind for a long time; Tian Ji Hua Ji likes to calculate the next step again and again, thinking through several ways to respond before going out. Take a chart of someone born in a Yi year as an example: the Travel Palace is in the Yin (寅) palace with palace stem Wu, the Hua Ji star of the Wu stem is Tian Ji, and Tian Ji (De) and Tai Yin (Li) happen to sit together in the Shen (申) palace, which is the Life Palace.
When the Life Palace receives the Travel Hua Ji: leave yourself one tidying-up step before and after going out
Once you know this line, the practice is to separate 「別人的反應」 (“other people’s reactions”) from 「我這個人」 (“me as a person”) into two columns. Back at your place, write down three facts from today, then one sentence of your own guess; the guess column does not need to be taken seriously. For decisions such as changing environment or changing city, first list what the outside world expects of you, then list what you yourself want; comparing the two lists is more useful than keep thinking about what others will make of you. Your character is still based on the main stars and the Three Harmonies and Four Directions (三方四正); this line adds only one sentence: you are very responsive to the outside world, so you need a place where you can come back to quiet even more.
Travel Palace Hua Ji into the Siblings Palace
Travel Palace Hua Ji flying into the Siblings Palace means the Hua Ji star of the Travel Palace lands in the Siblings Palace. The Flying Star school reads it as follows: the concerns about how you perform and present yourself outside mostly land on siblings and peers, for example comparing yourself with them, or holding up appearances for the people around you. It describes the flow of effort, not a conclusion about relations among peers.
Travel Hua Ji into the Siblings Palace: how you look outside is always set against your peers
The Siblings Palace governs siblings and your closest peers; the Travel Palace looks at how you appear in front of others once you step out. When Hua Ji flies from the Travel Palace to the Siblings Palace, the common reading is that whatever you do outside and however you are getting on, the comparison group in your mind is your peers, perhaps siblings you grew up with, or people who started working at the same time as you. The Flying Star school goes on to say that Hua Ji landing in the Siblings Palace clashes with the Friends Palace opposite, so the atmosphere of the circle of friends and colleagues is stirred along with it. In the extension of some Flying Star teachers, the Siblings Palace stands for the cash you have on hand, and then this line can also be read as the spending on going out and social events and the tightness of your pocket money pulling on each other. For people with no brothers or sisters, peers means classmates, cousins and people of the same cohort.
Charts on the Siblings Palace end: the Hua Ji star is Fallen more than twice as often
There are 21,591 charts where the Travel Hua Ji lands in the Siblings Palace, 8.2% of all charts. Tai Yang Hua Ji and Tai Yin Hua Ji are each about 11%, and Tian Tong Hua Ji is the fewest at about 8.6%. In the sample, when the Hua Ji star sits in the Siblings Palace it is Xian (Fallen) in about 22% and Miao or Wang in about 32%; in the same sample, when the Travel Hua Ji flies into the Life Palace, Xian (Fallen) is only about 9%, a clear gap. Among the main stars sharing the Siblings Palace, Tan Lang, Ju Men and Tai Yin are each about 18%, and about 2% of Siblings Palaces have no main star at all. Xingge has not written how to read the brightness of a Hua Ji star; what is often heard is that when it is fallen, this comparing thought takes more effort.
We also borrow lines from Xingge’s Life Palace page on each Hua Ji star to describe the flavor: Tai Yang Hua Ji is like shining the light on others and keeping your own tiredness to yourself; Tai Yin Hua Ji tucks feelings away deep, with nothing showing on the outside. Both are comparing yourself with peers, but the first mostly shoulders things for others in silence, and the second mostly holds it in.
A Siblings Palace carrying the Travel Hua Ji: agree each other’s limits first when dealing with peers
For partnerships, advancing money for someone and costs of going out together, agree beforehand who is responsible for what and how it is split; that hurts the relationship less than relying on tacit understanding afterwards. When the thought of comparing surfaces, ask yourself whether you are comparing income, progress or the feeling of being seen; the three call for different handling. If you especially want to hold up appearances for a peer when you are out, you can pause and think whether this is something you want to do, or whether you are afraid the other person will lose face. These are ways of arranging how you get along and do not predict what will happen to anyone; your underlying character is still read from the main stars and the Three Harmonies and Four Directions (三方四正).
Travel Palace Hua Ji into the Spouse Palace
When the Hua Ji of the Travel Palace lands in the Spouse Palace, in plain words part of how you perform outside, and of your concern about the outside world, has wound back into your love life. The Flying Star school often reads it as: your partner cares a lot about how you spend your time out, or you unconsciously bring your outside state home and set it against your partner. It describes the flow of effort, not a verdict on the relationship.
You outside and your partner: what the Spouse Palace receiving the Travel Hua Ji looks like
The Spouse Palace deals with your pattern in relationships and the relationship you want, and the Travel Palace is how you perform outside. When Hua Ji flies from the Travel Palace into the Spouse Palace, by this school’s method it also clashes with the Career Palace directly opposite the Spouse Palace, which is work. Put together, the picture is like this: after a business trip, overtime or a social dinner, you get home and your partner asks about the schedule and you do not know where to begin; or pressure from people at work is carried into your life together. Another reading (not adopted by Xingge) takes it as your thoughts in the relationship being pulled away by people and things outside, which is more of a reminder than a conclusion. If you are on your own at the moment, it can be read as: when you size up a relationship, you tend to look first at how the other person treats the way you are outside.
Charts where the Spouse Palace receives the Travel Hua Ji: the Hua Ji star is mostly bright
Among all charts, 21,931 have the Travel Hua Ji landing in the Spouse Palace, about 8.3%. All ten Hua Ji stars sit around one tenth: Tai Yin Hua Ji 11.5%, Ju Men Hua Ji and Tan Lang Hua Ji 10.8% each, and Tian Tong Hua Ji the fewest at about 8.8%. In the sample, the Hua Ji star is Miao or Wang in over half, about 53%, and Xian (Fallen) in about 9%. Among the main stars in the Spouse Palace, Tai Yin stands out most at about 21%, four percentage points ahead of the runner-up Tai Yang (about 16.9%); about 4% of Spouse Palaces have no main star. One example is a chart of someone born in a Bing year: the Travel Palace is in the Wei (未) palace with palace stem Yi, the Hua Ji star of the Yi stem is Tai Yin, and Tai Yin (Miao) sits in the Hai (亥) palace, which is exactly the Spouse Palace.
The character of each Hua Ji star is retold from the lines on Xingge’s Life Palace page: Tan Lang Hua Ji has many desires and talents yet often feels not good enough; Tai Yin Hua Ji tucks feelings away deep and is pulled along by emotion. In an intimate relationship, the first often measures whether it is worthy by its results outside, and the second brings home the grievances suffered outside without necessarily saying so.
With the Travel Hua Ji in the Spouse Palace, put outside matters into the two of you’s calendar
What you can do is agree beforehand how to share your schedule when you go out and how to say you will be home late; how comfortable each of you is with it is for the two of you to decide, with no need to follow anyone else’s standard. When you have been wound up outside, say one sentence first when you get home, such as 「我今天在外面比較累」 (“I am more tired from being out today”), so the other person knows you are not aiming at them. Work out which words are feelings brought home from outside and which are what the two of you really need to talk about. This is a way of communicating and does not predict where the relationship will go; the underlying tone of this palace is still read from its main stars.
Travel Palace Hua Ji into the Children Palace
Travel Palace Hua Ji flying into the Children Palace means, in the Flying Star school’s terms, that part of your mind outside is placed on the people you look after: they may be children, younger relatives, students, or the creative work you pour yourself into. It speaks of the direction of concern and does not judge any parent-child relationship.
A Children Palace that receives the Travel Hua Ji: you are out, but your heart stays with the people you look after
The Children Palace looks at children and younger people, together with your style in guiding people and in creative work; the Travel Palace looks at going out, and at how others see you. When Hua Ji flies from the Travel Palace to the Children Palace, the picture is of being away on a business trip and thinking of the children at home; of taking students out and being more nervous than they are; of presenting your work outside and worrying what others will think. In this school’s rules, the palace opposite the Children Palace is the Property Palace, and once Hua Ji lands, the space and rhythm at home are thought to be stirred as well. You can read it even if you have no children: take it as the people you look after, or your work.
Charts on the Children Palace end: Fallen nearly one in four
The Children Palace here takes in the Travel Hua Ji of 21,651 charts, about 8.2%. Ju Men Hua Ji is 11.7% and Tan Lang Hua Ji 11.3%, and Tian Ji Hua Ji is the fewest at about 8.9%. On brightness, in the sample about 24% are Xian (Fallen) and about 32% Miao or Wang, so Fallen is on the high side. As for main stars, Tan Lang is about 20% and Ju Men about 19%, with the next, Tai Yang, at only about 16%; about 3% have no main star. Take another chart, of someone born in a Yi year: the Travel Palace is in the Shen (申) palace with palace stem Jia, the Hua Ji star of the Jia stem is Tai Yang, and Tai Yang (Xian) sits with Ling Xing (Li) in the Hai (亥) palace, the Children Palace.
Some teachers say the concern of a fallen Hua Ji star is harder to say out loud; Xingge gives no answer on how to read bright or dim, so just listen to it. Borrowing the Hua Ji lines of Xingge’s Life Palace page to illustrate: Ju Men Hua Ji swallows its words and turns them over first; Tan Lang Hua Ji feels it is still not good enough. Put into the setting of looking after others, that is wanting to show care but swallowing the words first, or wanting to give the best and fearing you do not give enough.
A Children Palace that hides the Travel Hua Ji: say your care out loud, and also keep some distance
As an arrangement, while you are away, you can fix a short contact slot, so that the other person knows you are thinking of them and you do not have to think about it all day. When guiding people, first ask whether the other person needs advice or company, and then decide how much to say. The same goes for creative work: before presenting it, choose one or two people you trust for feedback, and there is no need to measure yourself by the eyes of everyone outside. This is a tidying-up of ways of doing things and is not a prediction about children or your work.
Travel Palace Hua Ji into the Wealth Palace
When the Hua Ji star goes from the Travel Palace into the Wealth Palace, the Flying Star school reads it as: your activities, contacts and scenes outside are tied up with the coming and going of money, and spending on going out and opportunities outside take up your thoughts about money. It looks at where the thoughts land and does not predict how much you will earn or spend.
Travel Hua Ji flying into the Wealth Palace: the distance between the scene outside and money
The Wealth Palace deals with how you earn and use money, and the Travel Palace with going out, contacts and the eyes of the outside world. When Hua Ji flies from the Travel Palace into the Wealth Palace, for example, to keep up your image outside you are willing to spend on clothes, dinners and transport; or you close a deal outside and only afterwards find the money side was not made clear. By this school’s method, the Wealth Palace faces the Fortune Palace directly, six squares away, and the mood in which you spend is thought to rise and fall too, and to be thought over afterwards. One school of teachers sees the people and affairs outside as the channel through which money comes in, with Hua Ji meaning that this channel takes effort to tend; Xingge does not adopt this view and treats it only as a reference. Both views say that outside and money are tied together.
Charts where the Wealth Palace receives the Travel Hua Ji: Ju Men Hua Ji is more common, Tian Ji Hua Ji the fewest
There are 21,997 charts with the Travel Hua Ji landing in the Wealth Palace, about 8.4%. Ju Men Hua Ji is about 12.8% and Tian Tong Hua Ji about 11.5%, less than two percentage points apart, with Wu Qu Hua Ji at about 10.8%; Tian Ji Hua Ji is the fewest at about 7.8%. On brightness, in the sample over half, about 56%, are Miao or Wang and about 8% are Xian (Fallen). Among Wealth Palaces with a main star in the same palace, Ju Men, Tian Tong, Tai Yin and Wu Qu each fall between 16% and 18%, and about 4% have no main star. Take a chart of someone born in a Yi year: the Travel Palace is in the Si (巳) palace with palace stem Xin, the Hua Ji star of the Xin stem is Wen Chang, and the Wealth Palace is in the Wei (未) palace with no main star, with Wen Chang (Li) and Wen Qu (Wang) sitting together in it; an empty palace like this is read by borrowing the main stars from the opposite Fortune Palace.
Xingge’s Life Palace page writes a character for each Hua Ji star, which we borrow to describe this: Ju Men Hua Ji swallows its words and turns them over, so when talking about prices and terms it easily says only half; Tian Tong Hua Ji looks after the mood and puts its needs behind, and is too shy to ask for what is owed. Both leave money matters stuck on 「怎麼講」 (“how to say it”), not on 「有沒有」 (“whether there is any”).
A Wealth Palace linked to the Travel Hua Ji: keep one ledger for outside spending and one for income
You might record money related to outside matters separately: one book for socializing, transport and keeping up contacts, another for what you actually put in for income, and at the year end look back at which brought a return. Before discussing a partnership, put the pay and payment dates on one sheet of paper; for the parts that feel awkward to say out loud, writing is easier than speaking. Keep a sum that you leave untouched, with the amount decided by you, and in outside settings you will be less easily carried along by the mood into spending. This is a way of keeping accounts and does not predict whether money will rise or fall.
Travel Palace Hua Ji into the Health Palace
Travel Palace Hua Ji flying into the Health Palace means the Hua Ji star of the Travel Palace lands in the Health Palace. The Flying Star school reads it as: the pressure of relationships and occasions you bear outside ends up where your inner emotions and accumulated stress sit. This page talks only about the flow of pressure and emotion, not about conclusions on the body.
A Health Palace receiving the Travel Hua Ji: where does the pressure you hold up outside get put down
On Xingge, the Health Palace governs the foundation of the body and the place where pressure builds up, and this page talks only about pressure; the Travel Palace is the scene you face when you go out. When the Travel Palace’s Hua Ji flies into the Health Palace, the picture is of keeping up your image all day outside and then, back at your place, suddenly feeling very tired and saying little; or of changing to a new environment and feeling bigger swings of mood than usual. The Health Palace faces the Parents Palace directly, so the Flying Star school also counts dealings with elders and superiors, and paperwork, as part of this pressure. There is another view that takes pressure from outside as something stored deep that is let go of only slowly (not adopted by Xingge); Xingge uses only the flow-of-pressure reading and does not draw a heavier conclusion.
Charts on the Health Palace end: the brightness leans dim
Of 262,980 charts, 21,449 have the Hua Ji star flying into the Health Palace, about 8.2%. Ju Men Hua Ji is about 11.4%, Tian Tong Hua Ji about 11.1%, Wu Qu Hua Ji about 10.7%, and Tai Yang and Tian Ji Hua Ji are the fewest at about 8.3% each. On brightness, in the sample only about 31% are Miao or Wang and about 22% are Xian (Fallen); by comparison, when it flies into the Life Palace or the Wealth Palace, Miao or Wang is over 50%, so this group leans dim. Among charts where the Health Palace has stars, Ju Men is about 20%, Tan Lang about 19% and Tian Tong about 16%, and about 3% have no main star at all. Compare with a chart of someone born in a Bing year: the Travel Palace is in the Yin (寅) palace with palace stem Geng, the Hua Ji star of the Geng stem is Tian Tong, and Tian Tong (Ping) sits in the Mao (卯) palace, the Health Palace.
Based on the Hua Ji lines on Xingge’s Life Palace page, reworded: Ju Men Hua Ji swallows its words and turns them over and over; Tian Tong Hua Ji sees to the mood first and puts its own needs behind. So the way stress builds up differs: one thinks too much, the other holds back too long. As for the brightness of the Hua Ji star, Xingge has no reading; what is often heard is that when it is fallen, this pressure is less easily noticed by yourself.
A Health Palace linked to the Travel Hua Ji: put down some of the outside feelings before you get home
What you can do is set up a changeover ritual for yourself: between leaving the outside occasion and stepping through your door, walk a stretch, listen to a song, and deal with nothing. When you are tired, first admit 「我今天撐了很久」 (“I have been holding up for a long time today”), and then decide whether to reply to messages. When pressure comes, telling someone you trust beats turning it over alone. These are suggestions for arranging your emotions, not a judgment about the body, and they predict nothing; the underlying tone is still read from the main stars and the Three Harmonies and Four Directions (三方四正).
Travel Palace self-Hua Ji
Travel Palace Self-Hua Ji, that is, Travel Palace Hua Ji flying into the Travel Palace, means the Hua Ji star turned out by the Travel Palace’s stem happens to sit in the Travel Palace itself. The Flying Star school reads it as: the thoughts about being out and about have not flown anywhere else but keep circling in the outside arena, and a common picture is going over your own performance outside again and again. Xingge’s description of self-transformation is 「來得快、散得快」 (“quick to arrive, quick to fade”).
What Travel Palace Self-Hua Ji looks like: the Hua Ji star sits right in the outside arena
The Travel Palace governs going out, how you perform outside, and how others see you. The way to work out Self-Hua Ji is: first use the stem of the birth year to set the stems of the twelve palaces, then look up the Hua Ji turned out by the Travel Palace’s stem, and finally check whether that star sits in the Travel Palace. If it does, the chart is marked with ↻. For example, in a chart of someone born in a Bing year, the Travel Palace is in the Chen (辰) palace with palace stem Ren, the Hua Ji star of the Ren stem is Wu Qu, and Wu Qu (Miao) happens to sit in the Chen (辰) palace, together with Tuo Luo (Miao) in the same palace. The common reading is: you know your performance outside best and are the most critical of it, you try hard while you are there, and after you leave you replay it once more. This line does not write a clash with the opposite palace, because the Hua Ji did not fly out.
Charts with Travel Palace Self-Hua Ji: over twenty thousand, and empty Life Palaces make up four in ten
There are 22,215 charts with Travel Palace Self-Hua Ji, about 8.4%. Ju Men Hua Ji is about 12.1%, Wu Qu Hua Ji about 11.0%, Tian Tong Hua Ji about 10.7%, and Tai Yin Hua Ji is the fewest at about 8.0%. The brightness of this group is close to that of the lines into the Life Palace and the Wealth Palace: Miao or Wang in about 55% and Xian (Fallen) in about 8%. Where the Travel Palace has main stars, Ju Men, Tai Yin, Tian Ji, Tian Tong and Wu Qu are each about 16% to 18%, and about 4% have no main star in the whole square. More striking is the Life Palace: empty Life Palaces make up about 41%, against a baseline of about 16.5% for all charts, and in about 90% of these empty-palace charts the Hua Ji star is exactly the main star of the Travel Palace, that is, the very star the Life Palace borrows for its reading.
We borrow the Hua Ji lines on Xingge’s Life Palace page to illustrate: Ju Men Hua Ji swallows its words and thinks about them for a long time; Wu Qu Hua Ji shoulders everything stubbornly by itself and keeps big decisions in the heart for a long time. By Xingge’s description of self-transformation, this concern arrives quickly and, once you have thought it through, fades quickly too, so there is no need to treat it as something that stays stuck.
Notes on getting along with Travel Palace Self-Hua Ji: when you leave an occasion, let the occasion stay where it is
A practical approach is to give outside matters a closing action: when a gathering or meeting ends, jot down one thing that went well and one thing you would like to adjust next time, then put it away. Self-transformation means this thought can dissolve by itself; you only need to give it an exit. When you measure yourself through other people’s eyes, find someone you trust and listen to how they describe you outside; it is usually more accurate than replaying it in your head. These are suggestions on how to arrange things and do not predict what will happen when you go out.
Travel Palace Hua Ji into the Friends Palace
Travel Palace Hua Ji flying into the Friends Palace means the Hua Ji of the Travel Palace lands in the Friends Palace (called Servants, 僕役, on the chart; the classical books call it the Servants Palace). The Flying Star school reads it as: most of your effort when you go out is invested in the circle of peers made up of friends, colleagues and subordinates, and how you perform outside is tightly tied to your social circle. It describes the direction of concern, not a conclusion about relationships.
The Travel Hua Ji flowing to the Friends Palace: the scene outside is really a group’s scene
The Friends Palace holds friends, colleagues and subordinates, while the Travel Palace pays attention to the impression you give when you go out. When Hua Ji goes from the Travel Palace to the Friends Palace, whether you do well outside depends on how the people around you react; in a new environment, the first thing on your mind is whether you can connect with people. The palace directly opposite the Friends Palace is the Siblings Palace, so the Flying Star school holds that dealings with siblings and peers also rise and fall with this concern. One school reads this line as 「欠」 (“owing”), feeling that you owe your friends a favor, or that friends should have responded and did not; Xingge does not adopt this reading, so take it as just one way of putting it.
Charts on the Friends Palace end: the ten Hua Ji stars are all around one tenth, and the brightness leans dim
There are 21,989 charts that land in the Friends Palace, about 8.4%. Wu Qu Hua Ji and Tian Ji Hua Ji are each about 10.8%, Tian Tong Hua Ji about 10.5%, and Lian Zhen Hua Ji is the fewest at about 9.1%, so the gaps between the stars are small. In the sampled charts, Miao or Wang is about 33% and Xian (Fallen) about 22%, so the brightness leans dim. If the Friends Palace holds main stars, Ju Men is about 19%, Tan Lang about 18% and Tian Tong about 16%; about 3% of squares are completely empty. A chart of someone born in a Jia year can serve as an example: the Travel Palace is in the Mao (卯) palace with palace stem Ding, the Hua Ji star of the Ding stem is Ju Men, and Ju Men (Miao) sits with Tai Yang (Wang) and Lu Cun in the Yin (寅) palace, which is the Friends Palace.
The flavor of the Hua Ji stars borrows lines Xingge has written on its Life Palace page: Ju Men Hua Ji swallows its words and turns them over, and does not readily speak up in a new environment; Wu Qu Hua Ji is used to shouldering things stubbornly and does a bit more of the team’s work by itself. Xingge has no reading for a dim Hua Ji star; some teachers think that when it is fallen, the concern about relationships more easily becomes a burden.
A Friends Palace that takes in the Travel Hua Ji: state your expectations clearly to the people around you
In a new environment, pick one or two people to get to know slowly; there is no need to look after everyone from the start. For division of work and reporting, leave a written record alongside the verbal agreement, so that later it is harder for each side to tell a different story. When a friend is in difficulty, first ask whether the other person wants advice, company or just to be heard, and then decide how much to put in. The size of your social circle is yours to decide; bigger is not better. These are ways of tidying how you get along and do not predict how anyone will behave.
Travel Palace Hua Ji into the Career Palace
When the Travel Palace’s Hua Ji lands in the Career Palace, the Flying Star school often reads it as: your activities, scenes and contacts outside are strung into one line with your work, and how you do in your career depends on how the outside responds, for better or worse. It describes the direction of effort and does not predict promotions or results.
Travel Hua Ji flying into the Career Palace: the scene outside becomes part of the job
The Career Palace is about work, career and how you go about things, and the Travel Palace is about going out and how others see you. When Hua Ji goes from the Travel Palace into the Career Palace, in sales, overseas postings and any work that faces clients, results depend on outside people’s approval; in other kinds of work, you still care a great deal how peers and the industry see you. The Spouse Palace happens to sit opposite the Career Palace, and this school says that once Hua Ji lands in the Career Palace, the time and patience you have for love and intimacy are also taken up by concerns about work. Other teachers read it from the angle of other places and outside opportunities, and think there is an outward pull on career (not adopted by Xingge); Xingge uses only the reading of the flow of effort and does not predict development.
Charts where the Career Palace receives the Travel Hua Ji: the Hua Ji star is mostly bright
There are 22,011 charts with the Travel Hua Ji flying into the Career Palace, about 8.4%. Tian Ji Hua Ji is about 11.1%, Wu Qu Hua Ji about 10.8% and Tian Tong Hua Ji about 10.5%, and Ju Men Hua Ji is last at 8.5%. On brightness, Miao or Wang is about 55% and Xian (Fallen) is under 10%. The distribution of main stars in the Career Palace is: Tai Yin about 19%, and Tian Tong, Wu Qu, Lian Zhen and Tian Ji each about 16%; about 4% have no main star in the square. A chart of someone born in a Yi year is also of this type: the Travel Palace is in the Xu (戌) palace with palace stem Bing, the Hua Ji star of the Bing stem is Lian Zhen, and Lian Zhen (Miao) sits with Tian Yue and Di Kong in the Shen (申) palace, the Career Palace.
As for character, the Hua Ji lines on Xingge’s Life Palace page can be retold: Tian Ji Hua Ji likes to calculate the next step again and again, and the more finely it thinks through a job change or overseas posting, the more stuck it gets; Wu Qu Hua Ji shoulders things by itself and presses big decisions down in the heart all the way. The first finds choosing hard, the second finds it hard to admit being tired.
A Career Palace carrying the Travel Hua Ji: turn your performance outside into a record that can accumulate
In practice, keep a record of your performance outside: each project signed with outsiders, feedback from clients, and contact with peers, noted in one place; over time it builds up into work people can see. Before you think of changing environment, list what your present job leaves you with, then list what the new environment asks you to give; this is more complete than looking only at outside opportunities. Concern about work takes up time meant for your partner, so set a fixed period in which work is not discussed at all. This is a suggestion for arrangement and does not predict career results.
Travel Palace Hua Ji into the Property Palace
Concerns from being out and about returning to your home is how Travel Palace Hua Ji flying into the Property Palace is read. The Flying Star school often reads it as: your activities and scenes outside are tied up with your home environment and living arrangements, so while you are away your mind often stays on the place where you live; it does not predict moves or property either.
A Property Palace that receives the Travel Hua Ji: while you are outside, home is the part you cannot put down
On Xingge, the Property Palace is home, real estate and the environment you stay in; the Travel Palace is you after you leave that environment. When Hua Ji goes from the Travel Palace into the Property Palace, on a business trip you keep thinking about how things are at home and about the route back; renting or changing your place away from home takes a lot of effort before you settle; or, for the sake of your development outside, the arrangements at home are adjusted again and again. The Children Palace sits directly opposite the Property Palace, so the people you look after and your creative work are thought to pull on the space at home. Some teachers see the Property Palace as the root of a sense of security, so this line can also be read as: the busier you are outside, the more you need home to hold you up.
Charts on the Property Palace end: Ju Men Hua Ji is the fewest, and an empty palace must hold Chang or Qu
One square, the Property Palace, takes in the Travel Hua Ji of 22,700 charts, about 8.6%. Tian Ji Hua Ji accounts for 11.8% and Tai Yang Hua Ji for 11.1%, less than two points apart, with Tian Tong Hua Ji at 10.5%; Ju Men Hua Ji is the fewest at only 8.2%. From the sample, Miao or Wang is about 33% and Xian (Fallen) about 20%. Among charts where the Property Palace holds stars, Tan Lang and Ju Men are each about 19% and Tian Ji about 18%; about 3% of charts have no main star, and in those charts the Hua Ji star must be Wen Chang or Wen Qu. Take a chart of someone born in a Jia year: the Travel Palace is in the Wei (未) palace with palace stem Xin, the Hua Ji star of the Xin stem is Wen Chang, and the Property Palace is in the Chen (辰) palace with no main star, holding only Wen Chang (De).
Set against the lines Xingge’s Life Palace page writes for each Hua Ji star: Tian Ji Hua Ji likes to calculate again and again, and will think over the options for moving or renting for a long time; Wen Chang Hua Ji values order and fears mistakes, and will read the words of a lease or contract several times.
A Property Palace linked to the Travel Hua Ji: give your days outside one fixed place to land
You can do this: wherever you live, keep one corner of your home that always belongs to you, with a few familiar things, so that you recognize it at a glance when you come back. For planning business trips and moves, split home, luggage and documents into lists and tick them off one by one; this takes less effort than keeping it all turning in your head. For the wording of contracts and tenancies, read it once more before signing, and ask first about anything you are unsure of. These are ways to settle in and do not predict real estate or moves.
Travel Palace Hua Ji into the Fortune Palace
Matters outside pressing into the heart is the most direct picture of Travel Palace Hua Ji flying into the Fortune Palace. The Flying Star school reads it as: your performance and relationships outside move your inner satisfaction and enjoyment, and how things go outside decides how you feel when you come back to your own heart. It describes the direction of effort and does not predict mood or luck.
A Fortune Palace that receives the Travel Hua Ji: how smoothly things go outside, your inner mood rises and falls with it
On Xingge, the Fortune Palace means your inner life, interests and spiritual satisfaction, and the Travel Palace means you when you go out and how others see you. When Hua Ji goes from the Travel Palace into the Fortune Palace, you feel settled only when you are recognized in outside settings, and when you meet a cold response, your interests and drive drop too. The Fortune Palace and the Wealth Palace face each other six squares apart, and this school holds that inner satisfaction and the way you earn and spend money pull on each other; a common picture is spending money to make up for unpleasant things outside. Some teachers see the Fortune Palace as the degree of enjoying blessings and read the running around outside as the price of that enjoyment; this is a view Xingge does not adopt, and Xingge uses only the reading of inner feeling.
Charts on the Fortune Palace end: Ju Men Hua Ji is the fewest
There are 22,131 Fortune Palaces carrying this line, about 8.4%. Lian Zhen Hua Ji and Tian Ji Hua Ji are each about 11.4%, Tai Yin Hua Ji is about 10.7%, and Ju Men Hua Ji is the fewest at about 7.4%. On brightness, Miao or Wang is about 53% and Xian (Fallen) about 10%. Among the main stars in the Fortune Palace, Tai Yin is about 20%, Tai Yang and Lian Zhen about 17% and Tian Ji about 16%, and about 4% have no main star at all. The example is a chart of someone born in a Bing year: the Travel Palace is in the Xu (戌) palace with palace stem Wu, the Hua Ji star of the Wu stem is Tian Ji, and Tian Ji (Miao) sits with Ling Xing (Miao) and Qing Yang (Xian) in the Wu (午) palace, the Fortune Palace.
The character lines the Life Palace page writes for each Hua Ji star are borrowed like this: Lian Zhen Hua Ji has strong principles and strong emotions, and easily competes with itself or others, so when an outside occasion is slightly off it will not let itself go; Tian Ji Hua Ji likes to calculate, and its inner satisfaction is often taken up by plans for the next step. One finds it hard to let itself off, the other finds it hard to stop and enjoy the moment.
A Fortune Palace that watches the Travel Hua Ji: find a source of inner satisfaction that does not rely on outside judgment
In practice, first list three things that need nobody else present and do not need to be seen, such as a walk alone, a piece of handwork or a book you like, and put them in the calendar every week. After an outside occasion ends, ask yourself 「我今天有一刻是自在的嗎」 (“Was there a moment today when I felt at ease?”), and if so, note it down. When you spend money to make it up to yourself, first check whether the spending is something you like, or whether it is soothing something unpleasant. This is a way of arranging your inner life and does not predict mood.
Travel Palace Hua Ji into the Parents Palace
When the Hua Ji star flies from the Travel Palace to the Parents Palace, the Flying Star school reads it as: your performance and scenes outside are often tied up with elders, superiors, paperwork and certificates, and how well you do outside becomes an account you give to elders or those above you. It does not judge your relationship with your elders.
A Parents Palace that receives the Travel Hua Ji: who is your performance outside for
On Xingge, the Parents Palace means parents, elders and superiors, and it also looks at paperwork and certificates; the Travel Palace means you outside. When Hua Ji goes from the Travel Palace to the Parents Palace, if you work in another place, you have to report your recent situation when you go home for the new year; when you meet a superior, you always think your performance should meet expectations; when taking an exam, applying for a certificate or signing paperwork, anything outside that involves documents costs extra effort. The Parents Palace faces the Health Palace directly, six squares apart, and this school says the concern about elders and those above you turns into emotional pressure. In the extension of some teachers, the Parents Palace is read as status and the degree of being recognized, and then this line means: outside, you want to earn a position you can state out loud.
Charts on the Parents Palace end: Fallen in about two in ten
On the Parents Palace end, 21,778 charts have the Travel Hua Ji flying in, about 8.3%. Tai Yang Hua Ji is about 11.6%, Tian Ji Hua Ji about 10.9%, Lian Zhen Hua Ji and Tai Yin Hua Ji each about 10.6%, and Ju Men Hua Ji is the fewest at about 8.2%. In the same sample, Miao or Wang is about 35% and Xian (Fallen) about 21%. Among charts where the Parents Palace holds a main star, Tan Lang, Tai Yang and Tai Yin are each about 17%, Ju Men and Tian Ji each about 16%, and about 3% have none at all. The example is a chart of someone born in a Jia year: the Travel Palace is in the Xu (戌) palace with palace stem Jia, the Hua Ji star of the Jia stem is Tai Yang, and Tai Yang (Wang) sits with You Bi in the Si (巳) palace, the Parents Palace.
The character is reworded from the Hua Ji lines on Xingge’s Life Palace page: Tai Yang Hua Ji lights up others and keeps its own tiredness to itself, reporting good news and not bad; Tian Ji Hua Ji likes to calculate and guesses many layers into the reactions of those above. Xingge has no reading for a fallen Hua Ji star; some teachers say this concern is then less easily seen by the other person.
A Parents Palace linked to the Travel Hua Ji: with elders and superiors, report on your own initiative and also leave some room
As an arrangement, when you report your recent situation to elders or a superior, you can fix a rhythm, such as once a month, and say three things briefly: what you did, where you are stuck and what help you need, with no need to put on a results presentation every time. For paperwork and certificates, list the deadlines and the missing documents, and when handling them away from home prepare everything even earlier. You do not have to take on all their expectations: listen, set them aside for now, and then think about which ones you also want. This is a tidying-up of how you get along and does not judge any elder.
FAQ
How do I work out which palace the Travel Palace Hua Ji flies into?
Chart your birth, look at the Travel Palace stem, and look up the Hua Ji star it corresponds to; the palace where that star sits is the landing palace. If the star is in the Travel Palace itself, it is called Self-Hua Ji. The stem-to-star table is in the first section.
Is Travel Palace Hua Ji from the Zi Wei Dou Shu Quan Shu?
No, the Quan Shu does not have this system. Palace-stem flying transformations come from the later Flying Star school and use the stem of each palace itself. That is a different road from the birth-year Four Transformations, which use the stem of the birth year, and mixing the two makes the reading confusing.
Does Travel Palace Hua Ji mean things will go badly when I am out and about?
No, that is not what it means. It describes the direction of your concern: which part of your performance and relationships outside you cannot let go of. It does not predict your luck when travelling. Each chart has only one of the twelve landing palaces.
Why is it said that Travel Palace Hua Ji flying into a palace also clashes with the opposite palace?
The Flying Star school’s rule is that wherever Hua Ji lands, its force also strikes the palace directly opposite. For example, with Hua Ji flying into the Siblings Palace, the Friends Palace is stirred as well. This is a way of describing how concerns link up, not a forecast that the opposite palace will have trouble; Self-Hua Ji has not flown out, so there is no clash to discuss.
What is the difference between Travel Palace Hua Ji flying into a palace and that palace’s Hua Ji flying into the Travel Palace?
The direction is reversed. Travel Palace Hua Ji flying into the Life Palace is the echo from outside coming back to you; Life Palace Hua Ji flying into the Travel Palace is your effort being sent outward. The first feels like caring a great deal how the outside world sees you, the second like being unable to let go of matters outside. The starting point is different, so the emphasis of the reading is different.
How can someone with Travel Palace Hua Ji flying into the Life Palace ease up after being judged by others?
First tell apart whether the remark was about one thing or about you as a person; most of the time it is only the former. You can fix one closing routine for when you get back, for example writing three lines about today’s scene and then stopping, so that the outside voices have somewhere to be put down.
How should someone with Travel Palace Hua Ji flying into the Siblings Palace handle money with peers?
If, following some teachers’ extension, you read the Siblings Palace as cash on hand, keep shared expenses and money you advance in separate records, and fix a regular time for settling up. How much and how to split is for you to agree among yourselves; there is no need to guess.
Travel Palace Hua Ji flying into the Spouse Palace: why does my partner care so much about what I do outside?
The Hua Ji star carries concern, and landing in the Spouse Palace, the Flying Star school reads it as your thoughts often circling in your love life. The other person’s caring does not necessarily come from this line; it depends on their chart and how the two of you get along, and it is more practical to talk through the schedule and the feelings first.
Travel Palace Hua Ji flying into the Children Palace: what if I keep worrying about the children at home while I am away?
You can fix one contact time every day and let the rest of the time be for what is in front of you. The concern itself is not a problem; once you put it into one fixed container, it does not spread through the whole day.
Does Travel Palace Hua Ji flying into the Children Palace apply if I have no children?
Yes, it applies. Xingge also treats the Children Palace as a way of looking at the people you guide and your creative work, so students, subordinates and works can all be objects of concern. When reading this line, first find the one person or one piece of work you cannot stop worrying about when you are out.
Travel Palace Hua Ji flying into the Wealth Palace: why do I spend more easily when I am out?
The Flying Star school’s view is that the scene outside takes up your thoughts about money, so there are more chances to spend for image or atmosphere. This is a tendency, not a conclusion; keeping a separate book for outside spending shows what it actually looks like.
Travel Palace Hua Ji flying into the Wealth Palace: how can I make price talks less awkward?
Write down the amount you want and the payment date first, and follow it when you talk, without improvising on the spot. Ju Men Hua Ji tends to say only half and Tian Tong Hua Ji tends to give way, so with your bottom line written down beforehand, both habits have something to stand on.
Travel Palace Hua Ji flying into the Health Palace: what if I come home tired after holding up all day outside?
First admit that the tiredness is the result of holding up all day, not a sign that you are not good enough. Before you get home, use a stretch of time in which you do not deal with anything as a buffer, then decide what to do; that way the mood is less likely to be dragged all the way into your home by outside matters.
How should someone with Travel Palace Self-Hua Ji and an Empty Palace in the Life Palace read the chart?
An empty Life Palace is read by borrowing the main stars of the opposite Travel Palace, so in a chart with Travel Palace Self-Hua Ji, the borrowed star often carries the Hua Ji itself. Read that star’s own character first, then treat Self-Hua Ji as a footnote: how you perform outside comes quickly and fades quickly.
What is the difference between Travel Hua Ji flying into the Travel Palace and flying into the Life Palace?
With Self-Hua Ji the Hua Ji star sits right in the Travel Palace, the thoughts have not flown out, and they circle in the outside arena; flying into the Life Palace means the Hua Ji flies into the Life Palace, the echo from outside comes back onto you, and it also clashes with the Travel Palace. The first is like outside matters staying outside, the second like outside matters being brought home.
Travel Palace Hua Ji flying into the Friends Palace: why do I care so much about colleagues’ reactions in a new environment?
How you perform outside is tied to your circle of people, so colleagues’ reactions become the ruler you measure yourself by; that is the Flying Star school’s view. You can find another measure unrelated to colleagues, such as what you yourself have finished, to balance this concern.
Travel Palace Hua Ji flying into the Career Palace: is overseas or sales work harder for me?
This line only says that reactions outside are tied up with work; it does not mean a particular job will be harder. If your work already faces the outside world, this concern is more obvious, and recording results and feedback gives you firmer ground inside.
Travel Palace Hua Ji flying into the Career Palace: should I move elsewhere to develop?
A chart has no simple answer like that. This line only says that the outside has a pull on your career, and also a cost; the real decision still depends on practical conditions and the life you want. You can try a short stretch first and then assess.
Travel Palace Hua Ji flying into the Property Palace: why do I keep thinking of home on business trips or when I am away?
Your thoughts outside are pulled onto the home environment, so even when you are out, your mind stays on where you live; that is the Flying Star school’s reading. You can settle things at home before you leave, or report once a day at a fixed time, putting the concern into one fixed slot.
The Property Palace has no main star. How do I read Travel Palace Hua Ji flying into the Property Palace?
Such charts are under 3%, and the Hua Ji star must be Wen Chang or Wen Qu. First look at its brightness, then read it with the traits of Wen Chang Hua Ji, fearing mistakes, or Wen Qu Hua Ji, feeling that nobody understands, and treat the Property Palace itself as an empty one that borrows the main stars of its opposite palace.
Travel Palace Hua Ji flying into the Fortune Palace: how do I get my mood back after a setback outside?
First accept that having your mood affected by the outside is a feature of this line and not a sign that you are too fragile. Find one small thing that needs nobody’s judgment and do it right away; this helps more than going over and over how that could have happened.
Travel Palace Hua Ji flying into the Parents Palace: why am I especially afraid of letting elders down with my performance outside?
That your performance outside is tied to the account you give elders is the Flying Star school’s view. You can tell them your real situation on your own initiative, including the hard parts, and expectations usually adjust by themselves through mutual understanding.
Is Travel Palace Hua Ji flying into the Parents Palace related to paperwork and certificates?
Xingge places paperwork and certificates in the Parents Palace, so this line can be read as: when matters outside involve documents, you spend extra effort. In practice, preparing the materials early and checking deadlines is more useful than predicting results.
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Hua Ji from the other palaces
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