What are the twelve palaces in Zi Wei Dou Shu?

The chart is divided into twelve squares, each covering one area of life. Starting from the Life Palace, they are Siblings, Spouse, Children, Wealth, Health, Travel, Friends, Career, Property, Fortune and Parents.

How do you read the twelve palaces?

Start with the Life Palace, then its San Fang Si Zheng: the Travel Palace opposite, and the Wealth and Career Palaces in trine. Every other palace works the same way: read it together with its opposite and its two trine palaces.

The twelve palaces

What are the twelve palaces?

A chart has twelve squares, each covering one area of life, like twelve rooms in a house. Start with the Life Palace, then read its opposite and trine palaces.

Life Palace ›Who you are at the core: your temperament and innate makeup. Every chart reading starts here.Opposite: Travel Palace · Trines: Wealth Palace, Career Palace
Siblings Palace ›Siblings and peers: how you get along, team up and compete with people at your own level.Opposite: Friends Palace · Trines: Health Palace, Property Palace
Spouse Palace ›Love and partnership: who you are in a close relationship and what you look for in a partner.Opposite: Career Palace · Trines: Travel Palace, Fortune Palace
Children Palace ›Children, and the people you bring along: students, juniors, the team you mentor.Opposite: Property Palace · Trines: Friends Palace, Parents Palace
Wealth Palace ›How you earn and spend, how you feel about money, and how your finances rise and fall.Opposite: Fortune Palace · Trines: Career Palace, Life Palace
Health Palace ›Your constitution and how you carry stress and handle your emotions.Opposite: Parents Palace · Trines: Property Palace, Siblings Palace
Travel Palace ›Who you become away from home: on the road, in public, and where your opportunities come from.Opposite: Life Palace · Trines: Fortune Palace, Spouse Palace
Friends Palace ›Friends, colleagues and the people who work alongside or for you, and how you lead a group.Opposite: Siblings Palace · Trines: Parents Palace, Children Palace
Career Palace ›Work and career: how your working life develops and what you build in the world.Opposite: Spouse Palace · Trines: Life Palace, Wealth Palace
Property Palace ›Home and property: where you live, whether you can settle, and what you manage to keep.Opposite: Children Palace · Trines: Siblings Palace, Health Palace
Fortune Palace ›Your inner life: what nourishes you, how at ease you feel, and the good fortune you inherit.Opposite: Wealth Palace · Trines: Spouse Palace, Travel Palace
Parents Palace ›Parents and elders, and your relationship with authority and institutions.Opposite: Health Palace · Trines: Children Palace, Friends Palace

This is the general reading. On your own chart it shifts with the stars' brightness, the San Fang Si Zheng and the year you are in.

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