The twelve palaces

What is the Fortune Palace?

The Fortune Palace covers your inner life: what nourishes you, how at ease you feel, and the good fortune you inherit.

Three palaces to read with the Fortune Palace

The palace opposite is the Wealth Palace, and the trine palaces are the Spouse Palace and the Travel Palace. Together these four make up the San Fang Si Zheng of the Fortune Palace. The opposite palace has the strongest pull after the palace itself, and the two trines act like the other corners of a triangle, each echoing the others.

The San Fang Si Zheng lesson ›
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The fourteen main stars in the Fortune Palace

Below is how each star reads at steady brightness. Brightness and the stars sharing the palace change the reading, so open each one for the full picture.

An empty Fortune Palace

A palace with no main star is called an Empty Palace. You borrow the main stars of the Wealth Palace opposite, at somewhat reduced strength.

The Empty Palace lesson ›
Further lesson: The self line: Fortune, Travel and Health›

Other palaces

Life PalaceSiblings PalaceSpouse PalaceChildren PalaceWealth PalaceHealth PalaceTravel PalaceFriends PalaceCareer PalaceProperty PalaceParents 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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