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Find your Body Palace
The Body Palace is where your effort goes as life goes on, and it shows more after midlife. It depends only on your birth hour, two hours to a group, so there are just six possibilities.
Birth hour and Body Palace
The Body Palace only ever lands in these six; it never falls in the Siblings, Children, Health, Friends, Property or Parents Palace. If you know your birth hour, you can find it without your birth date.
| Birth hour | Body Palace | What it points to |
|---|---|---|
| Zi (23–01), Wu (11–13) | Life Palace | Body and Life Palace in the same square: your effort keeps going into being yourself, and you stay recognisably the same person over the years. |
| Chou (01–03), Wei (13–15) | Fortune Palace | More and more, you care about living comfortably and keeping your mind at peace; hobbies and inner life matter a lot. |
| Yin (03–05), Shen (15–17) | Career Palace | Your effort goes into work; you want to make something of what you do. |
| Mao (05–07), You (17–19) | Travel Palace | You keep moving outward: new places, travel, a bigger world. |
| Chen (07–09), Xu (19–21) | Wealth Palace | You care about earning and keeping enough money, and resources give you a sense of security. |
| Si (09–11), Hai (21–23) | Spouse Palace | Love and partnership become a centre of gravity; having the right person beside you matters. |
FAQ
Which matters more, the Body Palace or the Life Palace?
Read them together. The Life Palace is your starting makeup and shows most when you are young; the Body Palace is where your effort builds up and shows more after midlife.
Why is the Body Palace in the Life Palace for Zi and Wu hours?
Both are counted from the same starting square, the Life Palace backward by hour and the Body Palace forward. For the Zi and Wu hours the two counts stop on the same square, which is called Life and Body in the same palace.
What if I'm not sure of my birth hour?
Try the birth hour finder. Its questions about what you care about most are matched against the six Body Palaces first, which narrows things to the two likeliest hours.
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