What the Wood 3 · Po Jun type is like
Tear down an old house and a few years later a stand of trees grows on the empty lot: when a Wood 3 Po Jun takes something apart, it is often so that others have room to grow.
Po Jun meets the Wood 3 Bureau
Water feeds Wood, so here the star feeds the bureau: Po Jun is Water, the Wood 3 Bureau is Wood, and Po Jun pours the space and energy it clears into the bureau's wood. However fiercely this Po Jun tears things down, something new usually grows up in the end, and it is not always theirs. By position, Chen and Xu together come to about 40%, the most of any bureau; Po Jun is Prosperous (Wang) there, with Zi Wei and Tian Xiang opposite. Wu and Shen take about 20% each, and Yin is the rarest. Zi and Wu together make about 33%, which a Xingge chart marks as Ying Xing Ru Miao (Hero Star in Its Temple).
Work and money
In an organisation they are the one who makes room. Pull down the clogged process and newcomers get their chance; close the outdated product line and resources flow to new projects. Restructuring, urban renewal, community regeneration, taking over an old shop and remaking it: all work they throw themselves into. With money they often spend on clearing: old equipment, old contracts, old habits. Clearing costs something, but what they count is how much can grow afterwards.
Love and getting along
In love they encourage a partner to let go of what does not fit: a draining job, a relationship that holds them back, a useless habit. People they love often find, a year or two later, that they feel much lighter. The thing to keep in mind is that other people decide for themselves what to throw out. They can help carry things; they cannot do the demolishing for someone else.
When things get stuck
Cleared ground that nobody plants grows weeds. They often finish clearing and rush off to the next site, leaving land that has not yet grown. Naming someone to take over each cleared site, or setting a rule not to leave until the first shoots appear, helps. On the other side, they are so used to making room for others that they are always on the road themselves. Now and then they could keep a patch for themselves and plant something that is theirs alone.
The rhythm of the 10-year periods
At age 3 (counted the traditional way) a Wood 3 Po Jun enters the first period, the Life Palace; at 13 comes the first change, into either the Parents Palace or the Siblings Palace depending on the yin or yang of the birth year and on sex. A decade in the Parents Palace brings them up against houses other people built: family rules, school rules, how elders do things, and the practice is changing one wall without pulling down the whole building. A decade in the Siblings Palace brings the people they grow up with, and they are often the one leading everyone into a new game; the practice is changing things without leaving companions behind. Later changes come at 23 and 33.
For the full picture of this persona, see Po Jun · The Vanguard.
Where it comes from in Purple Star Astrology
In this type Po Jun leads the Life Palace. The Life Palace is the one of twelve that says who you are, and its main star sets your base color; when two main stars share it, the first one counts.
The bureau is the Wood 3 Bureau. The Five Elements Bureau comes from the Nayin of your Life Palace stem and branch; it places the Zi Wei star on the chart and sets the age your first 10-year period starts, which is 3 for this bureau. No bureau is better than another; Xingge reads it as a flavour of the same persona.
Across 2,227 charts of this type:
- Life Palace branch
- Chen 20.1%, Xu 20.1%, Wu 19.9%, Shen 19.9%, Zi 13.3%, Yin 6.7%
- Star brightness
- Wang (Prosperous) 40.1%, Miao (Temple) 33.2%, De (Gain) 26.6%
- Elements
- Po Jun is Water; the Wood 3 Bureau is Wood
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FAQ
What kind of person does a Wood 3 Po Jun get along with?
Once they have cleared the ground they need someone to plant it, so patient people who are good at tending things are often their best partners; types who can nurture a plot slowly, such as those with Tian Liang or Tian Fu in the Life Palace, fit well. The worst case is two people who only want to tear down, until there is no house left to live in. Agreeing early on who brings the ideas and who holds the floor of daily life makes things much steadier.
What work suits a Wood 3 Po Jun?
Work that means clearing space first and then letting new things grow: restructuring and talent development, urban renewal and community building, reviving old brands or shops, retiring and replacing product lines, transformation advice for startups. The key is that they see the room they made put to good use. Work that only demolishes and never builds leaves them feeling empty.
How common is the Wood 3 · Po Jun type?
Out of 262,980 charts cast for every day and every two-hour period from 1950–2009, 2,227 have Po Jun leading the Life Palace and the Wood 3 Bureau: about 0.8%, roughly 1 in 118 people. Every day and hour is counted equally, so this is not the actual birth distribution of a population.
Why can two people born on the same day be different types?
Where your Life Palace falls depends on your birth month and birth hour, and your Five Elements Bureau comes from the stem and branch of that palace. So on the same day, one two-hour period later moves the Life Palace by one, and the main star and bureau can both change. The twelve hours of a single day usually produce several different types.
What is the Five Elements Bureau?
The Five Elements Bureau is the Nayin element of your Life Palace stem and branch: Water 2, Wood 3, Metal 4, Earth 5 or Fire 6. The number places the Zi Wei star on the chart and is also the age your first 10-year period begins (2 for Water, 6 for Fire). A bigger number is not better or worse; Xingge reads the element as a flavour of the same persona.
How is this different from MBTI?
MBTI comes from a questionnaire about how you see yourself. An Xingge type comes from your birth date and time, with nothing to answer, and the same birth details always give the same type. They work well side by side: MBTI describes your current habits, the chart describes your underlying nature and the rhythm of your life.
Which type do I get if my Life Palace has two main stars?
When two main stars share the Life Palace, the one listed first (in the order of the Zi Wei and Tian Fu star groups) sets the persona, the same as on your chart page. A Life Palace with no main star is the Empty Palace: the Traveler.
A type looks only at the Life Palace and the bureau: the roughest outline of a chart. People of the same type differ in the Body Palace, the surrounding palaces and the transformations.