The Health Palace

疾厄 · seated on 未 the Goat

strong field

This palace governs the body, vitality, and where illness gathers.

Your Health Palace sits on the Goat branch, governed by Tiānfǔ, the Treasurer, a star that brings genuine steadiness to your body and vitals; this is someone whose constitution tends toward resilience rather than fragility, someone who takes a measured, almost custodial approach to their own wellbeing. The Wood element here suggests flexibility and regeneration, a natural capacity to bend without breaking, to recover from strain. When you enter the ten-year era from 75 to 84, this palace steps forward to shape how your body ages and what kind of steward you become of your own health. The supporting stars in your influence network, the Minister in your Siblings Palace, the empty Property Palace, and the Enforcer and Commander opposite in your Parents Palace, tell you that your health is not isolated; it is held within relationships and family patterns, and what you learned about care from those around you will echo in how you tend yourself. If a Four-Transformation blessing has landed here, it deepens this already grounded picture, turning caution into wisdom and stability into longevity. The spleen, stomach, and diaphragm are your sensitive points, the places where stress and emotion first settle; keeping these channels clear and breathing deeply will serve you well. This is a palace that asks you to be patient and thorough with yourself, to treat your body as something worth the same careful attention you might give to something precious you were meant to protect.

The Stars Here

Tiānfǔ 天府
廟 exalted
the Treasurer · a major star, exalted here (at its brightest, fully empowered). stability, stewardship, caution, and quiet abundance.

Its Influence Network (三方四正)

No palace is read alone. Three others send their stars' light into this field of life: the two trine palaces (三合) and the opposite palace (對宮). Together they shape how it truly plays out.

Siblings Palace →
a trine (三合)
holds Tiānxiàng 天相, the Minister.
Property Palace →
a trine (三合)
holds no major star of its own, it too reads gently, through its network.
Parents Palace →
the opposite (對宮)
holds Liánzhēn 廉貞, the Enforcer; Qīshā 七殺, the Commander.

Correspondences

Element Wood it lends growth, kindness, and reaching upward
Colour green
Keepsake stone jade or green aventurine
Direction facing south-southwest
Governs the spleen, stomach, and diaphragm

When This Palace Rules Your Years

In Purple Star, life moves through the palaces one decade at a time. This palace holds your 大限, the ten-year era, from age 55 to 64. Its 小限 (the annual visit) returns at ages 4, 16, 28, 40, 52, 64, 76. In each of those years, the affairs of this palace step into the foreground.

In The Whole Chart

By how many stars, and how bright, sit in it, this is the 6th-loudest of your twelve palaces (a strong field). It carries real weight in the shape of your life.

Your Five-Element Bureau is Earth 5 (土五局); your Life Palace is Life and your Body Palace is Fortune. Your Life Master is Tānláng 貪狼 and your Body Master is Huǒxīng 火星. The four transformations of your birth year fall on 天同 (Prosperity), 天機 (Power), 文昌 (Fame), 廉貞 (Trouble).