The Property Palace

田宅 · seated on 亥 the Pig

This palace governs home, land, real estate, and family assets.

Heron's property palace sits on the Pig branch with the Sun fallen here, which means his relationship to home and land carries a generous, outward-turning quality; he tends to give freely to family and household, to brighten shared spaces, though the Sun in fall suggests this brightness meets some resistance or requires real effort to sustain. Tiānxíng, the discipline star, sits alongside and adds a note of stringency; where the Sun wants to radiate, Tiānxíng insists on principle, boundaries, and sometimes hardship, Heron may find that building or maintaining property involves real labor, legal precision, or learning through loss. The Wood element here reinforces growth and movement rather than static holding, so his relationship to home is less about accumulation and more about tending, rebuilding, or moving through different dwellings across his life. His Health Palace brings the Moon's receptive, domestic quality as an influence, while his Siblings Palace adds the Elder's gravitas and duty, and the Children Palace opposite pulls his attention toward legacy and what he leaves behind; together these suggest that his property matters are never purely personal but entangled with family obligation and generational responsibility. Between ages 94 and 103, this palace comes into its major ten-year cycle, when questions of home, inheritance, and land settle into their final form. Jade or green aventurine placed to the north-northwest of his living space may help ground the Wood element and soften Tiānxíng's sharper edges, inviting steadiness into a palace that otherwise tends toward motion and principle.

The Stars Here

Tàiyáng 太陽
陷 fallen
the Sun · a major star, fallen here (at its dimmest, struggling to shine). brightness, generosity, drive, and outward giving.
Tiānxíng 天刑 a harmful star. the discipline star: law, self-control, injury, and hard principle.

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.

Health Palace →
a trine (三合)
holds Tàiyīn 太陰, the Moon.
Siblings Palace →
a trine (三合)
holds Tiānliáng 天梁, the Elder.
Children Palace →
the opposite (對宮)
holds Jùmén 巨門, the Debater.

Correspondences

Element Wood it lends growth, kindness, and reaching upward
Colour green
Keepsake stone jade or green aventurine
Direction facing north-northwest

When This Palace Rules Your Years

In Purple Star, life moves through the palaces one decade at a time. This palace holds Heron's 大限, the ten-year era, from age 94 to 103. Its 小限 (the annual visit) returns at ages 11, 23, 35, 47, 59, 71, 83. 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 12th-loudest of your twelve palaces (a moderate field). Its quieter fields aren't lesser; they're read through the influence network above rather than from stars of their own.

Your Five-Element Bureau is Metal 4 (金四局); your Life Palace is Life and your Body Palace is Career. Your Life Master is Liánzhēn 廉貞 and your Body Master is Tiāntóng 天同. The four transformations of your birth year fall on 武曲 (Prosperity), 貪狼 (Power), 天梁 (Fame), 文曲 (Trouble).