The Siblings Palace
兄弟 · seated on 丑 the Ox
✦ your year now
This palace governs brothers, sisters, and close peers.
Your Siblings Palace sits on the Ox, a grounded earth position that borrows its light from the Friends Palace opposite; this means your bonds with siblings and close peers are colored by how you choose your wider circle and whom you trust. Tiānkuí, the heavenly noble, brings you steady, quiet support from those a generation ahead; Língxīng, the Bell Star, suggests a low hum of friction that surfaces slowly, something unspoken that needs tending rather than ignoring. Tiānxǐ, the joy star, softens this; births, celebrations, and happy turning points thread through your sibling world. The Wood element here makes you naturally inclined toward growth and healing in these bonds; you tend toward mending rather than breaking, though you move at your own pace. When you reach ages 112 to 121, this palace becomes your ten-year focus, and whatever seeds you planted in your sibling relationships will have ripened fully by then. For now, look to your Property Palace and Health Palace as mirrors; the Moon's influence on what you own and the Sun's on your vitality both teach you how to show up for those closest to you. Facing north-northeast and carrying jade or green aventurine will anchor you in the steady, patient energy this palace asks of you.
The Stars Here
| Tiānkuí 天魁 | a lucky helper. a noble benefactor (by day), open help from elders. |
| Língxīng 鈴星 | a harmful star. the Bell Star: a slow, smouldering irritation and hidden friction. |
| Tiānxǐ 天喜 | a lucky helper. the joy star: celebration, births, and happy events. |
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.
|
Property Palace →
a trine (三合) |
holds Tàiyīn 太陰, the Moon. |
|
Health Palace →
a trine (三合) |
holds Tàiyáng 太陽, the Sun; Tiānliáng 天梁, the Elder. |
|
Friends Palace →
the opposite (對宮) |
holds Tiāntóng 天同, the Child; 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-northeast |
When This Palace Rules Your Years
In Purple Star, life moves through the palaces one decade at a time. This palace holds Raven's 大限, the ten-year era, from age 12 to 21. Its 小限 (the annual visit) returns at ages 10, 22, 34, 46, 58, 70, 82. 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 11th-loudest of your twelve palaces (a quiet 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 Water 2 (水二局); your Life Palace is Life and your Body Palace is Travel. Your Life Master is Lùcún 祿存 and your Body Master is Tiānliáng 天梁. The four transformations of your birth year fall on 貪狼 (Prosperity), 太陰 (Power), 右弼 (Fame), 天機 (Trouble).
