The Wellbeing palace

What it governs

How to read a star here

The Wellbeing palace is your inner weather: contentment, mindset, and the quality of your private hours. A star here describes what your mind reaches for when it is at rest.

Ask what the star does when it has nothing to do. A calm, bright star here rests well and enjoys; a driven or afflicted one cannot switch off. The shadow side of the star is the worry that visits you at night.

The fourteen stars in the Wellbeing palace

Each of the 14 main stars reads differently here. Pick yours — or the one you are curious about — for the full reading.

• The Emperor 紫微 in the Wellbeing palace

  In the Wellbeing palace your inner life reaches for quality — refined pleasures, tasteful surroundings, little patience for the coarse or cheap.

• The Strategist 天机 in the Wellbeing palace

  In the Wellbeing palace your inner life is rich and roving — drawn to different ideas and philosophies, delighting in the act of thinking — yet it rarely settles into stillness.

• The Sun 太阳 in the Wellbeing palace

  In the Wellbeing palace contentment flows from company, public activity and the feeling of being appreciated; solitude, by contrast, can leave you oddly hollow.

• The General 武曲 in the Wellbeing palace

  In the Wellbeing palace satisfaction is built from concrete achievement and accumulated wealth, not abstract pursuits — solidity is the deepest source of ease.

• The Peacemaker 天同 in the Wellbeing palace

  In the Wellbeing palace the Peacemaker is at one of its finest posts — a rich inner life, a high sense of contentment, and a gift for savouring the small good things.

• The Maverick 廉贞 in the Wellbeing palace

  In the Wellbeing palace the inner life is rich and wide-ranging — food, art, emotional experience — and the strong romantic charge shows up here as a vivid emotional world.

• The Treasurer 天府 in the Wellbeing palace

  In the Wellbeing palace the mind reaches for stability and security — orderly, guaranteed ways of living, contentment drawn from feeling settled and materially unworried.

• The Moon 太阴 in the Wellbeing palace

  In the Wellbeing palace the inner life is rich and finely-tuned, drawn to quiet, elegant living, full of feeling and aesthetic and spiritual reaching.

• The Charmer 贪狼 in the Wellbeing palace

  In the Wellbeing palace the inner life is rich and plural, wide-ranging in its interests — food, pleasure, company, mastery — with a strong appetite for enjoyment; vivid, but easily flashy.

• The Advocate 巨门 in the Wellbeing palace

  In the Wellbeing palace the mind thinks and worries a great deal, carrying a heavy inner charge of disputation and a tendency to over-analyse, so it struggles to truly relax.

• The Minister 天相 in the Wellbeing palace

  In the Wellbeing palace the inner life is even and settled, reaching for a grounded, orderly way of living; contentment flows from reliability and stability rather than from thrills.

• The Mentor 天梁 in the Wellbeing palace

  In the Wellbeing palace the Mentor is at one of its most important seats — deep spiritual shelter, its danger-to-safety gift most evident on the inner plane, and a transcendent calm at the core.

• The Warrior 七杀 in the Wellbeing palace

  In the Wellbeing palace contentment flows from independence and the thrill of a challenge conquered; a placid, comfortable inner state holds little appeal.

• The Pioneer 破军 in the Wellbeing palace

  In the Wellbeing palace contentment comes from the thrill of change and breakthrough; a fixed, unchanging inner state holds no appeal.

Common questions

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