The Minister in the Wellbeing palace
天相福德Tiān Xiàng in Fú Dé — also called the Fortune palace
Purple Star editorial · Reviewed
The Minister (天相 Tiān Xiàng) in the Wellbeing palace (福德, the Fortune palace) — inner life — happiness, mindset, blessings: 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 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.
What it means
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 mind is steady and hard to unsettle with flash.
The shadow side
The inner life can grow a little monotonous — widen your interests a touch to keep it alive.
The Four Transformations四化 Si Hua — four stars in your chart receive a special charge from your birth-year stem: Flow 禄 (ease), Power 权 (control), Merit 科 (recognition), Obstacle 忌 (friction). (四化) — Flow, Power, Merit and Obstacle — can sharpen or soften any of this depending on your exact birth year. Your own chart shows which are active.
From the classics
「逢相寻府，逢府看相」
Where you find the Minister, seek the Treasury; where you find the Treasury, look to the Minister — Tian Xiang and Tian Fu are always read together.
— 天纪 (lecture 03)
The Minister in other palaces
Other stars in the Wellbeing palace
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