The Moon in the Life palace
太阴命宫Tài Yīn in Mìng Gōng — also called the Ming palace
Purple Star editorial · Reviewed
The Moon (太阴 Tài Yīn) in the Life palace (命宫, the Ming palace) — your core self — character, potential, life direction: The Moon is finely-feeling and beauty-loving, and it governs wealth — one of the chart's most important riches stars.
The Life palace is the master palace: whichever star sits here colours your whole temperament, the shape of your ambitions, and how the world first reads you.命宫 Ming Gong — the most important palace: your core character, talents and the overall shape of your life.
What it means
In the Life palace the Moon is finely-feeling and beauty-loving, and it governs wealth — one of the chart's most important riches stars. Everything turns on brightness: a luminous Moon (its later, exalted seats) brings real prosperity and grace, while a dim one brings mood swings and unsteady fortune. This is classically the most auspicious placement for a woman — the lunar quality suits her chart best, promising beauty, comfort and the blessing of home and property. A man with this chart feels deeply and is easily moved by the women in his life.
The shadow side
The Moon keeps too much inside and lets its moods run the household. In its darker seats melancholy sets in; the work is to let in enough light — company, air, movement — that feeling does not govern everything.
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
「太阴以亮为贵」
The Moon is prized for its brightness — a luminous Moon brings beauty and wealth, a dim one brings changeable moods and unsteady fortune.
— 天纪 (lectures 03, 09)
The Moon in other palaces
Other stars in the Life palace
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