The Peacemaker in the Life palace
天同命宫Tiān Tóng in Mìng Gōng — also called the Ming palace
Purple Star editorial · Reviewed
The Peacemaker (天同 Tiān Tóng) in the Life palace (命宫, the Ming palace) — your core self — character, potential, life direction: The Peacemaker is warm, easygoing and content with its lot, carrying a deep reserve of good fortune — rarely vastly rich, but comfortable and at ease.
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 Peacemaker is warm, easygoing and content with its lot, carrying a deep reserve of good fortune — rarely vastly rich, but comfortable and at ease. Quality of life tends to be good, with inner enjoyment mattering more than piling up possessions. Service, the arts, education and work with children all suit it well.
The shadow side
Too much comfort can dull the drive to strive, so a measure of self-discipline is needed. Romantic charm runs strong and the love life is full — which means the marriage must be actively tended, and pleasure never allowed to crowd out responsibility.
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
「人和大于地利，地利大于天时」
Harmony among people outweighs favourable ground, and favourable ground outweighs favourable timing — Tian Tong's gift is people, and people are the greatest advantage of all.
— 天纪 (lecture 03)
The Peacemaker in other palaces
Other stars in the Life palace
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