The Sun in the Parents palace
太阳父母Tài Yáng in Fù Mǔ
Purple Star editorial · Reviewed
The Sun (太阳 Tài Yáng) in the Parents palace (父母) — parents, elders, mentors and authority: Your father cuts a large, well-regarded figure and holds reputational hopes for you; relations with superiors are open and fairly formal.
The Parents palace covers parents, elders, mentors and figures of authority. A star here describes the shape of those relationships and how you fare under the people above you.
What it means
In the Parents palace your father cuts a large, well-regarded figure and holds reputational hopes for you; relations with superiors are open and fairly formal. Exalted, the father is an important patron.
The shadow side
Fallen, the father is busy or absent and the bond is one of long separations. Under Hua Ji, the father's own standing goes through rough patches.
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
「太阳落陷，劳而无获」
A fallen Sun labours without reward — in its weak seats the Sun's effort outruns what it earns back.
— 天纪 (lectures 03, 05)
The Sun in other palaces
Other stars in the Parents palace
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