The Treasurer in the Career palace
天府官禄Tiān Fǔ in Guān Lù — also called the Officials palace
Purple Star editorial · Reviewed
The Treasurer (天府 Tiān Fǔ) in the Career palace (官禄, the Officials palace) — career, ambition, public achievement: The Treasurer is a natural for government, banking, insurance, and the administrative tier of large enterprises — conservative and steady, with slow but secure advancement.
The Career palace governs your working life, ambition and public standing. A star here points to the field and the manner in which you are meant to build.官禄宫 Guan Lu Gong — the palace of career, ambition and public achievement; read for your working life and standing in the world.
What it means
In the Career palace the Treasurer is a natural for government, banking, insurance, and the administrative tier of large enterprises — conservative and steady, with slow but secure advancement. Preservation beats risk here, and you are the indispensable backbone of any big institution, at your best where rules and steadiness are prized.
The shadow side
Entrepreneurial risk does not suit this placement; over-reaching against the star's grain tends to cost more than it wins.
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
「逢府看相，逢相寻府」
Where you find the Treasury, look to the Minister; where you find the Minister, seek the Treasury — Tian Fu and Tian Xiang are read as a pair, each completing the other.
— 天纪 (lectures 03, 12)
The Treasurer in other palaces
Other stars in the Career palace
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