LESSON L12 / 16 OF 36
Reading one palace: its topic and its stars
Put a palace's topic and its stars together into one complete observation.
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This lesson has been self-reviewed and is awaiting final sign-off. The classical passages have been checked word by word; the plain-language text and the exercises are written by this project.
Seeing a star in a cell, how do I turn it into one sentence?
Fictional birth data · teaching example · not a real person's chart · 2026-10-12
In plain words
Read one palace in three steps: say what topic it covers, say which major stars are in it, then join them: this palace covers this topic and holds these stars. Up to here it is observation, not judgement.
What the text says
The Tai Wei Fu says a star is read in the position it sits in; the palace order comes from Volume 2.
Compare with your own chart
Take your Life Palace and make one complete observation in the three steps.
An everyday example
If Partner contains a star you have learned, first name the relationship topic, then add the star cue and form a question for yourself. Leave your partner's actual behaviour for them to show and explain.
Write the palace topic, star cue and one self-observation question in that order.
CHECK YOURSELF
Now, try it yourself.
Answer both questions correctly to complete the lesson. The original explanation appears after each answer.
FIND IT IN THE CHART
Find it on a chart.
Say which major stars are in your Life Palace.
Open my chart ↗Classical sources
星有同躔，數有分定，須明其生剋之要，必詳乎得垣失度之分。
Stars share the same path, and the method has its own divisions; one must understand how they generate and restrain one another, and look closely at whether a star sits in its own place or out of it.
Zi Wei Dou Shu Quan Shu, Volume 1, "Tai Wei Fu"; traditionally attributed in received editions一 命宮、二兄弟、三妻妾、四子女、五財帛、六疾厄、七遷移、八奴僕、九官祿、十田宅、十一福德、十二父母
First the Life Palace, second Siblings, third Wife and Concubine, fourth Children, fifth Wealth, sixth Illness, seventh Travel, eighth Servants, ninth Office, tenth Property, eleventh Blessing, twelfth Parents.
Zi Wei Dou Shu Quan Shu, Volume 2, "Placing the Twelve Palaces"; traditionally attributed in received editions
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