Turning the chart: any palace as the pivot
The Spouse Palace describes your partner. So where are your partner’s money, career and home? The Flying Star answer is to turn the chart: treat the Spouse Palace as your partner’s Life Palace and count your partner’s twelve palaces from there. One chart can then show many people, with one caveat worth keeping in mind: what you see is how they appear in your chart.
How to turn it
The twelve palaces run in a fixed order from the Life Palace: Life, Siblings, Spouse, Children, Wealth, Health, Travel, Friends, Career, Property, Mind, Parents. Turning the chart just moves the starting point. With the Spouse Palace as the pivot, it becomes your partner’s Life Palace, the next one (your Children Palace) is your partner’s Siblings, the one after (your Wealth Palace) is your partner’s Spouse, and so on.
Lookup table for relatives
| Pivot palace | Their Life | Their Wealth | Their Career | Their Travel | Their Property | Their Mind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spouse Palace (partner) | Spouse | Travel | Mind | Career | Parents | Life |
| Children Palace (children) | Children | Friends | Parents | Property | Life | Siblings |
| Siblings Palace (siblings, partners) | Siblings | Health | Property | Friends | Mind | Parents |
| Parents Palace (parents, bosses) | Parents | Children | Friends | Health | Career | Property |
| Friends Palace (friends, colleagues) | Friends | Parents | Children | Siblings | Wealth | Health |
| Career Palace (the work itself) | Career | Life | Wealth | Spouse | Health | Travel |
A few relationships Flying Star readers use a lot: the Spouse Palace’s Travel is your Career Palace, so work and love mirror each other; the Spouse Palace’s Wealth is your Travel Palace, so your partner’s attitude to money shows up when you are out in the world; the Children Palace’s Property is your Life Palace, read as your children’s home being tied to you.
Turning plus flying
Once the chart is turned, a flying line can be read from a second angle. Example chart: a woman born on 15 June 1988 at 10:00 (a made-up birthday), Wu-Chen year, Si hour, Metal-4 bureau, with the Life Palace in Yi-Chou holding Tai Yang and Tai Yin. The Spouse Palace stem Gui turns Tan Lang into Ji, which sits in your Parents Palace. With the Spouse Palace as the pivot, that Parents Palace is your partner’s Property Palace. So one line tells two stories: from your side, what you care about in love spills into how you deal with elders; from your partner’s side, your partner is very attached to home and family matters. Both readings are made on your chart, so they only describe what this relationship looks like in your life.
Timing: decade and year charts are turned charts
In Zi Wei, decade and annual charts are turned charts too. When a ten-year period reaches one of your palaces, that palace becomes the decade Life Palace and the twelve palaces are counted from it; the palace of the year’s branch becomes that year’s Life Palace. The Flying Star school adds the flights from the decade and year stems to ask in which decade and which year a matter is triggered.
Turning the chart shows the other person’s destiny.
It shows how they appear in your chart, in other words what the relationship means for you. To read the person, cast their own chart.
Your partner’s Health Palace shows your partner’s health.
We do not read health, turned chart or not.
A straight word: flying transformations are a way of reasoning, not a verdict
The Flying Star school reads a chart as a web of cause and effect between palaces. That makes it good at breaking a question into where it starts, how it unfolds and where it lands. But there are many lineages, their terms and readings differ, and two teachers can tell two different stories from the same Ji line. We only describe the skeleton the lineages share, write readings as tendencies, never make doom calls, and never read health or lifespan. A chart is a map; which road you take is still up to you. Everything on this site is for reference and entertainment.
Turn your own chart
Tap any palace in the interactive chart to see, with it as the pivot, where its Wealth, Career, Travel and Spouse palaces fall on your chart.
Turning the chart: FAQ
What does turning the chart mean?
Treating one palace as a new Life Palace and counting the twelve palaces again from it, to see how a person or matter looks within your chart. It is also called borrowing the chart or setting the tai ji.
Where is my partner’s Wealth Palace?
Take the Spouse Palace as the pivot and count to its fifth palace: it is your Travel Palace.
Does a turned chart show the other person’s fate?
No. It shows how they appear in your chart, which is what the relationship means for you. Their own chart shows them.