Lian Zhen in the Property Palace: The Kind of Home You Want

Lian Zhen in the Property Palace means you have strong feelings and firm principles about home; it is your territory, and others cannot interfere lightly.

Home and living

People with Lian Zhen here decorate with a strong personal style, and household matters can stir up their emotions. The old texts are cautious about Lian Zhen in this palace; the modern reading is that boundaries and house rules need to be spelled out first.

• Home style: You like a space with character and style, even a little drama.
• Property and savings: You buy on feel and taste, and relationships with people come into it too.
• Life with the family: At home you have principles and a temper, and you value your family's loyalty.

You and your home: the Life and Property Palaces

With Lian Zhen in the Property Palace, the Life Palace star is not fixed: it can be Tai Yin, Ju Men or Tian Liang, or the Life Palace can be empty. Often you come across as sensitive and reserved, yet you have very strong feelings and views about home.

With Lian Zhen in the Property Palace, the Life Palace star changes with the branch; the table below lists it for each one.

Earning and keeping: the Wealth and Property Palaces

Counting five palaces forward from Lian Zhen always lands on Tai Yang, and the Wealth Palace always sits five palaces forward from the Property Palace, so with Lian Zhen in the Property Palace the Wealth Palace always holds Tai Yang: one palace shows how money is earned, the other whether it stays. Further reading: Tai Yang in the Wealth Palace.

With Lian Zhen in the Property Palace, the Wealth Palace always holds Tai Yang and the Siblings Palace always holds Zi Wei: you earn through reputation and connections, and siblings or peers have firm views and real weight. The Children Palace star is not fixed.

Bright and fallen positions

When bright, home has character and order, and you are its guardian. When fallen, emotions at home run high and household matters easily turn into arguments. Brightness by branch, from the table of the Complete Book this site uses: Exalted: Yin, Shen; Fair: Chou, Chen, Wei, Xu; Neutral: Zi, Mao, Wu, You; Fallen: Si, Hai.

Opposite the Property Palace is the Children Palace (home and family pull on each other), and its trine is the Siblings Palace and the Health Palace. The table shows the major stars of the Children, Life, Wealth and Siblings Palaces for each of the twelve branches Lian Zhen can occupy in the Property Palace (we make no health readings from the Health Palace, so it is left out).

"Empty palace" means the palace has none of the fourteen major stars; in that case you read it through the stars of the opposite palace.

The six combinations

Lian Zhen with Tian Xiang (Zi or Wu)

Zi: Lian Zhen neutral, Tian Xiang exalted; Wu: Lian Zhen neutral, Tian Xiang exalted. Opposite Children: Po Jun; Life: Tai Yin; Wealth: Tai Yang. About 17.5% of charts with Lian Zhen in the Property Palace fall into this group.

Home has principles and rules, and where you live is tidy and proper. Watch for Tian Xiang being squeezed between a punishment star and a Ji: household matters can be pulled around by outsiders. Further reading: Tian Xiang in the Property Palace.

Lian Zhen with Qi Sha (Chou or Wei)

Chou: Lian Zhen fair, Qi Sha exalted; Wei: Lian Zhen fair, Qi Sha exalted. Opposite Children: Tian Fu; Life: Ju Men; Wealth: Tai Yang. About 17.2% of charts with Lian Zhen in the Property Palace fall into this group.

You build up property through your own hard work, and home has drive and pressure. The old texts say Lian Zhen with Qi Sha in Chou and Wei builds wealth; the family estate is built up bit by bit through real effort. Further reading: Qi Sha in the Property Palace.

Lian Zhen alone, facing Tan Lang (Yin or Shen)

Yin: Lian Zhen exalted; Shen: Lian Zhen exalted. Opposite Children: Tan Lang; Life: Tian Liang; Wealth: Tai Yang and Tai Yin. About 18.8% of charts with Lian Zhen in the Property Palace fall into this group.

Lian Zhen is exalted in Yin and Shen, so home has principles and rules; with Tan Lang in the Children Palace opposite, children and younger people are lively and talented.

Lian Zhen with Po Jun (Mao or You)

Mao: Lian Zhen neutral, Po Jun fallen; You: Lian Zhen neutral, Po Jun fallen. Opposite Children: Tian Xiang; Life: empty palace; Wealth: Tai Yang and Ju Men. About 15.6% of charts with Lian Zhen in the Property Palace fall into this group.

Home goes through big changes, with a lot of moving and big emotional swings. With Hua Lu or auspicious stars, each change tends to open a new chapter. Further reading: Po Jun in the Property Palace.

Lian Zhen with Tian Fu (Chen or Xu)

Chen: Lian Zhen fair, Tian Fu exalted; Xu: Lian Zhen fair, Tian Fu exalted. Opposite Children: Qi Sha; Life: empty palace; Wealth: Tai Yang and Tian Liang. About 14.8% of charts with Lian Zhen in the Property Palace fall into this group.

Home has principles and reserves, shrewd and good at keeping what it has. This is the most stable Lian Zhen combination in the Property Palace. Further reading: Tian Fu in the Property Palace.

Lian Zhen with Tan Lang (Si or Hai)

Si: Lian Zhen fallen, Tan Lang fallen; Hai: Lian Zhen fallen, Tan Lang fallen. Opposite Children: empty palace; Life: empty palace; Wealth: Tai Yang. About 16.2% of charts with Lian Zhen in the Property Palace fall into this group.

Home is lively and full of character, an exciting life, with big swings in spending and emotions. Both stars are fallen in Si and Hai, so boundaries and moderation at home are the key. Further reading: Tan Lang in the Property Palace.

Birth-year transformations in the Property Palace

• Lian Zhen with Hua Lu (born in a Jia year): People born in a Jia year have Lian Zhen Hua Lu in the Property Palace: the household is lively and on good terms with the people around it. In our sample, about 11.4% of charts with Lian Zhen in the Property Palace carry the birth-year Hua Lu.
• Lian Zhen with Hua Ji (born in a Bing year): People born in a Bing year have Lian Zhen Hua Ji in the Property Palace: household matters easily stir up emotions and arguments. Spell out the boundaries first. In our sample, about 7.8% of charts with Lian Zhen in the Property Palace carry the birth-year Hua Ji.

Advice for home

Home is your territory, and your family's too; spell out the rules and you cut the arguments in half.

About 40.8% of charts with Lian Zhen in the Property Palace also have at least one of the six Sha stars in that palace, about the same as the 42.1% across all charts. Malefic stars in the Property Palace usually show up as moves, household worries or ups and downs in your assets, which call for a bit more planning; they do not mean bad luck for the family.

What our sample shows

How we counted: this site’s engine cast one Zi Wei chart for every day from 1960 to 2005 (birth hour drawn by a fixed-seed random sample), 16,802 charts in all. These figures describe how chart structures are distributed; they do not measure anyone’s family fortunes.

Other major stars in the Property Palace