Po Jun in the Spouse Palace: Who You Fall For, and Where You Get Stuck

With Po Jun in your Spouse Palace, you are drawn to people who dare to push, dare to change and do not play by the usual rules. Your partner usually has a vivid personality and likes change, and life with them is rarely the same two days running.

Your pattern in love

Po Jun is the star of spending and upheaval. Classical texts say Po Jun in the Spouse Palace favours “marrying late” and brings “a changeable love life.” The modern reading: this relationship needs to face change together, perhaps even start over together more than once. Two people who can accept change may well go the distance.

You and your partner: the Life and Spouse Palaces

When Po Jun is in your Spouse Palace, the Life Palace always holds Tian Fu. You are steady, security-minded and good at preserving what you have, while your partner dares to push and change; you are their backstop and they are your adventure. The thing to watch is not letting their changes drain your treasury.

This is built into the chart: counting two palaces forward from Po Jun always lands on Tian Fu, and the Life Palace always sits two palaces forward from the Spouse Palace, so anyone with Po Jun in the Spouse Palace has Tian Fu in the Life Palace (either alone or together with Zi Wei, Lian Zhen and Wu Qu). Further reading: Tian Fu in the Life Palace.

Bright and fallen positions

When Po Jun is bright, your partner is a strong pioneer who owns their choices, and although the relationship changes a lot, it gets better with each change. When it is fallen, your partner is impulsive and unsettled, and the relationship can rise and fall sharply on a passing mood. Brightness by branch, from the table of the Complete Book this site uses: Exalted: Zi, Wu; Strong: Chou, Chen, Wei, Xu; Favorable: Yin, Shen; Neutral: Si, Hai; Fallen: Mao, You.

The Spouse Palace's four-way set is the Career Palace (opposite), the Travel Palace and the Mind Palace: love and work pull on each other, and both are tied to how you come across in the world and how content you feel inside. The table shows the major stars of these palaces, and of your Life Palace, for each of the twelve branches Po Jun can occupy in the Spouse Palace.

"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

Po Jun alone, facing Lian Zhen and Tian Xiang (Zi or Wu)

Zi: Po Jun exalted; Wu: Po Jun exalted. Opposite (Career): Lian Zhen and Tian Xiang; Life: Zi Wei and Tian Fu. About 18.0% of charts with Po Jun in the Spouse Palace fall into this group.

Your partner dares to push and change. With Lian Zhen and Tian Xiang opposite in the Career Palace, your work values rules and trustworthiness. Po Jun is bright in Zi and Wu, and your partner’s changes usually bring growth.

Zi Wei with Po Jun (Chou or Wei)

Chou: Po Jun strong, Zi Wei exalted; Wei: Po Jun strong, Zi Wei exalted. Opposite (Career): Tian Xiang; Life: Tian Fu. About 17.2% of charts with Po Jun in the Spouse Palace fall into this group.

Your partner is decisive and unafraid of change, and the relationship has its knock-it-down-and-start-over moments. You are drawn to their boldness and also have to live with their refusal to play by the rules. It suits a partnership that starts a business or reinvents its life together. Further reading: Zi Wei in the Spouse Palace.

Po Jun alone, facing Wu Qu and Tian Xiang (Yin or Shen)

Yin: Po Jun favorable; Shen: Po Jun favorable. Opposite (Career): Wu Qu and Tian Xiang; Life: Lian Zhen and Tian Fu. About 13.1% of charts with Po Jun in the Spouse Palace fall into this group.

Your partner likes change and is not afraid of starting from zero. With Wu Qu and Tian Xiang opposite in the Career Palace, your work is practical and stable, the financial foundation of this relationship.

Lian Zhen with Po Jun (Mao or You)

Mao: Po Jun fallen, Lian Zhen neutral; You: Po Jun fallen, Lian Zhen neutral. Opposite (Career): Tian Xiang; Life: Tian Fu. About 16.9% of charts with Po Jun in the Spouse Palace fall into this group.

Your partner is rebellious and willing to tear down and rebuild, and the relationship brings big changes and plenty of sparks. With Hua Lu or benefic stars, change can become shared growth; without them, the relationship tends to break up and get back together. Further reading: Lian Zhen in the Spouse Palace.

Po Jun alone, facing Zi Wei and Tian Xiang (Chen or Xu)

Chen: Po Jun strong; Xu: Po Jun strong. Opposite (Career): Zi Wei and Tian Xiang; Life: Wu Qu and Tian Fu. About 17.2% of charts with Po Jun in the Spouse Palace fall into this group.

Your partner has a reformer’s temperament. With Zi Wei and Tian Xiang opposite in the Career Palace, your career centres on status and order. One of you wants change and the other wants stability, so find a direction you share.

Wu Qu with Po Jun (Si or Hai)

Si: Po Jun neutral, Wu Qu neutral; Hai: Po Jun neutral, Wu Qu neutral. Opposite (Career): Tian Xiang; Life: Tian Fu. About 17.7% of charts with Po Jun in the Spouse Palace fall into this group.

Your partner is daring, willing to gamble and has a vivid personality; the relationship has big ups and downs, and so do the finances. It suits building something together, but one of you needs to guard the bottom line. Further reading: Wu Qu in the Spouse Palace.

Birth-year transformations in the Spouse Palace

• Po Jun with Hua Lu (born in a Gui year): For people born in a Gui year, Po Jun with Hua Lu sits in the Spouse Palace: your partner’s changes often bring gains, and the relationship feels alive. In our sample, about 11.8% of charts with Po Jun in the Spouse Palace carry the birth-year Hua Lu.
• Po Jun with Hua Quan (born in a Jia year): For people born in a Jia year, Po Jun with Hua Quan sits in the Spouse Palace: your partner likes to lead and moves fast, and the turning points in the relationship are often set off by them. In our sample, about 11.2% of charts with Po Jun in the Spouse Palace carry the birth-year Hua Quan.

A man's chart and a woman's chart

In a man's chart: Classical texts say that for a man, Po Jun in the Spouse Palace means a wife who is “strong-willed and enterprising.” The modern reading: your partner is decisive and unafraid of change, well suited to starting a business together or facing challenges side by side.

In a woman's chart: Classical texts say that for a woman, Po Jun in the Spouse Palace means a husband who is “tough and changeable.” The modern reading: you admire driven, bold partners; the relationship needs the resilience to weather change.

The classical texts read the Spouse Palace as the wife in a man's chart and the husband in a woman's chart, reflecting the traditional view of marriage they were written in. Relationships today take many forms, so this site reads the Spouse Palace as your pattern in close relationships, whatever your gender and whatever shape the relationship takes.

Getting along

Make major decisions together; do not let one person charge off alone. With Tian Fu in your Life Palace you can hold the line, but you also need to be able to say “wait a moment.”

About 41.0% of charts with Po Jun in the Spouse Palace also have at least one of the six Sha stars in that palace, about the same as the 42.0% across all charts. Malefic stars in the Spouse Palace usually show up as high expectations of love and a need to work things through; they do not mean the relationship is bad.

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 love life.

Other major stars in the Spouse Palace