Po Jun in the Friends Palace: What Kind of Friends Surround You

Po Jun in the Friends Palace means your circle changes a lot: friends come and go, and partnerships form and break up. Little stays the same for long.

Friends, colleagues and team

People with Po Jun here tend to have friends who are bold and ready for change. The lesson is that relationships rise and fall, so important friendships need deliberate care, and before working together, agree on how it starts and how it ends.

• Your circle: A circle that keeps changing, mostly bold people.
• Colleagues and team: Colleagues and team members come and go, so clear rules are needed.
• Network and mutual help: Friends bring new directions, but look for commitments that hold.

You and your circle: the Life and Friends Palaces

With Po Jun in the Friends Palace, the Life Palace always holds Tian Liang: you are mature, steady and caring, while the friends you make are changeable and bold.

This is built into the chart: counting five palaces backward from Po Jun always lands on Tian Liang, and the Life Palace always sits five palaces backward from the Friends Palace. Further reading: Tian Liang in the Life Palace.

Your work network: the Career and Friends Palaces

With Po Jun in the Friends Palace, the Career Palace star is not fixed; the table below lists it for each branch.

With Po Jun in the Friends Palace, the Siblings Palace always holds Tian Xiang: the people closest to you follow the rules, while friends from outside keep changing. The Travel Palace star is not fixed.

Bright and fallen positions

When bright, friends are pioneers and you break new ground together. When fallen, friendships swing a lot and joint projects can change course halfway. 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.

Opposite the Friends Palace is the Siblings Palace (the Siblings–Friends axis: outsiders and your own people), and its trine is the Children and Parents Palaces; on either side sit the Career and Travel Palaces. The table shows the major stars of the Siblings, Life, Career and Travel Palaces for each of the twelve branches Po Jun can occupy in the Friends 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 Siblings: Lian Zhen and Tian Xiang; Life: Tian Liang; Career: Tai Yang. About 16.5% of charts with Po Jun in the Friends Palace fall into this group.

Po Jun is exalted in Zi and Wu, so friends dare to strike out and change things; with Lian Zhen and Tian Xiang in the Siblings Palace opposite, the people closest to you follow the rules and keep their word.

Zi Wei with Po Jun (Chou or Wei)

Chou: Po Jun strong, Zi Wei exalted; Wei: Po Jun strong, Zi Wei exalted. Opposite Siblings: Tian Xiang; Life: Tian Tong and Tian Liang; Career: Tian Ji. About 16.3% of charts with Po Jun in the Friends Palace fall into this group.

Friends carry weight and are ready to change things, so your circle gets reshuffled often, and each new set of people tends to be a step up. Agree on who leads before you work together. Further reading: Zi Wei in the Friends Palace.

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

Yin: Po Jun favorable; Shen: Po Jun favorable. Opposite Siblings: Wu Qu and Tian Xiang; Life: Tai Yang and Tian Liang; Career: empty palace. About 14.6% of charts with Po Jun in the Friends Palace fall into this group.

Friends from outside keep changing; with Wu Qu and Tian Xiang in the Siblings Palace opposite, the people closest to you are practical and dependable.

Lian Zhen with Po Jun (Mao or You)

Mao: Po Jun fallen, Lian Zhen neutral; You: Po Jun fallen, Lian Zhen neutral. Opposite Siblings: Tian Xiang; Life: Tian Ji and Tian Liang; Career: empty palace. About 17.0% of charts with Po Jun in the Friends Palace fall into this group.

Your circle goes through big shifts and big emotional swings. With Hua Lu or auspicious stars, each shift tends to open a new chapter. Further reading: Lian Zhen in the Friends Palace.

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

Chen: Po Jun strong; Xu: Po Jun strong. Opposite Siblings: Zi Wei and Tian Xiang; Life: Tian Liang; Career: empty palace. About 18.5% of charts with Po Jun in the Friends Palace fall into this group.

Po Jun is strong in Chen and Xu, so friends have the nerve to reform; with Zi Wei and Tian Xiang in the Siblings Palace opposite, the people closest to you value order and appearances.

Wu Qu with Po Jun (Si or Hai)

Si: Po Jun neutral, Wu Qu neutral; Hai: Po Jun neutral, Wu Qu neutral. Opposite Siblings: Tian Xiang; Life: Tian Liang; Career: Tian Tong. About 17.1% of charts with Po Jun in the Friends Palace fall into this group.

Friends are bold and friendships have big ups and downs. Be conservative about joint ventures and money, and agree on an exit plan first. Further reading: Wu Qu in the Friends Palace.

Birth-year transformations in the Friends Palace

• Po Jun with Hua Lu (born in a Gui year): People born in a Gui year have Po Jun Hua Lu in the Friends Palace: changes in your circle often bring new opportunities. In our sample, about 9.3% of charts with Po Jun in the Friends Palace carry the birth-year Hua Lu.
• Po Jun with Hua Quan (born in a Jia year): People born in a Jia year have Po Jun Hua Quan in the Friends Palace: among your friends or team are bold people who drive change. In our sample, about 11.7% of charts with Po Jun in the Friends Palace carry the birth-year Hua Quan.

Friendship advice

Your circle will change, but keep your commitments to people steady; before working together, agree on how to part ways.

About 44.5% of charts with Po Jun in the Friends Palace also have at least one of the six Sha stars in that palace, about the same as the 42.4% across all charts. Malefic stars in the Friends Palace usually show up as more friction and more differing opinions in your circle, which calls for firmer boundaries and more talking things through; they do not mean your friends are 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 popularity or how reliable their friends are.

Other major stars in the Friends Palace