Po Jun in the Travel Palace: Who You Are Once You Step Out the Door
Po Jun in the Travel Palace means that out in the world you are ready to change and break things and do not play by the book; life away from home has big changes, and you often want to reshape a new environment the moment you arrive.
How you come across out in the world
With Po Jun in the Travel Palace, the Life Palace opposite is always Tian Xiang: by nature you follow the rules, care about your image and are good at mediating, yet out in the world you charge ahead and change things. It is "reserved inside, disruptive outside": the people close to you find you easy to get along with, while people outside have seen how disruptive you can be.
- Public image: Out in the world you come across as bold, forceful and ready to take on a challenge.
- Life away from home: You suit pioneering, transformation and reform work away from home, or anything that takes nerve.
- Opportunities and lessons: Opportunities come from change and pioneering; the lesson is being impulsive out in the world and tearing things down too fast.
Life and Travel on one line: the Life Palace always holds Tian Xiang
With Po Jun in the Travel Palace, the Life Palace opposite always holds Tian Xiang (Tian Xiang and Po Jun always sit opposite each other), so the situation of an empty Life Palace borrowing from the Travel Palace never arises. Further reading: Tian Xiang in the Life Palace.
Travel, Spouse and Mind: the outer you, love and your inner life are tied together
With Po Jun in the Travel Palace, the Life Palace always holds Tian Xiang, the Spouse Palace always holds Tan Lang and the Mind Palace always holds Qi Sha: gentle and courteous by nature, breaking and building in the world, passionate and changeable in love, and inside you have drive and refuse to give in.
Bright and fallen positions
When bright, you have strong pioneering drive out in the world, and every change brings new opportunities. When fallen, there is a lot of change and a lot of loss out in the world, with big rises and falls. 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 Travel Palace's four-way set is the Life Palace (opposite), the Spouse Palace and the Mind Palace: who you are out in the world is the other face of your nature, and it is tied to love and to inner contentment. The table shows the major stars of these palaces for each of the twelve branches Po Jun can occupy in the Travel Palace.
| Travel Palace in | Brightness | Shares the palace with | Opposite (Life) | Spouse | Mind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yin | Favorable | alone | Wu Qu and Tian Xiang | Tan Lang | Qi Sha |
| Mao | Fallen | Lian Zhen | Tian Xiang | Wu Qu and Tan Lang | Zi Wei and Qi Sha |
| Chen | Strong | alone | Zi Wei and Tian Xiang | Tan Lang | Qi Sha |
| Si | Neutral | Wu Qu | Tian Xiang | Zi Wei and Tan Lang | Lian Zhen and Qi Sha |
| Wu | Exalted | alone | Lian Zhen and Tian Xiang | Tan Lang | Qi Sha |
| Wei | Strong | Zi Wei | Tian Xiang | Lian Zhen and Tan Lang | Wu Qu and Qi Sha |
| Shen | Favorable | alone | Wu Qu and Tian Xiang | Tan Lang | Qi Sha |
| You | Fallen | Lian Zhen | Tian Xiang | Wu Qu and Tan Lang | Zi Wei and Qi Sha |
| Xu | Strong | alone | Zi Wei and Tian Xiang | Tan Lang | Qi Sha |
| Hai | Neutral | Wu Qu | Tian Xiang | Zi Wei and Tan Lang | Lian Zhen and Qi Sha |
| Zi | Exalted | alone | Lian Zhen and Tian Xiang | Tan Lang | Qi Sha |
| Chou | Strong | Zi Wei | Tian Xiang | Lian Zhen and Tan Lang | Wu Qu and Qi Sha |
"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. People with an empty Life Palace borrow the Travel 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 Life: Lian Zhen and Tian Xiang; Spouse: Tan Lang; Mind: Qi Sha. About 17.3% of charts with Po Jun in the Travel Palace fall into this group.
Po Jun is exalted in Zi and Wu, so you are a strong pioneer out in the world; by nature (Life Palace) you are Lian Zhen with Tian Xiang, principled and trustworthy.
Zi Wei with Po Jun (Chou or Wei)
Chou: Po Jun strong, Zi Wei exalted; Wei: Po Jun strong, Zi Wei exalted. Opposite Life: Tian Xiang; Spouse: Lian Zhen and Tan Lang; Mind: Wu Qu and Qi Sha. About 16.1% of charts with Po Jun in the Travel Palace fall into this group.
Out in the world you have nerve and a taste for reform, and you often get pushed into roles that call for sweeping change. The Life Palace opposite holds Tian Xiang, so by nature you value rules and are good at mediating: a reformer outside, a mediator inside. Further reading: Zi Wei in the Travel Palace.
Po Jun alone, facing Wu Qu and Tian Xiang (Yin or Shen)
Yin: Po Jun favorable; Shen: Po Jun favorable. Opposite Life: Wu Qu and Tian Xiang; Spouse: Tan Lang; Mind: Qi Sha. About 16.8% of charts with Po Jun in the Travel Palace fall into this group.
Out in the world you are ready to change and charge ahead; by nature (Life Palace) you are Wu Qu with Tian Xiang, practical and rule-abiding.
Lian Zhen with Po Jun (Mao or You)
Mao: Po Jun fallen, Lian Zhen neutral; You: Po Jun fallen, Lian Zhen neutral. Opposite Life: Tian Xiang; Spouse: Wu Qu and Tan Lang; Mind: Zi Wei and Qi Sha. About 17.3% of charts with Po Jun in the Travel Palace fall into this group.
Out in the world you are rebellious, breaking and rebuilding, with a lot of change and conflict away from home. The Life Palace opposite holds Tian Xiang: gentle and courteous by nature, yet very disruptive on the outside. Further reading: Lian Zhen in the Travel Palace.
Po Jun alone, facing Zi Wei and Tian Xiang (Chen or Xu)
Chen: Po Jun strong; Xu: Po Jun strong. Opposite Life: Zi Wei and Tian Xiang; Spouse: Tan Lang; Mind: Qi Sha. About 16.3% of charts with Po Jun in the Travel Palace fall into this group.
Po Jun is strong in Chen and Xu, so out in the world you have the air of a reformer; by nature (Life Palace) you are Zi Wei with Tian Xiang, valuing 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 Life: Tian Xiang; Spouse: Zi Wei and Tan Lang; Mind: Lian Zhen and Qi Sha. About 16.2% of charts with Po Jun in the Travel Palace fall into this group.
Out in the world you are bold and willing to gamble, and your finances away from home rise and fall. The Life Palace opposite holds Tian Xiang: gentle and courteous by nature, yet ready to take risks once you are out the door. Further reading: Wu Qu in the Travel Palace.
Birth-year transformations in the Travel Palace
- Po Jun with Hua Lu (born in a Gui year): People born in a Gui year have Po Jun Hua Lu in the Travel Palace: changes out in the world often bring gains, and things get better the more they change. In our sample, about 10.4% of charts with Po Jun in the Travel 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 Travel Palace: you have strong power to drive change out in the world, suited to pioneering and reform. In our sample, about 9.8% of charts with Po Jun in the Travel Palace carry the birth-year Hua Quan.
Advice for life away from home
Every time you break something out in the world, know first what you are going to build in its place.
About 41.4% of charts with Po Jun in the Travel 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 Travel Palace usually show up as more competition, more rushing around or more friction with people out in the world; they do not mean something will go wrong when you go out.
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 luck away from home.
Other major stars in the Travel Palace
A straight word: the Travel Palace is about who you are out in the world, not whether something will happen to you when you go out
The Travel Palace describes how you come across and the chances you meet out in the world, in unfamiliar places and among people, and it is the other face of the Life Palace. It cannot tell you whether moving abroad will work out or whether you should emigrate, and it does not predict accidents or good or bad luck on the road. Everything on this site is for reference and entertainment only.
Find out which star sits in your Travel Palace
Enter your date of birth and birth time to cast your chart, then tap the Travel Palace to see its major stars, transformations and four-way set (Life, Spouse and Mind Palaces).
Po Jun in the Travel Palace: FAQ
Why is Tian Xiang always in the Life Palace when Po Jun is in the Travel Palace?
Po Jun and Tian Xiang always sit directly opposite each other, and the Travel Palace is always opposite the Life Palace. So with Po Jun in the Travel Palace, Tian Xiang is always in the Life Palace (possibly together with Zi Wei, Wu Qu or Lian Zhen).
How common is Po Jun in the Travel Palace?
Across the 16,802 charts in our sample, about 8.3% have Po Jun in the Travel Palace (alone or sharing it with another major star). Each of the fourteen major stars lands in the Travel Palace roughly 8–9% of the time.