Po Jun in the Children Palace: What Kind of Elder You Are

Po Jun in the Children Palace means your relationship with the next generation changes a lot, and you are willing to let them take a different road from yours.

Raising and relating

People with Po Jun here do not buy into traditional ways of raising the young and like to try new methods. The lesson is lots of change and shifting standards, so the stability the young ones need has to be given on purpose.

• Parenting style: Open and unconventional, accepting that the next generation will take a different road.
• With younger people and your team: With students and team members you encourage innovation, and you can make sweeping changes.
• What you create and pass on: What you pass on is the courage to break the mould.

You and the next generation: the Life and Children Palaces

With Po Jun in the Children Palace, the Life Palace always holds Tai Yin: you are sensitive and gentle, yet with the next generation you are very open-minded and happy to let them break the mould.

This is built into the chart: counting three palaces forward from Po Jun always lands on Tai Yin, and the Life Palace always sits three palaces forward from the Children Palace. Further reading: Tai Yin in the Life Palace.

Partner and next generation

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

With Po Jun in the Children Palace, the Property Palace always holds Tian Xiang, the Parents Palace always holds Tan Lang and the Friends Palace always holds Qi Sha. The Sha-Po-Lang trio always forms a trine.

Bright and fallen positions

When bright, you are open-minded and the next generation is bold enough to break new ground. When fallen, the relationship swings a lot and the rules keep changing. 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 Children Palace is the Property Palace (the Children–Property axis: the next generation and home pull on each other), and its trine is the Parents and Friends Palaces. The table shows the major stars of the Property, Life, Spouse, Parents and Friends Palaces for each of the twelve branches Po Jun can occupy in the Children 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 Property: Lian Zhen and Tian Xiang; Life: Tai Yin; Spouse: Tian Ji. About 17.6% of charts with Po Jun in the Children Palace fall into this group.

Po Jun is exalted in Zi and Wu, so you are open-minded with the next generation and happy to let them venture out; with Lian Zhen and Tian Xiang in the Property Palace opposite, home follows the rules and keeps its word.

Zi Wei with Po Jun (Chou or Wei)

Chou: Po Jun strong, Zi Wei exalted; Wei: Po Jun strong, Zi Wei exalted. Opposite Property: Tian Xiang; Life: Tai Yin; Spouse: empty palace. About 18.7% of charts with Po Jun in the Children Palace fall into this group.

You have high hopes for the next generation and are willing to let them take new roads. Your approach to bringing them up changes a lot, and every change is meant to help them do better. Further reading: Zi Wei in the Children Palace.

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

Yin: Po Jun favorable; Shen: Po Jun favorable. Opposite Property: Wu Qu and Tian Xiang; Life: Tai Yin; Spouse: empty palace. About 13.7% of charts with Po Jun in the Children Palace fall into this group.

Your relationship with the next generation changes a lot; with Wu Qu and Tian Xiang in the Property Palace opposite, home is 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 Property: Tian Xiang; Life: Tian Tong and Tai Yin; Spouse: empty palace. About 14.3% of charts with Po Jun in the Children Palace fall into this group.

Your relationship with the next generation goes through big shifts and big emotional swings. With Hua Lu or auspicious stars, each shift tends to bring a new understanding between you. Further reading: Lian Zhen in the Children Palace.

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

Chen: Po Jun strong; Xu: Po Jun strong. Opposite Property: Zi Wei and Tian Xiang; Life: Tai Yang and Tai Yin; Spouse: Tian Tong. About 17.8% of charts with Po Jun in the Children Palace fall into this group.

Po Jun is strong in Chen and Xu, so your approach to the young has the nerve of a reformer; with Zi Wei and Tian Xiang in the Property Palace opposite, home values 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 Property: Tian Xiang; Life: Tian Ji and Tai Yin; Spouse: Tai Yang. About 18.0% of charts with Po Jun in the Children Palace fall into this group.

You expect a lot of the next generation and keep changing your methods, so the relationship has bigger ups and downs. Making your standards clear and consistent matters more than anything. Further reading: Wu Qu in the Children Palace.

Birth-year transformations in the Children Palace

• Po Jun with Hua Lu (born in a Gui year): People born in a Gui year have Po Jun Hua Lu in the Children Palace: your open-minded approach to the young brings good results. In our sample, about 11.8% of charts with Po Jun in the Children 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 Children Palace: you take a strong lead in changing how things are done with the next generation. In our sample, about 8.2% of charts with Po Jun in the Children Palace carry the birth-year Hua Quan.

Getting along

Being open-minded is great, but keep your promises to the next generation steady.

About 41.7% of charts with Po Jun in the Children 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 Children Palace usually show up as more friction and more worry with the next generation, which calls for more talking things through; they do not mean a bad relationship.

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 chances of having children or what their children achieve.

Other major stars in the Children Palace