Qi Sha in the Property Palace: The Kind of Home You Want

Qi Sha in the Property Palace means big changes in where you live: moving, rebuilding, creating a home from scratch. The old texts say Qi Sha here means "the ancestral estate is hard to keep; better to build your own".

Home and living

People with Qi Sha here would rather set up a place of their own with their own hands than keep the old family home. The lesson is that your living situation changes a lot, and it takes time to truly settle.

• Home style: You like a space you plan yourself, clean and bold, that can change as your needs do.
• Property and savings: You tend to build and buy on your own rather than hold on to an inheritance.
• Life with the family: At home you have firm views and drive, and you often push the household to change.

You and your home: the Life and Property Palaces

With Qi Sha in the Property Palace, the Life Palace always holds Ju Men: out in the world you are analytical and blunt, yet at home you want to arrange things with your own hands and be in charge.

This is built into the chart: counting three palaces backward from Qi Sha always lands on Ju Men, and the Life Palace always sits three palaces backward from the Property Palace. Further reading: Ju Men in the Life Palace.

Earning and keeping: the Wealth and Property Palaces

With Qi Sha in the Property Palace, the Wealth Palace star is not fixed.

With Qi Sha in the Property Palace, the Children Palace always holds Tian Fu and the Siblings Palace always holds Tan Lang: home changes often, yet the next generation tends to be steady; siblings and peers are sociable.

Bright and fallen positions

Qi Sha is bright in most positions here, and a home you built yourself feels all the more solid. Qi Sha is never fallen; sharing the palace with Zi Wei, your urge to run the household is even stronger. Brightness by branch, from the table of the Complete Book this site uses: Exalted: Chou, Yin, Chen, Wei, Shen, Xu; Strong: Zi, Mao, Wu, You; Neutral: 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 Qi Sha 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

Qi Sha alone, facing Wu Qu and Tian Fu (Zi or Wu)

Zi: Qi Sha strong; Wu: Qi Sha strong. Opposite Children: Wu Qu and Tian Fu; Life: Tian Ji and Ju Men; Wealth: Tian Tong. About 19.3% of charts with Qi Sha in the Property Palace fall into this group.

Home is often built with your own hands; with Wu Qu and Tian Fu in the Children Palace opposite, children and younger people are practical and steady.

Lian Zhen with Qi Sha (Chou or Wei)

Chou: Qi Sha exalted, Lian Zhen fair; Wei: Qi Sha exalted, Lian Zhen fair. Opposite Children: Tian Fu; Life: Ju Men; Wealth: Tai Yang. About 16.7% of charts with Qi Sha 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: Lian Zhen in the Property Palace.

Qi Sha alone, facing Zi Wei and Tian Fu (Yin or Shen)

Yin: Qi Sha exalted; Shen: Qi Sha exalted. Opposite Children: Zi Wei and Tian Fu; Life: Ju Men; Wealth: Tian Ji. About 18.1% of charts with Qi Sha in the Property Palace fall into this group.

Qi Sha is exalted in Yin and Shen, so the family estate is self-made; with Zi Wei and Tian Fu in the Children Palace opposite, children and younger people have vision and value security.

Wu Qu with Qi Sha (Mao or You)

Mao: Qi Sha strong, Wu Qu fair; You: Qi Sha strong, Wu Qu fair. Opposite Children: Tian Fu; Life: Ju Men; Wealth: empty palace. About 15.7% of charts with Qi Sha in the Property Palace fall into this group.

Your approach to home is tough and practical; you often buy property through your own hard work, and where you live changes more. The old texts warn that this pair can run into trouble over money, so be conservative about property. Further reading: Wu Qu in the Property Palace.

Qi Sha alone, facing Lian Zhen and Tian Fu (Chen or Xu)

Chen: Qi Sha exalted; Xu: Qi Sha exalted. Opposite Children: Lian Zhen and Tian Fu; Life: Tian Tong and Ju Men; Wealth: empty palace. About 15.3% of charts with Qi Sha in the Property Palace fall into this group.

Qi Sha is exalted in Chen and Xu, so home is won through sheer effort; with Lian Zhen and Tian Fu in the Children Palace opposite, children and younger people are shrewd and good at keeping what they have.

Zi Wei with Qi Sha (Si or Hai)

Si: Qi Sha neutral, Zi Wei strong; Hai: Qi Sha neutral, Zi Wei strong. Opposite Children: Tian Fu; Life: Tai Yang and Ju Men; Wealth: empty palace. About 14.9% of charts with Qi Sha in the Property Palace fall into this group.

You have a strong urge to run the household and like to plan it with your own hands. Home has presence, and your decisions often bring big changes to it. Further reading: Zi Wei in the Property Palace.

Birth-year transformations in the Property Palace

Under the Four Transformations table of the Complete Book of Zi Wei Dou Shu, Qi Sha never transforms, so Qi Sha in the Property Palace never carries a birth-year Hua Lu, Hua Quan, Hua Ke or Hua Ji of its own. For transformations affecting home, look at any other star sharing the palace, at Lu Cun, and at the Children Palace opposite.

Advice for home

Building a home from scratch is deeply satisfying, but before each big change, work out your fallback.

About 41.1% of charts with Qi Sha 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