Tai Yang in the Mind Palace: What You Really Need Inside

With Tai Yang in the Mind Palace, your inner self is warm-hearted and glad to give. Your happiness comes from looking after others, being needed and doing something meaningful.

Your inner world

People with Tai Yang here have a bright inner life, but brightness makes a big difference. When bright, giving leaves you fulfilled; when fallen, you still want to give, yet often feel tired and unseen, and your inner reserves run down easily.

• What you need inside: You need to be needed and to feel that what you do matters.
• How you enjoy life: Volunteering, leading people, sharing, getting involved in public life, or anything that lights up someone else’s day.
• Under pressure: Under pressure you give even harder and forget that you need looking after too.

Outside and inside: the Life and Mind Palaces

When Tai Yang is in the Mind Palace, the Life Palace always holds Tian Tong: on the outside you are easygoing and pleasant to be around, while inside there is a fire that wants to light up other people. Under a gentle surface is a very warm heart.

This is built into the chart: counting two palaces backward from Tai Yang always lands on Tian Tong, and the Life Palace always sits two palaces backward from the Mind Palace. Further reading: Tian Tong in the Life Palace.

The Wealth–Mind axis and the Travel–Spouse–Mind triad

Opposite the Mind Palace is the Wealth Palace: the Wealth Palace shows how you earn, the Mind Palace shows your state of mind and what you enjoy, and that is what decides how the money gets spent. Its triad is the Travel and Spouse Palaces, so your inner needs are tied to how you come across in the world and how you love. When Tai Yang is in the Mind Palace, the major stars of the Wealth, Travel and Spouse Palaces are all not fixed.

Bright and fallen positions

When bright, your inner self is sunny and optimistic, and giving brings you real satisfaction. When fallen, your inner self is easily drained: you give a lot and get little back. Brightness by branch, from the table of the Complete Book this site uses: Exalted: Mao; Strong: Yin, Chen, Si, Wu; Favorable: Wei, Shen; Neutral: You; Weak: Chou, Xu; Fallen: Zi, Hai.

"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

Tai Yang alone, facing Tian Liang (Zi or Wu)

Zi: Tai Yang fallen; Wu: Tai Yang strong. Opposite (Wealth): Tian Liang; Life: Tian Tong. About 19.8% of charts with Tai Yang in the Mind Palace fall into this group.

Warm-hearted and driven by meaning; with Tian Liang opposite in the Wealth Palace, your finances lean principled and stable rather than showy. Tai Yang is brightest in Wu, where you are most cheerful; in Zi it is fallen, and you give a lot and tire easily.

Tai Yang with Tai Yin (Chou or Wei)

Chou: Tai Yang weak, Tai Yin exalted; Wei: Tai Yang favorable, Tai Yin weak. Opposite (Wealth): empty palace; Life: Tian Tong. About 17.3% of charts with Tai Yang in the Mind Palace fall into this group.

With the sun and moon together in the Mind Palace, you are outgoing one moment and withdrawn the next, and your moods swing widely. You need to look after both sides of yourself: the warm one and the sensitive one. Further reading: Tai Yin in the Mind Palace.

Tai Yang with Ju Men (Yin or Shen)

Yin: Tai Yang strong, Ju Men exalted; Shen: Tai Yang favorable, Ju Men exalted. Opposite (Wealth): empty palace; Life: Tian Tong and Tai Yin. About 14.1% of charts with Tai Yang in the Mind Palace fall into this group.

Warm-hearted and argumentative inside, you like to speak up and discuss, and often speak out for what is fair. In Yin, Tai Yang is bright and you are open and cheerful; in Shen you are more prone to overthinking. Further reading: Ju Men in the Mind Palace.

Tai Yang with Tian Liang (Mao or You)

Mao: Tai Yang exalted, Tian Liang exalted; You: Tai Yang neutral, Tian Liang favorable. Opposite (Wealth): empty palace; Life: Tian Tong and Ju Men. About 15.5% of charts with Tai Yang in the Mind Palace fall into this group.

Warm-hearted with a strong sense of justice, you find happiness in helping others and doing meaningful things. In Mao both stars are bright and your inner self is at its sunniest; in You you give a lot and tire easily. Further reading: Tian Liang in the Mind Palace.

Tai Yang alone, facing Tai Yin (Chen or Xu)

Chen: Tai Yang strong; Xu: Tai Yang weak. Opposite (Wealth): Tai Yin; Life: Tian Tong and Tian Liang. About 16.3% of charts with Tai Yang in the Mind Palace fall into this group.

Warm-hearted inside, with Tai Yin opposite in the Wealth Palace. With the Mind Palace in Chen, Tai Yin opposite in Xu is bright: you are cheerful and money stays with you. With the Mind Palace in Xu, both sun and moon are weak: you tire easily and saving takes effort.

Tai Yang alone, facing Ju Men (Si or Hai)

Si: Tai Yang strong; Hai: Tai Yang fallen. Opposite (Wealth): Ju Men; Life: Tian Tong. About 17.0% of charts with Tai Yang in the Mind Palace fall into this group.

Warm-hearted inside; with Ju Men opposite in the Wealth Palace, you earn through speaking. In Si, Tai Yang is bright and your inner self is sunny; in Hai it is fallen and you tire easily.

Birth-year transformations in the Mind Palace

• Tai Yang with Hua Lu (born in a Geng year): For people born in a Geng year, Tai Yang takes Hua Lu in the Mind Palace: giving brings you rewards and happiness, and your mood is open and cheerful. In our sample, about 11.9% of charts with Tai Yang in the Mind Palace carry the birth-year Hua Lu.
• Tai Yang with Hua Quan (born in a Xin year): For people born in a Xin year, Tai Yang takes Hua Quan in the Mind Palace: you carry a strong sense of mission and want to do things that have an impact. In our sample, about 11.0% of charts with Tai Yang in the Mind Palace carry the birth-year Hua Quan.
• Tai Yang with Hua Ji (born in a Jia year): For people born in a Jia year, Tai Yang takes Hua Ji in the Mind Palace: you tend to worry for others and get weighed down by reputation. Look after yourself first. In our sample, about 10.2% of charts with Tai Yang in the Mind Palace carry the birth-year Hua Ji.

Finding your balance

Before you give, ask yourself: is this something I want to do, or something I feel I should do?

About 42.1% of charts with Tai Yang in the Mind 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 Mind Palace usually show up as a busy mind that finds it hard to switch off, so you need a few more ways of looking after yourself; they do not mean you are unhappy.

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 good fortune.

Other major stars in the Mind Palace