Tai Yang in the Parents Palace: You and the Generation Above

Tai Yang in the Parents Palace means your parents or elders are warm-hearted and give a lot; they are often the ones looking after others, at home or in the community.

Parents, elders and bosses

People with Tai Yang here tend to be looked after and promoted by elders and bosses. When Tai Yang is bright, that care is warm and open; when it is fallen, elders give just as much but are often busy with the outside world and around less.

• With your parents: Warm parents who care about their reputation and often run around for family and others.
• Elders, bosses and teachers: Generous bosses and teachers who are glad to bring juniors up.
• Rules and authority: You respect fair authority and want to be treated fairly in return.

You and the generation above: the Life and Parents Palaces

With Tai Yang in the Parents Palace, the Life Palace always holds Wu Qu: you are practical and efficient, while the generation above you is warm, generous and always giving to others.

This is built into the chart: counting one palace backward from Tai Yang always lands on Wu Qu, and the Life Palace always sits one palace backward from the Parents Palace. Further reading: Wu Qu in the Life Palace.

Parents and Mind: upbringing and inner life

With Tai Yang in the Parents Palace, the Mind Palace star is not fixed; the table below lists it for each branch.

With Tai Yang in the Parents Palace, neither the Children Palace star nor the Friends Palace star is fixed.

Bright and fallen positions

When bright, elders are open and upright, a model for you. When fallen, elders are busy with outside matters and have less time for you. 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.

The Parents Palace forms a trine with the Children and Friends Palaces (the generation above, the generation below, and friends and team members read as one group), and it sits between the Life Palace and the Mind Palace. Opposite is the Health Palace; we only read it as the star shining into the Parents Palace and make no health readings. The table shows, for each of the twelve branches Tai Yang can occupy in the Parents Palace, the star shining in from opposite and the major stars of the Life, Mind, Children and Friends Palaces.

"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. Shining in from opposite: Tian Liang; Life: Wu Qu and Po Jun; Mind: Tian Fu. About 16.7% of charts with Tai Yang in the Parents Palace fall into this group.

Tai Yang sits alone with Tian Liang shining in from opposite: elders care for you and like to give pointers. In Wu, Tai Yang is at its brightest and the shelter is open and warm; in Zi it is fallen, and elders work harder for the family.

Tai Yang with Tai Yin (Chou or Wei)

Chou: Tai Yang weak, Tai Yin exalted; Wei: Tai Yang favorable, Tai Yin weak. Shining in from opposite: empty palace; Life: Wu Qu and Tian Fu; Mind: Tan Lang. About 16.5% of charts with Tai Yang in the Parents Palace fall into this group.

Sun and Moon together in the Parents Palace: elders are warm one moment and delicate the next, and the mood at home follows their feelings. In Chou the care is more inward; in Wei it is more outgoing. Further reading: Tai Yin in the Parents Palace.

Tai Yang with Ju Men (Yin or Shen)

Yin: Tai Yang strong, Ju Men exalted; Shen: Tai Yang favorable, Ju Men exalted. Shining in from opposite: empty palace; Life: Wu Qu and Tan Lang; Mind: Tian Xiang. About 15.6% of charts with Tai Yang in the Parents Palace fall into this group.

Elders talk a lot, reason things out and care about their good name. In Yin, Tai Yang is strong and communication is open; in Shen, watch for arguments and misunderstandings with elders. Further reading: Ju Men in the Parents Palace.

Tai Yang with Tian Liang (Mao or You)

Mao: Tai Yang exalted, Tian Liang exalted; You: Tai Yang neutral, Tian Liang favorable. Shining in from opposite: empty palace; Life: Wu Qu and Tian Xiang; Mind: Qi Sha. About 16.5% of charts with Tai Yang in the Parents Palace fall into this group.

Elders are caring and love to teach, a mainstay for you. In Mao both stars are exalted and the shelter is bright and open; in You, elders give a lot and wear themselves out. Further reading: Tian Liang in the Parents Palace.

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

Chen: Tai Yang strong; Xu: Tai Yang weak. Shining in from opposite: Tai Yin; Life: Wu Qu and Qi Sha; Mind: empty palace. About 16.2% of charts with Tai Yang in the Parents Palace fall into this group.

Tai Yang sits alone with Tai Yin shining in from opposite. In Chen, Tai Yang is strong and so is Tai Yin opposite: elders are warm and attentive. In Xu both are weak: elders give a lot and wear themselves out.

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

Si: Tai Yang strong; Hai: Tai Yang fallen. Shining in from opposite: Ju Men; Life: Wu Qu; Mind: Po Jun. About 18.5% of charts with Tai Yang in the Parents Palace fall into this group.

Tai Yang sits alone with Ju Men shining in from opposite: elders are warm and like to reason things out. In Si, Tai Yang is strong and communication is open; in Hai it is fallen, and elders are busy and around less.

Birth-year transformations in the Parents Palace

• Tai Yang with Hua Lu (born in a Geng year): People born in a Geng year have Tai Yang Hua Lu in the Parents Palace: elders look after you a lot and the relationship feels warm. In our sample, about 10.5% of charts with Tai Yang in the Parents Palace carry the birth-year Hua Lu.
• Tai Yang with Hua Quan (born in a Xin year): People born in a Xin year have Tai Yang Hua Quan in the Parents Palace: elders or bosses have influence, and they also like to manage things. In our sample, about 10.4% of charts with Tai Yang in the Parents Palace carry the birth-year Hua Quan.
• Tai Yang with Hua Ji (born in a Jia year): People born in a Jia year have Tai Yang Hua Ji in the Parents Palace: you may worry about your elders, or feel they do not pay you enough attention. Say what you hope for out loud. In our sample, about 10.9% of charts with Tai Yang in the Parents Palace carry the birth-year Hua Ji.

Getting along

Accept your elders' care, and make allowances for how busy they are out in the world.

About 43.9% of charts with Tai Yang in the Parents Palace also have at least one of the six Sha stars in that palace, about the same as the 41.9% across all charts. Malefic stars in the Parents Palace usually show up as more friction and more differences of opinion with elders or bosses, which calls for more talking things through; they do not mean a bad relationship with your parents.

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 parents' fortunes or family bonds.

Other major stars in the Parents Palace