Tai Yang in the Spouse Palace: Who You Fall For, and Where You Get Stuck

With Tai Yang in your Spouse Palace, you are drawn to warm, generous people who take responsibility. Your partner is usually outgoing and caring, and also mindful of their own reputation and career.

Your pattern in love

Tai Yang loves by giving: your partner is happy to give and hopes to be seen for it. The difference between a bright and a fallen Tai Yang shows clearly here: a bright Tai Yang makes the relationship warm and sunny, while a fallen one often leaves the partner who gives more feeling tired and misunderstood.

You and your partner: the Life and Spouse Palaces

When Tai Yang is in your Spouse Palace, the Life Palace always holds Tian Ji. Tian Ji likes to think and Tai Yang likes to act, so you do the thinking and your partner charges ahead, a classic complementary match; the thing to watch is that you overthink while your partner finds you a nag.

This is built into the chart: counting two palaces forward from Tai Yang always lands on Tian Ji, and the Life Palace always sits two palaces forward from the Spouse Palace, so anyone with Tai Yang in the Spouse Palace has Tian Ji in the Life Palace (either alone or together with Tai Yin, Ju Men and Tian Liang). Further reading: Tian Ji in the Life Palace.

Bright and fallen positions

When Tai Yang is bright, your partner is warm and dependable, able to look after both career and family, someone who makes you feel secure. When it is fallen, your partner is just as kind-hearted but often busy with outside matters and worn out, and you may feel their time is being taken by other people. 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 Spouse Palace's four-way set is the Career Palace (opposite), the Travel Palace and the Mind Palace: love and work pull on each other, and both are tied to how you come across in the world and how content you feel inside. The table shows the major stars of these palaces, and of your Life Palace, for each of the twelve branches Tai Yang can occupy in the Spouse 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

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

Zi: Tai Yang fallen; Wu: Tai Yang strong. Opposite (Career): Tian Liang; Life: Tian Ji and Tai Yin. About 16.5% of charts with Tai Yang in the Spouse Palace fall into this group.

Your partner values their reputation and loves looking after people. With Tian Liang opposite in the Career Palace, your work carries a caring, professional colour. In Wu, Tai Yang is at its brightest and your partner shines; in Zi it is fallen and your partner has a harder time.

Tai Yang with Tai Yin (Chou or Wei)

Chou: Tai Yang weak, Tai Yin exalted; Wei: Tai Yang favorable, Tai Yin weak. Opposite (Career): empty palace; Life: Tian Ji and Ju Men. About 18.2% of charts with Tai Yang in the Spouse Palace fall into this group.

With the Sun and Moon together, your partner has both an outgoing and a reserved side, and their moods swing more. The relationship runs hot and cold, and both of you need to learn to read each other’s rhythm. Further reading: Tai Yin in the Spouse Palace.

Tai Yang with Ju Men (Yin or Shen)

Yin: Tai Yang strong, Ju Men exalted; Shen: Tai Yang favorable, Ju Men exalted. Opposite (Career): empty palace; Life: Tian Ji and Tian Liang. About 15.8% of charts with Tai Yang in the Spouse Palace fall into this group.

Your partner is articulate, opinionated and engaged in public affairs, and there is a lot of talk in the relationship. In Yin, Tai Yang is bright and communication is frank; in Shen, watch for friction over words. Further reading: Ju Men in the Spouse Palace.

Tai Yang with Tian Liang (Mao or You)

Mao: Tai Yang exalted, Tian Liang exalted; You: Tai Yang neutral, Tian Liang favorable. Opposite (Career): empty palace; Life: Tian Ji. About 15.1% of charts with Tai Yang in the Spouse Palace fall into this group.

Your partner is warm-hearted, has a strong sense of justice and loves looking after people, often giving a lot of time to work or others. In Mao both stars are bright and the relationship is sunny and warm; in You, watch for a partner who gives too much and wears out. Further reading: Tian Liang in the Spouse Palace.

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

Chen: Tai Yang strong; Xu: Tai Yang weak. Opposite (Career): Tai Yin; Life: Tian Ji. About 17.2% of charts with Tai Yang in the Spouse Palace fall into this group.

Your partner is warm and outgoing. With Tai Yin opposite in the Career Palace, your work leans toward back-office tasks and planning. In Chen both Sun and Moon shine and the relationship is warm; in Xu both are weak and you can both tire easily.

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

Si: Tai Yang strong; Hai: Tai Yang fallen. Opposite (Career): Ju Men; Life: Tian Ji. About 17.1% of charts with Tai Yang in the Spouse Palace fall into this group.

Your partner is warm and dependable. With Ju Men opposite in the Career Palace, your work involves speaking. In Si, Tai Yang is bright and your partner is open and upright; in Hai it is fallen, and your partner gives a lot but is seldom seen for it.

Birth-year transformations in the Spouse Palace

• Tai Yang with Hua Lu (born in a Geng year): For people born in a Geng year, Tai Yang with Hua Lu sits in the Spouse Palace: your partner is generous, popular and successful in their career, and the relationship is warm. In our sample, about 11.9% of charts with Tai Yang in the Spouse 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 with Hua Quan sits in the Spouse Palace: your partner is decisive and influential, and the family’s direction is often set by them. In our sample, about 8.0% of charts with Tai Yang in the Spouse 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 with Hua Ji sits in the Spouse Palace: you pay close attention to your partner’s giving and career, and you can easily feel let down when they are busy. In our sample, about 11.4% of charts with Tai Yang in the Spouse Palace carry the birth-year Hua Ji.

A man's chart and a woman's chart

In a man's chart: Classical texts say that for a man, Tai Yang in the Spouse Palace means a wife who is “strong-willed and capable.” The modern reading: your partner is outgoing and ambitious, a second pillar of the household; respect the stage they have out in the world.

In a woman's chart: Classical texts say that for a woman, Tai Yang in the Spouse Palace means a husband “of good name and high standing,” and they treat Tai Yang as the symbol of the husband. The modern reading: you admire open, upright partners who take responsibility; when Tai Yang is fallen, watch for a partner too busy to spend time with you.

The classical texts read the Spouse Palace as the wife in a man's chart and the husband in a woman's chart, reflecting the traditional view of marriage they were written in. Relationships today take many forms, so this site reads the Spouse Palace as your pattern in close relationships, whatever your gender and whatever shape the relationship takes.

Getting along

Let giving be seen: a Tai Yang partner needs to hear “thank you,” and you need them to keep some of their time for home.

About 41.2% of charts with Tai Yang in the Spouse Palace also have at least one of the six Sha stars in that palace, about the same as the 42.0% across all charts. Malefic stars in the Spouse Palace usually show up as high expectations of love and a need to work things through; they do not mean the relationship is bad.

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 love life.

Other major stars in the Spouse Palace