Tai Yang in the Siblings Palace: The Peers Closest to You

With Tai Yang in your Siblings Palace, your ties with siblings and peers are warm and lively and you look out for each other. You are often the one giving, and your peers often lean on you.

Siblings and peers

People with Tai Yang here have a busy circle of peers who help each other without keeping score. When Tai Yang is bright, what you give comes back as warm friendship; when it is fallen, you give just as much but often feel you help more than you are helped.

• With siblings: Your siblings or peers are outgoing and warm, and you keep an eye out for one another.
• With peers and colleagues: You get on well with colleagues and are often the center of the get-together.
• Working together and partnerships: You work together on loyalty and good faith, but the accounts and the responsibilities need to be clear all the same.

You and the peers around you: the Life and Siblings Palaces

When Tai Yang is in the Siblings Palace, the star in your Life Palace is not fixed: it may be Tian Fu, Tan Lang, Tian Xiang, Qi Sha or Po Jun, or the Life Palace may be empty.

With Tai Yang in the Siblings Palace, the major star of the Life Palace changes with the branch; the table below lists it for each branch.

Siblings and spouse

Counting one palace backward from Tai Yang always lands on Wu Qu, and the Spouse Palace always sits one palace backward from the Siblings Palace, so anyone with Tai Yang in the Siblings Palace has Wu Qu in the Spouse Palace: your closest peers and your partner are often the two relationships that sit side by side in your life. Further reading: Wu Qu in the Spouse Palace.

When Tai Yang is in the Siblings Palace, the stars in the Friends Palace and the Property Palace are not fixed.

Bright and fallen positions

When Tai Yang is bright, the bond among your peers is open and warm, and you pull each other up. When Tai Yang is fallen, you give a lot to your peers and can wear yourself out. 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.

Opposite the Siblings Palace is the Friends Palace (the Siblings–Friends axis: your own people and outsiders), and its triad is the Property and Health Palaces. The table shows the major stars of the Friends, Life, Spouse and Property Palaces for each of the twelve branches Tai Yang can occupy in the Siblings Palace (this site gives no health readings, so the Health Palace 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

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

Zi: Tai Yang fallen; Wu: Tai Yang strong. Opposite (Friends): Tian Liang; Life: Tian Fu; Spouse: Wu Qu and Po Jun. About 17.3% of charts with Tai Yang in the Siblings Palace fall into this group.

Your own people are warm and help each other; opposite, in the Friends Palace, sits Tian Liang, so there are people outside who look after you. In Wu, Tai Yang is at its brightest and the bond is open and bright; in Zi, Tai Yang 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 (Friends): empty palace; Life: Tan Lang; Spouse: Wu Qu and Tian Fu. About 16.8% of charts with Tai Yang in the Siblings Palace fall into this group.

With the sun and moon together in the Siblings Palace, your peers are warm one moment and sensitive the next, and the relationship rises and falls with the mood. In Chou it leans reserved; in Wei it leans outgoing. Further reading: Tai Yin in the Siblings Palace.

Tai Yang with Ju Men (Yin or Shen)

Yin: Tai Yang strong, Ju Men exalted; Shen: Tai Yang favorable, Ju Men exalted. Opposite (Friends): empty palace; Life: Tian Xiang; Spouse: Wu Qu and Tan Lang. About 17.2% of charts with Tai Yang in the Siblings Palace fall into this group.

Your peers talk a lot and interact a lot, valuing both loyalty and reasoned argument. In Yin, Tai Yang is bright and communication is open; in Shen, watch out for quarrels and misunderstandings. Further reading: Ju Men in the Siblings Palace.

Tai Yang with Tian Liang (Mao or You)

Mao: Tai Yang exalted, Tian Liang exalted; You: Tai Yang neutral, Tian Liang favorable. Opposite (Friends): empty palace; Life: Qi Sha; Spouse: Wu Qu and Tian Xiang. About 14.6% of charts with Tai Yang in the Siblings Palace fall into this group.

Your peers are warm and caring, and you pull each other up. In Mao both stars are bright and the bond is open and warm; in You you give a lot and can wear yourself out. Further reading: Tian Liang in the Siblings Palace.

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

Chen: Tai Yang strong; Xu: Tai Yang weak. Opposite (Friends): Tai Yin; Life: empty palace; Spouse: Wu Qu and Qi Sha. About 17.7% of charts with Tai Yang in the Siblings Palace fall into this group.

Your own people are warm and caring; opposite, in the Friends Palace, sits Tai Yin. With the Siblings Palace in Chen, Tai Yin opposite in Xu is bright and bonds inside and out are warm; with the Siblings Palace in Xu, both sun and moon are weak, and you give more than comes back.

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

Si: Tai Yang strong; Hai: Tai Yang fallen. Opposite (Friends): Ju Men; Life: Po Jun; Spouse: Wu Qu. About 16.3% of charts with Tai Yang in the Siblings Palace fall into this group.

Your own people are warm-hearted; opposite, in the Friends Palace, sits Ju Men, so outside friends talk a lot and have plenty of opinions. In Si, Tai Yang is bright and ties with peers are open; in Hai, Tai Yang is fallen and you give a lot to your peers.

Birth-year transformations in the Siblings 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 Siblings Palace: your ties with peers are warm, and what you give is returned. In our sample, about 12.2% of charts with Tai Yang in the Siblings 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 Siblings Palace: you have influence among your peers, and may end up managing too much of their business. In our sample, about 11.0% of charts with Tai Yang in the Siblings 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 Siblings Palace: you tend to worry about your peers and give too much. Look after yourself first. In our sample, about 10.7% of charts with Tai Yang in the Siblings Palace carry the birth-year Hua Ji.

Getting along

Before you take care of others, make sure someone is taking care of you too.

About 41.2% of charts with Tai Yang in the Siblings 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 Siblings Palace usually show up as friction and strong opinions among peers, calling for more communication and clearer boundaries; they do not mean you and your siblings are at odds.

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 number of siblings or how those siblings will fare.

Other major stars in the Siblings Palace