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

With Tai Yin in the Mind Palace, your inner self is delicate, sensitive and led by feeling. Your inner life is very rich, and you often carry things you find hard to put into words.

Your inner world

People with Tai Yin here find happiness in quiet companionship and a lovely atmosphere. When Tai Yin is bright your inner self is gentle and settled; when fallen you are prone to melancholy and draining yourself with your own emotions.

• What you need inside: You need to be understood, and you need quiet space and a gentle atmosphere.
• How you enjoy life: Reading, music, art, handicrafts, and time alone at night.
• Under pressure: Under pressure you tuck your feelings away: calm on the surface, churning underneath.

Outside and inside: the Life and Mind Palaces

When Tai Yin is in the Mind Palace, the major star of your Life Palace is not fixed: it may be Tian Tong, Tai Yang or Tian Ji, or the Life Palace may be empty. A common picture is someone who seems easygoing or warm-hearted on the outside, yet inside is very delicate and cares a great deal about how things feel.

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

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 Yin is in the Mind Palace, the Travel Palace always holds Tian Liang: out in the world you come across as mature and dependable, while inside you are delicate and soft.

Bright and fallen positions

When bright, your inner self is gentle, settled and has a real sense of beauty. When fallen, you are sensitive and worry a lot, and your emotions wear you down. Brightness by branch, from the table of the Complete Book this site uses: Exalted: Zi, Chou, Hai; Strong: Yin, You, Xu; Fair: Shen; Weak: Wu, Wei; Fallen: Mao, Chen, Si.

"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

Tian Tong with Tai Yin (Zi or Wu)

Zi: Tai Yin exalted, Tian Tong strong; Wu: Tai Yin weak, Tian Tong fallen. Opposite (Wealth): empty palace; Life: empty palace. About 17.1% of charts with Tai Yin in the Mind Palace fall into this group.

Gentle, romantic and led by feeling, you know how to enjoy a lovely atmosphere. In Zi both stars are well placed and your inner self is at its most settled; in Wu both are poorly placed and you are prone to melancholy. Further reading: Tian Tong in the Mind Palace.

Tai Yang with Tai Yin (Chou or Wei)

Chou: Tai Yin exalted, Tai Yang weak; Wei: Tai Yin weak, Tai Yang favorable. Opposite (Wealth): empty palace; Life: Tian Tong. About 17.1% of charts with Tai Yin 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 Yang in the Mind Palace.

Tian Ji with Tai Yin (Yin or Shen)

Yin: Tai Yin strong, Tian Ji favorable; Shen: Tai Yin fair, Tian Ji favorable. Opposite (Wealth): empty palace; Life: Tai Yang. About 16.5% of charts with Tai Yin in the Mind Palace fall into this group.

Sensitive and thoughtful inside, with rich feelings that are easily stirred, you have a very active inner life. Reading, art and writing are good places to put what you carry inside. Further reading: Tian Ji in the Mind Palace.

Tai Yin alone, facing Tian Tong (Mao or You)

Mao: Tai Yin fallen; You: Tai Yin strong. Opposite (Wealth): Tian Tong; Life: Tian Ji. About 18.0% of charts with Tai Yin in the Mind Palace fall into this group.

Sensitive and gentle inside; with Tian Tong opposite in the Wealth Palace, money comes in gently. Tai Yin is bright in You, where you feel content; in Mao it is fallen and your emotions can wear you down.

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

Chen: Tai Yin fallen; Xu: Tai Yin strong. Opposite (Wealth): Tai Yang; Life: empty palace. About 15.7% of charts with Tai Yin in the Mind Palace fall into this group.

Sensitive and reserved inside; with Tai Yang opposite in the Wealth Palace, you earn through reputation and connections. Tai Yin is bright in Xu, where you feel secure; in Chen it is fallen and you are prone to melancholy.

Tai Yin alone, facing Tian Ji (Si or Hai)

Si: Tai Yin fallen; Hai: Tai Yin exalted. Opposite (Wealth): Tian Ji; Life: empty palace. About 15.6% of charts with Tai Yin in the Mind Palace fall into this group.

Sensitive inside; with Tian Ji opposite in the Wealth Palace, you earn with your brain and income varies. Tai Yin is bright in Hai, where you feel settled; in Si it is fallen, and money can make you anxious.

Birth-year transformations in the Mind Palace

• Tai Yin with Hua Lu (born in a Ding year): For people born in a Ding year, Tai Yin takes Hua Lu in the Mind Palace: you are gentle and content inside, and you know how to make life lovely. In our sample, about 9.9% of charts with Tai Yin in the Mind Palace carry the birth-year Hua Lu.
• Tai Yin with Hua Quan (born in a Wu year): For people born in a Wu year, Tai Yin takes Hua Quan in the Mind Palace: sensitive but decisive, with clear ideas about how to arrange your life. In our sample, about 9.1% of charts with Tai Yin in the Mind Palace carry the birth-year Hua Quan.
• Tai Yin with Hua Ke (born in a Geng or Gui year): For people born in a Geng or Gui year, Tai Yin takes Hua Ke in the Mind Palace: your inner life has taste and talent. In our sample, about 20.7% of charts with Tai Yin in the Mind Palace carry the birth-year Hua Ke.
• Tai Yin with Hua Ji (born in a Yi year): For people born in a Yi year, Tai Yin takes Hua Ji in the Mind Palace: you are prone to melancholy and to wearing yourself down emotionally. Give yourself quiet time to sort through your feelings. In our sample, about 10.4% of charts with Tai Yin in the Mind Palace carry the birth-year Hua Ji.

Finding your balance

Find someone you can tell your worries to, or a notebook you can write them in.

About 41.7% of charts with Tai Yin 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