Tai Yin in the Travel Palace: Who You Are Once You Step Out the Door
Tai Yin in the Travel Palace means that out in the world you are attentive, gentle and low-key; you are a good observer and you care a lot about the atmosphere and how people feel.
How you come across out in the world
This is a quiet Travel Palace: away from home you do not chase the spotlight, but you are thorough and people feel they can rely on you. When Tai Yin is bright, you are well liked outside and helped by women or elders; when fallen, you tend to overthink and feel ill at ease away from home.
- Public image: Out in the world you come across as gentle, polite and attentive.
- Life away from home: You suit a stable life away from home, work that needs care and planning, and night-time or behind-the-scenes roles.
- Opportunities and lessons: Opportunities come from your care and word of mouth; the lesson is worrying too much about how others see you.
Life and Travel on one line: borrowing this star for an empty Life Palace
If your Life Palace is empty and you borrow Tai Yin from the Travel Palace (usually Sun and Moon, Tian Ji with Tai Yin, or Tian Tong with Tai Yin in the Travel Palace), your nature also carries Tai Yin's sensitivity: there is more going on inside you than shows on the surface. In our sample, about 50.2% of charts with Tai Yin in the Travel Palace have an empty Life Palace and read it through this palace. Further reading: the Life Palace and Body Palace, Tai Yin in the Life Palace.
Travel, Spouse and Mind: the outer you, love and your inner life are tied together
With Tai Yin in the Travel Palace, the Spouse Palace always holds Tian Liang: attentive and low-key in the world, in love you value maturity and care. The Life and Mind Palace stars are not fixed; the Life Palace can hold Tian Tong, Tai Yang or Tian Ji, or it can be empty.
Bright and fallen positions
When bright, you are well liked out in the world and win people over with your thoughtfulness. When fallen, you are sensitive and anxious out in the world, and tire easily. 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.
The Travel Palace's four-way set is the Life Palace (opposite), the Spouse Palace and the Mind Palace: who you are out in the world is the other face of your nature, and it is tied to love and to inner contentment. The table shows the major stars of these palaces for each of the twelve branches Tai Yin can occupy in the Travel Palace.
| Travel Palace in | Brightness | Shares the palace with | Opposite (Life) | Spouse | Mind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yin | Strong | Tian Ji | empty palace | Tian Liang | Tian Tong |
| Mao | Fallen | alone | Tian Tong | Tian Liang | Tai Yang |
| Chen | Fallen | alone | Tai Yang | Tian Tong and Tian Liang | Tian Ji |
| Si | Fallen | alone | Tian Ji | Tai Yang and Tian Liang | empty palace |
| Wu | Weak | Tian Tong | empty palace | Tian Ji and Tian Liang | empty palace |
| Wei | Weak | Tai Yang | empty palace | Tian Liang | empty palace |
| Shen | Fair | Tian Ji | empty palace | Tian Liang | Tian Tong |
| You | Strong | alone | Tian Tong | Tian Liang | Tai Yang |
| Xu | Strong | alone | Tai Yang | Tian Tong and Tian Liang | Tian Ji |
| Hai | Exalted | alone | Tian Ji | Tai Yang and Tian Liang | empty palace |
| Zi | Exalted | Tian Tong | empty palace | Tian Ji and Tian Liang | empty palace |
| Chou | Exalted | Tai Yang | empty palace | Tian Liang | empty 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. People with an empty Life Palace borrow the Travel 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 Life: empty palace; Spouse: Tian Ji and Tian Liang; Mind: empty palace. About 15.5% of charts with Tai Yin in the Travel Palace fall into this group.
Out in the world you are gentle, feelings-first and have an artistic streak. The Life Palace opposite is empty: people who borrow this pair are also sensitive and romantic by nature. In Zi both stars are strong and you are most popular out in the world. Further reading: Tian Tong in the Travel Palace.
Tai Yang with Tai Yin (Chou or Wei)
Chou: Tai Yin exalted, Tai Yang weak; Wei: Tai Yin weak, Tai Yang favorable. Opposite Life: empty palace; Spouse: Tian Liang; Mind: empty palace. About 17.3% of charts with Tai Yin in the Travel Palace fall into this group.
Sun and Moon together in the Travel Palace: out in the world you are outgoing one moment and reserved the next, with big swings in mood. The Life Palace opposite is empty: people who borrow this pair also carry both sides by nature, adaptable but slow to settle. Further reading: Tai Yang in the Travel Palace.
Tian Ji with Tai Yin (Yin or Shen)
Yin: Tai Yin strong, Tian Ji favorable; Shen: Tai Yin fair, Tian Ji favorable. Opposite Life: empty palace; Spouse: Tian Liang; Mind: Tian Tong. About 17.3% of charts with Tai Yin in the Travel Palace fall into this group.
Out in the world you are sensitive, clever and always on the move, often travelling or changing surroundings. The Life Palace opposite is empty: people who borrow this pair are also thoughtful by nature and adapt well. Further reading: Tian Ji in the Travel Palace.
Tai Yin alone, facing Tian Tong (Mao or You)
Mao: Tai Yin fallen; You: Tai Yin strong. Opposite Life: Tian Tong; Spouse: Tian Liang; Mind: Tai Yang. About 17.1% of charts with Tai Yin in the Travel Palace fall into this group.
Out in the world you are attentive and gentle; by nature (Life Palace) you are Tian Tong, easygoing and fond of comfort. In You, Tai Yin is strong and you have a good reputation outside; in Mao it is fallen, and you are more sensitive away from home.
Tai Yin alone, facing Tai Yang (Chen or Xu)
Chen: Tai Yin fallen; Xu: Tai Yin strong. Opposite Life: Tai Yang; Spouse: Tian Tong and Tian Liang; Mind: Tian Ji. About 16.3% of charts with Tai Yin in the Travel Palace fall into this group.
Out in the world you are gentle and reserved; by nature (Life Palace) you are Tai Yang, warm and outgoing. In Xu, Tai Yin is strong and your thoughtfulness wins people over; in Chen it is fallen, and you tire easily out in the world.
Tai Yin alone, facing Tian Ji (Si or Hai)
Si: Tai Yin fallen; Hai: Tai Yin exalted. Opposite Life: Tian Ji; Spouse: Tai Yang and Tian Liang; Mind: empty palace. About 16.3% of charts with Tai Yin in the Travel Palace fall into this group.
Out in the world you are attentive and low-key; by nature (Life Palace) you are Tian Ji, clever and changeable. In Hai, Tai Yin is exalted and you are popular out in the world; in Si it is fallen, and you tend to overthink away from home.
Birth-year transformations in the Travel Palace
- Tai Yin with Hua Lu (born in a Ding year): People born in a Ding year have Tai Yin Hua Lu in the Travel Palace: you are well liked out in the world, with plenty of slow, steady opportunities. In our sample, about 8.2% of charts with Tai Yin in the Travel Palace carry the birth-year Hua Lu.
- Tai Yin with Hua Quan (born in a Wu year): People born in a Wu year have Tai Yin Hua Quan in the Travel Palace: attentive but with firm views out in the world, able to keep a situation in hand. In our sample, about 8.7% of charts with Tai Yin in the Travel Palace carry the birth-year Hua Quan.
- Tai Yin with Hua Ke (born in a Geng or Gui year): People born in a Geng or Gui year have Tai Yin Hua Ke in the Travel Palace: a good public image and natural grace, and good reviews come easily. In our sample, about 22.8% of charts with Tai Yin in the Travel Palace carry the birth-year Hua Ke.
- Tai Yin with Hua Ji (born in a Yi year): People born in a Yi year have Tai Yin Hua Ji in the Travel Palace: out in the world you tend to overthink and drain yourself emotionally. Away from home, look after your feelings. In our sample, about 12.6% of charts with Tai Yin in the Travel Palace carry the birth-year Hua Ji.
Advice for life away from home
You can keep a low profile out in the world, but make sure the right people know what you have done.
About 41.5% of charts with Tai Yin in the Travel Palace also have at least one of the six Sha stars in that palace, about the same as the 42.4% across all charts. Malefic stars in the Travel Palace usually show up as more competition, more rushing around or more friction with people out in the world; they do not mean something will go wrong when you go out.
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 luck away from home.
Other major stars in the Travel Palace
A straight word: the Travel Palace is about who you are out in the world, not whether something will happen to you when you go out
The Travel Palace describes how you come across and the chances you meet out in the world, in unfamiliar places and among people, and it is the other face of the Life Palace. It cannot tell you whether moving abroad will work out or whether you should emigrate, and it does not predict accidents or good or bad luck on the road. Everything on this site is for reference and entertainment only.
Find out which star sits in your Travel Palace
Enter your date of birth and birth time to cast your chart, then tap the Travel Palace to see its major stars, transformations and four-way set (Life, Spouse and Mind Palaces).
Tai Yin in the Travel Palace: FAQ
Does Tai Yin in the Travel Palace suit building a life away from home?
Tai Yin in the Travel Palace is attentive and low-key out in the world, with a good reputation, and suits stable work away from home that needs care. When fallen, pay particular attention to emotional and physical tiredness.
How common is Tai Yin in the Travel Palace?
Across the 16,802 charts in our sample, about 8.2% have Tai Yin in the Travel Palace (alone or sharing it with another major star). Each of the fourteen major stars lands in the Travel Palace roughly 8–9% of the time.