Tan Lang in the Property Palace: The Kind of Home You Want

Tan Lang in the Property Palace means your home is lively and full of life; you like hosting friends and throwing gatherings, and there is a lot of stuff around.

Home and living

People with Tan Lang here are particular about enjoying home and like to bring their hobbies into it. The lesson is that household spending and possessions both tend to keep growing, so some restraint is needed.

• Home style: You like a space for entertainment, collections and gatherings.
• Property and savings: When buying, you put the enjoyment of living first, and you may invest because of a hobby or a connection.
• Life with the family: At home you are warm and hospitable, the one who gets the party going.

You and your home: the Life and Property Palaces

With Tan Lang in the Property Palace, the Life Palace star is not fixed: it can be Tian Tong, Tai Yang or Tian Ji, or the Life Palace can be empty.

With Tan Lang in the Property Palace, the Life Palace star changes with the branch; the table below lists it for each one.

Earning and keeping: the Wealth and Property Palaces

With Tan Lang in the Property Palace, the Wealth Palace star is not fixed.

With Tan Lang in the Property Palace, the Siblings Palace always holds Po Jun: siblings and peers have strong personalities and are bold and changeable. The Wealth and Children Palace stars are not fixed.

Bright and fallen positions

When bright, home is lively and fun and your quality of life is high. When fallen, household spending is high and temptations many, and money is hard to hold on to. Brightness by branch, from the table of the Complete Book this site uses: Exalted: Chou, Chen, Wei, Xu; Strong: Zi, Wu; Fair: Mao, You; Neutral: Yin, Shen; Fallen: Si, Hai.

Opposite the Property Palace is the Children Palace (home and family pull on each other), and its trine is the Siblings Palace and the Health Palace. The table shows the major stars of the Children, Life, Wealth and Siblings Palaces for each of the twelve branches Tan Lang can occupy in the Property Palace (we make no health readings from the Health Palace, so it 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

Tan Lang alone, facing Zi Wei (Zi or Wu)

Zi: Tan Lang strong; Wu: Tan Lang strong. Opposite Children: Zi Wei; Life: empty palace; Wealth: Tian Ji. About 15.6% of charts with Tan Lang in the Property Palace fall into this group.

Home is lively and enjoyable; with Zi Wei in the Children Palace opposite, children and younger people have firm views and plenty of pride.

Wu Qu with Tan Lang (Chou or Wei)

Chou: Tan Lang exalted, Wu Qu exalted; Wei: Tan Lang exalted, Wu Qu exalted. Opposite Children: empty palace; Life: empty palace; Wealth: empty palace. About 17.1% of charts with Tan Lang in the Property Palace fall into this group.

Home values both assets and enjoyment, and you are ambitious about property. The old saying is that Wu Qu with Tan Lang does not bloom in youth; the family estate usually steadies after middle age. Further reading: Wu Qu in the Property Palace.

Tan Lang alone, facing Lian Zhen (Yin or Shen)

Yin: Tan Lang neutral; Shen: Tan Lang neutral. Opposite Children: Lian Zhen; Life: Tian Tong; Wealth: empty palace. About 17.1% of charts with Tan Lang in the Property Palace fall into this group.

Home is lively and changeable; with Lian Zhen in the Children Palace opposite, children and younger people have strong personalities and strong feelings.

Zi Wei with Tan Lang (Mao or You)

Mao: Tan Lang fair, Zi Wei strong; You: Tan Lang fair, Zi Wei strong. Opposite Children: empty palace; Life: Tai Yang; Wealth: empty palace. About 16.5% of charts with Tan Lang in the Property Palace fall into this group.

Home is about taste and enjoyment, with frequent gatherings and new things always arriving. It is full of life, and the spending grows to match. Further reading: Zi Wei in the Property Palace.

Tan Lang alone, facing Wu Qu (Chen or Xu)

Chen: Tan Lang exalted; Xu: Tan Lang exalted. Opposite Children: Wu Qu; Life: Tian Ji; Wealth: Tian Tong. About 18.0% of charts with Tan Lang in the Property Palace fall into this group.

Tan Lang is exalted in Chen and Xu, so home has both charm and assets; with Wu Qu in the Children Palace opposite, children and younger people are practical and capable.

Lian Zhen with Tan Lang (Si or Hai)

Si: Tan Lang fallen, Lian Zhen fallen; Hai: Tan Lang fallen, Lian Zhen fallen. Opposite Children: empty palace; Life: empty palace; Wealth: Tai Yang. About 15.7% of charts with Tan Lang in the Property Palace fall into this group.

Home is lively and full of character, an exciting life, with big swings in spending and emotions. Both stars are fallen in Si and Hai, so boundaries and moderation at home are the key. Further reading: Lian Zhen in the Property Palace.

Birth-year transformations in the Property Palace

• Tan Lang with Hua Lu (born in a Wu year): People born in a Wu year have Tan Lang Hua Lu in the Property Palace: the household is lively and life at home is enjoyable. In our sample, about 9.1% of charts with Tan Lang in the Property Palace carry the birth-year Hua Lu.
• Tan Lang with Hua Quan (born in a Ji year): People born in a Ji year have Tan Lang Hua Quan in the Property Palace: you have big ambitions for enjoying and decorating your home. In our sample, about 8.9% of charts with Tan Lang in the Property Palace carry the birth-year Hua Quan.
• Tan Lang with Hua Ji (born in a Gui year): People born in a Gui year have Tan Lang Hua Ji in the Property Palace: household spending or possessions can get out of hand. Declutter regularly. In our sample, about 10.0% of charts with Tan Lang in the Property Palace carry the birth-year Hua Ji.

Advice for home

Home can be lively, but clear it out regularly so both space and money stay put.

About 40.7% of charts with Tan Lang in the Property 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 Property Palace usually show up as moves, household worries or ups and downs in your assets, which call for a bit more planning; they do not mean bad luck for the family.

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 family fortunes.

Other major stars in the Property Palace