Tan Lang in the Siblings Palace: The Peers Closest to You

With Tan Lang in your Siblings Palace, your siblings or peers are lively, sociable and into all sorts of things, and time with them is rarely dull.

Siblings and peers

People with Tan Lang here have a busy circle of peers who have fun together and try new things together. The lesson is that these relationships lean toward fun and mutual gain, and it takes time to tell who you can truly open up to.

• With siblings: Your siblings or peers are multi-talented and know a lot of people.
• With peers and colleagues: Your circle of colleagues is big and always has something going on.
• Working together and partnerships: Working together has drive, but check that you are aiming at the same goal.

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

When Tan Lang is in the Siblings Palace, the Life Palace always holds Ju Men: you like to think things through and speak your mind, while the peers around you are lively and outgoing.

This is built into the chart: counting one palace forward from Tan Lang always lands on Ju Men, and the Life Palace always sits one palace forward from the Siblings Palace. Further reading: Ju Men in the Life Palace.

Siblings and spouse

Counting one palace backward from Tan Lang always lands on Tai Yin, and the Spouse Palace always sits one palace backward from the Siblings Palace, so anyone with Tan Lang in the Siblings Palace has Tai Yin 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: Tai Yin in the Spouse Palace.

When Tan Lang is in the Siblings Palace, the Property Palace always holds Qi Sha, because the Sha-Po-Lang trio always forms a triad. The star in the Friends Palace is not fixed.

Bright and fallen positions

When Tan Lang is bright, your peers bring opportunities and fun. When Tan Lang is fallen, friendships with peers are fickle, and you can get pulled into spending money and time. 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 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 Tan Lang 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

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

Zi: Tan Lang strong; Wu: Tan Lang strong. Opposite (Friends): Zi Wei; Life: Tian Tong and Ju Men; Spouse: Tai Yin. About 15.3% of charts with Tan Lang in the Siblings Palace fall into this group.

Your own people are lively and know how to have fun; opposite, in the Friends Palace, sits Zi Wei, so outside friends and subordinates have firm views and strong pride.

Wu Qu with Tan Lang (Chou or Wei)

Chou: Tan Lang exalted, Wu Qu exalted; Wei: Tan Lang exalted, Wu Qu exalted. Opposite (Friends): empty palace; Life: Tai Yang and Ju Men; Spouse: Tian Tong and Tai Yin. About 14.9% of charts with Tan Lang in the Siblings Palace fall into this group.

Your peers are capable and know how to have fun, with a sharp eye for opportunity. Classical texts say Wu Qu with Tan Lang does not bloom in youth; working with peers tends to get better the longer it lasts. Further reading: Wu Qu in the Siblings Palace.

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

Yin: Tan Lang neutral; Shen: Tan Lang neutral. Opposite (Friends): Lian Zhen; Life: Tian Ji and Ju Men; Spouse: Tai Yang and Tai Yin. About 19.3% of charts with Tan Lang in the Siblings Palace fall into this group.

Your own people are lively and changeable; opposite, in the Friends Palace, sits Lian Zhen, so outside friends have vivid personalities and intense feelings.

Zi Wei with Tan Lang (Mao or You)

Mao: Tan Lang fair, Zi Wei strong; You: Tan Lang fair, Zi Wei strong. Opposite (Friends): empty palace; Life: Ju Men; Spouse: Tian Ji and Tai Yin. About 16.7% of charts with Tan Lang in the Siblings Palace fall into this group.

Your peers think big and know how to have fun: the circle is lively and well resourced, but the partying and the spending grow with it. Further reading: Zi Wei in the Siblings Palace.

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

Chen: Tan Lang exalted; Xu: Tan Lang exalted. Opposite (Friends): Wu Qu; Life: Ju Men; Spouse: Tai Yin. About 18.1% of charts with Tan Lang in the Siblings Palace fall into this group.

Tan Lang is bright in Chen and Xu, so your own people are multi-talented; opposite, in the Friends Palace, sits Wu Qu, so outside friends 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 (Friends): empty palace; Life: Ju Men; Spouse: Tai Yin. About 15.7% of charts with Tan Lang in the Siblings Palace fall into this group.

Your peers are lively and have strong personalities, with plenty of emotion and plenty of fun. Both stars are fallen in Si and Hai, so boundaries and restraint are the key. Further reading: Lian Zhen in the Siblings Palace.

Birth-year transformations in the Siblings Palace

• Tan Lang with Hua Lu (born in a Wu year): For people born in a Wu year, Tan Lang takes Hua Lu in the Siblings Palace: ties with peers are lively and often bring shared gains. In our sample, about 10.6% of charts with Tan Lang in the Siblings Palace carry the birth-year Hua Lu.
• Tan Lang with Hua Quan (born in a Ji year): For people born in a Ji year, Tan Lang takes Hua Quan in the Siblings Palace: among your peers is someone who livens up any room and has strong views. In our sample, about 7.1% of charts with Tan Lang in the Siblings Palace carry the birth-year Hua Quan.
• Tan Lang with Hua Ji (born in a Gui year): For people born in a Gui year, Tan Lang takes Hua Ji in the Siblings Palace: fun or money can cause friction between you and your peers. Set clear boundaries. In our sample, about 12.6% of charts with Tan Lang in the Siblings Palace carry the birth-year Hua Ji.

Getting along

Plenty of people are fun to be around; the ones you can truly confide in are worth choosing slowly.

About 42.6% of charts with Tan Lang 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