Tian Fu in the Siblings Palace: The Peers Closest to You

With Tian Fu in your Siblings Palace, your siblings or peers are steady and dependable, people you can talk things over with and lean on when something comes up.

Siblings and peers

People with Tian Fu here have stable, long-lasting ties with their peers and often look after each other. The lesson is that the circle leans conservative: the relationships are steady but rarely change, so you have to make the effort to meet new people.

• With siblings: Your siblings or peers are steady and caring.
• With peers and colleagues: Your ties with colleagues last and stay stable.
• Working together and partnerships: Working together is solid and suits a long-term venture.

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

When Tian Fu is in the Siblings Palace, the Life Palace always holds Tai Yin: you are sensitive and gentle, and the peers around you are steady and dependable, someone to lean on.

This is built into the chart: counting one palace forward from Tian Fu always lands on Tai Yin, and the Life Palace always sits one palace forward from the Siblings Palace. Further reading: Tai Yin in the Life Palace.

Siblings and spouse

With Tian Fu in the Siblings Palace, the major star of the Spouse Palace is not fixed; the table below lists it for each branch.

When Tian Fu is in the Siblings Palace, the Friends Palace always holds Qi Sha and the Property Palace always holds Tian Xiang: your own people are solid, while friends and subordinates outside are headstrong and come and go.

Bright and fallen positions

When Tian Fu is bright, your peers are a firm source of backing. In a fair position they are just as reliable, only with fewer resources; with Di Kong or Di Jie present, they look steady but can offer less than it seems. Brightness by branch, from the table of the Complete Book this site uses: Exalted: Zi, Chou, Yin, Chen, Wei, Xu; Strong: Wu, You; Favorable: Mao, Si, Shen, 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 Tian Fu 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

Wu Qu with Tian Fu (Zi or Wu)

Zi: Tian Fu exalted, Wu Qu strong; Wu: Tian Fu strong, Wu Qu strong. Opposite (Friends): Qi Sha; Life: Tai Yang and Tai Yin; Spouse: Tian Tong. About 17.8% of charts with Tian Fu in the Siblings Palace fall into this group.

Two wealth stars guard the Siblings Palace: your peers are practical and steady and can give each other real support. The drawback is that feelings rarely get said out loud. Further reading: Wu Qu in the Siblings Palace.

Tian Fu alone, facing Lian Zhen and Qi Sha (Chou or Wei)

Chou: Tian Fu exalted; Wei: Tian Fu exalted. Opposite (Friends): Lian Zhen and Qi Sha; Life: Tian Ji and Tai Yin; Spouse: Tai Yang. About 18.0% of charts with Tian Fu in the Siblings Palace fall into this group.

Tian Fu is bright in Chou and Wei, so your own people are a firm source of backing; opposite, in the Friends Palace, sit Lian Zhen and Qi Sha, so outside friends and subordinates are headstrong and ambitious.

Zi Wei with Tian Fu (Yin or Shen)

Yin: Tian Fu exalted, Zi Wei strong; Shen: Tian Fu favorable, Zi Wei strong. Opposite (Friends): Qi Sha; Life: Tai Yin; Spouse: Tian Ji. About 17.6% of charts with Tian Fu in the Siblings Palace fall into this group.

Your peers are steady and carry weight, a very dependable source of backing. The catch is that both sides care about face, so neither is quick to give way in a disagreement. Further reading: Zi Wei in the Siblings Palace.

Tian Fu alone, facing Wu Qu and Qi Sha (Mao or You)

Mao: Tian Fu favorable; You: Tian Fu strong. Opposite (Friends): Wu Qu and Qi Sha; Life: Tai Yin; Spouse: empty palace. About 18.7% of charts with Tian Fu in the Siblings Palace fall into this group.

Your own people are steady and dependable; opposite, in the Friends Palace, sit Wu Qu and Qi Sha, so outside friends and subordinates are tough-minded. In You, Tian Fu is bright and the backing from your peers is stronger than in Mao.

Lian Zhen with Tian Fu (Chen or Xu)

Chen: Tian Fu exalted, Lian Zhen fair; Xu: Tian Fu exalted, Lian Zhen fair. Opposite (Friends): Qi Sha; Life: Tai Yin; Spouse: empty palace. About 13.7% of charts with Tian Fu in the Siblings Palace fall into this group.

Your peers have principles and are steady too: shrewd and dependable. This is the most stable pairing for Lian Zhen in the Siblings Palace. Further reading: Lian Zhen in the Siblings Palace.

Tian Fu alone, facing Zi Wei and Qi Sha (Si or Hai)

Si: Tian Fu favorable; Hai: Tian Fu favorable. Opposite (Friends): Zi Wei and Qi Sha; Life: Tian Tong and Tai Yin; Spouse: empty palace. About 14.3% of charts with Tian Fu in the Siblings Palace fall into this group.

Your own people are solid; opposite, in the Friends Palace, sit Zi Wei and Qi Sha, so outside friends and subordinates have firm views and real presence.

Birth-year transformations in the Siblings Palace

Under the Four Transformations table of the Complete Book of Zi Wei Dou Shu, Tian Fu never transforms, so Tian Fu in the Siblings Palace never carries a birth-year Hua Lu, Hua Quan, Hua Ke or Hua Ji of its own. For transformations affecting your peer relationships, look at any other star sharing the palace, at Lu Cun, and at the Friends Palace opposite.

Getting along

Treasure the steady relationships, and remember to open up your circle now and then.

About 41.6% of charts with Tian Fu 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