Tian Ji in the Friends Palace: What Kind of Friends Surround You
Tian Ji in the Friends Palace means your friends tend to be clever, quick and full of ideas, people you can really talk things through with.
Friends, colleagues and team
People with Tian Ji here have a circle that keeps moving, often changing with each job or setting. The lesson is stability: friendships that last need deliberate care, and important collaborations should not keep changing hands.
- Your circle: Clever, quick friends; a circle that keeps changing.
- Colleagues and team: Colleagues and team members who think fast and are good to plan with.
- Network and mutual help: Friends often bring you information and ideas; they make good advisers.
You and your circle: the Life and Friends Palaces
With Tian Ji in the Friends Palace, the Life Palace star is not fixed: it can be Tian Fu, Tian Xiang, Qi Sha, Po Jun or Tan Lang, or the Life Palace can be empty.
With Tian Ji in the Friends Palace, the Life Palace star changes with the branch; the table below lists it for each one.
Your work network: the Career and Friends Palaces
With Tian Ji in the Friends Palace, the Career Palace star is not fixed; the table below lists it for each branch.
With Tian Ji in the Friends Palace, the Travel Palace always holds Zi Wei: out in the world you carry weight, and the friends you make are mostly bright and quick. The Siblings Palace star is not fixed.
Bright and fallen positions
When bright, friends are good strategists and you spark ideas in each other. When fallen, friends have many ideas and shifting positions, and joint projects can go back and forth. Brightness by branch, from the table of the Complete Book this site uses: Exalted: Zi, Wu; Strong: Mao, You; Favorable: Yin, Shen; Fair: Chen, Xu; Neutral: Si, Hai; Fallen: Chou, Wei.
Opposite the Friends Palace is the Siblings Palace (the Siblings–Friends axis: outsiders and your own people), and its trine is the Children and Parents Palaces; on either side sit the Career and Travel Palaces. The table shows the major stars of the Siblings, Life, Career and Travel Palaces for each of the twelve branches Tian Ji can occupy in the Friends Palace.
| Friends Palace in | Brightness | Shares the palace with | Opposite (Siblings) | Your Life Palace | Career | Travel |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yin | Favorable | Tai Yin | empty palace | empty palace | Tian Fu | Zi Wei and Tan Lang |
| Mao | Strong | Ju Men | empty palace | Po Jun | Tan Lang | Zi Wei and Tian Xiang |
| Chen | Fair | Tian Liang | empty palace | Tian Fu | Tian Xiang | Zi Wei and Qi Sha |
| Si | Neutral | alone | Tai Yin | Tan Lang | Qi Sha | Zi Wei |
| Wu | Exalted | alone | Ju Men | Tian Xiang | empty palace | Zi Wei and Po Jun |
| Wei | Fallen | alone | Tian Liang | Qi Sha | Po Jun | Zi Wei and Tian Fu |
| Shen | Favorable | Tai Yin | empty palace | empty palace | Tian Fu | Zi Wei and Tan Lang |
| You | Strong | Ju Men | empty palace | Po Jun | Tan Lang | Zi Wei and Tian Xiang |
| Xu | Fair | Tian Liang | empty palace | Tian Fu | Tian Xiang | Zi Wei and Qi Sha |
| Hai | Neutral | alone | Tai Yin | Tan Lang | Qi Sha | Zi Wei |
| Zi | Exalted | alone | Ju Men | Tian Xiang | empty palace | Zi Wei and Po Jun |
| Chou | Fallen | alone | Tian Liang | Qi Sha | Po Jun | Zi Wei and Tian Fu |
"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 Ji alone, facing Ju Men (Zi or Wu)
Zi: Tian Ji exalted; Wu: Tian Ji exalted. Opposite Siblings: Ju Men; Life: Tian Xiang; Career: empty palace. About 16.3% of charts with Tian Ji in the Friends Palace fall into this group.
Tian Ji is exalted in Zi and Wu, so friends make good advisers; with Ju Men in the Siblings Palace opposite, the people closest to you love to debate and have plenty of opinions.
Tian Ji alone, facing Tian Liang (Chou or Wei)
Chou: Tian Ji fallen; Wei: Tian Ji fallen. Opposite Siblings: Tian Liang; Life: Qi Sha; Career: Po Jun. About 18.1% of charts with Tian Ji in the Friends Palace fall into this group.
Tian Ji is fallen in Chou and Wei, so your circle tends to go back and forth; with Tian Liang in the Siblings Palace opposite, the people closest to you look after you like older siblings.
Tian Ji with Tai Yin (Yin or Shen)
Yin: Tian Ji favorable, Tai Yin strong; Shen: Tian Ji favorable, Tai Yin fair. Opposite Siblings: empty palace; Life: empty palace; Career: Tian Fu. About 16.9% of charts with Tian Ji in the Friends Palace fall into this group.
Friends are sensitive and clever; you trade ideas and look after each other, and your circle adapts to your surroundings. Further reading: Tai Yin in the Friends Palace.
Tian Ji with Ju Men (Mao or You)
Mao: Tian Ji strong, Ju Men exalted; You: Tian Ji strong, Ju Men exalted. Opposite Siblings: empty palace; Life: Po Jun; Career: Tan Lang. About 16.9% of charts with Tian Ji in the Friends Palace fall into this group.
There is a lot of discussion and debate among friends: clever, but prone to nitpicking and arguments. Once things are talked through, you end up closer. Further reading: Ju Men in the Friends Palace.
Tian Ji with Tian Liang (Chen or Xu)
Chen: Tian Ji fair, Tian Liang exalted; Xu: Tian Ji fair, Tian Liang exalted. Opposite Siblings: empty palace; Life: Tian Fu; Career: Tian Xiang. About 16.8% of charts with Tian Ji in the Friends Palace fall into this group.
Friends are part strategist, part elder, always ready with advice and reminders. Further reading: Tian Liang in the Friends Palace.
Tian Ji alone, facing Tai Yin (Si or Hai)
Si: Tian Ji neutral; Hai: Tian Ji neutral. Opposite Siblings: Tai Yin; Life: Tan Lang; Career: Qi Sha. About 14.9% of charts with Tian Ji in the Friends Palace fall into this group.
Friends from outside are clever and full of ideas; with Tai Yin in the Siblings Palace opposite, the people closest to you are sensitive and gentle.
Birth-year transformations in the Friends Palace
- Tian Ji with Hua Lu (born in a Yi year): People born in a Yi year have Tian Ji Hua Lu in the Friends Palace: friends often bring you information and opportunities. In our sample, about 10.3% of charts with Tian Ji in the Friends Palace carry the birth-year Hua Lu.
- Tian Ji with Hua Quan (born in a Bing year): People born in a Bing year have Tian Ji Hua Quan in the Friends Palace: among your friends are people full of ideas and firm opinions. In our sample, about 9.6% of charts with Tian Ji in the Friends Palace carry the birth-year Hua Quan.
- Tian Ji with Hua Ke (born in a Ding year): People born in a Ding year have Tian Ji Hua Ke in the Friends Palace: your friends tend to be learned and reasonable. In our sample, about 8.2% of charts with Tian Ji in the Friends Palace carry the birth-year Hua Ke.
- Tian Ji with Hua Ji (born in a Wu year): People born in a Wu year have Tian Ji Hua Ji in the Friends Palace: you and your friends can overthink and second-guess each other. If something is on your mind, just ask. In our sample, about 8.5% of charts with Tian Ji in the Friends Palace carry the birth-year Hua Ji.
Friendship advice
Have plenty of friends, but trust important things to the ones you have known long enough.
About 43.3% of charts with Tian Ji in the Friends 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 Friends Palace usually show up as more friction and more differing opinions in your circle, which calls for firmer boundaries and more talking things through; they do not mean your friends are bad.
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 popularity or how reliable their friends are.
Other major stars in the Friends Palace
A straight word: the Friends Palace is about how you make friends, not about who will do you harm
The Friends Palace describes your circle of friends, your colleagues and your team, and the way you interact with them. It cannot tell you which friend is reliable or who might work against you; classical warnings about "petty people" are not used on this site. Lending money to friends, guaranteeing their debts or going into business together should be judged on the actual situation: nothing on this site amounts to lending, guarantee or investment advice, and everything here is for reference and entertainment only.
Find out which star sits in your Friends Palace
Enter your date of birth and birth time to cast your chart, then tap the Friends Palace to see its major stars, transformations and four-way set.
Tian Ji in the Friends Palace: FAQ
Does Tian Ji in the Friends Palace mean unstable friendships?
Tian Ji here describes a circle that keeps changing and friends who are clever and changeable; it does not mean your friends are unreliable. We do not predict whether friends are good or bad, only tendencies in how you get on.
How common is Tian Ji in the Friends Palace?
Across the 16,802 charts in our sample, about 8.2% have Tian Ji in the Friends Palace (alone or sharing it with another major star). Each of the fourteen major stars lands in the Friends Palace roughly 8–9% of the time.