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

With Tian Liang in your Siblings Palace, your siblings or peers look after you and advise you the way an elder would, or you are the one in your group who looks after everyone.

Siblings and peers

People with Tian Liang here enjoy a sheltering circle of peers: when trouble comes, someone steps in. The lesson is that care can turn into correction, and even among equals there can be pressure over who lectures and who gets lectured.

• With siblings: Your siblings or peers are mature and caring.
• With peers and colleagues: Among colleagues there is often someone who acts like an older brother or sister.
• Working together and partnerships: When you work together, someone usually steps up to shoulder the responsibility.

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

When Tian Liang is in the Siblings Palace, the Life Palace always holds Qi Sha: you are driven and ready to take risks, while the peers around you look after you and remind you of things like an older brother or sister.

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

Siblings and spouse

Counting one palace backward from Tian Liang always lands on Tian Xiang, and the Spouse Palace always sits one palace backward from the Siblings Palace, so anyone with Tian Liang in the Siblings Palace has Tian Xiang 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: Tian Xiang in the Spouse Palace.

When Tian Liang is in the Siblings Palace, the stars in the Friends Palace and the Property Palace are not fixed.

Bright and fallen positions

When Tian Liang is bright, your peers are people you can truly rely on. When Tian Liang is fallen, too much looking-after can turn the relationship into a string of lectures. Brightness by branch, from the table of the Complete Book this site uses: Exalted: Zi, Yin, Mao, Chen, Wu, Xu; Strong: Chou, Wei; Favorable: You; Fallen: 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 Liang 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

Tian Liang alone, facing Tai Yang (Zi or Wu)

Zi: Tian Liang exalted; Wu: Tian Liang exalted. Opposite (Friends): Tai Yang; Life: Lian Zhen and Qi Sha; Spouse: Tian Xiang. About 16.6% of charts with Tian Liang in the Siblings Palace fall into this group.

Tian Liang is bright in Zi and Wu, so your peers are caring; opposite, in the Friends Palace, sits Tai Yang. With the Siblings Palace in Zi, Tai Yang opposite in Wu is at its brightest, and outside friends are warm and generous.

Tian Liang alone, facing Tian Ji (Chou or Wei)

Chou: Tian Liang strong; Wei: Tian Liang strong. Opposite (Friends): Tian Ji; Life: Qi Sha; Spouse: Lian Zhen and Tian Xiang. About 18.3% of charts with Tian Liang in the Siblings Palace fall into this group.

Tian Liang is bright in Chou and Wei, so your peers look after you like an older brother or sister; opposite, in the Friends Palace, sits Tian Ji, so outside friends are clever and quick-witted.

Tian Tong with Tian Liang (Yin or Shen)

Yin: Tian Liang exalted, Tian Tong fair; Shen: Tian Liang fallen, Tian Tong strong. Opposite (Friends): empty palace; Life: Wu Qu and Qi Sha; Spouse: Tian Xiang. About 16.9% of charts with Tian Liang in the Siblings Palace fall into this group.

Your peers are gentle and caring, a genuinely lucky combination. The lesson is that it can get too comfortable, and important matters tend to be put off. Further reading: Tian Tong in the Siblings Palace.

Tai Yang with Tian Liang (Mao or You)

Mao: Tian Liang exalted, Tai Yang exalted; You: Tian Liang favorable, Tai Yang neutral. Opposite (Friends): empty palace; Life: Qi Sha; Spouse: Wu Qu and Tian Xiang. About 15.0% of charts with Tian Liang in the Siblings Palace fall into this group.

Your peers are warm and caring, and you pull each other up. In Mao both stars are bright and the bond is open and warm; in You you give a lot and can wear yourself out. Further reading: Tai Yang in the Siblings Palace.

Tian Ji with Tian Liang (Chen or Xu)

Chen: Tian Liang exalted, Tian Ji fair; Xu: Tian Liang exalted, Tian Ji fair. Opposite (Friends): empty palace; Life: Zi Wei and Qi Sha; Spouse: Tian Xiang. About 16.0% of charts with Tian Liang in the Siblings Palace fall into this group.

Your peers are part adviser, part older sibling, and often give you suggestions and reminders. Further reading: Tian Ji in the Siblings Palace.

Tian Liang alone, facing Tian Tong (Si or Hai)

Si: Tian Liang fallen; Hai: Tian Liang fallen. Opposite (Friends): Tian Tong; Life: Qi Sha; Spouse: Zi Wei and Tian Xiang. About 17.2% of charts with Tian Liang in the Siblings Palace fall into this group.

Tian Liang is fallen in Si and Hai, so looking after your peers often feels like more than you can manage; opposite, in the Friends Palace, sits Tian Tong, so outside friends are gentle and easy to get along with.

Birth-year transformations in the Siblings Palace

• Tian Liang with Hua Lu (born in a Ren year): For people born in a Ren year, Tian Liang takes Hua Lu in the Siblings Palace: your peers can offer you resources and shelter, though the old books warn that gain can stir up disputes. In our sample, about 12.7% of charts with Tian Liang in the Siblings Palace carry the birth-year Hua Lu.
• Tian Liang with Hua Quan (born in a Yi year): For people born in a Yi year, Tian Liang takes Hua Quan in the Siblings Palace: among your peers is someone whose words carry weight. In our sample, about 10.7% of charts with Tian Liang in the Siblings Palace carry the birth-year Hua Quan.
• Tian Liang with Hua Ke (born in a Ji year): For people born in a Ji year, Tian Liang takes Hua Ke in the Siblings Palace: your peers are well respected and the bond is a dignified one. In our sample, about 7.6% of charts with Tian Liang in the Siblings Palace carry the birth-year Hua Ke.

Getting along

Accept the care, and also let them know you have grown up.

About 40.8% of charts with Tian Liang 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