Tian Tong in the Travel Palace: Who You Are Once You Step Out the Door

Tian Tong in the Travel Palace means that out in the world you are easygoing, easy to get on with and well liked, and away from home you always seem to meet people willing to help. The way you are in public puts people at ease.

How you come across out in the world

This is a Travel Palace of blessings. The old texts say Tian Tong here "finds good fortune away from home and gets on well with people". The lesson is being so easygoing out in the world that important things are left to chance too, and when an opportunity comes you may not grab it.

• Public image: Out in the world you come across as gentle, friendly and easy to talk to.
• Life away from home: You suit service work, tourism and hospitality, or a stable, comfortable life somewhere away from home.
• Opportunities and lessons: Opportunities often come from goodwill; the lesson is complacency and a lack of drive.

Life and Travel on one line: borrowing this star for an empty Life Palace

If your Life Palace is empty and you borrow Tian Tong from the Travel Palace (usually Tian Tong with Tian Liang, Tai Yin or Ju Men in the Travel Palace), your nature also carries Tian Tong's easygoing, feelings-first character: you adapt well, but watch out for leaving too much to chance. In our sample, about 46.5% of charts with Tian Tong in the Travel Palace have an empty Life Palace and read it through this palace. Further reading: the Life Palace and Body Palace, Tian Tong in the Life Palace.

Travel, Spouse and Mind: the outer you, love and your inner life are tied together

With Tian Tong in the Travel Palace, the Spouse Palace always holds Tian Ji: you are gentle and easygoing out in the world, yet in love you value talking and sharing. The Mind Palace star is not fixed.

Bright and fallen positions

When bright, you are well liked out in the world, meet patrons, and life away from home runs smoothly. When fallen or out of place, you tend to feel hard done by out in the world; you want stability but keep running into small hassles. Brightness by branch, from the table of the Complete Book this site uses: Exalted: Si, Hai; Strong: Zi, Shen; Fair: Yin; Neutral: Mao, Chen, You, Xu; Weak: Chou, Wei; Fallen: Wu.

The Travel Palace's four-way set is the Life Palace (opposite), the Spouse Palace and the Mind Palace: who you are out in the world is the other face of your nature, and it is tied to love and to inner contentment. The table shows the major stars of these palaces for each of the twelve branches Tian Tong can occupy in the Travel Palace.

"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. People with an empty Life Palace borrow the Travel Palace.

The six combinations

Tian Tong with Tai Yin (Zi or Wu)

Zi: Tian Tong strong, Tai Yin exalted; Wu: Tian Tong fallen, Tai Yin weak. Opposite Life: empty palace; Spouse: Tian Ji and Tian Liang; Mind: empty palace. About 15.6% of charts with Tian Tong in the Travel Palace fall into this group.

Out in the world you are gentle, feelings-first and have an artistic streak. The Life Palace opposite is empty: people who borrow this pair are also sensitive and romantic by nature. In Zi both stars are strong and you are most popular out in the world. Further reading: Tai Yin in the Travel Palace.

Tian Tong with Ju Men (Chou or Wei)

Chou: Tian Tong weak, Ju Men weak; Wei: Tian Tong weak, Ju Men weak. Opposite Life: empty palace; Spouse: Tian Ji; Mind: empty palace. About 14.8% of charts with Tian Tong in the Travel Palace fall into this group.

Out in the world you want harmony, yet often run into arguments and small hassles. The Life Palace opposite is empty: people who borrow this pair are also sensitive by nature, with a lot left unsaid, and need to learn to say things directly. Further reading: Ju Men in the Travel Palace.

Tian Tong with Tian Liang (Yin or Shen)

Yin: Tian Tong fair, Tian Liang exalted; Shen: Tian Tong strong, Tian Liang fallen. Opposite Life: empty palace; Spouse: Tian Ji; Mind: Tai Yin. About 16.2% of charts with Tian Tong in the Travel Palace fall into this group.

Out in the world you are gentle, caring and well liked. The Life Palace opposite is empty: people who borrow this pair are also easygoing and empathetic by nature, very easy to be around. Further reading: Tian Liang in the Travel Palace.

Tian Tong alone, facing Tai Yin (Mao or You)

Mao: Tian Tong neutral; You: Tian Tong neutral. Opposite Life: Tai Yin; Spouse: Tian Ji; Mind: Ju Men. About 17.5% of charts with Tian Tong in the Travel Palace fall into this group.

Out in the world you are gentle and easygoing; by nature (Life Palace) you are Tai Yin. With the Travel Palace in Mao, the Life Palace is in You where Tai Yin is strong, and you are steady inside and out; in You, the Life Palace is in Mao where Tai Yin is fallen, and you tire more easily inside.

Tian Tong alone, facing Ju Men (Chen or Xu)

Chen: Tian Tong neutral; Xu: Tian Tong neutral. Opposite Life: Ju Men; Spouse: Tian Ji and Tai Yin; Mind: Tian Liang. About 17.2% of charts with Tian Tong in the Travel Palace fall into this group.

Out in the world you are amiable and want stability; by nature (Life Palace) you are Ju Men, reflective and prone to suspicion. The outer you is easy to talk to; the inner you thinks very deeply.

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

Si: Tian Tong exalted; Hai: Tian Tong exalted. Opposite Life: Tian Liang; Spouse: Tian Ji and Ju Men; Mind: empty palace. About 18.8% of charts with Tian Tong in the Travel Palace fall into this group.

Tian Tong is exalted in Si and Hai, so you are well liked and fortunate out in the world; by nature (Life Palace) you are Tian Liang, mature and dependable. A very smooth arrangement for life away from home.

Birth-year transformations in the Travel Palace

• Tian Tong with Hua Lu (born in a Bing year): People born in a Bing year have Tian Tong Hua Lu in the Travel Palace: good fortune away from home, good relationships, and often easy opportunities. In our sample, about 7.8% of charts with Tian Tong in the Travel Palace carry the birth-year Hua Lu.
• Tian Tong with Hua Quan (born in a Ding year): People born in a Ding year have Tian Tong Hua Quan in the Travel Palace: gentle but with firm views out in the world, one of the arrangements where Tian Tong does best outside. In our sample, about 6.8% of charts with Tian Tong in the Travel Palace carry the birth-year Hua Quan.
• Tian Tong with Hua Ji (born in a Geng year): People born in a Geng year have Tian Tong Hua Ji in the Travel Palace: out in the world things can feel as if they are not going your way, and you keep it inside. Away from home, find someone you can talk to. In our sample, about 10.2% of charts with Tian Tong in the Travel Palace carry the birth-year Hua Ji.

Advice for life away from home

Being well liked in the world is an asset; do not let it become an excuse for letting everything slide.

About 42.4% of charts with Tian Tong in the Travel 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 Travel Palace usually show up as more competition, more rushing around or more friction with people out in the world; they do not mean something will go wrong when you go out.

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 luck away from home.

Other major stars in the Travel Palace