Tian Tong in the Property Palace: The Kind of Home You Want

Tian Tong in the Property Palace means your home is comfortable, cosy and relaxing, the place you most want to be. The old texts say Tian Tong here brings "a peaceful and harmonious household".

Home and living

People with Tian Tong here care about comfort at home and like to make it warm. The lesson is being too much of a homebody and too comfortable, so you sometimes miss a chance to change because you do not want to give up your comfort.

• Home style: You like a cosy, comfortable, lived-in space.
• Property and savings: When buying, you put comfort and convenience first rather than chasing returns.
• Life with the family: At home you are easygoing, the one who keeps the mood calm.

You and your home: the Life and Property Palaces

With Tian Tong in the Property Palace, the Life Palace always holds Lian Zhen: out in the world you have a strong personality, principles and intense feelings, yet at home you only want comfort and calm.

This is built into the chart: counting three palaces backward from Tian Tong always lands on Lian Zhen, and the Life Palace always sits three palaces backward from the Property Palace. Further reading: Lian Zhen in the Life Palace.

Earning and keeping: the Wealth and Property Palaces

Counting five palaces forward from Tian Tong always lands on Zi Wei, and the Wealth Palace always sits five palaces forward from the Property Palace, so with Tian Tong in the Property Palace the Wealth Palace always holds Zi Wei: one palace shows how money is earned, the other whether it stays. Further reading: Zi Wei in the Wealth Palace.

With Tian Tong in the Property Palace, the Wealth Palace always holds Zi Wei: you earn on a grand scale, while at home you value comfort. The Children and Siblings Palace stars are not fixed.

Bright and fallen positions

When bright, the household is peaceful and home is a true refuge. When fallen or out of place, you want a peaceful home but small hassles keep intruding. 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.

Opposite the Property Palace is the Children Palace (home and family pull on each other), and its trine is the Siblings Palace and the Health Palace. The table shows the major stars of the Children, Life, Wealth and Siblings Palaces for each of the twelve branches Tian Tong can occupy in the Property Palace (we make no health readings from the Health Palace, so it 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 Tong with Tai Yin (Zi or Wu)

Zi: Tian Tong strong, Tai Yin exalted; Wu: Tian Tong fallen, Tai Yin weak. Opposite Children: empty palace; Life: Lian Zhen and Po Jun; Wealth: Zi Wei and Qi Sha. About 17.6% of charts with Tian Tong in the Property Palace fall into this group.

Home is gentle, comfortable and beautiful, a lovely place to live. In Zi both stars are strong and the household is at its most settled; in Wu both are out of place, and household matters can weigh on you. Further reading: Tai Yin in the Property Palace.

Tian Tong with Ju Men (Chou or Wei)

Chou: Tian Tong weak, Ju Men weak; Wei: Tian Tong weak, Ju Men weak. Opposite Children: empty palace; Life: Lian Zhen and Tian Fu; Wealth: Zi Wei. About 13.0% of charts with Tian Tong in the Property Palace fall into this group.

You want a happy home, yet small frictions keep coming up that are hard to put into words. Family members need to talk more directly, and not keep grievances bottled up. Further reading: Ju Men in the Property Palace.

Tian Tong with Tian Liang (Yin or Shen)

Yin: Tian Tong fair, Tian Liang exalted; Shen: Tian Tong strong, Tian Liang fallen. Opposite Children: empty palace; Life: Lian Zhen and Tan Lang; Wealth: Zi Wei and Po Jun. About 17.4% of charts with Tian Tong in the Property Palace fall into this group.

Home is gentle and caring, sheltered by elders; a very fortunate combination. The family gets on well; the lesson is getting too comfortable. Further reading: Tian Liang in the Property Palace.

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

Mao: Tian Tong neutral; You: Tian Tong neutral. Opposite Children: Tai Yin; Life: Lian Zhen and Tian Xiang; Wealth: Zi Wei and Tian Fu. About 17.4% of charts with Tian Tong in the Property Palace fall into this group.

Home is comfortable and gentle; Tai Yin sits in the Children Palace opposite. With the Property Palace in Mao, Tai Yin opposite in You is strong and both home and the young ones are settled; in You, Tai Yin opposite is fallen and you tend to worry more about them.

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

Chen: Tian Tong neutral; Xu: Tian Tong neutral. Opposite Children: Ju Men; Life: Lian Zhen and Qi Sha; Wealth: Zi Wei and Tan Lang. About 16.4% of charts with Tian Tong in the Property Palace fall into this group.

You want a happy home; with Ju Men in the Children Palace opposite, children and younger people have ideas of their own and will talk back, so communication takes patience.

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

Si: Tian Tong exalted; Hai: Tian Tong exalted. Opposite Children: Tian Liang; Life: Lian Zhen; Wealth: Zi Wei and Tian Xiang. About 18.3% of charts with Tian Tong in the Property Palace fall into this group.

Tian Tong is exalted in Si and Hai, so the household is peaceful; with Tian Liang in the Children Palace opposite, children and younger people are sensible. A very fortunate arrangement.

Birth-year transformations in the Property Palace

• Tian Tong with Hua Lu (born in a Bing year): People born in a Bing year have Tian Tong Hua Lu in the Property Palace: the household is happy and home is comfortable. In our sample, about 9.4% of charts with Tian Tong in the Property 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 Property Palace: gentle as you are, you have firm views about home. In our sample, about 9.8% of charts with Tian Tong in the Property 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 Property Palace: you want peace but household matters often weigh on you. Deal with small things early. In our sample, about 9.6% of charts with Tian Tong in the Property Palace carry the birth-year Hua Ji.

Advice for home

Home is your refuge, but remember to get out and about now and then.

About 40.5% of charts with Tian Tong in the Property 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 Property Palace usually show up as moves, household worries or ups and downs in your assets, which call for a bit more planning; they do not mean bad luck for the family.

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 family fortunes.

Other major stars in the Property Palace