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

With Tian Xiang in your Siblings Palace, your siblings or peers respect the rules and care about keeping relations cordial. You treat each other with a sense of proportion, and it is a relationship where you back each other up.

Siblings and peers

People with Tian Xiang here usually have fair-minded peers who know how to smooth things over. The lesson is that they care too much about surface calm, so real discontent tends to get pushed down.

• With siblings: Your siblings or peers are courteous and value cordial relations.
• With peers and colleagues: There is often a peacemaker among your colleagues, and relations stay steady.
• Working together and partnerships: Working together follows the rules and keeps its promises.

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

When Tian Xiang is in the Siblings Palace, the Life Palace always holds Tian Liang: you are mature and like to look after people, while the peers around you respect the rules and know where the lines are.

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

Siblings and spouse

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

When Tian Xiang is in the Siblings Palace, the Friends Palace always holds Po Jun: your own people know their bounds, while friends and subordinates outside change a lot and have strong personalities. The star in the Property Palace is not fixed.

Bright and fallen positions

When Tian Xiang is bright, your peers are reliable and you back each other up. When Tian Xiang is fallen, you often find yourself caught in the middle between peers. Brightness by branch, from the table of the Complete Book this site uses: Exalted: Zi, Chou, Yin, Wu, Shen; Favorable: Chen, Si, Wei, Xu, Hai; Fallen: Mao, You.

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 Xiang 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

Lian Zhen with Tian Xiang (Zi or Wu)

Zi: Tian Xiang exalted, Lian Zhen neutral; Wu: Tian Xiang exalted, Lian Zhen neutral. Opposite (Friends): Po Jun; Life: Tian Liang; Spouse: Ju Men. About 16.5% of charts with Tian Xiang in the Siblings Palace fall into this group.

Your peers value principle and keep to the rules. Watch for the pattern the old books call the seal squeezed between punishment and Ji: your ties with peers can be pulled around by outside events. Further reading: Lian Zhen in the Siblings Palace.

Tian Xiang alone, facing Zi Wei and Po Jun (Chou or Wei)

Chou: Tian Xiang exalted; Wei: Tian Xiang favorable. Opposite (Friends): Zi Wei and Po Jun; Life: Tian Tong and Tian Liang; Spouse: Ju Men. About 16.3% of charts with Tian Xiang in the Siblings Palace fall into this group.

Your own people respect the rules; opposite, in the Friends Palace, sit Zi Wei and Po Jun, so outside friends and subordinates have firm views and are not afraid of change. In Chou, Tian Xiang is bright and your peers are more reliable.

Wu Qu with Tian Xiang (Yin or Shen)

Yin: Tian Xiang exalted, Wu Qu favorable; Shen: Tian Xiang exalted, Wu Qu favorable. Opposite (Friends): Po Jun; Life: Tai Yang and Tian Liang; Spouse: Tian Tong and Ju Men. About 14.6% of charts with Tian Xiang in the Siblings Palace fall into this group.

Your peers are practical and respect the rules, so working together is reliable. It is a very good combination for getting things done side by side. Further reading: Wu Qu in the Siblings Palace.

Tian Xiang alone, facing Lian Zhen and Po Jun (Mao or You)

Mao: Tian Xiang fallen; You: Tian Xiang fallen. Opposite (Friends): Lian Zhen and Po Jun; Life: Tian Ji and Tian Liang; Spouse: Tai Yang and Ju Men. About 17.0% of charts with Tian Xiang in the Siblings Palace fall into this group.

Tian Xiang is fallen in Mao and You, so ties with peers are easily disturbed by outside forces; opposite, in the Friends Palace, sit Lian Zhen and Po Jun, so outside friends have strong personalities and change a lot.

Zi Wei with Tian Xiang (Chen or Xu)

Chen: Tian Xiang favorable, Zi Wei favorable; Xu: Tian Xiang favorable, Zi Wei favorable. Opposite (Friends): Po Jun; Life: Tian Liang; Spouse: Tian Ji and Ju Men. About 18.5% of charts with Tian Xiang in the Siblings Palace fall into this group.

Your peers value rules and appearances, and you treat each other with a sense of proportion. In Chen and Xu this is the "net of heaven and earth": ties with peers feel constrained early on, and the further you go, the more you back each other up. Further reading: Zi Wei in the Siblings Palace.

Tian Xiang alone, facing Wu Qu and Po Jun (Si or Hai)

Si: Tian Xiang favorable; Hai: Tian Xiang favorable. Opposite (Friends): Wu Qu and Po Jun; Life: Tian Liang; Spouse: Ju Men. About 17.1% of charts with Tian Xiang in the Siblings Palace fall into this group.

Your own people know their bounds; opposite, in the Friends Palace, sit Wu Qu and Po Jun, so outside friends and subordinates charge ahead and there is more change.

Birth-year transformations in the Siblings Palace

Under the Four Transformations table of the Complete Book of Zi Wei Dou Shu, Tian Xiang never transforms, so Tian Xiang 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

Beyond keeping the peace, leave room for people to disagree.

About 42.9% of charts with Tian Xiang 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