Zi Wei in the Property Palace: The Kind of Home You Want

Zi Wei in the Property Palace means you are particular about your home: it should have presence, look respectable and be a place where you are in charge. Home, to you, is not just where you live but part of who you are.

Home and living

The old texts say Zi Wei in the Property Palace "inherits family property and lives in spacious quarters". The modern reading is that you care about the quality of where you live, are willing to pay for a good setting, and are often the one who makes the decisions at home. The lesson is that your standards for home are high, and you can end up treating it as one more organisation to manage.

• Home style: You like a home with presence, taste and a certain dignity.
• Property and savings: You are willing to invest in a good house in a good location, and value quality over a bargain.
• Life with the family: At home you are often the one who has the final word.

You and your home: the Life and Property Palaces

With Zi Wei in the Property Palace, the Life Palace always holds Tai Yang: out in the world you are warm, generous and care about your name, and at home you want everything to have presence and to be yours to decide.

This is built into the chart: counting three palaces backward from Zi Wei always lands on Tai Yang, and the Life Palace always sits three palaces backward from the Property Palace. Further reading: Tai Yang in the Life Palace.

Earning and keeping: the Wealth and Property Palaces

With Zi Wei in the Property Palace, the Wealth Palace star is not fixed.

With Zi Wei in the Property Palace, the Siblings Palace always holds Wu Qu: siblings and peers tend to be practical and capable. The Children Palace star is not fixed.

Bright and fallen positions

When bright, the household has real presence and a good setting, and home is where you draw your strength. In a neutral position you expect a lot of your home but reality may not keep up, and you can get anxious about the quality of where you live. Brightness by branch, from the table of the Complete Book this site uses: Exalted: Chou, Wu, Wei; Strong: Yin, Mao, Si, Shen, You, Hai; Favorable: Chen, Xu; Neutral: Zi.

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 Zi Wei 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

Zi Wei alone, facing Tan Lang (Zi or Wu)

Zi: Zi Wei neutral; Wu: Zi Wei exalted. Opposite Children: Tan Lang; Life: Tai Yang and Tian Liang; Wealth: Tai Yin. About 15.1% of charts with Zi Wei in the Property Palace fall into this group.

Home is about presence and being in charge; with Tan Lang in the Children Palace opposite, children and younger people around you are talented and sociable. In Wu, Zi Wei is exalted and home has the most presence.

Zi Wei with Po Jun (Chou or Wei)

Chou: Zi Wei exalted, Po Jun strong; Wei: Zi Wei exalted, Po Jun strong. Opposite Children: Tian Xiang; Life: Tai Yang; Wealth: Ju Men. About 16.7% of charts with Zi Wei in the Property Palace fall into this group.

Home has presence and is often remodelled on a big scale; you like to tear it down and rebuild it the way you want. Where you live changes a lot, but each change heads towards something grander. Further reading: Po Jun in the Property Palace.

Zi Wei with Tian Fu (Yin or Shen)

Yin: Zi Wei strong, Tian Fu exalted; Shen: Zi Wei strong, Tian Fu favorable. Opposite Children: Qi Sha; Life: Tai Yang; Wealth: Tian Liang. About 17.3% of charts with Zi Wei in the Property Palace fall into this group.

Home is steady, respectable and substantial, one that can both hold on and hold up. The old texts see Zi Wei with Tian Fu in the Property Palace as a sign of a rich family estate; the lesson is high standards for home and a reluctance to change. Further reading: Tian Fu in the Property Palace.

Zi Wei with Tan Lang (Mao or You)

Mao: Zi Wei strong, Tan Lang fair; You: Zi Wei strong, Tan Lang fair. Opposite Children: empty palace; Life: Tai Yang; Wealth: empty palace. About 17.3% of charts with Zi Wei in the Property Palace fall into this group.

Home is about taste and enjoyment, with frequent gatherings and new things always arriving. It is full of life, and the spending grows to match. Further reading: Tan Lang in the Property Palace.

Zi Wei with Tian Xiang (Chen or Xu)

Chen: Zi Wei favorable, Tian Xiang favorable; Xu: Zi Wei favorable, Tian Xiang favorable. Opposite Children: Po Jun; Life: Tai Yang and Tai Yin; Wealth: empty palace. About 18.1% of charts with Zi Wei in the Property Palace fall into this group.

Home values order and appearances; it is tidy and well run. In Chen and Xu, Heaven's Net and Earth's Snare, home is held back in the early years and only reaches its full scale after things have built up. Further reading: Tian Xiang in the Property Palace.

Zi Wei with Qi Sha (Si or Hai)

Si: Zi Wei strong, Qi Sha neutral; Hai: Zi Wei strong, Qi Sha neutral. Opposite Children: Tian Fu; Life: Tai Yang and Ju Men; Wealth: empty palace. About 15.6% of charts with Zi Wei in the Property Palace fall into this group.

You have a strong urge to run the household and like to plan it with your own hands. Home has presence, and your decisions often bring big changes to it. Further reading: Qi Sha in the Property Palace.

Birth-year transformations in the Property Palace

• Zi Wei with Hua Quan (born in a Ren year): People born in a Ren year have Zi Wei Hua Quan in the Property Palace: you have a strong hand in running the home, and most big household decisions are yours. In our sample, about 10.5% of charts with Zi Wei in the Property Palace carry the birth-year Hua Quan.
• Zi Wei with Hua Ke (born in a Yi year): People born in a Yi year have Zi Wei Hua Ke in the Property Palace: the household is respectable and cultivated, and your home reflects your taste. In our sample, about 12.6% of charts with Zi Wei in the Property Palace carry the birth-year Hua Ke.

Advice for home

Home can have presence, but leave some room for the rest of the family to feel at ease.

About 43.0% of charts with Zi Wei 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