The Travel Palace is one of the most easily misunderstood palaces in Zi Wei Dou Shu . Many people hear "travel" and instinctively assume this is the palace for judging whether to emigrate or study abroad.
What exactly does the Travel Palace look at?
Many people think Travel Palace only covers emigration and going abroad, but it actually reveals ....
What exactly does the Travel Palace look at?
- Fate abroad: the quality of your fortune after leaving a familiar environment (going to work, on business trips, traveling, studying away from home)
- External evaluation: how strangers and people meeting you for the first time see you, what kind of first impression you make
- Development away from home: the ceiling for how far you can rise when building a life in a different location (a different city, another region, or overseas)
- Auspiciousness of travel: whether traveling or business trips are prone to accidents or smooth
- External opportunities: how many outside opportunities are available, and whether you can be seen by benefactors who don't already know you
- Opposition to the Life Palace: the Travel Palace is directly opposite the Life Palace, and the two mutually oppose each other — the external environment feeds directly back into the quality of your chart
Assess the strength of the Travel Palace
The most critical judgment logic for the Travel Palace is "brightness" (temple/flourishing/fallen) — whether the main star is strong or weak in that palace. Take Tai Yang as an example: when Tai Yang enters the Travel Palace at temple/flourishing brightness, the chart holder radiates brilliance abroad, their reputation spreads far, travel is auspicious. And they are suited to settling and working in foreign environments, if Tai Yang is fallen, they tend to face setbacks abroad, are misunderstood by others. And travel is plagued by obstacles.
The mutual clash between the Travel Palace and the Life Palace: the most overlooked interaction
The Travel Palace is located directly opposite the Life Palacewhich in Zi Wei Dou Shu is called "mutual opposition." the stars of the Travel Palace have a direct impact on the Life Palace — auspicious stars in the Travel Palace are equivalent to the external environment nourishing your chart's life energy; inauspicious stars and Hua Ji in the Travel Palace mean external pressure will continually suppress your self-expression.
I once read the chart of a 35-year-old engineer. He had worked locally in Taichung for seven years, stuck in place with no promotions, feeling his talents were unrecognized.
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