Lianzhen and Tanlang in Si/Hai Life Palace

Primary and secondary peach blossom share a palace: striking looks, little care for home

Lianzhen and Tanlang in Si/Hai Life Palace: secondary peach blossom carrying primary peach blossom; both govern feeling and charm. Opposite has no main star, the Wealth Palace is Ziwei and Pojun, and the Career Palace is Wuqu and Qisha. The native is usually striking in looks, social, and also artistic. Classic texts say the man is dissolute and the woman lustful—a harsh rating; today that need not be the reading. Without stacking further peach blossom, the person is actually refined, suited to art or politics. Both stars sit dark in Si/Hai: the root is thin and easily drifts; wine, sex, money, and qi are all heavy. Fortune Palace Tianxiang must be strong for peach blossom to walk straight. This group is pulled by Qisha, Pojun, and Tanlang, called 殺拱廉貞格 (Sha Gong Lianzhen pattern): soft outside, hard inside, affectionate yet careless of home, thin kinship. Classic texts say sitting Si/Hai means drifting to the ends of the earth.

Lianzhen and Tanlang in Si/Hai Life Palace by birth year

Jia-year natives, Lianzhen and Tanlang in Si/Hai Life Palace

Life Palace Lianzhen Hua Lu, Wealth Palace Pojun Hua Quan, Career Palace Wuqu Hua Ke: Ke, Quan, and Lu are complete. Peach blossom is already heavy; adding Hua Lu makes it easy to delay career for feeling. Only after midlife does it steady more, and name and money then follow.

Wu-year natives, Lianzhen and Tanlang in Si/Hai Life Palace

Life Palace Tanlang Hua Lu, Lucun in Si, guarding Life and Travel, called 雙祿交流 (double Lu exchanging): strong rapport, round methods, good at management. Tiankui and Tianyue guard Wealth and Fortune; noblemen are more plentiful through life.

Ji-year natives, Lianzhen and Tanlang in Si/Hai Life Palace

Life Palace Tanlang Hua Quan: desire and ambition rise, action is more active. Career Palace Wuqu Hua Lu: development runs more smoothly, money paths are stronger, and both name and money follow more readily.

Teacher Ming's reading: Lianzhen and Tanlang in Si/Hai Life Palace

Do not treat Lianzhen and Tanlang as bound to be dissolute. I read primary and secondary peach blossom sharing a palace as striking looks and talent; today the path need not go crooked. Without stacking further peach blossom, the person is actually refined, suited to art or politics. Only that Si/Hai sits dark and easily drifts; Fortune Palace Tianxiang must be strong. This group is soft outside, hard inside, affectionate yet careless of home.

Jia, Wu, and Ji years share much the same point—there is Lu, yet feeling easily delays the rest. If your year is not listed, do not worry—first understand this star group's temperament.

Lianzhen and Tanlang in Si versus Hai

Both Si and Hai are in fall; Fortune Palace Tianxiang must be strong

Both stars sit dark: the root is thin, the native easily drifts, and wine, sex, money, and qi are all heavy. Fortune Palace Tianxiang must be strong for peach blossom to walk straight. Wealth Palace Ziwei–Pojun is preferred with noblemen coming to arch, or carrying Tianxing. Fear 刑忌夾印 (Tianxing and Hua Ji clamping the seal), which makes the native lose will; also fear Lu clamping the seal, which makes the native too soft and easily used.

殺拱廉貞 (Sha Gong Lianzhen): affectionate yet careless of home

The three directions are Qisha, Pojun, and Tanlang arching in, called 殺拱廉貞格 (Sha Gong Lianzhen pattern), easy to drift to the ends of the earth. Tanlang entering Si/Hai, which are courier-horse palaces: desire is strong, good and evil both easy, and the native changes upon seeing something new. Soft outside, hard in the bone; family sense is thin. If such a man is head of the house, wife and children more easily suffer, and children more easily resent.

Primary and secondary peach blossom share a palace: talent and also refinement

Lianzhen is secondary peach blossom, Tanlang primary. Sitting together, looks, talent, and social skill are usually outstanding, with artistic taste as well. Classic texts rate it poorly; today, so long as further peach blossom is not stacked, the person is actually refined and can walk the arts. With good meetings, politics, elected office, and diplomacy also suit.

Learning points: Lianzhen and Tanlang in Si/Hai Life Palace

1. Hai palace meeting Lu is called 絕處逢生 (finding life in a dead end): meeting auspicious stars or Lu, a way out can be found in extremity, and coming forward is more possible. Entering water, peach blossom easily brings trouble; stack Qingyang/Tuoluo and it is called 泛水桃花 (peach blossom floating on water), easily lost in romance. Add Tianxing, Tiankong, and Dahao, and both disputes and loss of money arrive.
2. Si palace is the glib talker: Si is fire and strengthens Tanlang. The native is smooth, weak in independent views, with more disaster and risk through life; work changes often, and only mid-to-late life steadies. No malefics in the three directions: social life is active, suited to politics. Meeting malefics: many storms, suited only to commerce.
3. Meeting Huoxing/Lingxing is like wings broken mid-air: there is special talent and the native can perform, yet rises and falls violently; stop when it is still good. This group already loves speculation and risk; stack Huoxing/Lingxing and ambition is too large. Add malefics and Hua Ji, thought easily greys, and methods of seeking money easily go off.
4. Do not stack further peach-blossom stars: primary and secondary peach blossom are already heavy. Meeting other peach-blossom stars, emotional trouble easily runs out of control. Put talent into career and art; spend less of life on romance. Once romance multiplies, career easily sways with it.
5. Wenchang and Wenqu sharing the palace is not advisable: Wenchang and Wenqu sharing the palace instead bring empty name and empty profit; more show than substance, suited only to public office. Peach blossom grows heavier still, emotional trouble denser. Guard against name without substance, and the feeling line is even harder to clear.

Teacher Ming's reading: how to read Lianzhen and Tanlang in Si/Hai

To close this article: Lianzhen and Tanlang is 殺拱廉貞 (Sha Gong Lianzhen), affectionate yet careless of home. Do not stack further peach blossom, and Wenchang/Wenqu sharing the palace is not advisable; talent must be used on a proper path. Meeting Huoxing/Lingxing is like wings broken mid-air.

Three points are enough to remember. First, Fortune Palace Tianxiang must be strong. Second, put talent into art and politics; spend less on romance. Third, once romance multiplies, career drifts with it.

To check whether your chart is Lianzhen and Tanlang in Si/Hai Life Palace, first use the free Zi Wei Dou Shu chart tool against this article, then read The fourteen main star types and meanings for Lianzhen and Tanlang’s basic nature, and A complete explanation of Ziwei Doushu sihua for how each birth-year sihua strengthens or weakens the stars.