Tanlang in Chen/Xu Life Palace: Pattern Guide

Wu-Tan hidden pattern: the net cannot hold Tanlang

Tanlang in Chen/Xu in the Life Palace: opposite is Wuqu, Wealth is Pojun, Career is Qisha. This is Tanlang’s best palace. Wuqu is a wealth star, yin metal, controlling Tanlang’s wood; peach blossom is pressed down, desire turns into craft and career. Money sense is keen, pioneering drive is strong; meeting auspicious stars, rise can come after thirty. Old books say Tanlang and Wuqu dwelling in the tomb only prosper after thirty—this is the Wu-Tan hidden pattern. Even without forming Huo-Tan or Ling-Tan, auspicious stars can still bring a rise; few auspicious and many malefic stars make the person fawning, greedy, and rash—able to rise, yet blessing is incomplete and does not last. Chen/Xu is a net, which instead reduces wine, sex, and money qi; in temple the person is tough and changeable, and the net cannot hold them. Most favorable is Huoxing or Lingxing sitting together, forming Huo-Tan or Ling-Tan: sudden opportunity can help break the net early.

Tanlang in Chen/Xu Life Palace by birth year

Wu-year natives, Tanlang in Chen/Xu in the Life Palace

Tanlang in Life takes Hua Lu; the wealth star receiving Lu, earning runs more smoothly. Tuoluo in Chen, Qingyang in Wu: before the rise, desire easily pushes the person into rash action—the pace must be reined in first.

Ji-year natives, Tanlang in Chen/Xu in the Life Palace

Tanlang in Life takes Hua Quan: the person is grounded and tough, not rash when things come. In Travel, Wuqu takes Hua Lu; Quan and Lu sitting and facing, Lucun in Wu guards Wealth and Fortune, so money and career both run more smoothly.

Gui-year natives, Tanlang in Chen/Xu in the Life Palace

In Wealth, Pojun takes Hua Lu; Lucun sits in Zi, guarding Wealth and Fortune, toughness is more sufficient. Clamped left and right by Ke and Quan; Xu has sun and moon both bright, origin is better. Life must take Hua Ji: disappointment turns rash, so specialist craft is the better path.

Teacher Ming's reading: Tanlang in Chen/Xu in the Life Palace

Students, do not first take the net as certain to trap you to death. I think Tanlang in Chen/Xu is Tanlang’s best palace. Opposite Wuqu presses peach blossom down; desire turns into craft and career; money sense is keen, pioneering drive is strong. There is no need to wait for Huo-Tan; meeting auspicious stars, rise can still come after thirty. The net reduces wine, sex, and money qi, yet cannot hold this star—so the path is more solid.

Wu, Ji, and Gui years have Lu and Quan, toughness is more sufficient. If your year is not listed, do not panic—first learn this star group's temperament.

Difference between Tanlang in Chen and in Xu

In temple, falling into the net: the net cannot hold; Huoxing and Lingxing are most favored to break it

The net reduces wine, sex, and money qi; in temple the person is tough and changeable, able to get free. Most favorable are Huoxing and Lingxing, forming Huo-Tan or Ling-Tan: sudden opportunity helps break the net early, and life will have an outburst.

Opposite is Wuqu: desire turns into career and craft

Wuqu presses passion down and turns it into material drive and craft. Money sense is keen, pioneering is strong, peach blossom is lighter—this is Tanlang’s best palace. Meeting auspicious stars, rise can come after thirty; the path is more solid.

Wu-Tan hidden pattern: no need for Huo-Tan; rise can still come after thirty

Yin metal controlling wood becomes the Wu-Tan hidden pattern; there is no need to wait for Huo-Tan to rise. When the pattern is poor: fawning, self-serving, rash in seeking money—still able to rise, yet blessing is incomplete and cannot be kept; what rises is easily scattered.

Study points: Tanlang in Chen/Xu in the Life Palace

1. Net position does not like Wenchang and Wenqu. Sitting with Changqu: more void, less substance, the person toils more. The net wants practicality; showiness only weights empty spinning, name easily larger than fact—busy to look at, nothing finished. Do not stack literary stars here.
2. Does not like Qingyang or Tuoluo sitting together. The nature is too hard, sudden disaster and money disputes come easily; suited to slaughter, medicine, or specialist technique for a living—put the hardness into craft, not into charging harder, or trouble is invited.
3. Huo-Tan and Ling-Tan help break the net early. Huoxing and Lingxing sitting together or meeting through sanfang: sudden opportunity can free the person early, and life will have an outburst. Suited to martial posts, also to developing away from home; movement is what breaks the net—go out to seek money.
4. Likes Zuofu and Youbi; public office is suitable. Sitting with Zuofu and Youbi: suited to public office, career smoother, rank higher. Steadiness can still walk the net into a stage for development; with a team the path can open—better inside the system.

Teacher Ming's reading: how to read Tanlang in Chen/Xu

To wrap this up. Tanlang in Chen/Xu forms the Wu-Tan hidden pattern; desire turns into career. Most favorable are Huoxing and Lingxing to break the net early; does not like Changqu, does not like Qingyang and Tuoluo sitting together. Likes Zuofu and Youbi; public office is suitable. Even a poor combination can still rise, yet blessing is incomplete and cannot be kept.

I think three lines are enough for students to remember. First, peach blossom pressed down is what makes craft and career solid. Second, Huoxing and Lingxing can break the net early; movement is how the path opens. Third, after a rise, hold it; rash action scatters the blessing.

To check whether your chart is “Tanlang in Chen/Xu in the Life Palace”, first use the free Zi Wei Dou Shu chart against this article, then read The fourteen main star types and meanings for Tanlang’s basic temperament, and A complete explanation of Zi Wei Dou Shu sihua to see how birth-year sihua adds or subtracts star strength.