Tanlang in Yin/Shen Life Palace: Traits & Timing

Good at socializing; Shapo-Lang likes movement, not stillness

Tanlang in Yin/Shen in the Life Palace: opposite is Lianzhen, Wealth is Pojun, Career is Qisha. Both stars are peach-blossom and art stars; features are striking—handsome men and beautiful women. The person is talented, loves to hold authority, is good at socializing, also proud, easily carried away by success, with large career swings. Office is less favorable than business, business less favorable than industry; seeking money is more auspicious, and setbacks can still be passed. Lianzhen likes to sit in Travel: the wider the outside, the better; going out brings good rapport and many chance meetings—leaving the birthplace is better. Sanfang is Qisha, Pojun, and Tanlang, called Shapo-Lang: hard and daring, life full of unrest, yet with the stuff of sudden fame. Meeting Huoxing and Lingxing is favorable, forming Huo-Tan or Ling-Tan, with sudden outburst opportunity. Yin wood is of the same qi: early rise, leaning to passion. Shen metal controlling wood: late rise, leaning to material desire. Both must guard against sinking into pleasure after a rise and ruining the results.

Tanlang in Yin/Shen Life Palace by birth year

Jia-year natives, Tanlang in Yin/Shen in the Life Palace

Lucun sits in Yin, guarding Life and Travel; in Travel, Lianzhen takes Hua Lu, so going out to make money runs more smoothly. In Wealth, Pojun takes Hua Quan; Quan and Lu shine into Life, so achievement opens more readily.

Wu-year natives, Tanlang in Yin/Shen in the Life Palace

Tanlang in Life takes Hua Lu; social entertaining is even more skillful, more favorable to business and earning. Lucun sits in Si, guarding the Children and Property line; foundation and achievement both hold up more.

Ji-year natives, Tanlang in Yin/Shen in the Life Palace

Tanlang in Life takes Hua Quan; talent and ambition both rise. Wuqu takes Hua Lu, Lucun in Wu, guarding Spouse and Career; Career receives Quan and Lu shining in. Tiankui and Tianyue in Zi and Shen: a figure can be made in politics.

Geng-year natives, Tanlang in Yin/Shen in the Life Palace

In Spouse, Wuqu takes Hua Quan; Lucun sits in Shen, guarding Life and Travel. Taiyang takes Hua Lu and Taiyin takes Hua Ke in Siblings, clamping Life; money and name both have support—this year is stronger.

Teacher Ming's reading: Tanlang in Yin/Shen in the Life Palace

Students, do not first take Shapo-Lang as certain to turn the world over. I think Tanlang in Yin/Shen: the person is talented, good at socializing, loves to hold authority, and is also easily carried away by success. Sanfang is hard and daring, life full of unrest, yet with the stuff of sudden fame. Leaving the birthplace is better; going out brings good rapport and many chance meetings; seeking money is more auspicious than office. Meeting Huoxing and Lingxing is favorable, with sudden outburst opportunity.

Jia, Wu, Ji, and Geng years have Lu and Quan, so achievement opens more readily. If your year is not listed, do not panic—first learn this star group's temperament.

Difference between Tanlang in Yin and in Shen

Yin rises early, Shen rises late; both must guard against pleasure ruining success

Yin wood is of the same qi: early rise, leaning to passion. Shen metal controlling wood: early years adverse, later coming through hardship, leaning to material desire. Both must guard against sinking into pleasure after success; Yin meeting Tuoluo is even more entangled in feeling and easily invites trouble.

Sanfang Shapo-Lang likes movement, not stillness, and will have an outburst

Lianzhen in Travel: going out is open, chance meetings many—leaving home is better. Sanfang Shapo-Lang: hard and daring, life full of unrest, yet with the stuff of sudden fame; Huoxing and Lingxing are favored to give outburst opportunity.

Opposite is Lianzhen: peach-blossom art, good at socializing

Both stars are peach-blossom and art stars: the person stands out, is talented, loves to hold authority; socializing can open the talent. Also easily proud and carried away by success, with career swings; seeking money is more auspicious than office.

Study points: Tanlang in Yin/Shen in the Life Palace

1. Yin meeting Tuoluo is called Feng Liu Cai Zhang (romantic colored staff). Feeling is complicated, easily inviting trouble through wine and sex. Meeting Qingyang and Tianxing again is a changed pattern, pointing to official trouble; without Lucun or Hua Lu, it is hard to amount to much—without Lu, climate is hard to form.
2. Hua Ji or meeting Dikong and Dijie: the person is instead cleaner. Tastes are more proper, yet unfavorable to money, and craft is hard to unfold. Pojun Hua Lu cannot offset Tanlang Hua Ji; when luck is adverse, old things can instead be cleared and new ones opened—an unintended willow-planting flavor.
3. Does not like Wenchang and Wenqu sitting together. Work is more void than substance: talk is good, landing is poor. Old books say Changqu in the same degree must be more void than substance; do not stack these two stars—looks clever, nothing gets done.
4. Meeting Tiankui and Tianyue, politics more easily makes a figure. Opposite Lianzhen already has a feel for politics. Kui and Yue meeting in: politics more easily brings fame; opening the field of activity is the way out, and talent can be used. Leave home and go out; the wider the field, the better.
5. Huo-Tan and Ling-Tan bring sudden money. Huoxing and Lingxing forming Huo-Tan or Ling-Tan: unexpected money or speculation is possible. Sanfang stacking Qingyang, Tuoluo, Dikong, Dijie, and Hua Ji again: guard against gaining first then losing—what comes fast also goes fast.

Teacher Ming's reading: how to read Tanlang in Yin/Shen

To wrap this up. Tanlang in Yin/Shen: peach-blossom art, good at socializing; Shapo-Lang likes movement, not stillness. Huoxing and Lingxing are favored for outburst; meeting Tiankui and Tianyue, politics more easily makes a figure. Does not like Changqu sitting together. After a rise, guard against sinking into pleasure and ruining the results.

I think three lines are enough for students to remember. First, likes movement, not stillness; leaving home is how it opens. Second, seeking money is smoother than office. Third, after success, do not let pleasure ruin it.

To check whether your chart is “Tanlang in Yin/Shen 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.