Tiantong in Chen/Xu Life Palace: Reading Guide

Sitting dark; Ding-year Xu can flip into great nobility

Tiantong in Chen/Xu Life Palace: the blessing star sits dark, called in fall. Opposite is Jumen, also sitting dark; Wealth Palace is Tianliang in Zi/Wu; Career Palace is Tianji and Taiyin in Yin/Shen. The three directions gather Ji-Yue-Tong-Liang—that is Tianji, Taiyin, Tiantong, and Tianliang complete. Enjoyment of blessing drops; weakness, dependence, and moodiness show instead. Travel Palace Jumen once fallen: a change of setting breeds gossip. Fortune Palace has Taiyang: face matters, pride is strong. Meeting malefics and Hua Ji again, pride easily turns into inferiority—love to show off yet lack substance; mouth-trouble returns to Life Palace, becoming hidden pain that cannot be spoken. First have Lu and auspicious stars, then malefics may be used to stir laziness. Ding-year Xu is called Fanbei pattern: Tiantong Hua Quan can steady mood, Jumen Hua Ji comes to stir, Lu from both sides faces in; hardship first, then great nobility. Chen Fortune Taiyang in Wu is fully bright: life is smoother, yet lacks that later drive.

Tiantong in Chen/Xu Life Palace by birth year

Bing-year natives, Tiantong in Chen/Xu Life Palace

Life Palace Tiantong Hua Lu, Career Palace Tianji Hua Quan. People are open, toughness enough; they can endure hardship then rise again. Those born in Zi or Wu hour have Wenchang and Wenqu on the Life-and-Travel line; Wenchang Hua Ke, Ke, Quan, and Lu complete; add auspicious stars, career runs more smoothly.

Ding-year natives, Tiantong in Chen/Xu Life Palace

Life Palace Tiantong Hua Quan, Career Palace Taiyin Hua Lu and Tianji Hua Ke, Travel Palace Jumen Hua Ji: all four sihua gather. Lucun sits in Wealth Palace. Chen and Xu both have the sense of Fanbei; Xu achievement is larger, ruling great nobility. This chart must eat bitterness first before great matters can be done.

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

Do not treat Tiantong in fall as a chart with no rescue. I think sitting dark, weakness and mood come out. Opposite Jumen once fallen: a change of setting breeds gossip. Fortune Taiyang weights face; meeting malefics and Hua Ji, pride easily turns into inferiority. Yet with Lu and Quan, Ding year can Fanbei: hardship first, then great nobility. First have Lu, then malefics may be used to stir.

Bing and Ding years share much the same point—one is tough, one can flip the board. Years not listed here need not panic; first hear this star group’s temperament.

Tiantong in Chen versus Xu

Ding-year Xu Fanbei: achievement greater than Chen

Ding-year Xu is called Fanbei; the classics say Ding natives transforming auspicious rule great nobility. Tiantong Hua Quan can steady mood. Wealth Palace has Lucun; Life Palace has Lu facing in from both sides, then Jumen Hua Ji coming to stir is favored. Xu early years are harder; from mid-life, achievement is larger than Chen. Chen Taiyang in Wu is fully bright, smoother, less later drive; Taiyin Hua Lu in Shen, wealth-producing force is smaller.

In fall needs malefics to stir, but first must have Lu

Sitting dark: people are weak, love to depend, spirit likes to float into emptiness. Favors, when Lu and auspicious stars are there, using malefics and Hua Ji to stir laziness—not that every malefic is good. Tiantong cannot bear pressure; malefics too heavy bring illness and a troubled mind.

Blessing reduced, weakness and mood show instead

Tiantong is a blessing star, yet this blessing carries laziness and dependence. Often have ambition yet not active, love to soak in comfort. Chen/Xu once fallen, the good cannot open, weaknesses come out. Opposite Jumen also fallen: a change of setting breeds dispute. Taiyang weights face, sense of honor is heavy; meeting malefics and Hua Ji, pride easily turns into inferiority—love to show off yet lack substance.

Learning points: Tiantong in Chen/Xu Life Palace

1. Without auspicious stars, gossip, money, and feeling all trouble: opposite Jumen without auspicious stars, lifelong gossip is hard to avoid; rushing about for money, feeling also has much dispute. Treat speech as a profession to manage, then mouth-trouble can be reduced.
2. Jumen transforming auspicious, then leaving home fits: Tiantong and Jumen clash in nature and punish each other. Travel Jumen receiving auspicious transformation: going out is more auspicious. Without seeing the auspicious, leaving home also takes dispute along, not necessarily better. First look whether there is auspicious transformation.
3. Career Palace sandwiched by Ziwei and Tianfu is called Zi-Fu sandwiching nobility: Tianji and Taiyin in Yin/Shen, left and right sandwiched by Ziwei and Tianfu: easier to meet noblemen and be lifted. Chen Fortune Taiyang in Wu fully bright; daytime birth even better, able to near nobility and hold authority; income mostly comes from noblemen.
4. Most favors Lucun shining over: Lucun shining over sanfang sizheng lets money and blessing both hold. Without Lucun, blessing is reduced, money also follows unstable, days run tighter, enjoyment of blessing also discounted.
5. Many have interest in politics; can take an elected path: Jumen in fall already rules gossip and argument. The three directions then receiving Quan, Lu, Tiankui, Tianyue, Zuofu, Youbi, Wenchang, and Wenqu: suited to elected representatives, turning argument into a profession.
6. Travel Jumen in fall: suited to living by eloquence: a dark star sitting dark, dispute and litigation hard to avoid. When Jumen is in Xu, Taiyang in Wu fully bright, even easier to push forward and draw resentment. Elected office, teaching, sales, PR, media—work that uses the mouth—can instead turn gossip into a livelihood.
7. Ji-Yue-Tong-Liang: suited to public office or a large firm: Career Palace Tianji and Taiyin, Wealth Palace Tianliang; the classics say Ji-Yue-Tong-Liang makes clerks. Government or a large institution is steadier, risk lower. People with a good chart: money and status are both not small.

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

To close this article. Tiantong in Chen/Xu is in fall; opposite Jumen is also dark; gossip is hard to avoid. Ji-Yue-Tong-Liang suits public office; work that uses the mouth can turn dispute into a livelihood. Most favors Lucun shining over.

I think three sentences are enough. First, only with Lu can you stir. Second, turn gossip into a livelihood. Third, a dark chart can also flip, provided you are willing to eat bitterness first.

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