Wuqu in Chen/Xu Life Palace: Pattern Guide

General star on solid ground: the net gathers hardness in, and also pares drive

Wuqu in Chen/Xu Life Palace is the only place Wuqu sits alone: nature simple, most able to show the general star’s true colour. Opposite is Tanlang, Career is Ziwei and Tianfu, Wealth is Lianzhen and Tianxiang. Wuqu is fierce, forthright, active and decisive, hard to yield, with heavy killing qi. Dropping into Chen/Xu 天羅地網 (heaven’s net and earth’s web), bound by family, environment, and rules, the hardness is gathered in, the person is easier to approach, outward fortune is also smoother, and swings instead lessen. Opposite Tanlang is the hidden Wu-Tan pattern: meeting is much like Chou/Wei Wu-Tan, yet sanfang has no Pojun, so it is more stable with fewer setbacks. Still, tempering is needed before becoming a vessel; rise comes late. Classic texts say 武曲墓中居，三十才發福 (Wuqu dwelling in the tomb, blessing only at thirty). Chen/Xu in temple is called 將星得地 (General Star on Solid Ground): strategy and organisation are enough, able to attack and defend, suited to military and police posts. The net both binds and protects; drive has already been pared, so Wuqu Hua Lu and Hua Ke are not liked—the native becomes conventional, seeking only ease; Hua Quan is instead welcome, able to break this net. Jia years: money and career run more smoothly; Yi years: Qingyang pushes the native out of the net, yet means easily go off.

Wuqu in Chen/Xu Life Palace by birth year

Jia-year natives, Wuqu in Chen/Xu Life Palace

Life Palace Wuqu Hua Ke: a specialised craft can also make a name, suited to both civil and military posts. Wealth Lianzhen Hua Lu, Fortune Pojun Hua Quan, Lucun in Yin, guarding Spouse and Career. Career meets two kinds of Lu, so money and career run more smoothly.

Yi-year natives, Wuqu in Chen/Xu Life Palace

Qingyang in Chen guards Life and Travel. Qingyang’s thrust and stamina are astonishing, able to push Wuqu out of the net earlier and make a miracle on their own, yet means easily go off. Career Ziwei Hua Ke: fame outweighs real gain, and competition is more.

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

Do not treat 將星得地 (General Star on Solid Ground) as prosperity the moment it sits. I read Wuqu sitting alone into the net as hardness gathered in and drive also pared, rise coming late. This is the hidden Wu-Tan pattern: stable yet needing tempering, blessing only at thirty. Strategy and organisation are enough, suited to military and police. Hua Lu and Hua Ke are not liked—the native becomes conventional; Hua Quan is instead welcome, able to break this net.

Jia and Yi years share much the same point—one relies on Lu, one relies on Qingyang to charge the net. If your year is not listed, do not worry—first understand this star group's temperament.

Wuqu in Chen versus Xu

Opposite Tanlang is the hidden Wu-Tan pattern: stable yet late to rise

Opposite Tanlang is the hidden Wu-Tan pattern. Meeting is much like Chou/Wei; sanfang has no Pojun, so it is more stable with fewer setbacks. Still, tempering is needed before becoming a vessel; rise comes late. Classic texts say 武曲墓中居，三十才發福 (Wuqu dwelling in the tomb, blessing only at thirty)—this star is large only after enough seasoning.

General star in temple on solid ground: strategy and organisation suit military and police

Wuqu in Chen/Xu in temple, the star sitting prosperous, called 將星得地 (General Star on Solid Ground). Strategy is enough, organisation and leadership are strong, able to attack and defend, authority can command. Classic texts say a general star in temple is auspicious, with means to hold ground and take a city. Military and police posts fit best, with more room to develop.

Fierceness gathered in by the net; the person is easier to approach

Wuqu is fierce, forthright, active and decisive, hard to compromise, with heavy killing qi and a cold, hard nature. Dropping into Chen/Xu 天羅地網 (heaven’s net and earth’s web) is like a net: bound by family, environment, and rules, hardness is gathered in, the person is easier to approach, outward fortune is also smoother, and swings instead lessen.

Learning points: Wuqu in Chen/Xu Life Palace

1. Opposite 火貪 (Huo-Tan) and 鈴貪 (Ling-Tan) can charge out of the net earlier: opposite Tanlang likes Huoxing or Lingxing sharing, called 火貪 (Huo-Tan) and 鈴貪 (Ling-Tan) shining across, able to stimulate Wuqu to break 天羅地網 (heaven’s net and earth’s web) earlier and call the general star’s drive back.
2. Career likes Ziwei Hua Ke, dislikes Ziwei Hua Quan: Ziwei Hua Ke, reputation is good. Ziwei Hua Quan, desire for power is too large; Life Wuqu must Hua Ji, money disputes are many, the road is rugged, and only after several setbacks is there success.
3. Most likes Zuofu/Youbi, Tiankui/Tianyue, and Wenchang/Wenqu shining across: Zuofu and Youbi are left and right hands, Tiankui and Tianyue are elder noblemen; Wenchang and Wenqu sharing or shining across, plus Ke, Quan, and Lu, most easily get ahead; money and name both keep up better.
4. Wu year Tanlang Hua Lu meeting Life yet governs leaving home: opposite Tanlang Hua Lu shining across can strengthen drive. Yet Tianji Hua Ji in Property is often a sign of leaving home and changing fate; the native is pushed to go.
5. Hua Quan is instead welcome; meeting malefics, live by a craft: Hua Quan can thicken ambition, so the net can be broken. Meeting malefics and Ji, means of seeking money easily go off, money is hard to gather, and financial entanglements are easy—living by a craft fits.
6. The net dislikes Hua Lu and Hua Ke: drive has already been pared by the net. Hua Lu easily becomes conventional, seeking only ease, not thinking of reform, and ambition disappears. Hua Ke easily takes a small name and small gain through one craft, becoming muddling through. Ji year Hua Lu: do not stack Wenqu Hua Ji again, or work is casual and does not become a vessel.

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

To close this article: Wuqu in Chen/Xu is 將星得地 (General Star on Solid Ground), suited to military and police. The net both binds and protects; Hua Lu and Hua Ke are not liked; Hua Quan is instead welcome to break through. Opposite 火貪 (Huo-Tan) and 鈴貪 (Ling-Tan) can call the drive back.

Three points are enough to remember. First, the net gathers hardness in and also pares drive. Second, Hua Lu and Hua Ke are not liked; Hua Quan is. Third, a general star in the net must find its own way out.

To check whether your chart is Wuqu in Chen/Xu 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 Wuqu’s basic nature, and A complete explanation of Ziwei Doushu sihua for how each birth-year sihua strengthens or weakens the stars.