Tian Tong in the Friends Palace
Tian Tong is the star of blessings, ruling over gentleness and enjoyment; its transformed energy is Blessing. In the Life Palace it brings an easy-going nature and good fortune.
Summary
With Tian Tong in the Friends Palace, the old book says capable and prosperous: your subordinates are capable and helpful. Friends are mostly mild and social life relaxed. With Tian Liang, people guard your home and estate; with Tai Yin, capable subordinates; with Ju Men, first hard then easy. Zuo Fu and You Bi bring a harmonious team. Caution: when Tian Tong is Fallen it lacks energy and you must actively invest in relationships; with Yang, Tuo, Huo or Ling some servants betray the master, and with Kong and Jie they resent and leave.
This summary was written by Claude (AI) and only restates the dataset readings below.
Tian Tong alone in this palace · 2,405 sample charts
In one sentence
With Tian Tong in the Friends Palace, the old book says "capable and prosperous": capable subordinates.
Core reading
With Tian Tong in the Friends Palace, your friends are gentle-natured and social life is relaxed and pleasant; subordinates are even more Tian Tong's strength. The book says Tian Tong in the Servants Palace is "capable and prosperous," meaning your people are capable and helpful; sharing a palace with Tian Liang, there are people willing to guard your home and estate; with Tai Yin, capable subordinates; with Ju Men, first hard then easy. Tian Tong falling in this palace speaks of harmony with friends and subordinates.
Basis in the chart
· Tian Tong in the Friends Palace — friends are mostly mild types; casual relationships.
· Tian Tong meeting Zuo Fu and You Bi — highly cooperative subordinates; a harmonious team.
Classical sources
· Complete Book of Zi Wei Dou Shu · Volume 2 · Servants: "Tian Tong, capable and prosperous; with Ju Men, first hard then easy; with Tai Yin, capable; with Tian Liang, helping the master; adding Yang, Tuo, Huo or Ling, there are servants who betray the master; if seeing Kong and Jie, resenting the master, they will leave."
By brightness and star combination
When sharing the palace with Tai Yin · 700 sample charts
▸ Complete Book of Zi Wei Dou Shu, Volume 2, readings for the twelve palaces (original text of Ming-Qing woodblock editions · reference from traditional schools, not Master Ni's method):
· Complete Book of Zi Wei Dou Shu · Volume 2 · Friends, entry on Tai Yin: "Tai Yin in a Temple position, capable and in ranks; with Tai Yang, many servants and maids; with Tian Ji, lacking strength; with Tian Tong, prospering the master; adding Yang, Tuo, Huo, Ling, Kong or Jie, though there are some, they leave; in a Fallen position, none at all."
When sharing the palace with Ju Men · 691 sample charts
Zi Wei Dou Shu emphasizes seeing Yin and Yang together; below are neutral reminders based on the features of this chart — knowing what to watch for lets you turn danger into safety.
◆ This palace's main star 【Tian Tong】 is Fallen and lacks energy; in relationships and benefactors you need to actively invest more effort and cannot rely on instinct alone.
▸ Complete Book of Zi Wei Dou Shu, Volume 2, readings for the twelve palaces (original text of Ming-Qing woodblock editions · reference from traditional schools, not Master Ni's method):
· Complete Book of Zi Wei Dou Shu · Volume 2 · Friends, entry on Ju Men: "Ju Men in Temple, not capable in early years, inviting gossip, unable to stay long; with Tai Yang, helping the master and guarding the household; with Tian Tong, of one mind; with Tian Tong, attracted in the final years."
When sharing the palace with Tian Liang · 726 sample charts
▸ Complete Book of Zi Wei Dou Shu, Volume 2, readings for the twelve palaces (original text of Ming-Qing woodblock editions · reference from traditional schools, not Master Ni's method):
· Complete Book of Zi Wei Dou Shu · Volume 2 · Friends, entry on Tian Liang: "Tian Liang, many servants, prospering the master; with Tian Tong, servants who guard the household; with Tian Ji, not of one mind."
Content drawn from the open-source Zi Wei Dou Shu reading dataset v4.0 (CC BY 4.0, github.com/Renhuai123/ziwei-doushu, by 王多鱼AI): sentences found in ≥ 90% of charts with the same star configuration, from a sample of 54,205 charts. English text machine-translated (Claude) from the original Chinese.