The Voice (Ju Men, 巨门) in the Property palace (Tian Zhai, 田宅)
The Property palace is about home, property, what you keep. Speech, and the doubts and disputes that come with it.
Which star is in your own Property palace?
Only your own chart can say. It needs your birth date, hour and place: about a minute, free, and nothing you type is stored.
What the classic says, Zi Wei Dou Shu Quan Shu (紫微斗数全书), volume two
Well placed, sudden acquisition and purchase; badly placed, no share, and property brings disputes. With the Sun (太阳), nothing first and something after. With the six malefics, no property at all.
巨门庙旺横发置买，陷地无分，因田产招非，太阳同先无后有，加羊陀火铃空劫田宅全无。
“Well placed” and “badly placed” refer to the star’s brightness in the branch the palace falls on: the same star in the same palace reads differently bright and dim, and the clause says how.
And in the chapter of questions on the stars (Zhu Xing Wen Da Lun, 諸星問答論)
the inherited estate dissipates
在田宅則破蕩祖業
How this placement actually turns up
- Well placed (exalted or strong) in 68% of those charts, badly placed (fallen) in 17%, in between the rest.
- Alone in the palace in 51%; sharing it with The Strategist (天机) 17%, The Sun (太阳) 16%, The Blessing (天同) 15%.
- Carries a birth-year transformation in 30%: Fortune (化禄) 9%, Power (化权) 10%, Trouble (化忌) 10%.
- How often the conditions the classic’s line names actually occur — one of the four difficult stars (擎羊陀罗火星铃星) in the palace with it: 30%; Earth Void or Earth Robbery (地空地劫) with it: 15%.
Counted by casting every day from 1950 to 2009 at each of the twelve hours — 262,980 charts, 8.3% of which have The Voice here (every main star sits in every palace in about one chart in twelve). A count, not a reading.
Never read alone
Zi Wei reads a palace together with the one opposite it and the two in trine. For the Property palace those are Children (子女) opposite, and Siblings (兄弟) and Health (疾厄) in trine. Whatever stars sit there change what The Voice means here — which is why a page like this one can only give the classic’s line, and your own chart has to give the rest.
If a transformation lands on it
- Fortune (化禄): eases it and finds gain inside it — the star still does what it does, but smoothly and to some profit
- Power (化权): intensifies it and puts you in charge of it — more of the star, and more of it under your hand
- Merit (化科): makes it visible and gives it a name — the star's workings become something you are known for
- Trouble (化忌): sharpens it and makes it cost — the star's difficulty is where the chart puts its weight
What each transformation does to a star is this site’s reading, not a line from the classic.
Which star is in your own Property palace?
That needs your birth hour and place. The hour is corrected to true solar time, using the clock your birthplace actually kept that year.
The Voice in other palaces: Self · Spouse · Career · Wealth · Parents · Siblings · all twelve
Other stars in the Property palace: The Emperor · The Strategist · The Sun · The Iron · The Blessing · The Mystic · The Treasury · The Moon · The Wolf · The Minister · The Elder · The Disruptor