The Voice (Ju Men, 巨门) in the Spouse palace (Fu Qi, 夫妻)
The Spouse palace is about marriage and close partnership. Speech, and the doubts and disputes that come with it.
What the classic says, Zi Wei Dou Shu Quan Shu (紫微斗数全书), volume two
An older partner suits; harm and little harmony are settled. With the Sun (太阳) and none of the four malefics, growing old together. With the Strategist (天机), a helpmeet, and good-looking. With the Blessing (天同), a clever wife alongside. With the six malefics, two wives lost, or parting while both live.
巨门宜年长定克欠和，太阳同无四杀加谐老，天机同内助美貌，天同同性聪之妻并头，加羊陀火铃空劫定克二妻或主生离。
“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)
estrangement in marriage — separation in life or in death
在夫妻主於隔角，生離死別
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) 10%, Power (化权) 9%, Trouble (化忌) 11%.
- 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 Spouse palace those are Career (官禄) opposite, and Travel (迁移) and Wellbeing (福德) 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 Spouse 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 · Career · Wealth · Property · Parents · Siblings · all twelve
Other stars in the Spouse palace: The Emperor · The Strategist · The Sun · The Iron · The Blessing · The Mystic · The Treasury · The Moon · The Wolf · The Minister · The Elder · The General · The Disruptor