The Voice (Ju Men, 巨门) in the Wealth palace (Cai Bo, 财帛)
The Wealth palace is about money coming in and going out. 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
Made from nothing, and best taken from busy places; the proud lose it suddenly. With the Sun (太阳) well placed, a household built on what is already there. With the Strategist (天机), money that feeds the person, made by no single trade. With the Blessing (天同), built from nothing, and good for the lesser trades. With the six malefics, losses on every side.
巨门白手生财成家，宜闹中取，气高之人横破，太阳同入庙守见成家计，天机同财气生身，所作不一，天同同白手成家，九流人吉，加羊陀火铃空劫破财多端。
“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)
money that is contested rather than simply earned
在財帛有爭競之意
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 28%: Fortune (化禄) 10%, Power (化权) 9%, Trouble (化忌) 9%.
- 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: 31%; 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 Wealth palace those are Wellbeing (福德) opposite, and Career (官禄) and Self (命宫) 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 Wealth 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 · Property · Parents · Siblings · all twelve
Other stars in the Wealth 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