The Sun (Tai Yang, 太阳) in the Spouse palace (Fu Qi, 夫妻)
The Spouse palace is about marriage and close partnership. Gives out and is seen. Tied to career, rank and public standing.
Which star is in your own Spouse 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, marrying late is fortunate and marrying early brings harm; standing comes through the wife. With the Elder (天梁) and the two Aides (左右), a wise and capable wife. With the Moon (太阴), a helpmeet. With the Voice (巨门) and none of the Blade, Millstone, Flare and Ember and the Void and the Plunder (羊陀火铃空劫), no harm — with those four, harm; with the Void and the Plunder (空劫), harm for certain.
太阳庙旺迟娶吉，早娶克，因妻得贵，与天梁同加左右招贤明之妻，太阴同内助，巨门同无羊陀火铃空劫不克，有此四杀，反空劫定克，遇耗非礼成婚。
“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.
How this placement actually turns up
- Well placed (exalted or strong) in 43% of those charts, badly placed (fallen) in 25%, in between the rest.
- Alone in the palace in 51%; sharing it with The Moon (太阴) 17%, The Voice (巨门) 16%, The Elder (天梁) 15%.
- Carries a birth-year transformation in 30%: Fortune (化禄) 11%, Power (化权) 9%, 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%; one of the six helper stars (左辅右弼文昌文曲天魁天钺) with it: 40%.
Counted by casting every day from 1950 to 2009 at each of the twelve hours — 262,980 charts, 8.3% of which have The Sun 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 Sun 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 Sun in other palaces: Self · Career · Wealth · Property · Parents · Siblings · all twelve
Other stars in the Spouse palace: The Emperor · The Strategist · The Iron · The Blessing · The Mystic · The Treasury · The Moon · The Wolf · The Voice · The Minister · The Elder · The General · The Disruptor