The Sun (Tai Yang, 太阳) in the Wealth palace (Cai Bo, 财帛)
The Wealth palace is about money coming in and going out. Gives out and is seen. Tied to career, rank and public standing.
What the classic says, Zi Wei Dou Shu Quan Shu (紫微斗数全书), volume two
Well placed, plenty; badly placed, toil without result. With the Moon (太阴) and the two Aides (左右) and benefics, no small fortune; with the Hoard (禄存), wealth won by attention, and great; with the Voice (巨门), early gains and losses, never quite full.
太阳入庙丰足，陷宫劳碌不遂，太阴同加左右吉星发财不小，禄存同操心得财玫大富，巨门同早年成败中未充盈。
“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 31%: Fortune (化禄) 10%, Power (化权) 11%, Trouble (化忌) 11%.
- How often the conditions the classic’s line names actually occur — one of the six helper stars (左辅右弼文昌文曲天魁天钺) with it: 38%; Lu Cun (禄存) with it: 8%.
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 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 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 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 Sun in other palaces: Self · Spouse · Career · Property · Parents · Siblings · all twelve
Other stars in the Wealth palace: The Emperor · The Strategist · The Iron · The Blessing · The Mystic · The Treasury · The Moon · The Wolf · The Voice · The Minister · The Elder · The Disruptor