The Moon (Tai Yin, 太阴) in the Career palace (Guan Lu, 官禄)
The Career palace is about work and standing. Quiet wealth that builds up; home and property. Clever and even-tempered.
Which star is in your own Career 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, much standing; badly placed, high-spirited but suddenly broken, and hard to become prominent. Meeting the Sun (太阳), the Scholar and the Artist (昌曲) and the two Aides (左右), rank of the third order. With the Blessing (天同), suited to civil or military; with the Strategist (天机), advancement in the thick of things, a clerk's footing.
太阴入庙多贵，陷地气高横破难显达，会太阳昌曲左右三品之贵，天同同文武皆宜，天机同闹中进身吏员立脚。
“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 51% of those charts, badly placed (fallen) in 23%, in between the rest.
- Alone in the palace in 49%; sharing it with The Sun (太阳) 17%, The Strategist (天机) 17%, The Blessing (天同) 16%.
- Carries a birth-year transformation in 47%: Fortune (化禄) 9%, Power (化权) 10%, Merit (化科) 19%, Trouble (化忌) 9%.
- 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: 41%.
Counted by casting every day from 1950 to 2009 at each of the twelve hours — 262,980 charts, 8.3% of which have The Moon 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 Career palace those are Spouse (夫妻) opposite, and Self (命宫) and Wealth (财帛) in trine. Whatever stars sit there change what The Moon 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 Career 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 Moon in other palaces: Self · Spouse · Wealth · Property · Parents · Siblings · all twelve
Other stars in the Career palace: The Emperor · The Strategist · The Sun · The Iron · The Blessing · The Mystic · The Treasury · The Wolf · The Voice · The Minister · The Elder · The General · The Disruptor