The Wolf (Tan Lang, 贪狼) in the Parents palace (Fu Mu, 父母)
The Parents palace is about parents, and anyone with authority over you. Appetite and attraction — charm and cunning in the same person.
Which star is in your own Parents 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
Badly placed, the ancestral line left early, a second set of parents, adopted out or married in. With the Mystic (廉贞), harm early and solitary. With the Emperor star (紫微) and no malefics, both parents live.
贪狼狼陷地早弃祖，重拜过房，入赘，廉贞同早刑主孤单，紫微同无杀加双全。
“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 49% of those charts, badly placed (fallen) in 17%, in between the rest.
- Alone in the palace in 50%; sharing it with The Emperor (紫微) 17%, The Mystic (廉贞) 17%, The Iron (武曲) 16%.
- Carries a birth-year transformation in 30%: Fortune (化禄) 11%, Power (化权) 8%, 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%.
Counted by casting every day from 1950 to 2009 at each of the twelve hours — 262,980 charts, 8.3% of which have The Wolf 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 Parents palace those are Health (疾厄) opposite, and Children (子女) and Friends (仆役) in trine. Whatever stars sit there change what The Wolf 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 Parents 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 Wolf in other palaces: Self · Spouse · Career · Wealth · Property · Siblings · all twelve
Other stars in the Parents palace: The Emperor · The Strategist · The Sun · The Iron · The Blessing · The Mystic · The Treasury · The Moon · The Voice · The Minister · The Elder · The General · The Disruptor