The Wolf (Tan Lang, 贪狼) in the Wealth palace (Cai Bo, 财帛)
The Wealth palace is about money coming in and going out. Appetite and attraction — charm and cunning in the same person.
What the classic says, Zi Wei Dou Shu Quan Shu (紫微斗数全书), volume two
Well placed, sudden gain; badly placed, poverty. With the Emperor star (紫微), what is already there is held, and grows richer after. With the Flare (火星), gains and losses before thirty and sudden fortune after.
贪狼庙旺横发，陷地贫穷，紫微同守现成，家计自后更丰盈，见火星三十年前成败，三十年后横发。
“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 does not originate with you
在財帛終非所自發
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 28%: Fortune (化禄) 9%, Power (化权) 10%, 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: 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 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 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 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 Wolf 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 Voice · The Minister · The Elder · The Disruptor