The Blessing (Tian Tong, 天同) in the Siblings palace (Xiong Di, 兄弟)
The Siblings palace is about siblings, and the people alongside you. Ease and contentment. Honest, mild, hard to ruffle.
What the classic says, Zi Wei Dou Shu Quan Shu (紫微斗数全书), volume two
Well placed, four or five. With the Elder (天梁), two or three; with the Voice (巨门) and no malefics, three; with the Moon (太阴), four or five. Badly placed, only two. With the six malefics and the Trouble transformation (化忌), better living apart, and discord.
天同入庙四五人，天梁同二三人，巨门同无杀三人，太阴同四五人，陷地，只二人，见羊陀火铃空劫忌，少宜分居不和。
“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 36% of those charts, badly placed (fallen) in 6%, in between the rest.
- Alone in the palace in 52%; sharing it with The Elder (天梁) 17%, The Moon (太阴) 16%, The Voice (巨门) 15%.
- Carries a birth-year transformation in 30%: Fortune (化禄) 10%, Power (化权) 10%, 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: 29%; Earth Void or Earth Robbery (地空地劫) with it: 15%.
Counted by casting every day from 1950 to 2009 at each of the twelve hours — 262,980 charts, 8.3% of which have The Blessing 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 Siblings palace those are Friends (仆役) opposite, and Health (疾厄) and Property (田宅) in trine. Whatever stars sit there change what The Blessing 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 Siblings 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 Blessing in other palaces: Self · Spouse · Career · Wealth · Property · Parents · all twelve
Other stars in the Siblings palace: The Emperor · The Strategist · The Sun · The Iron · The Mystic · The Treasury · The Moon · The Wolf · The Voice · The Minister · The Elder · The General · The Disruptor