The Iron (Wu Qu, 武曲) in the Property palace (Tian Zhai, 田宅)
The Property palace is about home, property, what you keep. The money star. Hard and decisive — effective more than warm.
Which star is in your own Property 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
Alone and well placed, a great estate from the father. Badly placed, it comes only after loss. With the Disruptor (破军) and the Great Drain (大耗), the family property is scattered, and what there is does not last. With the Minister (天相), loss first and property after; with the General (七杀), no appetite for it; with the Treasury (天府), a household already made is kept; with the Wolf (贪狼), acquired late. Meeting Fire (火) or the Ember (铃), excellent — property flourishing. With the Void and the Plunder (空劫), in and out.
武曲单居旺地，得祖父大业，陷地退后方成，破军大耗同破荡家产，有也不耐久，天相同先见破后方有，七杀同心不欲，天府同守见成家业，贪狼同晚置，见火铃星同极美，田产茂盛，同空劫有进有退。
“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 0%, in between the rest.
- Alone in the palace in 18%; sharing it with The Treasury (天府) 17%, The Disruptor (破军) 17%, The General (七杀) 17%, The Wolf (贪狼) 16%, The Minister (天相) 15%.
- Carries a birth-year transformation in 40%: Fortune (化禄) 9%, Power (化权) 9%, Merit (化科) 10%, 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%; Earth Void or Earth Robbery (地空地劫) with it: 15%; 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 Iron 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 Property palace those are Children (子女) opposite, and Siblings (兄弟) and Health (疾厄) in trine. Whatever stars sit there change what The Iron 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 Property 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 Iron in other palaces: Self · Spouse · Career · Wealth · Parents · Siblings · all twelve
Other stars in the Property palace: The Emperor · The Strategist · The Sun · The Blessing · The Mystic · The Treasury · The Moon · The Wolf · The Voice · The Minister · The Elder · The Disruptor