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Tan Lang 贪狼 in the Friends Palace 交友宫

The Wolf of Desire · Networks and helpers · the palace that asks: who supports me?

An enormous, mixed network. Curate it yearly the way you would a wardrobe.

The full reading

The network is enormous, mixed and alive. Tan Lang in the Friends Palace collects people across every stratum, artists, bankers, aunties, nightlife royalty, and moves between them fluently; if anyone you know can reach a person, it is this placement. Opportunities, introductions and fun flow through the crowd in volume. So do costs: hangers-on, drama imported from other people’s lives, and the occasional friend who is really a well-dressed appetite. The annual curation is not optional here, prune for character, keep the ones who show up sober to hospitals as well as parties. A wardrobe-sized circle, chosen, outperforms a warehouse, accumulated.

How the Friends Palace works

The Friends Palace governs the wider circle: colleagues, subordinates, communities, and the quality of help around you. It is never read alone: its opposite palace, the Siblings Palace 兄弟宫, shines across into it, so Tan Lang here is always answered by whatever sits across the wheel. Read the full Friends Palace guide.

When Tan Lang transforms (四化)

In certain birth years, and again in matching decade and annual cycles, Tan Lang carries one of the Four Transformations. With the star seated in your Friends Palace, the transformation lands there too.

戊年 化禄In Wu years, Hua Lu (prosperity): the star’s themes flow with unusual ease that year, and this palace’s domain tends to open and provide.
己年 化权In Ji years, Hua Quan (power): the star hardens into drive and authority, and this domain becomes an arena of effort and contest.
癸年 化忌In Gui years, Hua Ji (obstruction): the star knots, and this domain carries that year’s recurring lesson, also clashing its opposite palace.

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Tan Lang in the other palaces

Other stars in the Friends Palace