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Tan Lang 贪狼 in the Parents Palace 父母宫

The Wolf of Desire · Roots and elders · the palace that asks: where do i come from?

An indulgent or colourful parental story. What was modelled must be consciously edited.

The full reading

The parental story has colour in it. Parents under Tan Lang are remembered as charming, indulgent, complicated or all three: households of warmth and appetite, where discipline flickered and life lessons arrived by example, some of them cautionary. What was modelled, spending, charm, pleasure, conflict styles, must be consciously edited rather than wholesale inherited; this placement often spends its thirties sorting the parental wardrobe into keep and return. Relations with elders are warm and sociable, favours flow, and family gatherings orbit the fun. The adult task is affectionate clear-sightedness: enjoy the colourful elders, learn their moves, and choose deliberately which appetites continue in you.

How the Parents Palace works

The Parents Palace governs parents, mentors, superiors, education, and what the family line hands down. It is never read alone: its opposite palace, the Health Palace 疾厄宫, shines across into it, so Tan Lang here is always answered by whatever sits across the wheel. Read the full Parents 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 Parents 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 Parents Palace