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Tan Lang 贪狼 in the Travel Palace 迁移宫

The Wolf of Desire · The world outside · the palace that asks: how does the world receive me?

Popular abroad and energised by new scenes. Temptations travel too.

The full reading

Abroad, the wolf finds richer hunting. Tan Lang in the Travel Palace is energised by new scenes and popular in all of them: the one who has friends in every port within a month, invitations following like gulls after a ferry. Opportunity away from home is real and social, deals struck at dinners, careers rerouted by someone met at a wedding, and relocation generally raises this chart’s fortunes. Temptation holds a passport too; every excess available at home is available abroad with less supervision, and the classical texts wag a finger at exactly this. Travel with purposes and return dates. The world is this placement’s buffet; the skill is leaving the table upright.

How the Travel Palace works

The Travel Palace governs movement, relocation, reputation away from home, and luck found outside your door. It is never read alone: its opposite palace, the Life Palace 命宫, shines across into it, so Tan Lang here is always answered by whatever sits across the wheel. Read the full Travel 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 Travel 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 Travel Palace