Flying out is like you actively calling others, flying in is like others calling you; in a relationship, who initiates and who responds is read by two-way flights.
What This Question Is Really Asking
Some only see flying out and take all as their initiative; others only see flying in and take all as external; the real way reads both directions and separates cause and effect.
The Underlying Logic
Flying out = the home palace is cause and landing is effect, active outward.
Flying out Lu: actively connect and seek gain; Quan: actively compete and lead; Ji: actively turn inward.
Flying in = other palaces are cause and home palace is effect, external toward you.
Flying in Lu: external resources to you; Quan: external pressure to you; Ji: external sticking points to you.
A Step-by-Step Way to Read It
- First set Tai Ji, determining the home palace
- Find the home palace stem transformations, see where they fly out to
- Read flying out: judge what you actively do outward
- Find which palace stems fly into the home palace
- Read flying in: judge what external forces do to you
- Read both directions together, separating cause-effect and active-passive
Three Common Mistakes
Mistake 1: Seeing only flying out and taking all as your initiative
Mistake 2: Seeing only flying in and taking all as external
Mistake 3: Not setting Tai Ji, losing direction in both ways
Back to Your Own Chart
Flying out and flying in ask who initiates and who responds in a matter. Read both directions and separate cause and effect, and you know how much you can control.
Reading Order
- Cast the natal chart first and locate the palaces and major stars tied to flying out of the home palace and flying in from others before judging anything
- Open the triple-direction of those palaces and count the auspicious, malefic and assistant stars separately
- Check where the natal Four Transformations land to set the chart's baseline tone
- Read the decade-limit transformations to see whether the flying out of the home palace and flying in from others line is activated in this stage
- Then read the annual transformations and the year's palace to pin down this year's trigger and timing
- Layer natal, decade and year before concluding, then decide how to act rather than labeling good or bad