Decade Lu and Quan in Zi Wei Dou Shu: Where the Ten-Year Power Sits

Some see many auspicious stars in a decade but do not know where to push; finding the palace where Lu and Quan meet makes the direction clear.

What This Question Is Really Asking

The question is which matter to push actively in the decade. Lu supplies resources and opportunity and Quan supplies leadership and execution; where they overlap is both an opportunity and within your control, the best place to invest.

The Underlying Logic

Decade Lu: in these ten years the resources, opportunities and ties of this palace become easier to obtain, meaning you want and can more readily get them.

Decade Quan: this palace makes you want to lead and dare to compete, where you invest the most energy.

Lu-Quan meeting: opportunity plus control is the active power point where career and money often break through.

If Lu and Quan sit in different palaces, opportunity and execution lie on two lines and must be connected through the triple-direction.

A Step-by-Step Way to Read It

1. First place the decade transformations, locating Lu and Quan
2. See whether Lu and Quan share a palace or meet in the trine
3. The meeting is the active power point to invest first
4. If separate, read the opportunity line and execution line
5. Root back to the natal to confirm the baseline
6. Combine star nature to judge whether the opportunity can be caught

Three Common Mistakes

Mistake 1: Seeing only Lu and not Quan, so opportunity lacks drive

Mistake 2: Taking the Lu-Quan meeting as guaranteed and ignoring the natal baseline

Mistake 3: Treating separate Lu and Quan as one and misreading the power point

Back to Your Own Chart

Where to push in a decade is where Lu and Quan meet: Lu gives opportunity and Quan control, and the overlap is worth the most. Locate it, root it and read the star nature so the force goes the right way.

Reading Order

1. Cast the natal chart first and locate the palaces and major stars tied to the decade Lu and Quan as the ten-year power point before judging anything
2. Open the triple-direction of those palaces and count the auspicious, malefic and assistant stars separately
3. Check where the natal Four Transformations land to set the chart's baseline tone
4. Read the decade-limit transformations to see whether the the decade Lu and Quan as the ten-year power point line is activated in this stage
5. Then read the annual transformations and the year's palace to pin down this year's trigger and timing
6. Layer natal, decade and year before concluding, then decide how to act rather than labeling good or bad