However carefully you read one palace, it cannot answer who the matter relies on. Connecting the relevant palaces reveals where resources come from and go.
What This Question Is Really Asking
Many treat the palaces as unrelated boxes, but they form a web; flying transformations are its currents, and following the lines connects cause and effect.
The Underlying Logic
The triple-direction gives the fixed skeleton: the opposite pulls and the trines support.
The path of flying transformations, especially Lu and Quan, marks where resources and force actually flow.
A palace that is supported is helped and one that is clashed is blocked; the line direction sets whether the matter runs smoothly.
Layering the fixed skeleton over dynamic flying transformations shows which palace brings the matter about.
A Step-by-Step Way to Read It
- Lock the core palace in question
- Draw the fixed skeleton using the triple-direction
- See which palaces the transformations fly from and into
- Mark the incoming and outgoing resource paths along the lines
- Check whether the core palace is supported or clashed for the net effect
- Connect the whole network to judge who achieves the matter and who restrains it
Three Common Mistakes
Mistake 1: Treating palaces as isolated boxes with no lines
Mistake 2: Reading only the fixed trines and ignoring dynamic flying transformations
Mistake 3: Drawing too many lines without priority, missing the palace that truly helps
Back to Your Own Chart
Connecting lines moves you from reading boxes to reading a network. No matter is decided by one palace; follow the supporting lines and the answer surfaces.
Reading Order
- Cast the natal chart first and locate the palaces and major stars tied to the supporting lines between palaces 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 the supporting lines between palaces 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