When one partner controls every client quote and the other delivers the work, the first question is access to records. In Zi Wei Dou Shu, the Friends Palace can frame cooperation, the Career Palace the work role, and the Wealth Palace how money moves. None replaces an actual ledger.
Two partnerships
A photographer and an editor may disagree because only one sees invoices. Another pair may have tense chart indicators yet use shared approval and monthly reconciliation. The second team has a stronger practical safeguard.
Reading order
Map the three palaces, check transformations, then add timing. Write down who quotes, signs, pays suppliers and sees the bank record. Judge the arrangement from documents and cash flow, not a star used as a character verdict.