Some befriend coworkers in any department, some are drained by peers everywhere, some are warm internally yet stuck the moment work crosses teams; these sit in different palaces.
What This Question Is Really Asking
Asking why coworker relations go badly, cross-team work stalls or office politics tire you, first separate peer relations, team atmosphere and external collaboration.
The Underlying Logic
Peer relations read Siblings: its stars set the baseline with peers—Tian Tong/Tian Xiang/Tai Yin are gentle and collaborative, Zi Wei/Wu Qu/Qi Sha hold firm positions and compete for dominance among peers; Siblings with Lu Cun/Lu brings peer help and shared information; with Qing Yang/Tuo Luo/Ji it brings hidden rivalry, buck-passing and disputes, so set collaboration rules and division of labor in advance.
Team atmosphere reads Friends, the wider team and network; clustered auspicious stars mean a lifting team with support, heavy malefics/Ji mean credit-grabbing, cliques and frequent turnover. When Friends is stressed, stay out of factions and private gossip; keeping relations professional is safest.
Work environment reads Career: beyond career it describes your daily workplace ecology; smooth Career usually means a team with clear rules, Career with malefics/Ji an internally draining environment—not poor social skills but a draining setting, where changing platform may be the real fix.
Cross-team collaboration reads Travel: working across departments, outward, with unfamiliar people is Travel in essence. Auspicious Travel naturally borrows outside resources and advances collaboration; stressed Travel hits walls cross-team and should push through written process, shared-upward goals and formal meetings rather than personal ties alone.
A Step-by-Step Way to Read It
- Read Siblings to confirm your peer-relations baseline and friction points
- Read Friends for team atmosphere; with heavy malefics, avoid factions and keep professional distance
- Read Career to tell whether relational fatigue is personal or a draining environment
- Focus on Travel for cross-team work and assess outward momentum
- If Travel is stressed, push via written process and shared goals, not personal ties alone
- Layer coworkers into close, collaborate-only and boundary-needed groups and treat each differently
Three Common Mistakes
Mistake 1: Attributing all workplace relations to Friends while missing that Siblings governs peers
Mistake 2: Forcing closeness in a malefic-heavy team and getting hurt by factions
Mistake 3: Relying only on personal ties cross-team while Travel is stressed and skipping formal process, so work stalls
Back to Your Own Chart
Coworker relations have a structure: Siblings for peers, Friends for team, Career for environment, Travel for cross-team. Read each, collaborate where it clicks, hold boundaries where drained, use process across teams, and office relations stop being a confusing mess.
Reading Order
- Cast the natal chart first and locate the palaces and major stars tied to getting along with coworkers and cross-team relations 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 getting along with coworkers and cross-team relations 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