Flying is exchange between palaces; self-transformation is a palace relating to itself. It often explains why a matter keeps circling internally.
What This Question Is Really Asking
Reading self-transformation as ordinary Si Hua sends you searching outside, when the issue is the domain's own internal digest-or-drain pattern.
The Underlying Logic
Self-transformation splits into self-Lu, self-Quan, self-Ke and self-Ji, each the palace's own stem returning to it.
Self-Lu comforts and digests things itself, but also settles too easily and does not keep gains long.
Self-Quan pressures and pushes itself, but over-controls and drains in that domain.
Self-Ji needs the most care: self-binding, repeated brooding and gaining-then-losing there, the heaviest inner lesson.
A Step-by-Step Way to Read It
- Check each palace whether its stem transforms a star back inside itself; mark all self-transformations
- Tell self-Lu/Quan/Ke from self-Ji to set the inner-response tone
- Self-Lu: guard against quick satisfaction and lost gains by making external commitments
- Self-Quan: guard over-control; learn to delegate and relax
- Self-Ji is the key repair: spot self-binding there and deliberately seek outside feedback
- Use the decade to see which ten years activate the self-transformation and reveal the pattern
Three Common Mistakes
Mistake 1: Treating self-transformation as ordinary flying and seeking causes in the wrong place
Mistake 2: Memorizing luck only, missing that it is an inner response pattern
Mistake 3: Panicking at self-Ji instead of seeing a fixable lesson
Back to Your Own Chart
Self-transformation mirrors your relationship with yourself. Seeing which palace self-cycles and self-drains reveals the true inner entrance for the work.
Reading Order
- Cast the natal chart first and locate the palaces and major stars tied to self-transformation 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 self-transformation 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