The Friends Palace (仆役宫)
Your network, your crowd, your followers.
The Friends Palace (仆役宫, also read as 交友宫) governs the wide social field: colleagues, audiences, communities, followers — everyone you can reach but do not necessarily keep. The Siblings Palace is your inner circle; this one is the room.
What the 仆役宫 governs
The fourteen stars in the Friends Palace
Whichever major star lands in this palace becomes the protagonist of this area of your life. The readings below describe each star's signature here — brightness and neighbouring stars then set the tone.
| Star | In the Friends Palace |
|---|---|
| Zi Wei 紫微 | You attract people who want access and few who want equality. The useful discipline is cultivating at least a few relationships with no status dimension at all. |
| Tian Ji 天机 | A wide and fluid network rather than a fixed circle. You are good at meeting people and comparatively poor at maintaining the ones you already have. |
| Tai Yang 太阳 | Popular, with a wide acquaintance and a specific weakness: being surrounded by people who enjoy the light without contributing to it. |
| Wu Qu 武曲 | Few friends, high standard, and reliability in both directions. You are not much for social maintenance and the friendships you keep tend to be decades old. |
| Tian Tong 天同 | Wide, warm and undemanding relationships. The weakness is depth: you are liked by many and lightly held by few. |
| Lian Zhen 廉贞 | A complex social field with real loyalties and real rivalries. You are a good ally and a dangerous enemy, and people know which of the two they are dealing with. |
| Tian Fu 天府 | Carefully chosen, long-standing relationships with people of substance. You are not a collector of acquaintances and the circle tends to be small and durable. |
| Tai Yin 太阴 | Few but deep, with women playing a central role in the circle. The relationships are long, specific and emotionally detailed. |
| Tan Lang 贪狼 | A wide and colourful network with real value and real noise. The disciplined version of this placement learns which ten people matter and treats the other four hundred as a stream. |
| Ju Men 巨门 | Real friendships form slowly here because people read the critical faculty first. Once formed, they are strong — and the ones lost tend to be lost over something that was said. |
| Tian Xiang 天相 | Good professional standing and many friendly relations, with the question of depth left open. People trust your judgement and may know rather less about you than they assume. |
| Tian Liang 天梁 | The one people bring problems to. This placement is genuinely beloved and can accumulate a great deal of other people's weight without anyone asking about theirs. |
| Qi Sha 七杀 | Few, close and tested, with a substantial capacity to have made enemies along the way. You respect people who hold their ground and have limited patience for those who do not. |
| Po Jun 破军 | A rotating network with a few very old connections. You are loyal in depth and light in maintenance, and the friends who survive the changes are genuinely permanent. |
How practitioners read the 仆役宫
Classical manuals read this palace as servants and subordinates; modern readings widen it to audiences and networks. The logic is the same: how does the crowd treat you, and what can you get done through it.
A bright supportive star here reads as a lift from the collective — referrals, allies, an audience that shows up. A dim star reads as social drain: many contacts, little payload.
Compare with the Siblings Palace: if Friends is strong and Siblings is weak, you are built for wide networks over deep ones — and vice versa. Both are workable, but the strategies differ.