Guān Lù

官祿 is the ninth name in the list and stands opposite the palace of marriage. With 命宮 and 財帛 it completes a triangle. Eight backward steps from 命宮 lead to it, and it is one of six palaces that the 身宮 can occupy.

官 is an official post and 祿 is an official salary, so the name describes government employment in a society organized around official rank. Several stars are named in the book as lords of this palace, 紫微, 太陽, 廉貞 and 天相 among them. Modern use widens it to any job or calling, and that widening is modern use.

The entries sort people into civil posts and military ones, and into grades of honor, down to clerks in the government offices. This is the only section of the eleven lists stored here that ends with a set of named verses, among them 定公卿 for high ministers and 定文官 for civil officials. They describe an imperial bureaucracy, and the calculator connects none of them with a present-day occupation.