Pú Yì

Eighth in the backward count from 命宮, this palace faces 兄弟 and sits in a triangle with 子女 and 父母. The body palace does not reach it. The ten-year sequence passes through it in the eighth period for a backward-running chart and in the sixth for a forward-running one on the default setting.

The English word on the site, Friends, is a modern relabeling, and it needs saying plainly. The calculator prints the Chinese name 僕役, which means servants, and 紫微斗數全書 heads the section 奴僕, slaves and servants. Nothing in the book speaks of friendship here. Applying the palace to friends, colleagues or social circles belongs entirely to modern use.

What the old section actually lists is domestic: how many servants a household has, whether they are capable, and whether they stay. Its recurring terms are 得力, effective in service, 背主, to turn against the master, and 逃走, to run away. That is the concern of a household with servants and bondsmen, and the book names 破軍 as governing this palace along with spouse and children.