Fù Mǔ

Twelfth and last in the backward count, 父母 ends up immediately forward of 命宮, so the ring closes on itself here. Opposite it lies 疾厄. Forward-running charts put it second in the default sequence of ten-year periods and first under the book's rule, and 卷二 names this palace in stating that rule.

The name needs no gloss, and the section is one of the three that open with a method: the sun stands for the father and the moon for the mother, and the reader asks whether each is bright. 天梁 is called the lord of this palace in the 卷一 answer and verse on that star. Modern use extends it to teachers, elders and superiors, which the section does not do. 卷一 also speaks repeatedly of a 相貌 palace, appearance, and the list of twelve in 卷二 does not include one, a loose end that a modern reference closes by listing 相貌 as another name for this palace.

The recurring term is 克, to overcome, which the old manual uses of harm or early loss passing between a parent and a child. Entries also mention adoption out (过房), marriage into a wife's family (入赘), and a second surname. All of it reflects family law and custom of the period, and the book's author claims to have checked it by experience, a claim this site only reports. The calculator displays the palace without any finding about anyone's parents.