Qiān Yí

遷移 lies exactly halfway round the ring, six steps from 命宮 and always straight across from it. Apart from 命宮 itself, it is the one palace whose place in the ten-year sequence does not depend on which way a chart runs: on the default setting it is the seventh period in both directions. The body palace can settle here for certain birth hours.

遷 and 移 both mean to move from one place to another. Readers now use the palace for life away from home, travel and how someone appears to others outside the household, and all of that is modern extension. The closest the book comes to a general remark is to call it a strong palace, in the 紫微 answer in 卷一 and on the men's list in 卷二, and the women's list there leaves it out.

The section in 卷二 turns on one recurring contrast between staying and going. Some stars do better away from home and others bring disputes on the road, with honorable helpers (贵人) on one side and ill-willed people on the other. A few entries add commerce, with 武曲 and 貪狼 together said to make a great merchant. Each entry weighs what being away from home brings.