Cast & Chart

Main star

Tiān Fǔ

Heavenly Treasury

A chart describes tendencies in a traditional system. It cannot decide health, money, law, marriage or children.

In the classical sources

能制羊陀為從,能化火鈴為福

It can bring 擎羊 and 陀羅 under it as followers, and turn 火星 and 鈴星 to good.

紫微斗數全書 卷一

About this entry

天府 begins a second group, placed by reflection instead of counting. 紫微斗數全書 explains that the two stars share a palace only at 寅 and 申, and otherwise stand as a diagonal pair, so that 紫微 at 丑 puts 天府 at 卯. The calculator applies this rule, then counts the next seven stars forward from 天府. The calculator's table never lists it as fallen: temple in six palaces, prosperous at 午 and 酉, gaining at 卯, 巳, 申 and 亥.

The book's picture is a treasury, and 天府 is called 祿庫, a storehouse of income, and the emperor's deputy. It belongs to earth, leads the Southern Dipper in rank, and governs wealth, land and clothing and food. The answer attributed to 希夷先生 calls it a star that lengthens life and dissolves distress, and says that it is good in every palace.

Three stars can join it: 紫微 at 寅 and 申, 武曲 at 子 and 午, 廉貞 at 辰 and 戌. The book does grade the palaces for it. Property and Wealth are its most favorable ground and two others are weak, and meeting 空亡, emptiness, leaves the star standing alone. One dispute touches it: the verse in the Wikisource text gives it 化科 in a 壬 year, the calculator's default chart gives that mark to 左輔, and its book setting restores 天府.

Where this text comes from

The Chinese follows the Wikisource text of 紫微斗數全書, whose base edition the page does not state. Statements about the calculator describe its own rules, and modern readings are labeled as modern.

The English name and the wording here are our own. Quotations keep the stored text of the witness.