官禄 · Guānlù · Career Palace
Career
How you work — the shape of the work, not the job title.
What it covers
Career, standing, and the way you engage with work. It describes structure rather than occupation: whether you belong inside an institution or outside one, deep in a track or wide across several, on home ground or away.
The classics also read status from here — how the work is regarded, not just how it is done.
How to read it
Ask three questions of it. Institution or solo? Deep track or wide track? Steady climb or jumps? A 天府/天相 configuration answers differently from a 杀破狼 one, and both are workable — the mistake is fighting the answer for a decade.
Read it against the Partner palace opposite. Those two are linked in this system, which is why career and partnership so often trade places rather than rising together.
What it does not tell you
It does not name a profession. Any reading that tells you to become an accountant is inventing specificity the method does not have. It tells you the conditions under which your work goes well — which is more useful and less flattering.
Check your Career palace before your next move — it describes the conditions your work needs, not the job.
