子女 · Zǐnǚ · Children Palace
Children
Children, students, projects — anything you raise and then have to let go of.
What it covers
Children first, but the classical reading is broader: whatever you bring up and then release. Students, apprentices, the product you built and handed over, the team you trained.
It also covers creative output in the plainest sense — what you make that then exists without you.
How to read it
This palace opposes Property, and the pair reads as "what you let go of" against "what you keep". A heavy Children palace with a light Property palace describes someone who pours into people and holds on to very little — accurate for a lot of teachers and founders.
Stars of appetite and reinvention here (贪狼, 破军) describe creative output that keeps changing shape; stabilising stars (天府, 天相) describe the opposite.
A common misreading
This palace is not a fertility forecast, and the tradition should not be used as one. It describes the relationship to what you raise — including when there are no children at all.
Look at your Children palace when you are deciding what to build — it describes what you can hand over.
