兄弟 · Xiōngdì · Siblings Palace
Siblings
The people you stand beside as equals — siblings, peers, co-founders.
What it covers
Literally siblings; in practice, every relationship where nobody outranks anybody. Business partners, co-founders, the colleague you came up with. The classics extend it this way deliberately — the defining quality is standing side by side, not the blood.
It also carries a second, quieter reading: the resources you can call on that are not your own money. What you can ask other people for.
How to read it
This palace sits opposite Friends, and the pair is worth reading together: Siblings is the small circle of equals, Friends is the wider network. A strong Siblings palace with a thin Friends palace describes someone with two people they would call at 3am and no professional network — a real pattern, and a fixable one.
For partnerships specifically, look for 禄 here (a partner brings resource) versus 忌 (the partnership costs more than it returns).
A common misreading
An empty Siblings palace does not mean no siblings, and a difficult one does not predict a falling-out. It describes the texture of peer relationships, not a headcount and not an outcome.
Check your Siblings palace before your next partnership — it describes how you do "equals".
