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廉贞七杀 · The Tempered Blade

Willing to bet big and fight hard — once you choose your road, you walk it to the end, however steep.

Life Palace stars

Life Palace major stars: 廉贞 · 七杀

Lian Zhen meets the general: fierce, strongly opinionated, willing to take the risky road. Build your standing on professional skill; acting purely on feeling is the thing to avoid.

Personality Traits

廉贞：Lian Zhen (廉贞) gives you a complicated, magnetic base note: a real sense of principle with something restless kept underneath. You are unusually alive to beauty and to feeling, and your moods rise and fall more visibly than most people's.

七杀：Qi Sha (七杀) is the general who cuts the road open: decisive, able to endure, unwilling to lose. You are used to carrying things alone, and difficulty only sharpens you — which is precisely why you often feel solitary.

Career Development

廉贞：Fields that call for taste and for handling people well suit you: design, public relations, entertainment, sales. Rigidly rule-bound places leave you stifled.

七杀：Roles where you stand on your own and break new ground: founding a business, engineering, the uniformed services, hard-target sales.

Wealth & Fortune

廉贞：Your income comes from several directions, windfalls do turn up, and money moves through quickly in both directions. The leaks to watch are social obligation and the pursuit of pleasure.

七杀：Your money rises and falls with your work; income from real operations and technical skill is the steadier kind. Guard against large decisions made in a single hot moment.

Love & Marriage

廉贞：You love intensely and are rarely short of admirers. What marriage asks of you is restraint and focus — the real question is whether you can settle into quiet once the excitement has passed.

七杀：You are direct in love and not much good at the preamble. You need someone who can read your silences — and you need to say one sentence more than feels necessary.

Study & Learning

廉贞：You take in aesthetic and humanistic material readily, and when your mood is good your progress is remarkable. Grinding on through an empty tank is not your method.

七杀：You are a sprinter: short bursts under pressure are when your results appear. Between sprints, you need someone helping you hold a rhythm.

San Fang Si Zheng (三方四正)

San Fang Si Zheng is the structural triangle formed by the Life Palace with the Wealth, Career and Travel palaces. It is fully determined by the star system the Life Palace belongs to.

Wealth (财帛)：紫微贪狼 · Career (官禄)：武曲破军 · Travel (迁移)：天府