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武曲贪狼 · The Gold Hunter

Daring to venture, driven to earn — the ambitious one among the doers.

Life Palace stars

Life Palace major stars: 武曲 · 贪狼

As the old line has it, Wu Qu (武曲) and Tan Lang (贪狼) do not make a young man rich. Wealth arrives late and arrives thick, and things steadily improve after midlife. Spend the early years storing strength and learning your craft; rushing the result tends to cost you.

Personality Traits

武曲：Wu Qu (武曲) is the star of wealth, and it makes you direct, decisive and as good as your word. You are not one for pretty speeches, but people trust you to get things done, and once you have committed to something you will see it through with your teeth clenched.

贪狼：Tan Lang (贪狼) makes you many-talented: wide interests, quick to pick things up, never without a place in the room. Desire is your fuel, and it is also the lesson of your life.

Career Development

武曲：Fields built on numbers, hard practicalities and engineering suit you: finance, accounting, manufacturing, technical management — all of them give your follow-through somewhere to go.

贪狼：Work with people in it, where you have to read the room and answer on your feet: business development, public relations, performance, hospitality and entertainment.

Wealth & Fortune

武曲：With the wealth star in your Life Palace you have an instinct for money: you accumulate well and are willing to put capital in. Advance steadily; borrowed momentum and big bets are not your road.

贪狼：Windfall luck is real for you, opportunities are plentiful, and the swings are wide. Keep a floor position aside and never put the whole of it on one chance.

Love & Marriage

武曲：You are loyal but not expressive, and you tend to substitute doing for saying. If your partner is also the reserved kind, one of you will have to speak first — it may as well be you.

贪狼：Romance finds you easily and can scatter just as easily. The work of marriage, for you, is converting the thrill of the new into the patience of tending something.

Study & Learning

武曲：Subjects with clear standards and clear steps suit you; volume of practice reliably pays off. The one thing to avoid is changing method halfway.

贪狼：Broad interests and a quick start; the danger is spreading yourself across too many fronts. Take one subject at a time and the results look after themselves.

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)：廉贞破军 · Career (官禄)：紫微七杀 · Travel (迁移)：no major star