破军 Po Jun
in the Career Palace 官禄宫
- Position
- 7th star of the Northern Dipper
- Element
- Yin Water
- Transforms into
- 耗 Expenditure
- Also called
- Star of contention 竞争星 · The Destroyer
Demolition before construction — 不破不立, nothing is built until something is broken. Original, disruptive, and costly to run.
Two ways this reads
A star is not simply present or absent in a chart. It has a brightness, fixed by which of the twelve earthly branches its palace falls on. This is the part generic descriptions leave out — and it is the part that decides whether your career palace runs in your favour or quietly against it.
Uniform again — military, police, law enforcement all sit right. So does anything that makes something new or takes something down: R&D, unconventional design, construction and demolition. You innovate, and you also go looking for upheaval when none is on offer, which is why this career never sits still.
Founding something goes badly and tends to end in a dispute. The instinct to keep changing is the enemy here — the less you move, the better it goes.
Which of the two is yours is not a matter of opinion — it falls out of the branch your career palace sits on, which comes from your birth hour.
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破军 Po Jun in the other palaces
When 破军 sits in the Life Palace
Alone, or paired with another major star — the pairing changes the reading.
Star attributes and the exalted/fallen readings follow the classical Zi Wei Dou Shu tradition. Last revised 2026-08-07.