七杀 Qi Sha
in the Career Palace 官禄宫
- Position
- 6th star of the Southern Dipper
- Element
- Yang Metal · Yin Fire
- Transforms into
- 杀 Command
- Also called
- The General 将星 · Star of contention 竞争星
Command in the field. Decides, moves, and accepts the losses that come with moving. Solitary by construction.
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.
You execute, and you open new ground. The line is jagged — real wins and real failures — and it does not steady until middle age, by which point the title is high. Military and police, new-market sales, sport, foreign trade.
Formal trouble at work. Do not run a business.
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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七杀 Qi Sha in the other palaces
When 七杀 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.