贪狼 Tan Lang
in the Career Palace 官禄宫
- Position
- 1st star of the Northern Dipper
- Element
- Yang Wood · Yin Water
- Transforms into
- 桃花 Desire
- Also called
- First Peach Blossom 第一桃花星 · Star of windfall 偏财星
Appetite in every form — for people, for pleasure, for learning one more thing. Also the star of the occult arts.
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.
This career is built in rooms, not at desks. You work people well and you know it. Entertainment, PR, sales, hospitality — anywhere the deal gets done over dinner.
Performance, publicity, art.
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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贪狼 Tan Lang in the other palaces
When 贪狼 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.