The Parents palace (Fu Mu)

Fu Mu (父母) means father and mother, and it is the twelfth and last section of the classic's palace chapters. The classic section associates the Sun star with the father and the Moon star with the mother. It then goes much further than we do: it makes fatalistic predictions about whether a parent will be lost early or be absent, depending on the stars and the hour of birth. We do not use any of that.

Here the palace is a prompt about how you were guided and how you respond to being guided. Some stars suggest warm mentors and easy rapport with elders. Others suggest independence from an early age, or a habit of questioning authority. It can also hint at how you speak to older people and how you handle paperwork, rules and institutions.

Its opposite is the Health palace (Ji E), so the pair asks a gentle question: how you were cared for, and how you care for yourself now.

A reflective question: whose advice shaped you most, and which parts of it do you still choose to keep? Everyone gets to edit what they inherit.