Great Gate in the Life palace – meaning in a Purple Star chart

· Complete Book, Volume 2, section on the Life palace, entry on the Great Gate: “The Great Gate governing a period transforms into a power star, which is very good for seeking and planning, and everything succeeds; though there may be official trouble and quarrels, you turn bad into good and find peace.”

· Complete Book, Volume 2, section on the Life palace, entry on the Great Gate: “The Great Gate belongs to Water and is the Northern Dipper's transformation into darkness, governing disputes. In a Temple position the person is tall and plump, sincere and refined; not in a Temple position, the build is short and small and thin, hesitant between advancing and retreating in work, suspicious, learned but not refined, rarely in harmony with others, with many disputes and much running about and toil.”

· Great Gate traditionally belongs to Water — “belongs to Yin Water, matched with the intestines, stomach, mouth and throat” is the traditional way of matching stars to organs [not a method of reading illness: look at the whole chart first, and match the organs by the earthly branch of the palace that gathers the most malefic stars].

· Great Gate in Rat or Horse is “Jade hidden in stone” — a destiny of great capacity that matures late.

· Great Gate transforms its energy into “Darkness” — signifies quarrels, gossip, deep thinking and research.

· Great Gate transforms its energy into Darkness — signifies deep thinking, research, suspicion and dialectic.

· Great Gate speaks well — but easily speaks bluntly and hurts people.

· Great Gate is suspicious by nature — a strength (research) and also a weakness (relations with people).