Great Gate in the Career palace – meaning in a Purple Star chart
What the readings most often say of charts with Great Gate in the Career palace, chosen from the app's sentence bank. Your own chart also depends on the stars beside it and facing it: cast it for the reading that fits you.
Cast your chart· Great Gate + Sun in the Career palace — the “Great Gate and Sun” pattern signifies civil service and the media.
· Great Gate in the Career palace — signifies a career that relies on eloquence, debate and research.
· Complete Book, Volume 2, section on the Career palace: “The Great Gate in a Temple position gives a military post with power and distinction, but scholars do not last; with the Sun, there is advance and retreat, and in a Temple position it lasts long.”
· Complete Book, Volume 2, section on the Career palace, entry on the Great Gate: “The Great Gate in a Temple position gives a military post with power and distinction, but scholars do not last; sharing the palace with the Sun, there is advance and retreat, and in a Temple position it lasts long; sharing with the Strategist, in the Rabbit palace it is auspicious and fine, while in the Rooster palace, though fine, it has neither head nor tail.”
The classics say the Great Gate in the Career palace means “entering the Temple, a martial post of power and rank; scholars do not last”, meaning that when the Great Gate enters the Temple (a star strong in this position) you take a road with real authority such as law enforcement or a disciplined force, where you can have power and standing, while a position resting purely on writing in turn does not last; volume one also notes “in the Career palace it governs drawing punishment and the rod”, meaning that in your career you easily draw blame, punishment and lawsuits, and a remark out of place easily brings disaster. With the Great Gate in the Temple you speak well and know how to lecture, and could be a school principal. So the Great Gate's career takes the “mouth” as its root, meaning living by speech: lawyer, teacher, media announcer, fortune-teller, negotiation specialist and diplomat are all stages for it, but beneath it there must be professional knowledge and real authority to hold it up.
With Great Gate in the Career palace, your career does not leave the gift of speech and words.