Seven Killings in the Career palace – meaning in a Purple Star chart

· Seven Killings + Emperor sharing the palace — the “Emperor and Killings” pattern signifies authority and power, and great nobility.

· Seven Killings in the Career palace — Seven Killings and Army Breaker in a career signify loss and toil.

· Complete Book, Volume 2, section on the Career palace: “The Seven Killings in a Temple or Prosperous position gives a commanding military post with considerable power and distinction, and does not suit scholars.”

The Seven Killings in the Career palace is a military officer's star, and the career must come through running about and hard fighting.

With the Seven Killings Temple or Prosperous in the Career palace, the “Complete Book” says “the Seven Killings, Temple or Prosperous: a martial post towering high, power and rank not small, not suited to scholars”.

The Seven Killings does not carry the Four Transformations on its own. The Career palace likes best to have the Power star (the star of holding authority) enter it; to be an official you must have power, otherwise what is the use of a small post; when the Emperor shares a palace with the Seven Killings, these two stars also stand for power.

You do not fear competition and do not fear difficulty; the harsher the environment, the more it draws out the Seven Killings' hidden potential. The Seven Killings' career comes by gambling, not by waiting in comfort and ease, and this is the core spirit of working with this kind of life pattern.

With Seven Killings in the Career palace, one view ranks Seven Killings, Army Breaker and Greedy Wolf all among the military officer stars; turning to career, Seven Killings and Army Breaker govern loss and toil, so a career has to be earned by running about and hard work. The book is very clear, the original text being “Seven Killings in a Temple or Prosperous position, a military post stands out, authority and rank are not small, not suited to a scholar”. In plain words: when Seven Killings is in a Temple position (this star at full strength in this position) you go into military posts (the army, the police and the like), can rise to a very high position and hold no small power, but it does not suit a purely scholarly path, and purely clerical or administrative posts in fact bury it. Sharing the palace with Martial brings both power and status, and sharing it with Integrity easily brings a prominent name.