Martial in the Wealth palace – meaning in a Purple Star chart

· Martial in the Wealth palace — the Complete Book calls the Wealth and Property palaces Martial's “specialty”; whether great wealth results must still be checked item by item against Army Breaker, Greedy Wolf and Seven Killings sharing the palace, and against Ram Blade, Hindrance, Earth Void and Earth Robbery.

· Martial meeting Earth Void and Earth Robbery — volume 2, Martial section: “adding Ram Blade, Hindrance, Fire Star and Bell Star, it does not gather; it greatly fears Voids”.

· Complete Book, Volume 3, “On stars sharing a palace”: “The Martial star and the Greedy Wolf in the Wealth and Property palaces bring sudden windfall money and goods; avoid emptiness and loss.”

· “Complete Book”, volume 2, Wealth palace section, entry on Martial: “Sharing the palace with Martial in the Snake or Pig palace means going back and forth; sharing with the Emperor means loss first and gain later; sharing with Integrity means earning through toil, hard first and satisfying later; meeting Earth Void and Earth Robbery means extreme poverty.”

· “Complete Book”, volume 2, Wealth palace section: “Martial in full strength, transformed to a favourable result, means a family fortune of tens of thousands of times ten thousand; without benefic stars, wealth advances amid bustling crowds”

· “Questions and Answers on the Stars”, section on Martial: “Martial is the sixth star of the Northern Dipper, belongs to Metal, and is the master of the Wealth palace”; Master Xi Yi said: “The Wealth and Property palaces are its special charge.”

Martial in the Temple position (especially in the four Tomb palaces Dragon, Dog, Ox and Goat, where it is even more prosperous) guarding the Wealth palace means the wealth star is developed to the extreme in its own seat. It is a genuine image of a “thick and solid treasury”, good both at earning and keeping money, so you should centre your arrangements on real-economy business or hard assets.