推演中
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推演中
来因宫 · Lái Yīn Gōng · The chart's source and motive
来因宫 (Lái Yīn Gōng) = the Origin Palace (literally 'the palace of cause-and-coming'), a concept unique to the Flying-Star school. Among the twelve palaces, find the one whose palace stem matches your birth-year heavenly stem — that is your Origin Palace, the interpretive starting point of the chart in this school. Where it falls suggests a recurring pull to examine: love (Spouse), resources (Wealth), work (Career), or home (Property). It is a lens for reflection, not mind-reading or a fixed life motive.
The Origin Palace is the one palace among the twelve whose palace stem equals your birth-year heavenly stem. As covered earlier, every palace carries a stem; your birth-year stem must land on one of them — and that palace is the Origin Palace. Liang Ruoyu's Flying-Star treats it as 'the reason you came into this life': the root of the whole chart, the earliest motive, the wellspring of its energy.
Cast the chart, mark the twelve palace stems, then match your birth-year stem against them — whichever palace shares that stem is the Origin Palace. It is derived and fixed, never chosen. (Note: for 辛 and 壬 birth years the stem appears twice; take the palace in the natural 寅-to-亥 run as the Origin Palace, not the repeated stem on 子 or 丑.)
Where the Origin Palace sits reveals 'what you came for'. A few common placements:
You came for yourself, for peace of mind — this life's root motive is becoming yourself and settling within.
You came for a bond — love, partnership, intimacy is the source-theme of your life.
You came for wealth and estate — material security, accumulation, and holding ground are your deepest pull.
You came for career and achievement — to build, to be seen, to leave a mark is the motive of this life.
This is read as a family-duty or wellbeing theme: pay attention to inherited patterns, care roles, routines, and the support your body actually needs.
The Origin Palace is the whole chart's 'cause'. Reading any matter, you can circle back and ask: 'how does this connect to my Origin Palace?' Its own palace-stem flights also carry extra weight — because it is the source, the Lu and Ji it flies out tend to move the spine of a whole life. Treat the Origin Palace as the chart's centre, and the other palaces' flights orbit around it.
Both point to the 'cause', but at different layers: one is the source (where you come from), the other the attachment (what you can't put down). Read together, they give the chart's deepest 'why'.
The Origin Palace is a signature concept of Liang Ruoyu's Flying-Star Zi Wei Dou Shu, signifying 'the cause of a whole life' and the root of the chart. Its rule: the palace among the twelve whose stem equals the birth-year stem — the centre point of the entire reading.
Always. Some palace must share the birth-year stem (for 辛 and 壬 years two palaces do; the one in the natural 寅-to-亥 run is taken). It is fixed and derivable — everyone has one, and just one.
Origin in Self means 'you came for yourself' — a powerful self-motivation; this life is largely 'about you': becoming and living as yourself. Neither good nor bad, but unusually self-driven, with your centre of gravity firmly on yourself.
They ask different questions. The Self palace answers 'who you are, your innate character'; the Origin Palace answers 'why you came, the source-motive of this life'. The Self is the negative; the Origin is the original intent — they may sit in the same palace or apart.
It is the root. Its own flights carry extra weight, and every matter can be tied back to it — asking 'how does this connect to my source?'. Treat it as the centre and the chart's causation orbits it, giving the whole reading a spine.
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Reference library: 《紫微斗数全书》 · 《十八飞星策天紫微斗数》 · 《紫微斗数全集》 · 《紫微斗数捷览》 and other traditional texts
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