Self-Transformation

An ordinary flight goes 'palace A into palace B' — across palaces, directed, externally triggered. Self-transformation is different: a palace's own stem transforms a star sitting inside that very palace — arising in place, with no other palace prompting it. It signals an involuntary, 'just-happens-by-itself' tendency: that life area undergoes some change on its own, often unconsciously and without apparent cause.

Liang Ruoyu's Flying-Star splits self-transformation by whether the energy spins outward or is drawn back inward. Opposite directions, opposite flavours.

Self-transformation still comes in four kinds, each with its own temper (shown here in the common centrifugal, outward sense):

Because a palace that self-transforms 'can't grip'. Even a birth-year Lu sitting there leaks as fast as it arrives once Lu self-transforms out; a self-transformed Ji especially drains that area for no reason and leaves it absent-minded. In reading, self-transformation weakens whatever lands in the palace and flags 'behaviour here is involuntary' — the spot most likely to fail, and least noticed by its owner.

Not necessarily — it depends which palace it sits in. A heavily-Ji palace carrying a centrifugal Ji (Ji self-transformed out) actually reads as 'able to let go', a healthy release; a Fortune palace with self-transformed Lu is a born optimist, also fine. But that same self-transformed Lu in the Wealth palace becomes a 'can't-hold-money' leak. The skill is to aim its 'involuntariness' at the life area and judge: is this a graceful unattachment, or a fatal leak?

The split between centrifugal and centripetal self-transformation is emphasized in Liang Ruoyu's Flying-Star line. Self-transformation signifies 'involuntary, cannot-retain' — arising in a palace with no external cause, read as both a palace's leak and a palace's release.