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自化 · Zì Huà · A palace transforming itself
自化 (Zì Huà) = a palace transforming itself. When a palace's own stem happens to transform a star sitting inside that same palace — with no other palace triggering it — the palace 'self-transforms'. There are two kinds: 离心自化 (Lí Xīn, centrifugal — energy spins outward, cannot be held, leaks away on its own) and 向心自化 (Xiàng Xīn, centripetal — energy turns back inward, self-absorbed, self-consumed). Self-transformation is the chart's 'leak' and its 'involuntary reflex': good things don't stay, bad things arise for no reason — often a palace's subtlest flaw.
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):
Easy-going and breezy, but its good leaks out — doesn't hoard, doesn't claim credit, easily the soft touch.
Acts on its own, loves to step forward, overdoes it — intervenes even when no one asked.
Saves face, dresses itself up, keeps up appearances — image over substance.
Self-draining, loss for no reason, attention slips away — energy leaks out by itself.
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 can be read as a healthier release; a Fortune palace with self-transformed Lu may describe a naturally optimistic inner life. The same pattern in Wealth is better treated as a prompt to audit spending, saving, and leakage points. The skill is to aim its 'involuntariness' at the life area and ask: is this graceful detachment, or a habit that needs guardrails?
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.
Mostly a weakening and a leak, but it depends on the palace. In a palace meant to hold — wealth, estate — it is a leak; in a palace gripped by attachment, a centrifugal Ji is a healthy 'letting go'. Its essence is 'involuntary'; whether that helps depends on whether the area needs holding on.
A palace-stem flight goes 'A into B' — across palaces, directed, externally triggered; self-transformation is 'a palace transforming its own star' — in place, with nothing else prompting it. One is a relationship between palaces, the other a palace's own reflex.
A classic 'Lu out' image: a birth-year Lu sits in the palace and then meets a self-transformed Lu out — 'given by heaven yet leaking the whole time', blessing that won't stay. First name what the birth-year granted, then see where the self-transformation leaks it.
By where the energy goes: centrifugal spins it outward — given away, not retained (loss, looseness, coldness); centripetal draws it inward — turned back, self-digested (reserved, self-knotting, in not out). Centrifugal is obvious; centripetal is subtle.
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