Star of expenditure · Water

Po Jun (the Breaker)

Tear it down first

You won't patch inside an old frame; you'd rather knock it down and start again. You have real ability at the opening end of things — others guard what exists while you're finding the next one. You aren't afraid of loss either, which lets you make choices most people daren't. But you break far more than you build, and the clearing up afterwards usually falls to somebody else; your life swings widely as a result, very good when it's good and turning over just as quickly.

In the Self palace: where you move easily

• You'll overturn the whole of something that isn't working, without grieving the sunk cost.
• You adapt to upheaval well; while others scatter you get clearer.
• You have the nerve to open something up and walk a road nobody has walked.

In the Self palace: what it tends to cost

• Breaking is easy and building is hard, and the finishing often never happens.
• You overturn your own decisions often, leaving whoever follows you with nothing to hold.
• A good part of your ups and downs is of your own making.

In another palace

In another palace, that's where you're most willing to start over — and where you'll most easily keep churning.