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Tian Fu (the Treasury)

Stock the house first

You're steady, with an instinct for keeping things in reserve — money, contacts, a way out; you habitually hold something back. You don't rush in: you judge a thing by its floor rather than its ceiling, which is why you rarely take a bad fall. You look after people too, and you'll carry those near you along. The cost is that you want safety too much: the window is open and you're still pricing the risk, and by the time you've decided it has closed. You also tend to make 'holding on' the point in itself.

In the Self palace: where you move easily

• You can hold a going concern together; what's handed to you won't rot.
• You think about the way out and rarely put yourself somewhere with no room left.
• You look after the people around you in practical ways, not just in words.

In the Self palace: what it tends to cost

• You miss chances not because you can't see them but because you price them too long.
• You're afraid to lose, so you hold on to what shouldn't be held.
• Your caution is sometimes just not wanting to deal with the trouble that change brings.

In another palace

In another palace, that's where you're most secure — and where caution most easily costs you.