Star of wealth · Metal

Wu Qu (the General)

Few words, work finished

You're direct and you measure by results; you don't like detours. Give you something and you'll chew it to the end, bearing the discomfort along the way. You have a real feel for money and resources and aren't easily carried off by talk. The cost is that you're too hard — on yourself and on others. You treat feeling as an obstacle to efficiency, so you can't soften when softness is what's needed, and that's usually where the cracks in a relationship start.

In the Self palace: where you move easily

• You execute: you said it, you do it, no dragging.
• You can take dullness and solitude, so long work gets finished.
• Your judgement about money is grounded; you don't take bets you can't hold.

In the Self palace: what it tends to cost

• You don't say what you feel, and in time the people near you stop knowing that you care.
• You measure relationships by usefulness, and push people away without knowing why.
• When you dig in you hear nobody, and you turn only at the wall.

In another palace

In another palace, that's where you're most solid — and where you most easily come across as unfeeling.