Zinv 子女宮Zi Wei's twelve palacesZi Wei Dou Shu 紫微斗數

子女宮 covers more than its name: children, students, work, subordinates — anything that came out of you and then goes on existing independently of you. That definition is more precise than 'children', and it keeps the palace readable for people who don't have any.

Its direction differs from the palaces before it: 兄弟 is alongside, 夫妻 is opposite, 子女 is downward and outward — what you send out stops being under your control. So this palace is frequently about whether you can let go.

The tradition also reads romance and physical vitality here, which isn't an unrelated extra: in this system the force that produces things and the force that attracts people are one force.