Xiao Liu Ren · Palace 5 of 6
小吉 Small Fortune
Modest, real, and helped along by people who like you.
xiǎo jí · also called Lesser Auspice
- Element
- Wood
- Direction
- Southeast
- Spirit
- Six Harmonies
- Reads as
- Open
Small Fortune is the most human of the six palaces. Wood in the southeast, under the Six Harmonies — it is the palace of things going reasonably well because other people are being decent. Nothing spectacular, nothing dramatic: the meeting that goes fine, the favour that gets granted, the relationship that quietly holds.
When the count lands here
The matter is helped rather than hindered, and the help comes from people. It succeeds at a smaller scale than you might hope for and more reliably than you might fear.
Timing
Even. Days to a couple of weeks, without drama in either direction.
What it asks of you
Ask the person you have been reluctant to ask. This palace rewards being sociable and specific about the help you need.
The moment leans favourable, with conditions attached.
Favours
- Asking a favour
- Introductions and second meetings
- Negotiating in good faith
- Anything that depends on goodwill
Warns against
- Overselling the outcome
- Pushing for the grand version when the modest one is available
- Assuming the goodwill will hold without maintenance
How the count reaches this palace
Xiao Liu Ren counts around a ring of six palaces. You start at 大安 as the first lunar month, count forward one palace per month, then from there one per day of the lunar month, then one per double-hour of the day. The palace you stop on is the answer. Landing on 小吉 is one of six possible outcomes; the casting page does the counting and shows all three stopping points.
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Where it sits in the ring
All six: 1. Great Peace 2. Lingering 3. Swift Joy 4. Red Mouth 5. Small Fortune 6. Empty Void