Fu Xiang Chao Yuan (Treasury & Seal)

Tian Fu is the treasury star and looks after money and provisions; Tian Xiang is the seal star and looks after authorization and signatures. One supplies resources, the other supplies standing, and having both means the supply line and the personnel line report to the Life Palace at the same time. The classical sense of this pattern lives in the phrase 'saluting the enclosure': what counts is structural position rather than the strength of the stars, which is why the detector sets no brightness threshold. Being met across the trinity (also described as saluting or being carried in) means the star does not sit in the Life Palace itself but in the opposite palace or a trine palace, throwing its force in from a distance; one of them sitting in the Life Palace itself counts too, since the four palaces of the trinity already include the Life Palace. On the chart Tian Fu and Tian Xiang stand four palaces apart in permanent trine, so the two of them landing inside one trinity is a common arrangement — which is why this pattern is far from rare.