The Parents Palace, Fu Mu Gong, reads the native's own parents directly, their character, general health and the quality of the relationship with them, and closes the twelve palace wheel as its final position, immediately preceding the Life Palace that opens the whole sequence again, a placement that reads naturally as parents standing just before the native's own life begins in the wheel's circular order. In some lineages of practice the palace's scope extends beyond biological parents to cover superiors at work, teachers and other senior figures whose influence on the native carries a broadly parental, formative character, a reading consistent with how Chinese social thought more generally extended filial obligation and respect outward from the family to legitimate authority figures beyond it.
A star such as Tian Liang, read elsewhere for protection and oversight, falling here is treated as favouring supportive, protective parents or mentors, while Qi Sha's presence suggests a more demanding or distant relationship, the star's severe, forceful character extended into this specific family context. The palace is consulted alongside Health, its opposite, for exactly the reasons discussed in that palace's own account of the pairing, inherited family circumstance read as relevant context for a native's own constitution.