Major star · canonical star entity

Tan Lang (貪狼星) Star in Zi Wei Dou Shu

Learn Tan Lang (貪狼星) placement, palace evidence, reading conditions, examples, and limits without turning chart facts into fixed outcomes.

English name
Tan Lang Star
Pinyin
Tān Láng
Simplified Chinese
贪狼
Traditional Chinese
貪狼
Also called
貪狼星 · Tan Lang Zi Wei Dou Shu

Editorially reviewed: · Reviewed by OpenFate · Editorial Methodology

Overview

Tan Lang is a major star used to examine appetite, sociability, experimentation, versatility, and attraction to varied experience. Read Tan Lang through its actual palace, co-stars, San Fang Si Zheng, Four Transformations, and timing layer. The chart can establish placement; appetite, sociability, experimentation, versatility, and attraction to experience remains a bounded interpretive focus, never proof of addiction, promiscuity, greed, moral character, or artistic fame.

At a glance

Canonical class
Major star
Canonical identity
Tān Láng · 貪狼星
Deterministic evidence
Calculated palace placement and rulebook provenance
Required context
Palace, co-stars, triad, opposite palace, transformations, and timing
Interpretive focus
appetite, sociability, experimentation, versatility, and attraction to experience
Not established by this star
addiction, promiscuity, greed, moral character, or artistic fame

Definition and scope of Tan Lang

Tan Lang is a major star used to examine appetite, sociability, experimentation, versatility, and attraction to varied experience.

Tan Lang (貪狼星) is identified here by Tān Láng. Its bounded question is appetite, sociability, experimentation, versatility, and attraction to experience, not a fixed personality verdict.

  • Identity check: Tan Lang (貪狼星) · Tān Láng
  • Scope question: appetite, sociability, experimentation, versatility, and attraction to experience

Chart evidence and conditions · How to read Tan Lang

Its palace, co-stars, transformation state, supporting or challenging stars, and the question’s time frame show whether expansion is exploratory, connective, or overextended.

Deterministic placement check: iztro「紫微鬥數安星訣」第11節「安天府諸星訣」:太陰後一宮安貪狼. After that position is reproduced, ask which palace relations actually support appetite, sociability, experimentation, versatility, and attraction to experience; the calculation does not output addiction, promiscuity, greed, moral character, or artistic fame.

  • Placement proof: iztro「紫微鬥數安星訣」第11節「安天府諸星訣」:太陰後一宮安貪狼
  • Evidence question: appetite, sociability, experimentation, versatility, and attraction to experience

Worked example and near miss

In an illustrative Travel Palace, Tan Lang with Tian Ma can describe testing several networks while entering a new environment, not prove migration or uncontrolled desire.

Near miss: remove the palace or modifier named in the example but still assert addiction, promiscuity, greed, moral character, or artistic fame. That erases the evidence needed to connect Tan Lang (貪狼星) with appetite, sociability, experimentation, versatility, and attraction to experience.

  • Example check: Tan Lang (貪狼星) · appetite, sociability, experimentation, versatility, and attraction to experience
  • Rejected leap: addiction, promiscuity, greed, moral character, or artistic fame

School variants and interpretation limits

Some texts moralize desire or identify specific arts; modern reading should separate an appetite for experience from addiction, sexual conduct, talent, or reputation.

Historical comparison starts at 《紫微斗數全書》卷一「諸星問答論」1.9.9「問貪狼所主若何?」. Read that passage beside the declared placement rule instead of treating one classical phrase as a universal calculator setting.

  • Historical locator: 《紫微斗數全書》卷一「諸星問答論」1.9.9「問貪狼所主若何?」
  • Variant decision: Some texts moralize desire or identify specific arts; modern reading should separate an appetite for experience from addiction, sexual conduct, talent, or reputation.

Interpretation limits, boundary, and verification loop

This page may organize questions about appetite, sociability, experimentation, versatility, and attraction to experience. It must stop before claiming addiction, promiscuity, greed, moral character, or artistic fame; that conclusion needs independent real-world evidence.

Verification loop for Tan Lang (貪狼星): reproduce iztro「紫微鬥數安星訣」第11節「安天府諸星訣」:太陰後一宮安貪狼; inspect the example's named modifier and counter-signals; record what would falsify the reading before using it.

  • Allowed interpretive scope: appetite, sociability, experimentation, versatility, and attraction to experience
  • Stop rule: addiction, promiscuity, greed, moral character, or artistic fame

Complete topic index

Every workbook topic assigned to this canonical page appears at a stable anchor. Each entry records scope, inputs, flags, and alias ownership as an auditable reference—not a standalone interpretation. Duplicate backlog rows resolve to the same anchor instead of creating duplicate URLs.

Conditions and inputs
  • Missing-input rule: if a listed input or verified chart value is unavailable, stop at the definition; do not infer, calculate, or predict the missing value.
  • Calculation flag: yes. Reproduce the required inputs and versioned rule before interpretation.
  • School-variant flag: sometimes. Check whether the page’s named rule or school condition applies before using this component.
  • School-variant flag: yes. Apply only under an identified school or calculation policy and compare the alternate rule.
  • School-variant flag: no. The workbook does not mark this atom as variant-specific; do not assume universal agreement beyond the cited page sources.
Category and guidance boundary
  • Apply this only under the named calculation or school policy, and compare alternate rules before treating the result as reproducible.
  • Identify the transformed host star, source stem, target palace, and timing layer; a transformation or palace label alone is insufficient.
  • Read this cell as an interaction, not a verdict: combine its entities with co-stars, Four Transformations, palace geometry, brightness, and the active timing layer.
Source inheritance
Complete topic index does not assert an atom-specific citation. It inherits this canonical page’s bibliography and locator notes as page-level context only; verify the relevant cited passage before relying on a claim.

Sources and editorial basis

  1. 《紫微斗數全書》 (Ziwei Doushu Quanshu)
    《紫微斗數全書》卷一「諸星問答論」1.9.9「問貪狼所主若何?」A searchable transcription of the transmitted three-volume text, used for named rules, palace chapters, and historical star descriptions—not as scientific validation.
  2. iztro 紫微鬥數安星訣
    iztro「紫微鬥數安星訣」第11節「安天府諸星訣」:太陰後一宮安貪狼A public rule catalogue for placing the Life and Body Palaces, the twelve roles, Zi Wei, major-star systems, and Four Transformations, with explicit variant notes.
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