Hua Lu (化禄)

The transformation into flow — the star's quality becomes something that arrives and circulates. Hua Lu is the first of the four transformations. It marks the star that, in a given chart, is the source of what comes in: opportunity, resources, and the ease of getting them. Its classical image is increase.

No — a transformation acts on the specific star that carries it and the palace that star occupies. The transformation into flow — the star's quality becomes something that arrives and circulates. The four transformations are the part of the system most tied to the year stem, which means two people with identical palace placements can carry completely different transformations.

In the classical scheme each of the four transformations is assigned to specific stems, so which star carries Hua Lu is fixed by the year stem of the birth. The tradition reads it as the chart's point of supply and asks what palace it lands in. It is grouped under Wood (木) in the five-element system.