Hua Quan (化权)

The transformation into authority — the star's quality becomes force that can be exerted. Hua Quan marks the star that carries power in a given chart: the capacity to decide, to hold a position, and to push. Its classical image is weight, and it is the transformation most associated with taking control.

No — a transformation acts on the specific star that carries it and the palace that star occupies. The transformation into authority — the star's quality becomes force that can be exerted. Hua Quan is the transformation the classical sources most often qualify: authority is described as useful or as heavy depending on what palace it sits in, never as simply good.

The tradition reads Hua Quan as authority that is exercised rather than granted. Where Hua Lu supplies, Hua Quan directs, and the classical texts treat the two as complementary rather than as better and worse. It is grouped under Metal (金) in the five-element system.