In saju, love luck is often read through two places: the “spouse star” and the “spouse palace.” The spouse star is the energy symbolizing the partner tie in the chart (traditionally read as the officer star or the wealth star depending on gender), and the spouse palace is the day branch — the seat of the tie placed closest beside you. By examining how these places sit and harmonize, one senses the grain by which a person meets love.
Traditionally, when the spouse star was clear and steady, a tie was read as flowing smoothly, and when there were many clashing energies, the relationship was read as having ups and downs. Today, however, such readings are not taken in their old gender-bound frame but applied flexibly to anyone — read as a grain reflecting the way you express love, whether you are drawn to stability or to a thrill, and the habits you unknowingly repeat in close bonds.
Here is something to remember. Love luck is by no means a prophecy fixing “whether I will succeed or fail at love.” It is closer to a mirror reflecting how you give and receive love — whether you open your heart easily or cautiously, whether you devote or want freedom. Knowing this grain gives you a clue to play to your strengths and to tenderly mend the wistful habits that repeat in relationships.
So there is no reason at all to be discouraged, saying “I have no luck in love,” because love luck came out weak. Whatever the chart, love grows through the devotion and conversation two people lean toward each other. As FortuneLeaf always does, what love luck offers is not a report card grading a bond pass or fail, but a soft reflection that lets you look tenderly at yourself in how you meet love — for the best love luck blooms not from a star you were born with, but from today’s heart that cherishes the one beside you.