The Parents Palace occupies a pair of easily missed spots on the forehead: a slight rise above each brow, the left called the Sun angle, the right the Moon angle. Classical practice links the Sun to the father and the Moon to the mother, and reads this palace for the warmth of one's ties with parents and elders, and for the handing-down of a family's ways.
How to locate it
Facing a mirror, go straight up about a finger's width from the middle of each brow; the two gently raised points on the forehead's surface are the angles. They are not bony knobs — on most faces they are the faintest of rises, easiest to catch under slanted light. And because they sit close to the hairline, measuring this palace demands the hairline be fixed first: with a fringe covering the forehead, the angles' symmetry cannot even be discussed.
Tradition's meaning — and its restraint
In the classical phrasing, angles level with each other under an even hairline often incline toward smooth ties with both parents and an orderly family inheritance — the kind of home where things can be talked through. Angles slightly uneven are glossed as warmth that may tilt — perhaps a closer ease with one parent than the other. But note the tradition's own restraint here: slight unevenness is extremely common, and the old texts say plainly that no verdict is to be drawn from it — it is offered only as a hint about how one relates.
Put differently: this palace does not read your parents' story. It reads the weather between you and the generation above — whether everything gets said or only the good news, whether decisions are shared or lives run in parallel. Held as a mirror on family ties, it is far wiser than held as a pronouncement.
What modern measurement looks at
- Angles level — left and right in balance, the palace upright. Traditionally read as steady elder bonds and a household where counsel flows.
- Angles slightly uneven — a visible tilt. Read as warmth of differing shades, common and never judged — merely the small observation that you may find one parent easier to talk to.
- Hairline evenness — the manuals also read the hairline's tidiness as the household's weather; an even line is the ordinary, upright form.
Technically the palace runs on a symmetry metric: the height difference between the two angle regions, plus the hairline's regularity. Automatic detection cannot find a trustworthy hairline, so an honest tool asks you to mark it by hand — the centre point and both corners. Only with those three points set does the angles' symmetry mean anything; this is why, in fully automatic mode, the Parents Palace is often labelled 'data pending'.
A closing note on how to read it: family bonds are built across years of ordinary days, not written into a forehead. The palace's real value is a gentle question — 'how long since you last had a proper talk with the one at home?' — never a conclusion about any bond of blood.