Should you move cities? Jump to a new field? When the manuals face a question of moving versus staying, they consult the Travel Palace: the two regions at the sides of the forehead near the hairline corners, classically named the 'post-station horse' — the horse that lives on the road. This palace reads a person's weather with change: journeys, relocation, new environments, crossing borders of any kind.
Locating and measuring it
Find the areas above each brow tail, slanting toward the corners of the hairline — the spots casually called the forehead corners. The measurement handle is the forehead width ratio: the forehead's horizontal span at corner height, divided by the face's width at the cheekbones, falling into narrow, moderate or open bands. Watch for hair interference — sideburns or a fringe covering the corners will corrupt the outline, so clear the sides or set the hairline-corner points during calibration.
What the tradition says
The classics read motion and stillness at the post-horse points. Open corners traditionally incline toward advantage away from home — thriving amid change, each move opening more ground. Drawn-in corners counsel building a home base first: plan before travelling far, and depth in one territory becomes its own wealth. In the old world a long journey was a matter of years, so the palace was written solemnly; today it maps onto moving house, changing cities, switching industries, overseas postings. The reading is unchanged — not 'can you move?' but 'which suits your grain better, motion or rootedness?'.
What modern measurement looks at
- Open corners — a roomy share at the forehead's sides. Read as ease amid new settings: the more this type moves, the more chances appear; shifts across regions or industries often pay off — at their best while 'on the road'.
- Moderate corners — steady proportions. Read as free in both directions: able to leave when leaving calls, able to hold when holding pays; the option stays in one's own hand — the most flexible band.
- Drawn-in corners — a narrower share. Read as strongest on familiar ground: known faces, clear paths; the compounding of deep local roots beats frequent uprooting, and far ventures reward careful planning first.
Reports also check a combination pattern, 'open brow, favourable ears — gains in motion': open corners, ears of good length and an even Upper Court landing together. The manuals read it as advantage found away from home, opportunity hidden inside change — fieldwork and new environments outproducing the desk. A matched pattern carries more weight than the corners alone.
Two mirrored cases. An open-corner colleague is posted abroad and has the new city mapped within a quarter — building a network from zero turns out to be her fast lane. A drawn-in-corner colleague spends five years deep in one team and turns a single business line into a moat no rival can cross. Both roads lead somewhere; the only wrong move is the crossover — the open type wilting in place, or the rooted type chasing a trend move and dropping years of accumulation.
So the Travel Palace never answers 'should I go?'. It answers 'which way does my wind blow?'. For the actual decision, put the Career Palace's ambitions and the Property Palace's nesting instinct on the same table — the palaces read together is where the answer gains depth.