The Friends Domain or Palace shows whether your friends and subordinates are loyal or if they will betray you. It  can describe your friends or hired help. It also shows their relationship with you, and if they will help or hurt you. Your business partners, good or bad, can be determined with the stars placed in this palace. Read on to find out how each major star will affect you when found in this palace.

Zi Wei: You will have powerful, influential friends in high places. You assist them and, in turn, they are in a position to grant you many favors. This placement also indicates strong and competent employees or partners.

Tian Fu: This star is a sign of upright and honorable friends, some of whom may be influential society types, powerful CEOs, or successful entrepreneurs. This placement reveals long-standing friends who are reliable and whom you can count on to act in your best interest. What they lack in flexibility they make up for in loyalty.

Wu Qu: This placement reveals strong, confident friends, but you may experience obstacles, communication difficulties, and/or challenges with them due to forceful behavior. Wu Qu is an auspicious star to find in this location if you run your own business, as it indicates vigorous employees who get things done. Be tactful with your friends to avoid driving them away.

Tian Xiang: This is a favorable placement indicating supportive and involved friends. Your comrades are true peers of a similar age and with a similar background. As matters happen in twos with this star, friends and staff perform dual roles. Be cautious of friends becoming two faced or of a rivalry between two different groups.

Sha Qi: Friends and staff are strong and independent, but may possess dreadful tempers. These hard-headed individuals have powerful personalities and have hard lessons to learn in this life. You must be careful about associating with a wild group or bad individual and thus becoming a part of these hard lessons.

Po Jun: This star indicates independent and rebellious friends, staff members, and underlings. If you are a business owner with employees, beware of them undermining you or your company. Friends are wasteful of your resources, and many times they are troubled personally. You may have a difficult time making and keeping friends because you tend to associate with problematic people.

Lian Zhen: You will have many friends and effortlessly attract associates of the opposite sex. Your friendships will tend to be exciting or risky in some way. You will consider many of your blood relatives to be your friends. Being too focused on passion could get you into trouble.

Tan Lang: You will have many acquaintances of varied interests and from many different backgrounds, but few true friends. You will enjoy a lot of socializing and partying. Friends of the opposite sex may have a secret agenda that has nothing to do with platonic friendship.

Tai Yang: High profile friendships are indicated here. You must guard against private information becoming public via friends, employees, or staff. Because you will be in the public eye, you may also be the target of blame or become a scapegoat for others. There is a certain superficiality amongst your friends.

Ju Men: Many arguments are in store for you. Friends bicker amongst themselves and with you. Gossip, idle talk, and backbiting are also revealed with this placement. Slander, lawsuits, and arguments are burdensome; "friends" may try to bring you down and harm your reputation.

Tian Ji: There will be many changes in your friendships, some occurring very rapidly. You will have numerous friends from many different backgrounds, but these associations will tend to be short-lived. Traveling, socializing, and meeting new people appeals to you, as does any change in routine.

Tai Yin: Women and female friends will be of great importance in your life and in business. It represents quiet, gentle employees who work for you in the background. The majority of your friends and staff will be women. With favorable stars placed in the same life palace, these friends help you; under the influence of bad stars or the obstruction catalyst, they do not.

Tian Tong: You will enjoy a myriad of friends, most of whom will be involved in a relaxed or leisurely lifestyle. Joyful social occasions plus interactions with interesting people from all walks of life equal very pleasurable moments. However, if you are a business owner, Tian Tong can indicate lazy or unmotivated employees.

​Tian Liang: Your friends are helpful to you, but will tend to be older. With this placement, you will tend to be a loner and will have few friends. However, the friends you do have will stand the test of time and be in it for the long haul.