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Eight Mansions Feng Shui: Your Life Gua and the Eight Directions
A plain-English guide to Ba Zhai (Eight Mansions) feng shui: Life Gua, the four auspicious and four inauspicious directions, and how to apply them room by room.
Calculate my Eight Mansions mapOne trigram per person
Ba Zhai assigns every person a Life Gua trigram from birth year and gender. The Gua splits the compass into four directions that support you — Sheng Qi (vitality), Tian Yi (health), Yan Nian (relationships), Fu Wei (stability) — and four that drain you.
Apply it by activity
The system is practical: sleep and long work hours belong in or toward your favorable directions; storage, bathrooms, and short-stay functions can occupy the unfavorable ones. Door orientation, bed headboard, desk facing, and stove position are the classic application points.
Where Eight Mansions stops
Ba Zhai reads the person against fixed directions but says nothing about the year's changing energies or the building's own star chart. That is why Satellite Feng Shui layers annual Flying Stars — and for full reports, the environment around the building — on top of the Eight Mansions base.
FAQ
Is a 'bad direction' dangerous?
No. It marks a mismatch between your energy and that sector — a reason to rearrange usage, not to fear a room.
My partner and I have opposite groups. Whose Gua wins?
Traditional practice prioritizes the main earner for the front door and shared rooms, and lets each person optimize their own side of the bed and desk.