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House Facing Direction: How to Find It and Why It Matters
Learn how to determine your house's true facing direction, why it anchors every feng shui reading, and the mistakes that invalidate a chart.
Read my home's directionsFacing direction anchors the whole reading
Both Eight Mansion and Flying Star feng shui start from the direction your home faces. In the 24-Mountain system each direction spans only 15 degrees, so a facing that is off by one sector produces a completely different — and wrong — chart.
Facing is not always the front door
For a house, the facing is usually the side with the main entrance and the most open, active exposure. For an apartment, practitioners often use the building's main facade or the side with the largest windows and brightest exposure, which may not be where your unit door is.
Measure, don't guess
Phone compasses are distorted by steel structure, and 'it faces roughly south' is not enough precision for a Flying Star chart. Satellite imagery of the building footprint gives a reliable bearing. This is exactly how Satellite Feng Shui's report measures facing — from the map, not from memory.
FAQ
My door faces a corridor. What is my facing?
In apartments the unit door rarely defines facing. The building facade and your unit's main outlook matter more — one reason apartment feng shui benefits from a map-based reading.
What if my home sits between two directions?
Charts on a sector boundary (Jian Xian) are treated specially in Xuan Kong. A precise bearing tells you whether you are actually on one.