Since feng shui is the art of placement and positioning, it is no wonder that directions - i.e. north, northwest, west, southwest, south, southeast, east and northeast - are also important in feng shui.
According to feng shui practice, your lucky directions can draw positive energy into your life, specific to your needs. To do this, you first need to know your feng shui type -- which you arrive at by calculating your "kua" number.
Once you figure out your lucky directions, you can use these in placing your main door, desk, bed, sofa, and usual place at the dining table in the appropriate orientation. Let's start by figuring out your "kua" number.
According to the Flying Stars School of feng shui, different types of people have different needs. They believe that there are two feng shui groups of people: the East and West groups. You can either be one or the other depending on your "kua" number. For the East group, the kua numbers are 1, 3, 4 and 9 while for the West group, it's 2, 6, 7 and 8.
To calculate your or some else's kua number, all you need is your birth year and gender. Now the birth year can be a bit tricky since Chinese New Year, which is based on the lunar calendar, does not fall on the same day as the western New Year. You need to check your date of birth against the date of Chinese New Year on the year you were born. If your birthday falls before Chinese New Year, then your year of birth is actually the preceding year. If after Chinese New Year, then your year of birth is the same as in your Western birth year. Does that make sense?
Let's say you were born in the western year 1966 but your birthday falls on January 7, 1966. In 1966, Chinese New Year fell on January 21, 1966. This means that your Chinese birth year is actually 1965 and thus, this is what you need to use to compute your "kua" number.
One important guideline to remember - kua numbers are only single digit numbers so to compute for it, you need to reduce your computations down to one digit. I'll show you what I mean in a while.
To calculate for you or someone else's kua number, follow the steps below.
Step 1: Take the year of birth (yours or someone else's), in the case above 1965, and add the last two digits like so: 6 + 5 = 11. Since, 11 is a two-digit number, you need to add 1+1 to reduce it to the single digit 2.
Step 2: Take the number you came up with in Step 1 and, for a female, add 5. So, 2 + 5 = 7. Since 7 is a single digit number, therefore the kua number for a female born in 1965 is 7. For a male, take the number from Step 1 and deduct it from 10 as follows: 10 - 2 = 8. Thus, a male born in 1965 has the kua number of 8.
Armed with your kua number, you can now figure out your lucky feng shui directions!
The chart below (see URL in references and scroll down to chart) summarize the kua number groups and their lucky directions:
The East Group Kua numbers are 1, 3, 4 and 9.
The West Group Kua numbers are 2, 6, 7 and 8.
To maximize this chart, you need to know the real orientation of your home or office. You won't need any fancy feng shui compass - just a regular compass will do.
However, it's not just a matter of pointing a compass from anywhere in your house. To get the real compass directions from your home, stand at the center of your house and point your compass from there. Depending on what energy you want to capture, you can now arrange the furniture in your home where you normally sit, study or sleep and where the main door is (if you're still building a house or thinking of renovating) or the position of your desk at the office.
An important reminder - the orientation of your bed does not mean where your feet are pointed as you lay down in bed. A sleeping direction is actually where your HEAD or the crown of your head is pointed towards!
On the other hand, the lucky direction of your desk is the direction that you face while working! Interesting, isn't it?
You may have many questions about lucky directions and kua numbers. Admittedly, it's best to consult a practitioner so that he or she can give you a thorough reading.
For now, it can be fun and informative for you to discover what your lucky directions are and to compare them with your partner. If you and your partner have the same lucky directions at certain points of your chart, then by all means find ways to rearrange your furniture to harness the positive energies from those directions!
You may be asking, what if you and your loved one are of totally different feng shui types, i.e. I am an "east" and my partner "west," what do you do then?
Before you worry or fret that your relationship is doomed, take a step back and tell yourself that all this doesn't have to rule your life. Feng shui is a tool and at a certain point, it is your judgment and decisions which will ultimately direct your life. Then again, in terms of differences with your partner, feng shui (and relationship skills) recommend finding common ground, compromising, and seeking out a balance!
References:
"Lucky Feng Shui Directions For Your Feng Shui Type: Go With the Best Direction!" at http://fengshui.about.com/od/fengshuicures/a/lucky_feng_shui.htm
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