Being Blissful

The Feng Shui Bagua is like the roadmap to your home, and how it affects your life. Feng Shui practitioners use the Feng Shui bagua to determine which areas of your living or working space or auspicious, and how we can influence our environments to better our lives. The Feng Shui bagua is not a mystical map – it is a clear and practical outline of what needs to be done.

The Feng Shui Bagua is an eight-sided map or diagram that helps practitioners of Feng Shui properly align the elements of their homes or environment. If you’ve ever stepped into someone’s house or office, and instantly felt uncomfortable or that you just had to get out of there – that’s a sign that something is wrong with the flow of qi in the room. On the other hand, if you’ve ever entered someone’s home and immediately felt welcome – that’s a sign that Feng Shui may be at work. And it all links back to the Feng Shui bagua.

The Feng Shui bagua is part of the mantle that says that our environments ultimately impact upon our lives, and vice-versa. It’s a diagram that can be laid over a map or representation of a room or environment to determine the most auspicious locations for items and décor. There is a lot of debate over how the Feng Shui bagua should exactly be used for a given space, but the basic rule is to stand facing the space you wish to apply the Feng Shui bagua to, and hold the Feng Shui bagua in your hand with the black (career) gua facing you. Now of course, there are variations on how the Feng Shui bagua should apply given, say, you share your living environment with others (e.g., you share an apartment with roommates), or if you’re renting the top floor of a multi-storey townhouse. The general principles still applies though – take a look at your space, face it so that you can see the entire space, and then take your Feng Shui bagua and hold the career gua towards you.

One common problem that many people have using the Feng Shui bagua is that they are unsure if they should use it just on their bedroom, or on their entire home, especially if they live with others. In traditional Feng Shui, one’s quarters are a microcosmic reflection of one’s general living environments, and they both affect each other. In this case, use the Feng Shui bagua to determine how changes made to your general living environment will affect the qi in your bedroom, as well as using the Feng Shui bagua in your bedroom to compensate for inconsistencies in your general environment.

You can find a bagua mirror here.

The Feng Shui bagua itself is divided into 9 sections:

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