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Determine the bagua number by date of birth. Gua number - what is it and how to use it

Beginners who study Feng Shui are wondering how to choose a favorable direction for the orientation of the head of the bed and desk. And this is where the Gua number comes to the rescue. However, the fly in the ointment in the information that floods the Internet is misconceptions, which, like an infection, spread from site to site. They are depressing. Having considered the most common ones, let’s try to figure out how to practically apply the system of favorable directions according to Feng Shui.

What is Gua number?

Gua numbers have no connection with numerology. In order not to remember Chinese characters and names, for convenience, numbers indicate those types of energy that are located in the house and come from different directions.

Personal gua number is calculated individually for each person. There is also a number of gua at home. Based on these two data, recommendations are developed during the feng shui consultation process.

A person's gua number

Describes human energy. In the free one, we consider the character traits of people depending on their belonging to a particular number of guas. Knowing only the year of birth of a person, you have a clue to the character and needs of the interlocutor.

Easily. Representatives of each gua number have their own favorable and unfavorable directions. They are used to orient the bed, desk, and so on.

Gua number at home

Likewise, every house has a gua number. It is used to select the location of certain rooms, as well as the front door and stove.

The compatibility or conflict between your personal gua number and the gua number at home explains why we feel so comfortable or uncomfortable in a particular home.

How to determine the number of gua at home?

First, calculate the rear direction of the building. It is opposite to the direction of the building facade (for the facade of a multi-story building, see the entrance to your entrance). For example, if the door to the entrance “looks” north, then the rear of the house faces south.

There are eight types of houses:

  • The house faces north (the façade or entrance faces south): 1
  • rear to southwest: 2
  • rear to the east: 3
  • rear to southeast: 4
  • rear to the northwest: 6
  • rear to the west: 7
  • rear to northeast: 8
  • rear to south: 9.

Let's say your house's rear faces north (facade faces south). This means that gua at home = 1.

And now, actually, about the main mistakes.

Erroneous statement 1. By placing your sleeping place in a favorable direction, life will improve dramatically.

Let's say your gua number = 3. Favorable directions for sleep will be south (the most favorable), east, southeast and north. Unfavorable - all others (west, northwest, northeast, southwest).

You think that simply placing the bed towards the south will cause events to happen, after which you can at least uncork the champagne. But they still don’t exist. What a shame...

In fact. The ancient treatise that describes this system gives primary importance to the gua number of the house.

This means that it should be in the room that is in the favorable sector in accordance with the gua number of the house. And only then can you look at personal directions.

Favorable directions in a nutshell

  • For numbers 1, 3, 4, 9, north, south, east, southeast will be favorable (with nuances of meaning for each gua number);
  • for numbers 2, 6, 7, 8, southwest, northwest, west, northeast will be favorable (with nuances of meaning for each gua number).

Let's say a house with its rear to the west has a gua number of 7. The favorable sectors of this house are west, northwest, northeast, southwest. First of all, you need to choose one of these rooms for your bedroom: western, northwestern, northeastern or southwestern.

Based on the number of guas of the house, we get a map of the favorable zones of the house and can determine which can be planned as bedrooms and which can be used as utility rooms. And only then do we work with personal direction. This is the only way you can change the situation for the better.

Let's say the best place in the house is a bathroom or storage room. We are talking about the sheng qi sector - “source of life”. For example, for a house with the rear facing east, this sector will be south. In this case, the energies of the house, which are responsible for reputation, are blocked and wasted.

The personal gua number is a fine tuning of the method.

Let me give you a metaphor. You have an estate with palaces, lakes, garbage dumps, gardens and ruins. You have decided to paint a picture. To do this, you need to choose a place to work: in a palace, in a garden under the trees, by a lake. But not in a trash heap or in ruins. And only then do you turn to the side with a beautiful view.

The average person does exactly the opposite: he sits down in ruins or in a trash heap, but always facing the direction of a beautiful garden. Somewhere in the distance, beyond the horizon. I don’t even know what to say about this logic...

False statement 2. There is a gradation from the worst direction to the best.

In fact. Each personal direction has its own purpose. One allows you to create an excellent reputation, another improves your health, and the third creates useful connections with people.

When choosing directions for sleep, you cannot do it “anyhow”, just in a favorable sector. To understand how much you need this particular favorable qi, you first need to set a task.

Erroneous statement 3. All directions are divided into favorable and unfavorable

In fact. Feng Shui techniques allow you to both use negative sectors to your advantage and create difficulties out of the blue - even if you sleep in a favorable zone!

For example, your bedroom is located in the wu-gui sector of the house (“5 ghosts”). A priori, this creates a situation of betrayal, gossip and betrayal. But don't paint everyone with the same brush. Such difficulties will arise only for representatives of the years of the Pig, Rabbit or Goat in the same years and months according to the Chinese calendar.

However, even a representative of the year of the Pig can place a bed in such a room in his personal direction of shen qi (and specifically in shen qi), and the energy of the room is kept under control. Moreover: the situation turns out to be beneficial!

The same thing will happen if you divide the room into sectors, and find that the door in the bedroom is located in the shen qi sector of the room (do not confuse with the personal direction of shen qi. Personal directions are not chosen for location, but only for the orientation of the sleeping and working places!) This will bring an increase in popularity.

Why? Wu Gui and Shen Qi are two antagonistic directions. By using the Shen Chi sector in the room with the “five ghosts” or orienting the head of the bed or desk in your personal Shen Chi direction, you control negative energies.

There are other methods of correcting negativity. And they can even weaken the favorable areas of the house. But this is the topic of a whole separate course.

Every negative direction has such antagonistic sectors.

Erroneous statement 4. The absence of a negative Feng Shui sector in the house is a “plus”

It is mistakenly believed that in an irregularly shaped apartment, where, for example, there is no unfavorable “u-gui” sector, the situation is excellent.

In fact. In any irregularly shaped apartment, energy does not flow evenly and gets stuck. In the case of “uh-hui”, a situation of “don’t care” on the part of others arises. It’s as if they don’t notice the person and don’t take his opinion seriously. If this is an office, then you can’t dream about career growth.

Bottom line. How to Use and Calculate Gua Number

1. When working with the eight palace system, first select an auspicious room based on the gua number of the house. Only then will there be a result.

2. Any unfavorable sector can be corrected by placing the door to the room in the antagonistic sector or by orienting the sleeping/working space in a personal direction that is antagonistic to the unfavorable sector of the house.

3. When buying a house, avoid options that will require remodeling. We are talking about houses with . Ideally, important rooms should be located in favorable sectors. These are the bedrooms, living room, main door area or study. The kitchen should be located in an unfavorable sector of the house.

This is a simplified view of combining the house gua number and the personal gua number. Moreover, there are 24 mountains for each gua number, which allow you to choose favorable directions even within unfavorable ones. Below is a diagram of those for the gua number 1.



You also need to take into account flying stars. And often, considering that you placed the head of your bed in a favorable direction, and in a favorable sector, you actually oriented it in one of the worst. And even in a room with unfavorable people.

This is a complex system that does not tolerate amateurism. Therefore, before making sudden body movements, it is extremely important to study this topic. Only then the results will not keep you waiting. We discuss how to do this in our free Feng Shui course.

In the previous article we learned it simply and quickly - in 2 steps -. What should we do with him now?

How to use Gua number?

Bazhai Method

The most famous way to use Gua is to determine which group you belong to and, depending on this, find out what your 4 favorable and 4 unfavorable directions will be.

Like the fact that people with Gua 1, 3, 4 and 9 are part of the eastern group and their favorable directions are north, east, southeast and south. And people with Gua 2, 6, 7 and 8 form the Western group and their best directions are considered to be southwest, northwest, west and northeast.

Accordingly, “if the entrance to your house faces in your favorable direction, if you sit at your desk in your favorable direction, and if your bed is directed with the head of your bed in your favorable direction, then you will be very, very happy.” And vice versa: if you have all the entrances and tables in unfavorable directions, then you will go bankrupt, get sick and die. Without even finishing reading my article.

I have to disappoint. As it turned out, the story with “good” and “bad” directions was invented by a feng shui master (I forgot his name, but I’ll clarify it when the opportunity arises) by order of one of the Chinese emperors. Word that the emperor and the nobility were using Feng Shui to strengthen their position reached the common people. There was great interest in Feng Shui. To protect himself and give the curious what they were looking for, the emperor ordered the master to come up with a theory that would look plausible, but would have nothing to do with real feng shui. And this master came up with Bazhai.

Proofs by reasoning

Judge for yourself. If there are 7 billion inhabitants on Earth, then there are approximately 870 million people for each Gua. And, probably, many have tables and beds in favorable directions. But for some reason there are far fewer millionaires (in convertible currency) on Earth! Moreover, by orders of magnitude, that even - with some preparation - they can be named by name and included in a numbered list.

The second important point: Feng Shui masters in Southeast Asia do not use the Bazhai method in their practice. Would they ignore it, would it be as effective as it is simple? Same thing.

This means that success in life depends not so much on the favorableness of the directions calculated according to Gua, but on other things. Then why did we practice arithmetic?

The real feng shui begins

The fact is that each Gua has its own trigram, and the trigram has its own house (in Feng Shui they say “palace”) in the Loshu square.

The Loshu Square is a magical pattern that was inscribed on the back of a turtle. The turtle came out of the Lo River, so its name was imprinted in the square: Loshu - “letters from the Lo River.” Whether it was so or not is unknown. But the Luoshu square is the most important analysis tool in Feng Shui.

The sum of the numbers in any plane of the Loshu square is 15. When the square is placed in space, a cross-section of the energies of the earth is obtained. When his Loshu is used in the school of time, they learn about the qualitative characteristics of the influence of time on the subject of the question.

When we superimpose the Loshu square on the plan of our apartment according to the cardinal directions, we can immediately tell how the residents feel. It is enough to evaluate those palaces where their Gua number fell - a symbol of their life.

We don't like to live in the closet and we don't like it when people don't take us into account. If in your apartment your Gua number is in the toilet, bathroom, or there is no such sector at all, then you need to sound the alarm and look for another place to live.

Why? Because damage to your Gua in the apartment will sooner or later affect your life.

The most typical manifestation of problems:

1. If there is no sector with the woman’s Gua in the apartment, then difficulties with conception and the course of pregnancy are observed.
2. If there is no sector with Gua of a family member, then he will be at home less often than others, will constantly strive to run away somewhere, inventing the most incredible reasons.
Imagine this situation: you are a woman, a wife. Do you dream of quiet family evenings when the whole family gathers for dinner. And your husband is constantly late at work. He is not drawn to home because his Gua sector is missing.

3. If Gua gets into the bathroom, then there are likely to be difficulties with self-realization, with advancement in life, in a career, and problems with children’s studies.
If it turns out that your child's Gua is missing in the toilet, then stop scolding him for poor studies. It’s better to look with a Feng Shui consultant for a way to improve the situation.

It is this use of the Gua number that is informative and effective. If you can quickly calculate the Gua of your interlocutor, competitor, opponent and see their apartment or office, then you will most likely be able to identify their weak points and gain an advantage in negotiations. And, of course, when you find your household members in Gua’s apartment, you will quickly understand who in your family needs support the most. It will be a matter of time to provide it.

Irina Makovetskaya,
Feng Shui consultant, Bazi,
Qi Men Dun Jia

Each person, depending on the time of his birth, experiences the influence of cosmic energies of different quality or, in other words, Elements.

People born in the same year have the same influence of cosmic energies.

People born in the same year, but in different months, receive support or opposition from both common and different energies.

Accordingly, people born on different days and at different times already have a completely individual pattern of influence of the Elements, which distinguishes each of us from each other in terms of the nature and influence of periods of success or failure in life.

In accordance with this, the influence of the Elements of a certain year for one person can be favorable, as they say, it will “blow in the back”, or, on the contrary, it will force one to “fight windmills”. The art of Feng Shui and Ba Tzu lies in giving a person a series of recommendations taking into account these individual characteristics.

One of the simplest and most effective ways to improve the quality of your life using Yen Shui is to choose directions and sectors of an apartment or house that are favorable for a person. This is easy to do if you know what the orientation and placement of doors or furniture in a particular direction or sector of the house means.

The mechanism is simple:

You determine your GUA number;

Find out which sectors and directions are favorable for you and which are not;

In accordance with this, arrange your bed, table, stove;

Take this into account when choosing or building your new home.

If you always use your favorable sectors and directions, then throughout your life you will receive the support of those Elements and energies that are useful for you.

People whose Gua number 2, 6, 7, 8 belong to the Western group West, South-West, North-West and North-East.

People whose Gua number 1, 3, 4, 9 belong to the Eastern group. Always good for them Southeast, East, South, North.

Now determine for yourself the degree of favorability or unfavorability of a particular direction or sector using the table.

Number of GUA

1

2

3

4

6

7

8

9

+4

SE

St.

Yu

With

h

nw

skid

V

The best sector. Success in any endeavor, good luck, prosperity

+3

V

h

With

Yu

St.

skid

nw

SE

Healing sector. Ensures good health and quick recovery

+2

Yu

nw

SE

V

skid

St.

h

With

Romance. Brings harmony to relationships of any kind

+1

With

skid

V

SE

nw

h

St.

Yu

Personal development. Promotes success in work and career

-1

h

V

skid

nw

SE

With

Yu

St.

Incidents. May cause minor troubles

-2

St.

SE

nw

skid

V

Yu

With

h

May lead to disagreements and monetary losses

-3

nw

Yu

St.

h

With

SE

V

skid

Failures. Can lead to serious problems in relationships, business, illness

-4

skid

With

h

St.

Yu

V

SE

nw

So, now that you know your best and worst places in the house and directions, analyze which of them are oriented and in which sectors the houses are located:

Your front door (most important!),

Direction of the head of the bed,

Bedroom door

Where do you look when you sit at your dining table or desk?

And in which direction is the front side of the stove in your kitchen oriented if you are preparing food for the family. In this case, the favorable direction will be behind your back.

Using the same principle, it is analyzed whether this or that part of the house or apartment is suitable for you.

It is ideal when the rooms you frequently use are located in favorable sectors, and the entrance and furniture are oriented in the best directions.

If, for example, your number Gua 6, then it is undesirable to make a bedroom a room that is located in the North or South, since these sectors have a negative meaning for you. It is good if the bedroom is located in the western part of the house and the head of the bed is oriented in one of the directions from +1 to +4.

However, to choose the best place in the house for a particular resident, other indicators are also taken into account. In particular, Flying Stars and individual data on the Ba-Tzu map. There are techniques that are more difficult to understand and study, which are transmitted only from Master to Student.

But often it is enough to use favorable directions according to the GUA number to feel positive changes in your life. Sometimes positive changes are felt within a few days, but in some cases it takes at least six months to feel the results.

Important note!!!

Good Feng Shui is not only the “right directions”, it is also a number of other important recommendations based on a personal energy map, the Flying Stars map, color schemes and other nuances.


It is advisable to take into account as many recommendations as possible when arranging your home in order to get tangible results.

The Gua number is an important milestone in the study of Feng Shui. This teaching came to our country relatively recently, but very quickly found its followers. In Chinese numerology, the fate of each of us is predetermined at birth.

Feng Shui as a Taoist teaching helps to manage Qi energy and arrange your own home in such a way as to improve your life as much as possible. The Gua number plays an important role in this teaching. It denotes a person’s inner strength, helps to develop it correctly, indicates inherent talents, aptitudes for a certain field of activity and, conversely, weaknesses and illnesses.

Gua number calculation online

Date of Birth:

☵ 1 - if your Gua number is one, then your personality trigram is Kan. Main qualities: flexibility, agility, inconstancy. Despite the fact that to others you often seem soft and compliant, and sometimes a weak person, your loved ones know that you have a core of steel inside you and, despite your tact, you are not afraid to insist on what is really important to you. You are characterized by melancholy, apathy, and withdrawal into your own little world. Therefore, it is necessary to develop communication skills and an optimistic outlook on the world. Your element is Water, which means you will always strive for change, even if sometimes for the worse. These people are in eternal search, they are always restless and chaotic, even if this is not evident at first glance. They are also quite ambitious and want to own people's thoughts, especially those that are important to them.

☷ 2 - in this case, the trigram of your energy is Kun. This energy symbolizes close family relationships and maternal care. If you belong to this group, then most likely you are sensitive and easy-going, not very active yourself, but inspiring other people to change. It is on you that the house rests; you have the power to bring comfort and peace to any place. Your characteristic features are self-sacrifice, giving up your interests to please someone. This may also be your weak point, since if you dissolve in someone you can lose your personality. You can easily resolve conflicts and settle disputes. Your element is Earth, so you stand firmly on your feet. These people do not really like noisy parties and crowds, preferring a homely atmosphere. Over the years, health problems are possible, especially with excess weight, so you need to take care of yourself from a young age.

☳ 3 - your trigram is Zhen. Because of this, from birth you have qualities such as activity, ease, persistence and stubbornness. The “troikas” most often make reformers, revolutionaries, and heretics. They overturn old canons and establish new rules. People follow them with joy. Your element is Wood. For this reason, you are extremely attentive to the past, to your “roots,” so to speak, and you value your family very much. And yet, sometimes, when you get carried away by a new idea, you can forget about it, which often causes conflicts. This group of people often have some kind of creative gift. Your strong point is improvisation; you do not like to follow rules. However, you are a kind and honest person, always ready to help the weak.

☴ 4 - trigram of your personality Shun. You are a very gentle and kind person. Children feel this and are always drawn to you. People in this group understand others well, know how to listen and empathize. You do not have a very stable mental organization and therefore, under the influence of unfavorable conditions, you may suffer from various complexes and even mental disorders. People like you often do not have their own opinions and adapt to circumstances, but you always have faith in miracles. You know how to find and appreciate beauty even in everyday life. You are patient and observant, but often overly restless. “Fours” are fickle; your interests, hobbies, and desires often change to the opposite. Your element is Wind, so there is a danger of not coping with life circumstances and losing control over your life.

Gua Number 5 does not exist!

☰ 6 - trigram of your energy - Qian. This energy is a symbol of masculinity. From birth you were given fortitude, integrity, courage and perseverance. Such people always take on a lot of responsibility, because they feel that they are the ones who must protect and protect others. They are not afraid of power over others or making decisions. They have enormous potential, which is not always used for good. Some “sixes” forget that with great power comes great responsibility or, on the contrary, they try to decide everything for others, following only their understanding of the good. You are very hot-tempered and self-confident in childhood and adolescence, but this goes away with experience. You must listen to other people and try to understand them. Your element is Metal. You can greatly hurt people close to you with your harshness and intolerance if you do not learn to control yourself. Many of you are workaholics, which is also not very good. You must find a middle ground between family and work.

☱ 7 - your trigram Dui. You are a strong and ambitious person, but you are also genuinely interested in people and can charm anyone. You are a born diplomat, you know other people's weaknesses and know how to take advantage of them. This group of people is probably the most friendly and sincere. You are free from prejudices and superstitions and know how to appreciate people for their qualities. However, people like you may well get carried away and become manipulators, treating people like action figures. There is also a possibility that internal stubbornness and rigidity will develop into isolation and bile. Your element is Metal, but, unlike the “sixes”, you are much softer and more flexible. You love good company and are willing to give a lot for it. You are not very ambitious, although you also value power.

☶ 8 - in this case, the trigram of your personality is Gen. Your main qualities: stability, calm, balance. You are more self-absorbed than other groups, loving and appreciating your loneliness and isolation. But that doesn't mean you don't need company. It is difficult for such people to start a relationship with someone, but if they do succeed, you will not find a better friend! You are very suspicious of new people in your environment. You do not depend on other people and considers this humiliating, but you are ready to support your family and friends in any situation. People from this group are homebodies and do not like to change their life, of course, if it suits them. In fact, they are kind and affectionate people, but all this is hidden under the outer armor.

☲ 9 - people whose Gua number is 9 have the Li trigram. Outwardly, you appear to be a tough and independent person, but in reality you have a soft and sympathetic heart. You are capable of becoming very attached to a person, even knowing that he does not deserve it, and suffer from a kind of addiction. People like you always attract attention because they literally glow from within and generously share their inner light with others. You have many acquaintances, but very few friends. People in this group enjoy attention and admiration from others, but they also value privacy and being deep in their own thoughts. Your element is Fire. You are very quick-tempered and hot, but you can just as easily go out. Beware of overly strong feelings, as you can easily burn out inside. You are excellent at persuading people and often believe in what you say. Your mood can change dramatically several times within one day.

The Gua number is calculated based on the date of birth, adapted to the eastern calendar. The last two digits of the year of birth are added until the result is a single digit number. Next, girls born before 2000 need to add 5 to this number, and after 2000 - 4, and bring it back to a single number.
For men, just subtract the first number from 10 and 9, respectively, from birth in a certain millennium.

It should be noted that Gua number 5 does not exist in nature. This is explained by the fact that Gua is a trigram. In the Lo-Shu square, which is used to calculate favorable sectors, 5 is in the middle and does not form a trigram with any number. 5 is usually replaced by other values: for men - 2, for women - 3.

All people are divided into two categories: Western and Eastern branches. Those whose number is equal 1 , 3 , 4 And 9, belong to the eastern branch, and the second group, that is 2, 6, 7, 8 - to the western.

Assign rooms in the house according to Gua and Feng Shui

For each Gua number there are favorable and unfavorable directions. For people from the same group (Western or Eastern), they are more or less the same. There are 4 good directions in total, which are called:

  • 1. Shen Qi (most favorable direction)
  • 2. Tian Yi
  • 3. Nian Yan
  • 4. Fu Wei (least favorable)

There are also 4 bad directions, whose names are as follows:

  • 1. Jue Ming (most unlucky direction)
  • 2. Wu Gui
  • 3. Liu Sha
  • 4. Ho Hai (least unfavorable direction)

It is logical that it is better to place them indoors, and the premises themselves are in accordance with this teaching, in order to improve your own well-being.

Eastern group

  • For " one» The best directions are southeast and east. It would be nice to arrange a study and bedrooms in rooms that face these sides of the world. You will not suffer from bad dreams and will get a good night's sleep, and your work will proceed easily and quickly. Also good rooms would be those facing south and north. Place a nursery or kitchen in them. Unfavorable sides for you are southwest, northeast, northwest and west. Try not to arrange your rooms in these directions.
  • For " threes» It is recommended to avoid western, northwestern, northeastern and southwestern directions. But the South and North are quite favorable to you, so it would be appropriate to place the living room and kitchen in these rooms. In addition, “oriental” rooms help self-development, so it would be a good idea to practice meditation there.
  • « Fours"should prefer the eastern and southern sides. The wealth zone is located in the northern part of the apartment. Hang an amulet there that would also attract financial well-being. Try to ensure that in your sleep you lie towards one of the favorable sides. Unlucky directions for you: northeast, southwest, west and northwest.
  • For " nines“It will be convenient to place the rooms in the north and south. The southeast side promotes healing. Unfavorable directions for you are northwest, southwest and northeast. Don't set up your office in the west, you won't be able to concentrate in this place. The eastern side belongs to the romance zone, so it is better to place the bedroom there.

Western group

  • « Deuces» should arrange bedrooms in the northwest and southwest. West and northeast are also considered favorable directions. Try to ensure that the maximum number of objects in your home are turned in this direction. The unfavorable sides include the north, south and southeast. The East is a particularly bad place, try to avoid it.
  • For " sixes» The good sides are west, southwest and northwest. The northeast is considered to be the cleanest place in the entire area. Bad rooms are those located on the east, north and southeast sides. The south side brings losses and misfortunes; it is not recommended to arrange bedrooms there.
  • For people with Gua number 7 , the most favorable are considered to be the northwest, southwest, northeast and west. The wealth zone is in the northwest, it's good if you keep your money there. In turn, you need to beware of the southern, southeastern and northern directions. The eastern one is especially harmful.
  • Eights do well in the southwest, northwest and west sectors. The northeast direction promotes self-development. It is better for you to avoid the south-eastern, northern, eastern sides. The south side is considered the most dangerous.

Remember that Feng Shui cannot change your life immediately and instantly. Eastern teachings are known for weaving into your destiny gradually and gently, changing you and your attitude towards life. Of course, calculating the Gua number is one of the foundations of this tradition, so to speak, the first step on the path of knowledge. Don't stop there!

Most people who begin to study Feng Shui, at the first stage of their acquaintance with this wonderful science, encounter the concept and learn that they do not exist on their own, but belong to a huge group Western or Eastern. No, this does not mean that humanity is divided into people with Eastern flavor and Western pragmatism. This is about something else. It is believed that depending on which group a person belongs to, he receives at his disposal four favorable directions according to the Gua number and four unfavorable directions.

But first things first.

Calculated by year of birth. But not just by the number that appears in your passport. We are talking about Chinese solar calendar , in which the year begins in February on February 3, 4, or 5. Therefore, people born from January 1 to February 4 belong to the previous year.
For example. The person was born on January 21, 1966. To calculate the Gua number, he must use the figure 1965 (previous year).


Universal Formula for Gua Number.

If the resulting number consists of two digits, then you need to add these digits together until one remains.
If the result is the number 5, then we replace it for men with the number 2, and for women with 8. Because the Gua number 5 does not exist. But there is the number of the year of birth 5, but this is another topic.

Depending on the Gua number, humanity is divided into two groups:

Western: these are people with numbers Gua 2, 6, 7 and 8
Eastern- numbers Gua 1, 3, 4, and 9 .

For each group there are four favorable directions according to Gua number and four unfavorable directions.

Western group Eastern group
2 6 7 8 1 3 4 9
Shen Qi NE Z NW SW SE YU WITH IN
Tian Yi Z NE SW NW IN WITH YU SE
Yan Nian NW SW NE Z YU SE IN WITH
Fu Wei SW NW Z NE WITH IN SE YU
Ho Hai IN SE WITH YU Z SW NW NE
Wu Gui SE IN YU WITH NE NW SW Z
Liu Sha YU WITH SE IN NW NE Z SW
Jue Ming WITH YU IN SE SW Z NE NW

Favorable directions.

Shen Qi. Success, luck. Gives inspiration, abundance of strength, prosperity (finance, career). Brings good luck.

Tian I. Heavenly doctor. Gives health, brings friends.

Yan Nian. Relationships, love. Creating a family. Birth of children. Improved relationships. Romantic direction.

Fu Wei. Stability. Personal capabilities and abilities. Helps in spiritual development, training, preparation for exams. Develops spirituality and gives clarity of thinking.

Unfavorable directions.

Ho Hai. Small problems, annoying troubles. Minor financial problems.

Wu Gui. Delays in business, losses, waste of time. Scandals in the family.

Liu Sha. Quarreling. Relationship problems, legal troubles.

Jue Ming. Collapse. Believed to bring bad luck on a large scale.

Since husband and wife often have different groups and their favorable directions do not coincide, the Internet is simply filled with questions: what to do, how to set up the bed, whether we should sleep like a valet, and the like.

In fact, one should not attach so much importance to Gua number directions. In the list of priorities of various Feng Shui methods, this section is in last place. Because the influence of directions is quite weak. There are much more powerful influences of other energies: Flying Stars, individual sectors of the Noble Man and others. A lot depends on the period of luck, which is calculated according to the Ba Zi map.

The rule is this. If it is possible to place all family members in favorable directions, that’s good. If not, you need to use other Feng Shui methods and ignore the directions according to the Gua number. Believe me, if you sleep in a room with favorable energies, you can use the sector of your Noble Person (a powerful thing), take into account the energies of the coming year, then even if the head of the bed is located in the most unfavorable direction according to the Gua number, nothing bad will happen.