Feng Shui Bagua
By Jessie Kim
If you were to tour a home on a real estate search, you can’t see all of the rooms at once. You must move through the home one room at a time. If some doors are jammed or locked, it may be challenging to see certain areas of the home. Moreover, you will react to different areas of the home differently based upon your energy or mood at the time.
A Feeling of Balance
Is the kitchen too small? Is the den an awful shade of orange for your taste? Are there aspects of the home that turn you off so much that you leave before seeing the whole thing?
Or, does everything match up so well with your desires that you make it your forever home?
This example is not very different from the flow of energy, or Chi, through a home or business.
An understanding developed over thousands of years, the principles of Feng Shui describe how the flow of Chi seems to react to certain aspects of your surroundings. Thus, Feng Shui splits your surroundings into nine segments that look much like a tic-tac-toe board.
Overlaying Your Space
Overlay the diagram below on top of a floor plan of your home or business. Align the bottom of the diagram with the front main entry of your home or office. It doesn’t matter whether your door is on the bottom of the left, center, or right box. It just needs to be on the bottom of one of the three lower boxes.
Your upper-level surroundings will overlay as if you moved the front door straight up to the floors above, without regard to your stairs.
While we often look at the overlay of the Bagua against your entire home or workplace, we can also overlay it against each individual room, office, or even your cubicle, desk or car, using the front entrance to that space as the bottom of the Bagua.
The Bagua Map
The ancient Chinese version of the above tic-tac-toe board actually looks like the black & white Bagua pictured here.
I have westernized that Bagua to look like the colorful Bagua you see next, complete with how the different boxes correspond to various aspects of your life, as the ancient Chinese found in creating their Feng Shui principles.
The Individual Guas of the Bagua Map
Using the colorful Bagua, we can now look at each individual area (or “gua”) so that we can determine how we affect and are affected by the Chi that flows through these segmented surroundings.
Distribute Your Focus
Please note that you should never focus on only one segment of your surroundings to achieve particular results that you want. Chi still needs to reach that part of your surroundings by first going through many of the others. Think of it like using a creek to irrigate a large garden where nine different plants represent each gua. Make sure you irrigate it properly to flow through each area.
Too much focus on one area may allow another area to divert or deflect the Chi that you intend to harness. This could have harmful results in the same way that an upstream dam will prevent you from receiving water downstream.
As a general rule of thumb, it is best to put spend an equal amount of time and energy improving all aspects of your surroundings as they relate to the Bagua.
Continue on to learn about the gua where it all begins, the Career / Business / Life Path Area.
What is Feng Shui? | Career / Business / Life Path 
- Career / Business / Life Path
- Skills / Knowledge / Wisdom
- Family
- Prosperity / Wealth / Money
- Fame / Reputation
- Relationships / Love / Marriage
- Creativity / Children / Fertility
- Helpful People / Travel
- Health
My name is Jessie Kim and I am a 3rd generation professional Feng Shui expert. I help others create harmony and balance through simple changes in their home or office in order to attract wealth and love, among other improvements. Because of my ability to help others achieve abundance in their lives, major homebuilders hire me to consult on their new home developments.
