Practices... - Feng Shui - The Bagua

The Bagua is an essential item to the BSB sect of Feng Shui. It can be purchased at a very inexpensive price in your local Chinatown store. The main purpose of the Bagua is to deflect the negative spirits from entering your home. This is accomplished by placing the Bagua on the outside of your house, usually above your front doorway, with the mirror facing the outside world. You can also place the Bagua on the back doorway, or any location you feel negative energy is needed to be deflected from. For example if you have a neighbour in your apartment building who is continuously making noise that can be heard through an adjoining wall, place a Bagua with the mirror facing that wall and soon you will hear a decrease in noise.

The Bagua is an octagon shaped symbol, manufactured from wood and coloured red, green and gold. On each side of the octagon there are specific line placements that correspond to the chinese meaning of that side. In the center is the mirror which expels negative energies from your home.

The eight corresponding aspects to the octagon shaped Bagua are as follows:

On the main entranceway from left to right;

Knowledge or Gen, Career or K´un, and Support System or Chien

Following in a clockwork order from the Self section are;

Family or Jen, Wealth or Hsun, Fame or Li, Marriage or K´un, Children and Creativity or Dwei.

In the centre of the room is the location of your total Ch´i or Energy Flow

The Bagua is always oriented on the main doorway of your house or room. The Bagua will allow you to determine what each wall and corner of your house or room correspond to which aspect of your life.

On the Bagua itself, it is not written the corner locations. Available in this text is the diagrahm needed to Feng Shui your home.