The Bagua
Posted on 20. Feb, 2011 by admin in Uncategorized
Think of the Bagua as a map of your home. Placing the bagua on the floorplan of your home helps you identify the different focus points in your home, much like if you were using grid references on a map to find a town or city. The Bagua, meaning eight sides helps you to divide your home in to separate areas. The Bagua creates eight distinct areas in your home, moving clockwise from the south; fame and self esteem, relationships, children and creativity, helpful friends, career, knowledge, family and wealth. The centre point however gets largely ignored in the bagua and I think this can sometimes be troublesome. The centre point of your home is the health area and in feng shui if you have balanced all of the other eight areas in your home this largely takes care of itself as the home is perfectly in harmony with itself. However it is very important that this area doesn’t get neglected and so I think it is useful to also consider it as a ninth area in it’s own right.
For me the bagua is the point from which you start your feng shui journey. To understand your home you need to understand the bagua and how this relates to your own home. In everyday life it is important that you understand the different features of each area of the bagua so that you can ensure each area is balanced. Again think of this like a grid on a map, each grid contains something different but put together make a whole. Understanding what makes up each area of the bagua, the auspicious numbers, elements, colours and shapes will also help you strengthen specific areas in times where you need to bring a special focus to that part of your life.
In this section I have included the different features that make up each bagua area. I hope you find it useful. If you would like to understand the bagua in more detail, and especially how to relate it to your unique home I would love to see you on one of my Bagua training courses.
Andy
