Feng Shui Basics, the Bagua
Feng Shui tips, ideas, & simple habits you can add to your day & life
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Also called ba-gua or pakua, the Feng Shui bagua is one of the main tools used in Feng Shui to map a space or room in order to analyze the energy according to life areas. The bagua can be used for a home, office, property, garden, or even a piece of furniture. It is incredibly versatile and is used in most Feng Shui perspectives, sometimes in a slightly different format.
The bagua is a very powerful tool - helping to create intentions and for understanding how the flow and layout of your spaces can affect every area of your life and within every area of your life. While seemingly easy to apply, there are nuances that might require the look of an expert.
Scroll on to learn how to apply the bagua, tricky areas of your home, and the Feng Shui basics of it. Our experts will show you how.
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The Feng Shui Bagua
The bagua map is a diagram, a Chinese flowchart if you will, to the universal energies for a person’s life goals and paths. Originating from the I Ching and the Lo Shu, bagua is literally translated as “eight house.” It consists of eight external spaces or guas and a central one called the Tai Ji or center. Each of the eight houses is named by a trigram, and points to a specific direction, number, element, season, color, body organ, family member, symbol, location and other life aspects in resonance with that trigram sector.
Read more about the bagua including how to lay the grid and definitions for each of the 9 guas.
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NOTE: Some schools of Feng Shui may apply the bagua a bit differently or call a particular segment a slightly different name, we all agree on the concept of the 9 grids or life areas.
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Feng Shui Tip
Laying the bagua on your floor plan or space gives you a guide to the nine life areas. The thing about energy though, is that it is far from linear. Energy will not follow specific lines and only stay within a specific box. It just doesn't work that way. Energy is flowing and moving. The energy in one grid will overlap and naturally flow into the neighboring square. Think of the Venn diagram, where there is overlapping influence. The same can happen with the bagua. This is especially helpful when your walls don't match with the bagua grid lines. Be flexible and be open to the energy you deserve. In every space of your home.
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Missing Gua in the Bagua, a Case Study
Learn about the effects of a missing part of your floor plan in the bagua as well as suggestions for improvements and a happy result.
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How do Garages fit into the Bagua?
What does your garage look like? Full of "stuff?" Detached or attached? Sticks out from the front of the building? Read about how your garage can be affecting your life and you don't even know it.
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Bagua mirrors ... How and When to Use Them
Mirrors are an all-purpose tool in feng shui. They have many uses and are often referred to as the “aspirin” of feng shui. Bagua mirrors are a special type of mirror. Find how they work and how to hang them.
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Organize your desk with the Feng Shui Bagua
Laying the bagua on furniture? Really?
Yes. Watch this video on how to lay the bagua on your desk to help you support your goals.
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Final Thoughts: Bagua Bonus Map / Body Parts
• Career Gua: Ear
• Skills & Knowledge Gua: Hand
• Family Gua: Foot
• Wealth Gua: Hip
• Fame & Reputation Gua: Eye
• Love & Relationship Gua: Major Organs
• Creativity & Children Gua: Mouth
• Travel & Helpful People Gua: Head
• Center (Health) Gua: any other body part/organ not mentioned above
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