If you want to understand Feng Shui and how to apply it to your space, one of the first things you need to understand is the feng shui bagua map.
What is the feng shui bagua map?
The bagua is a feng shui energy map that you can place over your space so that you can accurately apply feng shui cures.
Each part of the bagua reflects an area of your life, such as health, creativity, family, and money.
When you use the bagua map, you can easily understand which areas of your space need to change in order to make your life better.
How does the bagua map work?
The bagua map shows you which areas of your home relate to the different areas of your life.
Once you know where the different feng shui areas of your home are, you can then apply feng shui tips to enhance those areas.
So if you want more abundance in your life, you’d apply feng shui money enhancing cures to that area of your home. If you want more love in your life, you’d apply feng shui tips to your love area.
How do I apply the bagua map to my house?
I study and practice Western feng shui, so I use the Western feng shui bagua map. There are other schools of feng shui, so if you study one of those, you’ll use a different bagua map.
But if you are new to feng shui or don’t really know which bagua to use, I recommend starting with the Western bagua map because it’s the easiest to understand and apply.
Here’s a picture of the Western bagua map:
As you can see, the Western feng shui bagua map divides your space into 9 equal areas.
To apply the feng shui energy map, you line the bottom 3 areas of the bagua to align with your front door (or the door you use to enter your home the most, which could be somewhere else!)
This means the front door will always be in the knowledge/self-cultivation area, the career area, or the helpful people/travel area.
For my home, we use the front door the most, so our entrance is in the career area of our home.
You then divide your home into 9 equal areas based on the map. So when you stand at the front door, looking inside your home:
- The front door (or other entrance) always lines up with either knowledge/self-cultivation, career, or helpful people/travel.
- The middle sections of your home are always: family/legacy, health, and children/creativity.
- The far back sections of your home are always: money, fame, and love/relationships.
If your home isn’t perfectly square, you still divide your home into 9 equal(ish) areas.
My home is a wide rectangle, so my sections are rectangular.
If your home is a narrow rectangle, your sections will be narrow rectangles.
The feng shui bagua map also applies to individual rooms in your home.
The bagua can apply to your whole home, but it can also apply to each individual room in your home.
So each room has it’s own career area, money area, love area, etc. Orient the door of the room to the bottom of the map.
Applying the bagua to individual rooms is extremely helpful when you live with others, because you can feng shui your own space and not worry as much about everyone else’s.
Feng shui is all about intention, so if you try to feng shui your significant other’s office, for example, and they don’t care as much about what you want, the intention won’t work as well.
Instead, use feng shui in the whole home or in your own room to strengthen your intentions!
The bagua map also applies to your whole property.
Not only does the bagua apply to your home and its individual rooms, but it applies to your whole property as well!
To apply the bagua map to your property, orient the map in the same way – wherever you enter the property aligns with the bottom of the map.
This means your yard has a health area, money area, love area, etc!
When you first learn of feng shui it can be overwhelming to think of not only using tips in your whole home, but each individual room, and then the whole lot.
Just know that wherever you start, it is good enough and a little goes a long way!
You don’t have to feng shui everything in order to see results.
Start with one intention and one or two feng shui cures and then take a break and see what happens!
You can see a powerful change with just ONE intention, so don’t get overwhelmed!
What do the colors mean on the feng shui map?
The colors on the map represent the colors most associated with that area. So purple is associated with wealth, yellow is associated with health, etc.
That doesn’t mean that you have to paint those areas those colors or that other colors will ruin those areas!
The colors apply more to feng shui cures and tips for those areas, so don’t worry too much about the colors in your overall decor.
Always have the colors that you LOVE in your home and…
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