The Bagua Map
The nine life-areas Feng Shui maps onto your home. Shown in both the Compass (classical) and BTB/Western schools — because they genuinely disagree about how to place it.
Compass school (classical)
Each life-area is fixed to a real compass direction. North at top.
Each area, in detail
Enhance: A small water feature, a mirror, or images of flow; keep it open and uncluttered.
Avoid: Earth-element clutter (blocks water); dryness and stagnation. · Family: Middle son · Body: Ears, kidneys
Enhance: Books, a study nook, crystals or stones; a quiet, still corner.
Avoid: Noise and busyness; strong wood energy (drains earth). · Family: Youngest son · Body: Hands, back
Enhance: Healthy plants, family photos, wooden furniture; morning light.
Avoid: Metal objects here (metal cuts wood); dead or dried plants. · Family: Eldest son · Body: Feet, liver
Enhance: Lush plants, a small fountain (wealth flowing IN), purple or gold accents.
Avoid: Clutter, bins, and broken items; sharp metal. · Family: Eldest daughter · Body: Hips, gallbladder
Enhance: Lighting, candles, red accents, awards or a vision board.
Avoid: Water features here (water drowns fire); mirrors facing the door. · Family: Middle daughter · Body: Eyes, heart
Enhance: Pairs of objects, pink/red accents, a real crystal; keep it warm and settled.
Avoid: Single/solitary imagery; clutter; overpowering wood. · Family: Mother · Body: Abdomen, spleen
Enhance: Metal art, round shapes, white tones, a child's creative work.
Avoid: Fire-element red here (fire melts metal); heavy clutter. · Family: Youngest daughter · Body: Mouth, lungs
Enhance: Metal objects, a bell or chimes, images of mentors or places you want to go.
Avoid: Fire and strong heat here; neglect (this is the patriarch's corner). · Family: Father · Body: Head, lungs
Enhance: Keep the heart of the home open, clean and uncluttered — it feeds every other area.
Avoid: Bathrooms, kitchens, staircases or heavy clutter in the exact centre. · Family: The whole household · Body: Whole body, stomach
BTB / Western school
Aligns the Bagua to the wall your front door is on (bottom row), ignoring the compass. The door wall is at the bottom.
↑ far wall · bottom row = your front-door wall ↓
Two established Feng Shui schools place the Bagua differently, and both are shown here rather than one being picked for you. Classical / Compass (Luo Pan) fixes each life-area to a real compass direction — this is the older, traditional Chinese method and the one this tool defaults to. BTB / Black Sect ('Western') instead aligns the Bagua to the wall your front door sits on, ignoring the compass — a 20th-century adaptation popularised in the West. Where they disagree about which part of your home governs, say, wealth, that is a genuine school difference, not an error.
- Compass-school direction↔life-area↔element mapping cross-checked across thecuriousbear, thespruce, fengshuinexus, and classical Later-Heaven (Wen Wang) trigram references
- BTB three-row door-aligned grid per the Black Sect (Lin Yun) method as documented on thespruce and mindfuldesignschool
- Lo Shu magic-square numbering is standard and shared with the Xuan Kong Flying-Stars system