The bagua map basics
The Bagua Map can give you guidance in observing how your interior life is manifesting in your environment. The center of the Bagua is important, because it is the heart of the home, the center, which distributes all the energy to all the different sectors.
The traditional or compass Bagua Map uses compass directions in order to detect the eight areas of your home. For example, the south corner of your home would be the fame and reputation corner. The East would represent Health and Ancestors etc.
The Front Door method consists in aligning the front door with the bottom of the Bagua map.
Each Corner of the bagua represents an area of your life
Everything that happens in your life can be placed in one of these 9 categories, and the Bagua Map helps you locate them:
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Wealth & Prosperity
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Fame & Reputation
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Love & Marriage
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Creativity & Children
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Helpful People & Travels
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Career
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Ancestors & Health
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Health & Center
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Knowledge & Self-cultivation
Here is the In-depth look at each corner (“gua”)
1. The Wealth Gua is related to abundance. The Wealth Area of your home is enhanced with mostly the wood element. It is the South East area of your house OR the top left corner of your apartment. It can be represented by: healthy Plants, Green and Blue Colors.
2. The Fame Gua is located in the South corner of your house OR the rear middle section of the apartment. It is ruled by the Fire element. Can be represented well by candles, fiery colors like red or burgundy, fireplaces, triangular shapes, summer vibes.
3. The Love Gua: the South West of your house of top right corner of an apartment. The dominant elements in the love corner are Earth and Fire. Therefore accents should be in tones of red, pink, orange, burgundy, yellow, etc. Things should be in pair.
4. The Creativity and Children gua: The Creativity and Children area is located in the West corner of your house OR middle right section of the apartment. It is about creativity and its process. Children rearing,new projects and the wellbeing of the children in the house. When you want to conceive or create, enhance the corner with pastel tones and kid-friendly colors, white and metal, gold, playful décor.
5. The Helpful People and travel gua: also represented by the Metal element, located in the northwest corner of your house, OR the bottom right quadrant of your apartment. Your mentor luck, your opportunities, your network, your travels can be propelled by displaying round metallic objects, globes, maps, connected devices, phones and electronics.
6. The Career area: If you live in a house, the North quadrant will be your career area. If you live in an apartment, your career will generally fall in the bottom middle part of the map (unless of course your apartment has a missing career area, that is if your apartment has an irregular shape). The career LOVES the water element. You can enhance it with a fountain, dark colors, mirrors, asymmetrical shapes, water paintings.
7. Wisdom and Self-knowledge: North East or bottom right quadrant. Place an altar in this part of your house and calming symbolism: a buddha, some candles, a quiet water feature, some floor pillows, your crystals, photos of people that inspire you (dead or alive, famous or not, people that have your best interest in mind), quiet paintings. The elements presents should be of the Earth and Water elements.Colors: dark blue, black, cream, taupe, yellow, beige.
8. Ancestors and Health: East in a house or right middle section of apartment. Enhancements for Health and Family wood furniture and objects, Healthy plants and flowers, green and blue tones, shapes of columns, tall thick stripes.
9. The Center (and health): Because this is the center of the Bagua and touches all other areas of the Bagua, it really plays a supporting role to every one of the other areas. The center is the foundation of your home. Rules by the Earth element. You can decorate with Earth-Tones/Yellow, low furniture, very calming décor.
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How to use a bagua map in your home or apartment
