What’s the deal with 8 Mansion Feng Shui? If you’ve been following or researching up on feng shui, you’ve probably come across the term of Ba Zai feng shui, or 8 Mansion feng shui. It is one of the most newbie friendly but also the more ineffective one.
Reasons not to use 8 Mansion:
8 Mansion takes the eight directions and divides it into four lucky or auspicious directions, and four unlucky or inauspicious directions. The 8 Mansion is applied based on the sitting direction of the house. This also divides it into a west group or an east group. For those of you who have been doing Gua calculations, you’ve probably heard of the term west and east group.
The tricky bit about using 8 Mansion is that for a family (for instance), you would have some family members belonging to the east group and some family members belonging to the west group.
The real tricky situation comes when a couple, a married couple, or a committed couple. Let’s say the husband is a west group and the wife is an east group. Then there is no way to find a feng shui method that will work for them.
That is one drawback to 8 Mansions.
Now, there is also some research that came up from Grandmasters who’ve researched the ancient texts. The 8 Mansion is the more prevalent topic in the ancient text called Ba Zai Min Ji, meaning “bright mirror”. And this text apparently has 100 something chapters. However, what many of the Grandmasters, the modern day Grandmasters realize is that Ba Zai Min Ji talks about it with regards to external feng shui. And even when it comes to the house, they only talk about the door as well as the gates or the pathways and the hallways. There is no mention about using 8 Mansion for inside the house as in the rooms inside the house.
So there are certain feng shui lineages out there that use 8 Mansion more for external feng shui. If you want to design your gates or water activation outside of my lineage, the 8 Mansion is taught as a theory. We have been told not to use it for application simply because in many instances it’s not applicable. Even if it is, the result is the weakest out of all the classical feng shui methods.
Also if you have east and west group, it is hard to kind of find a middle ground that would work for the whole family.
On top of that, there was also a main dynasty text that also talks about 8 Mansion as in the direction that comes towards the house externally.
This is also the method that I started out when I started researching. After being trained in other classical feng shui methods, I’ve found that it can potentially put you in negative positions. Positions or feng shui facings that can actually trigger loss, ill health and all that.
So where my lineage is concerned. We don’t apply it. We know about it, but we don’t use it simply because it’s not effective.
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