Feng shui Kua number calculator and Home Harmony score

What is feng shui?

Feng shui (风水, “wind and water”, sometimes written fengshui) is the Chinese practice of arranging where and how we live so that people and place sit well together. It has two broad branches: the Form School (峦头), which reads landforms, roads, light and the shape of rooms, and the Compass School (理气), which works with directions and time. Eight Mansions (八宅) and Flying Stars (玄空飞星) are the best-known compass methods.

Your Kua number and the Eight Mansions

Eight Mansions gives each person a Kua number (命卦) from their birth year and gender. Kua numbers fall into two groups:

• East group: Kua 1, 3, 4 and 9, whose good directions are north, south, east and south-east.
• West group: Kua 2, 6, 7 and 8, whose good directions are west, north-west, south-west and north-east.

Each person has four favourable directions, Sheng Qi (生气, growth), Tian Yi (天医, health), Yan Nian (延年, relationships) and Fu Wei (伏位, stability), and four to avoid. The calculator works out your Kua, using Li Chun (about 4 February) as the start of the year, and shows all eight directions for your desk, bed and door.

Home Harmony: one score for the whole household

Real homes are shared. Home Harmony takes everyone who will live in a home, for example husband, wife, son and daughter, and the direction the main door faces. Parents carry the most weight in the score; for children the focus is on study, so their desk direction matters most. You get:

• a household score for the unit, and which group of directions the house belongs to;
• the best direction for each person’s bed and desk;
• side-by-side scores for up to three units, handy when choosing between HDB flats, condos or landed homes in Singapore.

Home Harmony is open to everyone, including property agents who want to show buyers how a unit suits their family.

Simple feng shui habits that help any home

• Keep the main door area bright, clear and welcoming.
• Place the bed with a solid wall behind the headboard, ideally pointing to one of your good directions.
• Sit at your desk so you can see the door, facing a good direction if you can.
• Let in daylight and fresh air, and clear clutter from corridors and corners.

Keeping feng shui in perspective

Feng shui is a cultural design tradition. There is no scientific evidence that directions change fortune, but many of its habits, such as light, air, order and a calm bedroom, make a home more pleasant to live in. Use it alongside, never instead of, proper property checks.

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