Bagua Map

Used to determine your specific auspicious and inauspicious areas of a space, a bagua map is a basic and valuable tool in feng shui.

A bagua map is a fundamental feng shui tool

The Chinese translation of the word bagua means eight areas - ba means eight and gua means area. In feng shui bagua refers to a map that feng shui practitioners and consultants use to locate certain areas within a designated space such as a house, room or office. Each area is either auspicious, meaning it has positive energy and is good for you, or inauspicious with negative energy and is not good for you. Determine this by using the bagua and a sketched floor plan of the space.

The map, or chart, is shaped like an octagon, divided into eight sections. The ninth section of the bagua, the center, contains a yin yang, symbolic of the balance within you. This area of the bagua directly relates to the other eight sections and the way they correspond to you. Each of the nine areas corresponds directly to one of the following nine specific life areas.

• Career, life path and soul purpose
• Knowledge and study, meditation, intuition and self-cultivation
• Immediate family, ancestors and superiors
• Wealth and prosperity
• Fame and aspiration referring to your perception of yourself, reputation
• Relationships with partner, friends and family, love and marriage
• Children and creativity
• Helpful friends and guides, support system, spiritual guides
• Health as it relates to you as the center of all life areas

By using the map and identifying the nine energy centers of your home or room, you learn the necessary feng shui cures in each area.

Think of the bagua as a blueprint showing the way energy moves in a space. When you lay the blueprint over your floor plan, it shows the kinds of energy and its movement in each area. Knowing this allows you to make the changes needed for the flow of positive chi to areas needing strengthening.

Placement of the bagua depends on the method of feng shui you practice. In the United States, many feng shui practitioners and consultants follow the Black Hat Sect of feng shui and interpret the bagua based on the location of the front door or doorway into a specific room. To do this, enter the doorway and stand still. The direction you are facing is north, even though it is not the compass direction north. In the Black Hat Sect of feng shui, this is directional north. Practitioners of this type of feng shui base the bagua placement on this directional north reading. Other parts of the world use the actual compass direction of north for feng shui bagua readings.

Each area of the bagua, also known as Pakua and Lo Shu square, corresponds with a number from one to nine, relating to one of the nine life areas. Each area also corresponds with a cardinal direction, an element and specific colors.

Place the bagua over your sketched floor plan aligning the front door along the bottom of the bagua. The bottom edge of the bagua map consists of the squares representing helpful people, careers and knowledge. An excellent explanation of how to place the bagua is provided by Feng Shui Vibes.

If the bagua does not fit your floor plan, stretch the bagua map to make it fit keeping the areas equal in size.

The following websites are excellent resources for understanding and interpreting the bagua.

• The Crabby Nook provides information on your personal gua number, also known as kua number and its relationship to your bagua.
• Home Peace by Sacred Spaces provides great information on determining the correct way to layout the bagua onto your floor plan.
• Circle of Light provides bagua maps to print. There is one for a home or business based on eastern feng shui and one for home, office or individual rooms based on western feng shui.

A fundamental feng shui tool, a bagua map shows you the areas that need to strengthening so the vital energy of life or chi, flows freely, maximizing your health while improving your life.

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