What is the Bagua?

The Bagua Map, originates from the I Ching and has eight trigrams, or “special areas of life.” We use the Bagua as a tool to locate these special areas and enhance them.  First draw a floor plan of your home. Garages, decks and porches that are physically attached to your home and are more than 5 inches off the ground are included in that drawing. Stand at the front of your door looking into the house. Hold the Bagua with the Career section towards your stomach and the red Fame & Reputation towards the room. This is the direction you overlay the Bagua on your floor plan of your house. Our houses are not perfect squares or rectangles. So one might have to stretch the Bagua to fit their home. This is completely normal. In some cases a deck might bump out the back of the house and therefore the Bagua gets bumped out and you might have part of the Bagua energy missing and need to anchor the missing part in your landscape. Feng Shui has lots of metaphors and symbols so don't get stuck on why to do something in the beginning. Once you experience the process you will start to understand. Remember everything is made of energy. Therefore we connect the dots this way. Now that you have the Bagua on your floor plan now what? Let’s look at, the far left corner of the Bagua this is your Wealth and Prosperity area. We can enhance this area to help bring in more abundance. Place something in that corner that makes you feel wealthy; an expensive piece of art, a coin collection, or a water fountain. Water represents wealth in Feng Shui. Our body is made up mainly of water, without water we can’t survive therefore water is looked at highly in Feng Shui. We look at each square and how it reflects in our home and balance it. Play with it. Have fun!