How Feng Shui Can Help You Achieve Goals

By Ken Lauher

Excerpt from Feng Shui Secrets: What Everyone Should Know About How to Be Successful with Feng Shui.

The Feng Shui Ba Gua isn’t exactly a secret, but it is one of the most misunderstood aspects of this ancient art and science. I can’t tell you how many people call me for guidance on how to lay the Ba Gua over their home, apartment, office, yard, or a single room.

The Feng Shui Ba Gua is an ancient Eastern tool — almost like a map — which divides your home into nine equal sections, called trigrams. Each of these sections corresponds to an area of life, one of the five elements used in Feng Shui, and specific colors.

The Ba Gua helps us understand how the areas of a home, apartment or room correspond to the areas of our life. When we look at our living environment in relation to the Ba Gua, it provides us with valuable insight into what’s important to us, how we’re living our life right now, and where we’re placing our focus.

Ba Gua Basics

Although the Ba Gua is most frequently represented as an octagon, with 8 sides and a “center,” when you lay the Ba Gua over your home, it helps to think of it as a square or a rectangle, depending on the basic shape of your home.

Whatever shape your home, the Ba Gua should be divided into 9 equal sections. If your home has extensions or missing areas (areas that do not fill the Ba Gua when it is laid out as a square or rectangle), we will deal with those later. Just lay out the Ba Gua as if those spaces are there for now.

The Ba Gua and the Mouth of Chi

When you lay the Ba Gua over your home in Black Sect Feng Shui, you do not need to worry about compass directions or which way your home faces.

Place the Ba Gua over your home as if it were a blueprint, with the front (that is, the bottom, containing the career trigram in the center) edge of the Ba Gua against the front wall of your home. (The wall containing your front door.)

What if you use a different entrance other than your front door as your home’s main entrance?

You should still lay out the Ba Gua in relation to your front door, which is the mouth of chi and begin to use your front door more often.

We’ll talk more about using Feng Shui in your front entrance to encourage the flow of chi later in this section.

When you place the Ba Gua over your home, your front door will land in 1 of 3 sections: