Your Kua Number

Your Kua number is derived from the year of your birth. It is made even  more personal depending on whether you are male or female. When you know your Kua Number, not only you will be able to gauge different aspects of your luck but also and your best directions. You can gain great knowledge for placement of items from your bed to your office.

How to Calculate your Kua Number

To find your individual Kua Number begin by using this formula. You will take the last two numbers of the year you were born and add them together. Reduce them to the lowest number that is possible. Use this example, your birth year is 1984, use your numbers 8 and 4 and add together.   8 + 4 = 12; reduce the sum by adding those two digits together, 1+ 2 = 3.

It is an important part of the formula to remember that females always add a 5 to the final number; males always subtract the number from 10.

If you are female, take the sum of your 1982 birth year that was reduced to a 3, then add the 5 to it. You will find the total 3 + 5 = 8.  Your Kua Number is 8.

If you are male, take the sum of your 1982 birth year that had been reduced to a 3 and subtract this from the number 10.  10 — 6 = 4.  Your Kua Number will come out to be 4.

Your Kua Number explains your individual energy type and will tell you which directions are favorable to you. One step further, you will find in feng shui there are two groups of people.  You have people from the East House and the people from the West House. You find that people from the East Houses are compatible, while similarly those from the West Houses seem to agree more.

If your Kua Number is 1, 3, 4, or 9, you are in the East House.

If your Kua Number is 2, 6, 7, or 8, you are in the West House.

Using this chart to find your most auspicious direction:

 If your Kua Number is:

 1 — your directions are north, south, east, and southeast.

 2  — your directions are west, northwest, southwest, and northeast.

 3 — your directions are north, south, east, and southeast.

 4 — your directions are north, south, east, and southeast.

 5 — your directions are: for men, n.east, n.west, west, and s.west.

                                     for women: s.west, n.west, west, and n.east.

 6 — your directions are west, n.east, s.west, and n.west.

 7 — your directions are n.west, s.west, n.east, and west.

 8 — your directions are s.west, n.west, west, and n.east.

 9 — your directions are east, s.east, north, and south.

Next post, we face the types of good and bad luck and how your Kua Number affects each one.

Using Color Tips

We know that changing certain colors or using the proper color in feng shui can not only correct a multitude of problems, but also that colors can release energy more quickly than many other cures. Each of the five elements we’ve become familiar with (fire, earth, metal, water, and wood) speaks to achieving harmony through the use of color.

Appropriate colors for use in with the fire element would be yellows that are bright, happy and uplifting. Use oranges to free and release emotions and bring joy to your home. Reds are used to revitalize and bring abundance. Purple can help balance your mind and remove fears while it stimulates and inspires. Use purple if creative inspiration is what you seek or if you need to call forth a renewed spirituality.  Using these colors as paint choices, accents, and art objects will raise the energy of fire in the northeast and the southwestern areas of your home.

The feng shui element of earth covers the areas of the Northeast and the Southwest as well as the center of your home.  Primary colors to enhance these earth areas are yellows, browns, beiges, and natural nut colors. These colors bring comfort, enhance stability, and bring the peace to these areas of your home. Brown brings an atmosphere of support and stability and arrives in time to minimize insecurities.

Metal element colors of gold, silver, grays, and whites will bring clarity and light to the west and northwest areas of your home. White is associated with purity and is a great color choice to use for protection. Using white can add the feelings of peace and comfort to your home. Silvers can help calm fragile emotions and soothe those that are sensitive to life’s more difficult moments.

Water, the element we find in the north also brings its harmony to the east and southeast. Primary colors for use here are the deep blues and blacks.  They wash in a wealth of abundance, bringing with it a manner of refreshment and calmness. Blue is a cool, calming color that can inspire us or relax us. Too much blue, however, may be perceived as being cold or unfriendly, but its use on a front door that is facing north will call abundance and wealth right to your door.

You will find Wood element colors of brown and green at home for use in the East, Southeast, and the south. Brown conveys a friendly warm feeling, however too much brown brings an element of drabness or sadness with it.  Be careful not to overdo it. The Southeast, which governs wealth and prosperity, calls out for use of the color green. The greens you find in nature will lessen stress, provide the path to empathy, and beckon prosperity to wind its way to you.

Remember the colors that we find all about us are the very energies that influence the paths to our destiny. They raise or lower our energy, they call us to peacefulness or raise us to anger, effective use of color choice can be one of the most important weapons in our feng shui arsenal.

The Cycles of the Five Elements

Having become familiar with the Five Elements, knowing the distinct cycles concerning them becomes paramount. Previously, it was mentioned that there is a creative cycle to the elements as well as a destructive cycle. What begins to happen is a simple process of continued renewal taking place in a constantly revolving circle.

The unending circle begins with:

           

            The element of wood burning and becoming fuel for the fire.

            The fire making ashes, which return to the earth and prosper it.

            The earth, in turn, creates metal.

            Metal heats to extreme temperatures evolving into a liquid state like water.

            Finally, water nourishes wood.

When the opposite destructive cycle begins to take place, you find rather than building one another up, the elements work to destroy each another.

            Tools of metal cut down Wood.

            The extreme heat of the fire destroys metal.

            Fire is extinguished by Water.

Water is swallowed by and then evaporated by earth.

Earth becomes populated by the growth of wood products.           

As you begin to apply one the Five Elements to bring about favorable luck, there are three methods from which to choose. Decide which element needs to be in balance and apply your cure by using that particular elements corresponding color, or perhaps its corresponding shape, or put into use its physical representation. An example of which would be:

           

            In using a wood element cure, you would possibly incorporate blue or green  into the cure as

            the color, or use as the shape, different rectangular items, or the use of the physical   representation could  be illustrated through the use of plants, wooden items or even living trees.

As cures for an individual element become necessary, simply change to that particular elements color, shape, or physical representation and as they are used, you have begun to have a basic understanding of how and what choices you have in order to affect a feng shui cure. 

Peace.