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. 

                                   

             

Energy Of the Earth Element

The earth element resides both in the southwestern corner of knowledge and self-cultivation, and in a line completely across the Bagua, in the northeastern corner that represents marriage and partnership. Earth, which is known as the nourishing energy, brings family harmony and happiness with it. The very fine energy it possesses will help you find calming balance when there is an abundance of change going on in you life. There is a certain stability you can expect from the earth energy as it maintains a form of even control over even the most difficult of times.

Natural colors of the earth element include yellow, tans, and beige. Various browns, gold’s, and rust’s can also be considered as key colors as well, though they are not as commonly used. The Chinese consider yellow a fortunate color, as it represents royalty and wisdom. You will want to use this color in moderation though, as it could quickly take over and unbalance your area with too much of the fire element. A correct balance of earth’s energy by using natural colors prevents the overpowering strength of fire energy from taking over. Too much fire energy will destroy opportunities achieved through promoting earths luck. It’s possible to evoke positive earth energy by painting the walls of these directions with one of the natural earth colors, thereby bringing good chi to both your knowledge area and your marriage/partnership area.

Using precious stones of yellow topaz, opal, cat’s eye, or citrine can increase your earth luck. Wear them or display them to summon chi energy. Displaying pictures or paintings, either in the N.E. or S.W. direction, whose subject material is that of mountains, meadows, deserts or landscapes will also increase your good fortune. Squares and rectangles, which are the shapes that signify earth energy, could be used in earth tone colors to represent abstract art forms.  Items of crystal, marble or pottery are good choices to raise the element of earth energy. Hang shining glass or crystal chandeliers to shed good light, bringing about splendid luck and joy to your family. Be aware, though, that too much earth energy will slow you down and cause lack of ambition.  If you become concerned that this may be happening, add wooden elements to strengthen the way out of the low energy being caused by the abundance of earth influence.

Enhancement with stable earth energy is an excellent tool to use when the plan is to increase your need for knowledge and also when your marriage or partnership could use soothing.

Energy of the wood element.

Energy for the element of wood resides in the eastern directional area of the bagua. It is located in the center left with the family/health section of the nine life areas. As with the metal element having a natural space to the west, wood has a natural space is to the east.

The wood element is considered a symbol of expansion and development for your family and for your health. The innovative energy of the wood element can herald new beginnings for both. Correct wood energy is a strong energy and is the one to use when your family harmony is challenged by strife or the quality of the family relationship is in need of repair.

The natural color of the wood element is green. Using green in all shades and hues is a good way to symbolize new growth in your family area. Other than greens, wood colors can also include shades of blues and browns. To recognize the impact of the accurate use of your wood element, think of the strong image a tree makes in its greens and browns against a blue sky.

Placing a green plant in various parts of your room will help you discover what a quick and simple cure it can be. You begin to understand the strength of the wood element almost immediately. Promoting growth and the expansion of wood through the use of water is also an excellent resource in your wood cures. Using a water feature promotes luck in prosperity, when placed in the east; it causes wealth to flow into the home. Another way of promoting the wood element is to place photographs of your family together in groups, or by lighting a green candle near a photo of an individual you need to energize.

You will also find a good illustration for the use of the wood element as you choose paintings that include forests, trees, plants, and floral arrangements. Display your art in the eastern zone of any of the nine life areas you want to bring harmony to.

Take time to regard the successes of your family’s interpersonal relationships and their communications. Theirs, and those of your extended family, such as a business partner or significant other, will benefit when this element comes into balance with the other elements. From the element chart we previously learned that wood fuels fire, properly balanced the two elements work in harmony to produce good family luck. When too much of the fire element is present, any good rendered by your wood element is now depleted. Fires energy will, in essence, have burned away the strength found in the wood. Learn how to evaluate all of the elements and how they react with each other as you strive to maintain a good balance in the family luck area of the bagua.

Remember, success is determined by how determined you are to succeed.

The Energy of the Metal Element

The metal element resides in the western directional area of the Bagua located in the center right, in the children’s section of the nine life areas. As with the fire element to the south, the west is metals natural space. Its creative and communicative energy, when correct, will bring splendid benefit to your whole home, not just to the children represented by this area.

The metal element brings increased goodness and inspiration to your children, providing a path of illumination in their lives and for their future. Not only is it the source of great provision for them, it can also bring about the ability of improved communications for others and bless and make fruitful all of your undertakings. The use of enhanced metal energy and corrections will ensure descendent luck for all those in your family.

Applying a metal cure by hanging wind chimes or bells, or choosing to use it’s natural colors of white, silver, or grays in their natural western position will enhance not only family and children, but metal also controls wealth and financial well being as well. To increase your metal luck is to increase your fortunes at the same time.

The shapes primarily associated with metal cures are spherical, round, or even dome shaped.  To have your metal energy contained in a circle is to provide constantly moving energy as it spirals around consistently. Art or photos containing snow covered mountains or elements that soar skyward such as modern buildings, all apply metal energy. Mirrors also can increase the metal element with its clear and clean silver reflection of light; they’re particularly helpful when reflecting a true metal art object or an item containing one of the colors of the metal element.

The precious metals of gold and silver, the prized stones of diamonds and pearls are all associated with the metal element. Incorporate jewelry made from these items into your life to constantly display your desire to call forth metal energy. Display objects made of silver, such as a tea service or place gold ingots on mirrors set on tables in the western area of your room. The hardness and strength of a properly balanced metal element will protect all that is need of protection within your realm.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Energy of the Fire Element

The fire element resides in the southern directional area of the Bagua located near the center back, in the fame section of the nine life areas. As with the water element to the north, the fire element has a natural space in the south letting its high energy bring great enlightenment to the Fame area.

The fire element brings increased recognition and illumination to the goal you’re trying to accomplish, signifying growth and expansion as you activate a fire cure. It realizes what you are passionate about and directs its inspiration towards the answer. Look to the fame area as you plan your future if the need is to draw attention or acclaim to yourself. Remember, enhancing this area will make you and your reputation sparkle; this sparkle is achieved by the activation of a fire element.

Applying a fire cure by adding candles, or choosing to use colors in reds, purples, or pinks, or by placing symbolic shapes of the symbols of fire in their natural southern position will bring great inspiration to the area you are trying enhance. Symbols for fire include pyramids, diamonds, and other angular shapes like that of a triangle. For instance, placing a fire element in the center back of the Career Area would be helpful if you are trying to create energy for a new job or expand the one you already have. Perhaps you are trying to move from team leader to upper management, then this would be where the proper cure and intention should be placed. A wooden item would be a great idea, as wood will be symbolic of fuel needed to make the fire to produce the high energy necessary for your cure. Placing a triangular wooden platter on a tabletop in the southern area of your space would be an excellent choice to use.

Certain gemstones are associated with the fire element. Wearing jewelry fashioned from rubies or garnets can increase that aspect; their deep red colors stimulating fire energy. Using artful positioning of light fixtures and candles in the southern corner will bring intensity to the chi energy you are summoning. Animal sculptures, pictures of animals, artwork or paintings containing people, sunshine, or natural lights placed in the southern corner of the life area needing enhancement would be highly beneficial.

Remember it’s better to light a candle than to curse the darkness!