Index · nine sectors
A reference for the arrangement of space
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24 mountains8 directions1 plan
Feng shui is a discipline of orientation: where the door faces, where the bed rests, where the light enters and where it leaves. FengShui.info reads rooms the way an architect reads a plan, and says plainly which parts are tradition, which are interpretation, and which have evidence.
01 — Understanding space
A room is a set of relationships before it is a set of objects: the door to the bed, the window to the desk, the wall to your back. Feng shui is a two-thousand-year-old vocabulary for those relationships. Some of it is cosmology, some of it is good sense about light and shelter, and some of it has been tested. We keep the three apart.
02 — Rooms
03 — Directions
Each of the eight is cut into three · the twenty-four mountains
04 — The Bagua
The bagua is a compass and a floor plan at once. Turn the ring, and each sector gives up its trigram, its element, its season and the colours the tradition assigns to it.
Bearing N 000°
Turn the ring, or choose a sector
Kan · Water
The abysmal, the deep · Middle son
The direction of deep water and of the year’s turning. Classical siting put the back of a house here, against the cold, so that the building sat with north at its shoulders and faced the sun.
Gen · Mountain
Keeping still · Youngest son
The mountain: the still point before dawn, where the year has not yet turned. A direction for study, for the quiet room, for anything that benefits from being left alone.
Zhen · Thunder
The arousing · Eldest son
Sunrise, spring and the first movement of the year. The direction of beginnings, of morning light on the wall, of the rooms in which a household starts its day.
Xun · Wind
The gentle, the penetrating · Eldest daughter
Wind: growth that has found its rhythm. Long morning light, gradual increase, the direction the tradition associates with things accumulating slowly.
Li · Fire
The clinging, clarity · Middle daughter
Noon and midsummer: the brightest wall in the house. In classical maps south is drawn at the top; it is the direction a house was built to face.
Kun · Earth
The receptive · Mother
The receptive: three open lines, the field that takes everything in. Warm afternoon light and the tradition’s direction for the rooms in which people are together.
Dui · Lake
The joyous · Youngest daughter
The lake and the setting sun. The direction of the end of the day, of pleasure and speech, of the low light that comes in flat and turns everything gold.
Qian · Heaven
The creative, strength · Father
Heaven: three unbroken lines, the strongest trigram. The direction the tradition reserved for the head of the household, and the last light of the day.
05 — Featured guide
The tradition’s most repeated warning, and the one that survives translation best. What a mirror does to a bedroom, drawn out, and what the sleep research does and doesn’t say.
06 — Begin here
I have a specific problem: a bed under a window, a desk with its back to the door.
Go to the guidesI want to understand the system before I move anything.
Take the first reading pathI want to know which way my rooms face, and what that is supposed to mean.
Open the explorer07 — Methodology
Every article on this site labels its claims. A sentence from a fourth-century text, a rule from one modern school, a designer’s observation and a finding from sleep research are different kinds of knowledge, and they are marked differently.
