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Directions · NE 045° · Sector 22.5°–67.5° · Lo Shu 8

Northeast

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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.

In the tradition

Gen is the mountain, a solid line resting on two broken ones: weight held above an open base, the image of stillness. It sits between the deep winter of north and the spring of east, the hour before dawn when nothing moves yet. Its family member is the youngest son and its virtue is knowing when to stop.

The later bagua map assigned this sector to knowledge and self-cultivation, an inference from the trigram’s stillness rather than a classical instruction.

In the room

Northeast light is early and brief: a low sun at daybreak in the warmer months, then shade. The direction suits a study, a reading corner, a library, a guest room. Earth is its element, so the tradition furnishes it with the square, the low and the matte, with books, stone and ceramics rather than glass and steel.

Sun path for a wall facing Northeast, at 45° north 0810121416 Wall faces NESW
Fig. 02 · Sun path · 45°N The sky a Northeast-facing wall can see, and the sun’s track across it in June, at the equinoxes and in December.
Jun
6.3 h
Mar · Sep
3.6 h
Dec
1.0 h

A geometric model, not a forecast: it assumes a clear sky and a flat horizon at 45° north, and it says nothing about qi. It is here because orientation is the one part of the tradition that can be drawn exactly.

See Northeast on the Bagua explorer

Sources for this page · the full bibliography

  1. 01 Stephen Skinner, The Living Earth Manual of Feng-Shui (1982). Routledge & Kegan Paul. An early, serious English introduction to the classical system.
  2. 02 Eva Wong, Feng-shui: The Ancient Wisdom of Harmonious Living for Modern Times (1996). Shambhala. A compass-school practitioner’s account of the Form and Compass methods, clear about which is which.
  3. 03 Joseph Needham, Science and Civilisation in China, vol. 4, part 1: Physics (1962). Cambridge University Press. The history of the magnetic compass in China, including its use by geomancers before navigators.
  4. 04 Mohamed Boubekri and colleagues, Impact of windows and daylight exposure on overall health and sleep quality of office workers: a case-control pilot study (2014). Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, 10(6), 603–611. Daylight at work and sleep at night; a small study, honestly labelled a pilot.
  5. 05 Joshua J. Gooley and colleagues, Exposure to room light before bedtime suppresses melatonin onset and shortens melatonin duration in humans (2011). Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 96(3), E463–E472. Ordinary room light before bed, not only screens, delays melatonin.

The sun-path drawing and the hours of light are computed from a geometric model at 45° north (see the methodology page), not taken from any source; the directions' trigrams, elements and readings are the tradition's, as the manuals above give them.

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