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Directions · SE 135° · Sector 112.5°–157.5° · Lo Shu 4

Southeast

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Wind: growth that has found its rhythm. Long morning light, gradual increase, the direction the tradition associates with things accumulating slowly.

In the tradition

Xun is wind, or wood in its gentle phase: two solid lines above a broken one, movement that gets in everywhere. It is late spring, mid-morning and the eldest daughter. Where Zhen is the shock of beginning, Xun is patient continuation.

The association with wealth belongs to the Western bagua; it is a reading of Xun’s gradual accumulation, not a classical claim.

In the room

Southeast rooms get long, useful morning light and stay bright into early afternoon. They suit living rooms, kitchens and home offices. Wood’s verticality belongs here, and the tradition’s advice to keep the sector uncluttered and moving is, in practice, the advice to keep a good-lit room from filling up.

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