The Feng Shui Nine Life Areas are a set of aspirations that all people have. Ancient Feng Shui masters identified and classified these life areas thousands of years ago.
Basically, there are nine life areas.
The Feng Shui Nine Life Areas:
- Career, Life Mission and Individuality
- Marriage, Relationships and Partnerships
- Health, Family and Community
- Wealth, Prosperity and Self Worth
- Center of Good Fortune and Gratitude
- Helpful People, Spiritual Life and Travel
- Children, Creativity and Fun
- Wisdom, Self-Knowledge and Rest
- Fame, Reputation and Social Life
Each of these Feng Shui Nine Life Areas has a representation in a person’s home which is determined by using a tool called the bagua map. Interestingly, what happens in each of the spaces in the home — that represent these life areas — greatly affects how people do in the respective aspects of life.
The Feng Shui Nine Life Areas in the Bagua Map
For a person to be happy, healthy and successful, they have to pay attention to all the areas of their life. Surprisingly, when people become acquainted with the Feng Shui life areas, they realize that they have only been focusing on three or four, while neglecting the rest.
Therefore, the act of learning about the life areas, can make a person re-evaluate their priorities.
As you will see as you keep scrolling down this page, we subdivide a floor plan of a home in nine sectors. Each sector is assigned an area of life. Then a person can send energy and positive vibes to each area of their life by working on the spot that represents each life area.
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WHAT IS THE BA-GUA OR FENG SHUI NINE LIFE AREAS MAP?
To understand the Feng Shui life areas, you need to understand the Bagua Map.
The Bagua Map is the basis for life areas theory, it is a chart that combines two graphics:
- The BaGua
- The Magic Square
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Before you can understand the Bagua Map, you need to understand its sources.
1 – The BaGua
“BaGua” means “8 Trigrams.” Trigrams are combinations of three lines stacked on top of one another. Some are solid (yang) and some are split (yin) down the middle. There are only eight possible combinations of trigrams. You can see them below.
In Feng Shui we arrange the trigrams in this pattern:
Each of the trigrams is associated with a power of nature. That power sets the tone for how each life area must be handled.
- MOON/GORGE = Career, Life Mission and Individuality
- AGRICULTURAL EARTH = Marriage, Relationships and Partnerships
- THUNDER = Health, Family and Community
- WIND = Wealth, Prosperity and Self-Worth
- VOIND/CENTER = Good Fortune and Gratitude
- HEAVEN = Helpful People, Spiritual Life and Travel
- LAKE = Children, Creativity and Fun
- MOUNTAIN = Wisdom, Self-Knowledge and Res
- FIRE = Fame, Reputation and Social Life
2 – The Magic Square or “Lo Shu”
In antiquity there were 7 magic squares in the Middle East. Each of this corresponded with one of the seven main heavenly bodies recognized at the time:
The Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.
In fact, the simplest magic square was the square of Saturn (3×3= 9 cells) and the most complex was the square of the Moon (9×9 = 81 cells). The “magic” in these squares is mathematical — when you add up the numbers in each row, each column, and the diagonals, they all add up to the same number.
The Magic Square We Use in Feng Shui
However, the only magic square recognized in China was what we call the square of Saturn, which is the planet related to the earth and agriculture.
The Chinese legend says that Emperor Yu (around 2200 BC) saw a tortoise emerge from the river Lo with dots engraved on the shell in a tic-tac-toe arrangement, and each grouping added up to the numbers in the magic square. As can be seen, all the rows, columns and diagonals of the magic square add up to 15.
The Bagua Map of the Feng Shui Nine Life Areas
When you combine the eight trigrams [bagua] with the magic square, you get the bagua map. The bagua map is what we use in Feng Shui to determine the location of the Feng Shui Nine Life Areas in a floor plan.
The eight trigrams are placed on the four sides of the square while the life area in the middle represents the void around which all of life revolves. Accordingly, this is how you combine 8 trigrams with 9 squares — by making the square in the middle line up with the void center of the bagua octagonal arrangement.
WHAT FOLLOWS IS A COMBINED CHART OF THE BA-GUA MAP AND THE MAGIC SQUARE AS IT IS USED IN FENG SHUI TO MAP OUT A HOME OR OFFICE BUILDING:
THIS IS HOW YOU MAP OUT THE FLOOR PLAN OR BLUEPRINT OF A HOME:
Line up the bottom of the ba-gua map with the door that contains the main entrance.
Basically, if your floor plan is a square, you end up with nine squares. If your floor plan is a rectangle, you end up with nine rectangles. However, if your floor plan is not a complete square or rectangle, some of the sectors of the bagua map may be outside of your home. In cases like those, you need to complete the floor plan.
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