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This site teaches the classical compass school — the Eight Mansions (八宅) and Flying Star (玄空飛星) methods that work from your birth data, your home's compass directions, and the calendar. No guesswork dressed up as intuition: every tool here shows its formula, and every guide tells you which direction it means and why.
Free tools, no sign-up. The year currently runs on the 2026 chart, until Lichun on 3 February 2027.
Start in three steps
Classical practice always begins with the person, then the year, then the rooms.
Know your Kua number
Your Kua number (命卦) comes from your birth year and sex. It places you in the East or West group and names your four favourable and four unfavourable directions — the foundation for bed, desk and door decisions.
Read this year's stars
The nine flying stars change palaces every year at Lichun. In 2026 the 1 White sits in the centre, prosperity star 8 White is in the East, and the 5 Yellow — the year's most difficult star — occupies the South.
Fix one room at a time
Start where you spend the most hours: the bedroom. Our room guides apply the compass method room by room — what to do, what to avoid, and the reasoning behind each rule.
Room guides
Six guides, one per room — each written to be acted on the same day, in the order classical practice tackles them.
All guides, including the five foundation primers →
Why the compass school?
Two broad approaches dominate English-language feng shui. The BTB school, popularised in the 1980s, lays the bagua over a floor plan aligned to the front door, the same way for every home. The compass school — the older, classical method this site teaches — works from actual compass directions, the occupants' birth data, and time cycles: the annual flying stars, and the 20-year periods (we are in Period 9, 2024–2043, ruled by the fire star 9 Purple).
Neither approach can promise outcomes, and we won't pretend otherwise. But if a piece of advice can't tell you which direction, for whom, and until when, it isn't the classical method. Here, every claim carries its reasoning with it — starting with the calculator's step-by-step working.
The five foundations
New to the vocabulary? These short primers cover the ideas every guide on this site uses.
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Kua Number Calculator 命卦
Your Kua number comes from your birth year and sex, and sets your four favourable and four unfavourable directions in the Eight Mansions system. This calculator shows the working, not just the answer — that is the point of this site.
The feng shui year turns at Lichun (立春, Start of Spring, around 4 February) — not on 1 January and not at Lunar New Year. If you were born before Lichun, the calculator uses the previous year, and tells you when it did.
What the result means
East Group (東四命) — Kua 1, 3, 4, 9. Your favourable directions are North, South, East and Southeast in some order.
West Group (西四命) — Kua 2, 6, 7, 8. Your favourable directions are West, Northwest, Southwest and Northeast in some order.
Each favourable direction has a job: Sheng Qi for work and prosperity, Tian Yi for health and rest, Yan Nian for relationships, Fu Wei for calm and study. Use them for the way your bedhead points, the direction you face at your desk, and the door you use most.
Your four favourable directions
Your four unfavourable directions
Practical use: face your Sheng Qi direction while working, point your bedhead toward Tian Yi for rest or Yan Nian for relationships — and avoid a bedhead pointing toward Jue Ming. The bedroom guide and home office guide show how to apply this in a real room.
How this was calculated — check it by hand
Method: Eight Mansions (Ba Zhai, 八宅). Reduce the last two digits of your solar birth year to one digit (n). Before 2000: men 10 − n, women n + 5. From 2000: men 9 − n (0 reads as 9), women n + 6. Reduce any two-digit result to one digit. A result of 5 has no trigram, so men take 2 and women take 8.
Go further
Your directions, applied room by room
The free guides show the general rules. A personal report maps your four directions onto your own floor plan, room by room, with the current year's flying stars overlaid.
Then read the year
Your Kua directions are permanent; the flying stars are not. Check which of your rooms host this year's favourable and difficult stars before you rearrange anything.
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Flying Star Charts 玄空飛星
Each year, nine numbered stars take up residence in the eight compass sectors of every home and one in the centre. The chart turns over at Lichun (around 4 February), not at New Year. Charts here are drawn with North at the top, as on a floor plan — many traditional books draw South at the top, so check orientation before comparing.
Sector by sector
| Sector | Star | Reading | Traditional response |
|---|
The nine stars, briefly
The same nine stars appear in every chart — only their seats change. Their traditional names come from the stars of the Big Dipper plus two attendants.
| Star | Name | Element | Traditional character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 White 一白 | Tan Lang 貪狼 | Water | Favourable — career, connections, new beginnings |
| 2 Black 二黑 | Ju Men 巨門 | Earth | The illness star — keep its sector quiet |
| 3 Jade 三碧 | Lu Cun 祿存 | Wood | Arguments and legal friction — soften with fire colours |
| 4 Green 四綠 | Wen Qu 文曲 | Wood | Study, writing and romance |
| 5 Yellow 五黃 | Lian Zhen 廉貞 | Earth | The most difficult star — misfortune; answer with metal, stillness |
| 6 White 六白 | Wu Qu 武曲 | Metal | Authority, career advancement, travel |
| 7 Red 七赤 | Po Jun 破軍 | Metal | Loss and theft; once a prosperity star, declined in Period 9 |
| 8 White 八白 | Zuo Fu 左輔 | Earth | Prosperity and steady income; its reign ended with Period 8 but it is still welcomed |
| 9 Purple 九紫 | You Bi 右弼 | Fire | Celebration and future prosperity — the ruling star of Period 9 (2024–2043) |
New to this? The primer What is feng shui? explains where flying stars sit in the classical system, and How to take a compass reading shows you how to find these sectors in your own home.
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The Bagua Map 八卦
The bagua divides any space into eight compass sectors around a centre. Each sector carries a trigram, an element, a family member, and an area of life. In the compass school the map is aligned to true compass directions — never to the front door.
The Later Heaven (King Wen) arrangement, drawn in the traditional orientation with South at the top. On a floor plan, rotate it so North points the way your compass says.
| Direction | Trigram | Element | Family | Area of life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North | Kan 坎 | Water | Middle son | Career & life path |
| Northeast | Gen 艮 | Earth | Youngest son | Knowledge & self-cultivation |
| East | Zhen 震 | Wood | Eldest son | Family & health |
| Southeast | Xun 巽 | Wood | Eldest daughter | Wealth & prosperity |
| South | Li 離 | Fire | Middle daughter | Fame & reputation |
| Southwest | Kun 坤 | Earth | Mother | Love & relationships |
| West | Dui 兌 | Metal | Youngest daughter | Children & creativity |
| Northwest | Qian 乾 | Metal | Father | Helpful people & travel |
Overlaying the bagua on your home
- Take a compass reading of your home's facing direction from just outside the front door, standing with your back to the house — see the compass reading primer for the careful version.
- Draw or print your floor plan and mark true North on it using your reading.
- Divide the plan into a 3 × 3 grid aligned to the compass points. Each cell is one sector; the middle cell is the centre. Irregular plans can leave a sector partly "missing" — classical texts treat a missing corner as a weakened area, not a disaster.
- Read each room against two maps: the permanent bagua sector it sits in, and the annual flying star visiting that sector this year. The flying star charts give you the second map.
That two-layer reading — fixed directions, moving stars — is the whole of the compass-school method in one paragraph. Everything else on this site is detail.
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Guides
Room by room, in the order classical practice tackles them: the rooms where you sleep, enter, live, cook, work and wash. Below them, the five foundation primers the guides draw on.
Room guides
Foundation primers
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Personal Reports & Consultations
The free tools give you the method. A personal report applies it to your birth data and your floor plan — the two things a website can't know about you.
Essential Kua Report
$29
- Your Kua number and full direction chart, with the hand-checkable working
- Bed, desk and door directions for everyone in the household
- Delivered as a PDF within 2 working days
Full Home Report
$59
- Everything in the Essential report
- Your floor plan divided into the nine sectors, each room read against the current flying star chart
- Room-by-room changes, in priority order, with the reasoning for each
- The coming year's chart included when it changes at Lichun
- Delivered as a PDF within 1 working day
Consultation Package
$99
- Everything in the Full Home Report
- Follow-up questions by email for 30 days
- Delivered as a PDF within 12 hours
What we need from you
- Birth dates for the household (for the Kua calculations)
- A floor plan — an estate-agent plan or a careful sketch is fine
- One compass reading from your front door, or a call where we take it together — the primer shows how
After paying, please email everything to hello@mingtangfengshui.com, and include the email address you used at checkout, so we can match your details to your order.
Delivery times start from when we receive your complete details — not from the moment of payment.
What we won't do
We won't promise wealth, cures or lottery numbers, and we won't sell you objects. Every recommendation in a report is a change to layout, light, or use of a room — things you can do with what you already own. If a classical rule can't be followed in your home, the report says so and gives the nearest workable alternative.
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Your order is confirmed. One step remains before we can start work: send us the details your report is calculated from.
Send these three things to hello@mingtangfengshui.com
- Birth dates — for everyone in the household, so we can calculate each person's Kua number and directions.
- Your floor plan — a photo or a scan is fine; an estate-agent plan or a careful sketch both work.
- One compass reading from your front door — taken just outside the door, facing out — or a call where we take it together. The compass reading primer walks you through it in a few minutes.
Please also include the email address you used at checkout, so we can match your details to your order.
When your report arrives
Your report is delivered as a PDF to your email. The delivery time starts from the moment we have received your complete details — not from the moment of payment:
| Report | Delivered within |
|---|---|
| Essential Kua Report | 2 working days |
| Full Home Report | 1 working day |
| Consultation Package | 12 hours |