Feng Shui Bagua spelt as BA - GWA is the map of Feng Shui, which is used to find out which part of your home or office correlates with a particular situation in your life. Once you have an in-depth understanding of the bagua it will be easy for you to evaluate and adjust your environment for better health and productivity, thus improving your life.

The Bagua Diagram

Bagua is a colorful octagon, divided in nine areas, or "guas". The eight sides and the center portion form the nine guas, which correspond to nine major areas of life - prosperity, fame and reputation, relationships, family, heath, creativity and children, skills and knowledge, career, and helpful people.

The Guas

The central area signifies health. Good health comes under the earth element and yellow is considered to be an auspicious color for better health. The fame and reputation Gua signifies the fire elements. According to Feng Shui red color is good for creating fame and reputation. The pink side of the bagua represents relationship / love and marriage. The purple color on the bagua indicates prosperity and abundance. The green side on the map stands for the wood element, which represents family and foundation. Skills and knowledge are represented by the blue color. Where as the silver/gray color indicates helpful people. The water element signifies career and life path, which is indicated by the black color. On the other hand white signifies metal element, which stands for creativity and children.

How to use the Bagua

To over lay bagua on you house or work floor plan, stand at the entrance of the door facing in. Then hold the map in such a way that blue, black and gray guas are towards you. Try to draw a straight line across the front of the home where the door is. This would be the line at the bottom of the chart. Thus know you can easily locate the different guas in your house.

Bagua is very useful when planning to buy a new house and if you want to buy it according to the Feng Shui, or even while renovating the house. However only an expert can give the best readings. But incase you want to learn to understand this map various books are available; similarly Internet can provide you the best information.

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