Feng Shui Personal Qua Numbers

The practice of feng shui can be dated back more than 3,500 years ago. This ancient Chinese practice utilizes the laws of both heaven and earth to improve one's life by receiving positive energy. It is believed to have an effect on health, wealth, and personal relationships.

Similar to bipolar magnetic fields, polarity is expressed through yin and yang, having two parts: one creating an exertion and one receiving the exertion. Yin and yang in feng shui are achieved through the use of the five elements: water, wood, fire, earth, and metal. Earth is a buffer, or equilibrium, when polarities cancel one another. Feng shui is all about balance.

Placement and facing are also crucial to feng shui. Using feng shui personal qua numbers, you can find which directions are best for you, like which way is best to face your home and/or furniture in your home or office. There are eight directions of facing: southeast, east, south, north, west, northwest, northeast, southwest.

To find your feng shui personal qua numbers: for men, take the last two digits of your year of birth and add them together. Keep adding the two numbers together until you get to a single digit. Subtract your number from ten. If your number is a five, then you will use the number two, yang earth element. Women, add the last two digits of your birth year together, adding the numbers you get together until you have a single digit. Add five to your number, and then reduce it to a single digit again. If your number comes to a five, then you will use eight, yin earth element.

Examples:

If you were born in 1979

Men - 7+9=16
1+6=7
10-7=3
3 is your qua number

Women - 7+9=16
1+6=7
5+7=12
1+2=3

3 is your qua number

Feng Shui personal qua numbers are broken into two groups - Westernly and Easternly.

WESTERNLY GROUP

The Westernly numbers and corresponding elements and directions:

Two - Earth and Southwest
Six - Metal and Northwest
Seven - Metal and West
Eight - Earth and Northeast

EASTERNLY GROUP

The Easternly numbers and corresponding elements and directions:

One - Water and North
Three - Wood and East
Four - Wood and Southeast
Nine - Fire and South

Feng Shui personal qua numbers can also identify which colors you are most successful in. Here are the best colors to place in your environment, according to your number.

One - Black and Dark Blue
Two - Brown, Yellow, Tan
Three - Green
Four - Dark Green
Five - Beige and Yellow
Six - Gold, Silver, White and Bronze
Seven - Gold, Silver, White and Bronze
Eight - Brown, Yellow, Tan
Nine - Red, Purple

Remember, you don't have to adjust everything in your life at once just because you now know what your qua number is and what it means. You must also take into account the numbers of those who live and work around your space and work together to achieve balance.

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