A Feng Shui audit aims to enhance positive energy (Sheng Qi) while minimizing negative energy (Sha Qi) to promote well-being, prosperity, and harmony.
Typically, a Feng Shui audit involves hiring a consultant who will evaluate your space's layout, design, and energy, providing recommendations for improvement.
The Ba Zi Advisor introduces an innovative and accessible solution: merging analysis tools with a blog-like eLearning tool into a new concept of Self-Audit Feng Shui. As you start using it and exploring the recommended articles, you'll witness improvements in both your life and understanding.
In this guide, we provide practical steps on how to conduct your own Feng Shui audit for your home's interior. However, it's crucial to also pay close attention to assessing the surroundings of your home from a Feng Shui perspective—see guide Examine Your Surroundings: Essential Feng Shui Start—and to carefully select the timing for renovations or the application of Feng Shui remedies—see guide Feng Shui Harmony: Perfect Timing for Renovations & Remedies. All these elements will significantly enhance your ability to achieve your desired goals.
Since goals often revolve around prosperity, health, love, or personal development, we've created specific guides for each of these areas, which you can find on the BaZi Advisor - Easy Guide main page. We recommend starting with these three introductory guides to understand the basic principles of Traditional Feng Shui first.
First of all, remember that the Study Room is your space for boosting your career, finances, and academics. The Kitchen is where you focus on your physical health. The Bedroom is all about your mental health and relationships. The Main Door or Balcony is essential for an overall analysis since it's the main entry point for Qi into your home.
San He and San Yuan are the two most significant ideologies in Feng Shui, interdependent and utilized to optimize harmony and balance within a space.
- San He focuses on manipulating landforms and building placements to activate or enhance beneficial energies and neutralize or diminish the influence of negative energies. It is also known as the School of Forms.
- San Yuan, also known as the School of Formulas, analyzes periods and cycles to determine the distribution of energies in space and time. This school relies on concepts such as the 20 years, the Eight Palaces (Ba Zhai), and Flying Stars (Xuan Kong Fei Xing) to identify and amplify favorable energies while minimizing the impact of unfavorable energies.
In this article, we explore the School of Formulas (San Yuan), while the School of Forms (San He) is the focus of a separate article.
Whether we use Eight Palaces or Flying Stars for analysis, the first step is finding the magnetic orientation of the house with a compass. Then, we pinpoint the Year of Construction, marking when it was first inhabited or last significantly renovated.
We'll guide you on how to do this using the BaZi Advisor app.
- Using a compass, determine the building's facing:
a. Locate the Front of the Building: Stand at the building's front entrance or the area facing the main road, typically the busiest thoroughfare (assimilable to a Water Course).
b. Hold the Compass Level: Keep the compass flat and steady, parallel to your back and your back parallel to the building's façade.
c. Align the Compass: Hold the compass in front of you, ensuring the direction arrow points straight ahead.
d. Read the Compass: Check the compass to determine the indicated direction. The direction toward which the compass needle points indicates the building's facing direction.
- Accept the terms and introduce your name and birthdate.
- Go to the Feng Shui page
- Choose a contact (name and birthdate) to find the personal Kua number.
- In "Manage Buildings", enter the house's name and confirm.
- Enter the building's facing direction as determined in the first step by selecting the range where the established value lies which means to choose the facing direction within the 15-degree range that corresponds to your measurement.
- Enter the building's year, marking when it was first inhabited. Important! Building Year refers to the year when the first occupants moved into that dwelling for the first time. Since a building's Qi results from the composition of three distinct Qi elements, Heavenly Qi, Earthly Qi, and Human Qi, when a construction is completed, it essentially contains only Heavenly and Earthly Qi but lacks Human Qi. Because the building is intended for humans, the final Qi is practically obtained when the first person moves into that dwelling and resides there for a certain period.
- Repeat step one, but for the entrance direction, this time, and enter the value.
- Optionally, you can select a group of people representing the building's occupants. This is useful for determining the favorable directions for each building resident, assessing the extent to which the building favors them, identifying the sectors they should avoid, and where they should ideally engage in various activities, creating a group of residents, and inputting the birth date for each. If you also have the birth time, that would be even better. Press first "New Group" and name the group.
Add from your existing contact list those who are part of the group.
- Obtain or draw an accurate blueprint, dividing the building into nine sectors with parallel horizontal and vertical lines, marking cardinal points and the facing direction.
- If the house isn't perfectly rectangular, you may identify missing sectors. A sector missing almost half can be considered absent. Check any missing sectors in the corresponding checkboxes.
- Identify the exterior shapes that may generate negative energy (Sha Qi) and check the corresponding checkboxes for these areas.
For points 11 and 12, refer to the detailed information in the article Examine Your Surroundings: Essential Feng Shui Start.
That's all Folks, let's now see the results!
Once you've gone through all these steps, you'll be able to see all the information gathered from the data you've entered, organized as follows:
- Personal Directions - Your four favorable and unfavorable directions along with their meanings, how you can use them to enhance your life, and what to avoid.
- Building Audit - A comprehensive analysis of your home's sectors, their favorability, and Flying Stars analysis for each sector.
- Compatible Persons - Your compatibility with each person in the chosen group of residents, as well as your compatibility with each of them.
- Select Timing - This allows you to choose the most favorable times for renovation work, furniture moves, or applying Feng Shui remedies.
If all this information feels overwhelming at first, we totally get it. That's why we've prepared some simplified guides just for you. They'll give you the answers you're looking for in the easiest way possible, grouped into four main areas of interest: Wealth and career, Well-being and health, Love, and relationship, and Personal Growth. You can access them directly from the Ba Zi Advisor page - Easy Guide.
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