Where is the Energy in Your Home?

By Erica Sofrina, Author of the book Small Changes, Dynamic Results! Feng Shui for the Western World

The Bagua

According to the Ancient Chinese Feng Shui masters, there are certain sections of a person’s home that energetically correspond to the key areas of their lives. By balancing and enhancing a particular section, it correspondingly brings into balance this part of the person’s life. The teaching is called the nine energy centers of the Bagua. The Bagua is a map (see page 4) that you lay over the floor plan of your home which determines where the key energy centers reside.

In this article, I will show you how to find these energetic sections of your own home and give you some tips for enhancing them. In so doing, don’t be surprised as powerful changes begin to unfold in your life!

The term Bagua is the Chinese term for eight trigrams. A trigram is a three-lined reading made up of broken (yin) and unbroken (yang) lines.

The wisdom of the Bagua comes from the ancient Chinese book of wisdom and divination, the I Ching. Scholars have been studying the I Ching for centuries. It is one of the great books of wisdom that charts all of the mysterious cycles of life.

Each trigram of the Bagua relates to a key part of our life experience. The nine sections cover Health and Family, Wealth, Fame, Creativity, Helpful People, Career, Knowledge and Self-Cultivation and Center.(See my last article on enhancing the wealth area of your home)

The Bauga is one of the more esoteric parts of Feng Shui and requires a bit of a stretch for westerners who tend to come from a more logical, left-brained place. In my own experience of many years as a consultant, I have found there is an uncanny connection between what is going on in my clients lives, and what I find in the corresponding section of their home Bagua. In case after case, balancing this area of their physical surroundings brought about positive shifts in that area of their lives as well.

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katarzyna p.

5:12AM PST on Jan 21, 2013

i think i'd have to do it room by room, otherwise, our love and marriage corner is represented by a toilet in the room by itself, waiting for the wall to the rest of the bathroom to be knocked down!

January 21
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Shelley G.

11:06PM PST on Jan 13, 2013

Thank you!

January 13
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Gwendolyn K.

12:29PM PDT on Jun 13, 2012

Thanks Erika. This is another interesting article.

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Teres A.

3:30AM PST on Feb 20, 2012

Thank you Erica, for your reply!

February 20
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Erica S.

5:46PM PST on Feb 19, 2012

Thank you all for the comments. To answer some questions, Teres A if you have two or even three floors, you orient the Bagua map from the actual front door of the home, the one designed to be the front door. If you have multiple floors, you first put the Bagua map on the main floor with the front door, then what ever is above or below is the same. You may have two or three wealth areas, etc. In terms of staircases they are where they are. The problem with them is that they are unsteady and even dangerous areas so we make them more stable by adding the earth element to them. I think I address how to do this more in many of my Feng Shui room by room articles. Sally C, you put the Bagua map over the entire floor plan of the house, and for extra enhancements you can also do it room by room and do 'mini' Baguas and enhance the smaller areas. Hope this helps.Send for the free stuff and more will be explained!

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Sally C.

4:30PM PST on Feb 19, 2012

I'm confused. Are we supposed to map bagua over the entire house or for each individual room?

Holly L.

1:41PM PST on Feb 19, 2012

Thanks much, Erica, for this article and the Bagua Map - what great tips! I need some energy in the family room I better get busy with the map!

1:26PM PST on Feb 19, 2012

I have two floors in my house, in which area is it best to have a stair case (I am in a position where I can actually choose) either in the health/family or the creativity/children... neither I suppose... can I do something to remedy this?

Nessie B.

11:51AM PST on Feb 19, 2012

Ugh - can already see there is junk and clutter in my wealth area! Starting on that today!!! Thanks very much for this helpful chart :-D

Sue M.

8:13AM PST on Feb 19, 2012

thanks