八宅 · Eight Mansions
Kua number 8 — your directions
Kua number 8 sits under the 艮 (Gen) trigram and belongs to the West group. Your four supportive directions are Southwest, Northwest, West, Northeast, and your four demanding directions are Southeast, North, East, South. The single most useful thing you can do with this is point the head of your bed toward Southwest — you spend more consecutive hours facing one direction asleep than anywhere else in your life.
Your eight directions
- Southwest生气 · successsupportive
Your strongest direction. Use it for the desk you make decisions at, the main door if you have a choice, or the head of your bed. It supports momentum and forward motion.
- Northwest天医 · healthsupportive
The health direction, sometimes called the doctor direction. This is the one to pick for a bedroom when sleep, energy or recovery needs looking after.
- West延年 · longevitysupportive
The relationships direction. It softens conversation, which makes it the right choice for a dining table or the room where the household actually sits together.
- Northeast伏位 · stabilitysupportive
Your steadying direction. Quiet rather than energising — good for reading, focused work, or anything that needs calm more than momentum.
- Southeast绝命 · most demandingdemanding
The direction that asks the most of you. Well spent on a bathroom, store cupboard, or the body of the stove. If a bedroom sits here and cannot move, the sleeping direction does the work the room location cannot.
- North五鬼 · frictiondemanding
Small things feel bigger from here. Fine for utility rooms and short-stay spaces; less good for the desk where you handle difficult conversations.
- East六煞 · obstaclesdemanding
Adds a little drag to anything long-running. Suits a guest room, a corridor, or a room you pass through rather than settle in.
- South祸害 · frustrationsdemanding
The mildest of your four demanding directions. If something has to sit in one of them, make it this one — you will barely register it.
This is you. What about your actual home?
Your directions are only half the reading — the other half is the home you are actually in, and whether its sectors agree with yours. Run your own combination free, no signup.
Common questions
- What are Kua 8's lucky directions?
- Southwest, Northwest, West, Northeast, in that order of strength. Southwest is your 生气 (success) direction — the one to use for your desk, your main door, or the head of your bed. Northwest is your 天医 (health) direction, which is the one to choose for the bedroom if sleep or energy has been rough.
- Which way should a Kua 8 person sleep?
- Point the head of the bed toward Southwest. If that is not physically possible in the room, any of your other three supportive directions — Northwest, West, Northeast — works well. This is the highest-leverage adjustment in Eight Mansions because it costs nothing and applies for eight hours a night regardless of which sector the room itself occupies.
- What kind of house suits Kua 8?
- A West-group home, which means a house facing Northeast, East, Southeast, Southwest. That said, group mismatch is extremely common and is not a reason to move — in a mismatched home you lead with your sleeping and desk directions rather than the building's sectors, and both are free to change today.
- Is Kua 8 East or West group?
- West group. West-group numbers are 2, 6, 7 and 8, and they share the Southwest, Northwest, West and Northeast directions. The two groups have no directions in common at all, which is why households often cannot put everyone in their best sector at once.