Your kua number is

4

East Group

Trigram ☴ Xun, Wood, home direction Southeast

Best direction North, Sheng Qi, vitality. Face it when you work; take it for the front door if you can

Health South, Tian Yi, the heavenly doctor

Love & family East, Yan Nian, longevity. Point the bed here

Stability Southeast, Fu Wei, your own seat

Keep at your back Northwest (Mishaps), West (Six Killings), Southwest (Five Ghosts), Northeast (Total Loss); worst last

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Your compass

NW Mishaps

N Vitality

NE Total Loss

W Six Killings

E Longevity

SW Five Ghosts

S Heavenly Doctor

SE Stability

Green feeds you. Map view: north at top.

What the tradition makes of a kua 4

The Wind That Wins Slowly

Your trigram is Xun, wind — also read as wood — the eldest daughter of the trigram family. Wind holds no meetings and issues no orders, yet it gets into every gap and, given time, reshapes the whole landscape. Tradition reads kua 4 people as gentle persuaders: you influence rather than push, you are trusted with delicate errands, and you win negotiations the other side walks away from feeling good about. Growth, the manuals say, is your natural work — of people, plants, projects, savings. The one warning: wind scatters if it tries to blow every direction at once. Pick a valley.

East group means your four good directions all sit on the north–south–east–southeast side of the compass — the sunrise half, in the old shorthand.

So what do I actually do?

Desk: sit so your face points north while you work. That's your vitality direction; the old rule is simply "face your luck."
Bed: point the top of your head east when you sleep, the relationships-and-longevity direction. Can't rotate the bed? south (health) or southeast (calm) are the backups.
Feeling run down: south is your recovery direction, face it when you rest, put the reading chair on that side.
Big conversation coming: take the seat that faces southeast, your own trigram's seat. Steadiest ground in the room, says the tradition.
What to avoid: don't sleep or work facing northeast if you can help it, that's your worst direction. The other three bad ones (northwest, west, southwest) can keep the closets and the laundry.

Triage, not perfection: no real apartment clears all eight directions. Get the bed and the desk right and tradition calls it a win.

The math, in the open

Feng shui year: 1989. Digit sum: 1989 → 27 → 9 → S = 9. Female: 4 + 9 → 13 → 4. Kua: 4.

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