You determine the kind of house on the basis of the facing direction. However, many otherauthors determine the house trigram on the basis of where the house sits.

For example my house facesthe North (0 degrees), but because it sits South (180 degrees) according to those authors it would be a Li (fire) house and not a water house.

I would be grateful if you could clear up this confusion.

Thank you

Roeland

Hi Roeland,

There are a couple of concepts in feng shui. In terms of determining house element, we use Ba Zi which is based on the direction the house faces. As such North = Water, thus the house is considered Water element.

Given that Eight Trigram isn't the most accurate analysis, as it uses only the year of birth in the calculation compared to Ba Zi using Date and Time of birth, the more accurate analysis comes from the Ba Zi element. While we use Eight House as the suitability analysis only.

The problem with most of the sitting and facing direction method is that it can be confusing because Luo Pan is orientated in South-North orientation, as such often you will need to rotate analysis 180 degree before it can be fully utilised. In our website, since everything is orientated North-South just as a normal compass. So we do not use Facing or Sitting direction.

When you use a Luo Pan, and take a reading South (this is actually North in a normal compass). So if your direction you are taking oon the Luo Pan is North (this is actually South in an ordinary compass). Please note that difference. When you use a Luao Pan it is different from a compass. In our website, we completely use the North-South orientation as such what is North is North. This makes it easier to use our analysis compared to original Luo Pan. Thus to avoid confusion we do not use Facing or Sitting direction but rather the original direction.

Hope that helps.

Warmest Regards
Robert Lee
GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research