Eight Mansions 八宅
八宅 ba zhai: the eight mansions, four favourable and four unfavourable directions.Free Kua calculators hand you a number and no manual. You end up knowing your directions are 1, 3, 4 and 9, with no idea which wall that means in your actual bedroom.
This is the manual. Your Kua number and life group, your four favourable directions and four rough ones, and then the part that matters: where those bearings land in the rooms you use. Which wall the headboard goes against. Which way the desk faces in a push season, and which way in a steady one. What to check at a viewing before you sign.
Every section ends in one concrete, low-cost move. Turn this chair, check that wall, concede that corner. No renovation is ever required. This system deals in furniture, not building work, and a wrongly-placed year costs you nothing but a chair-turn to fix.
What is inside
6 sectionsYour compass, built. Your Kua number and life group, and the four favourable and four rough directions that follow, each named, translated and drawn. Two people in the same group hold different compasses, and that specificity is the point.
Which way your desk should face. Your push-season facing and your steady-season facing. They differ, and knowing which season you're in is the useful part. Plus the chair-turn fix for a room that won't cooperate.
Which wall the bed goes against. The headboard wall for rest, the alternative the tradition picks for a shared bedroom, and which room should claim the best position.
What to check before you sign. The main-door test to carry to every viewing, the classical stove rule, and the honest answer for renters whose door is already fixed.
What to do with the rough directions. An honest severity order in plain words, and a compromise ladder, because every home contains all eight and the real question is assignment rather than avoidance.
Bearings you can read in seconds. AT A GLANCE boxes on every placement sheet with the reasoning underneath, plus how-to figures and a wedge-mapping guide. Your document closes with a one-page classical appendix: what a traditional practitioner, reading the same charts strictly by the old texts, would have ruled. Unsoftened, clearly framed, and separate from the reading's own guidance.
Each direction closes on what to do with it in an ordinary week, framed as a tiebreaker for a decision you are already weighing.
Who this reading is for
From the listing- house hunting, and after one more honest filter than the floorplan gives
- staring at two possible desk walls right now
- in a studio, where every choice shares one room
- suspicious of feng shui that starts from the sofa rather than from you
- new to feng shui, and after the version computed from your own birth year
- just moved, and unpacking into rooms you have not decided about yet
- working from home, and it is not working
How ordering works
Four steps- You order on Etsy and enter your birth details in the personalisation box. Checkout, delivery and buyer protection are handled there.
- The chart is computed from your exact birth minute by the same deterministic library every time, corrected for true solar time at your birth longitude.
- The reading is written against the classical texts named below, then checked against your own chart before anything is issued.
- A designed PDF arrives within 24 hours, yours to keep and read again later.
The listing gallery
6 imagesCommon questions
NotesDo I need to rearrange my home?
No. The reading gives you the directions the tradition assigns to your birth year and what each is held to favour. It is a tiebreaker for choices you are already making, such as which side of a room to put a desk.
What if I do not know my birth time?
Write unknown. The hour pillar is withheld and the reading says plainly which parts it can and cannot speak to. Nothing is invented to fill the gap.
How is this different from a free chatbot reading?
Ask a chatbot for your chart and it invents one, then invents a different one tomorrow. The chart here is calculated by the same deterministic library every time, and the working is printed in the back so you can check it.
Does a caesarean or induced birth change the chart?
No. The chart is cast from the time you were born, however that happened.
Around this reading
All of Eight Mansions →Eight Mansions for Two 八宅
Two people, one home. Where your favourable directions agree, where they do not, and how to divide a shared space when they disagree. Read the page →Chart Legend
A single sheet that decodes any BaZi chart: the stems, the branches, the five elements and the ten gods, each translated once and properly. Made to sit beside a reading. Read the page →Work the chart out for free first: the BaZi calculator draws all four pillars, and the Day Master Finder needs only your date.
Method and sources
The directions are derived from your birth year by a documented method, not chosen, and the reading is grounded in the classical texts named in the document. It is a tiebreaker for choices you are already making, never a floor plan.
Read against the classical direction verse and the dwelling essentials:
- 大遊年歌 Da Youniange Song of the Great Wandering Year, the anchor verse, attributed to 八宅明鏡 Bazhai Mingjing
- 陽宅三要 Yangzhai Sanyao The Three Essentials of Dwellings