Kua number 7
A west group number, born into the west. Strongest in the north-west, most heightened in the east.
What Kua 7 is
Kua 7 sits in 兌 Dui, the lake trigram, in the west. Lake is open surface and exchange: what meets what comes to it. Like Kua 3 in the east, 7 is a number whose seat shares a name with its group, and the same caution applies: west being your group does not make west your strongest wall.
Being in the west group puts you with Kua 2, 6, 7 and 8, so your four favourable directions are North-west, South-west, North-east and West. The other four numbers, 1, 3, 4 and 9, hold exactly the opposite set. There is no overlap at any point on the compass, and that complement is the geometry the whole system runs on.
The four that work, and what each is for
They are not interchangeable, which is the part a list of four directions always loses. The north- west carries 生氣 Success, first of the eight, tied by classical practice to push and to work that gets seen. The south-west carries 天醫 Health, read as rest, recovery and vitality, and it is the one to protect rather than the one to spend.
The north-east carries 延年 Relationships, the long game and bonds that hold. The west is your own seat, 伏位 Stability, quiet rather than striking. A favourable direction used for the wrong purpose is a wasted wall rather than a harmful one, so which room gets which is the question a reading actually answers.
The four that do not, mildest first
The tradition ranks these rather than treating them as one bad half, and the ranking is what makes a compromise possible. The north carries 禍害 Mishaps, the mildest of the four and closer to friction than to anything larger. The south-east carries 六煞 Setbacks, drift and things not quite landing.
The south carries 五鬼 Conflict, associated with disputes and with effort that meets resistance. The east carries 絕命 Instability, most heightened of the eight, where momentum tends to disperse rather than build. None of that forecasts anything about you. It describes ground, and the order tells you which compromise costs least.
What to do with the number
Every home contains all eight directions, so the work is assignment rather than avoidance. A rough sector takes the storage, the corridor, the room nobody settles in. A favourable one earns the desk, the bed and the chair you actually use. The scale of an answer is a chair turned or a headboard moved, never a renovation, and never an instruction about how to live.
Knowing the number is the easy half. The hard half is where the front door opens onto a rough sector, and that is what a reading is for: it takes your rooms as they are and says which of the eight each one can carry.
Common questions
NotesHow do I know my Kua number is 7?
It comes from your birth year, adjusted to the Li Chun solar boundary rather than to 1 January, and from the calculation basis your chart is read on. On the male basis, Kua 7 comes from birth years including 1948, 1957, 1966, 1975, 1984. On the female basis, from years including 1947, 1956, 1965, 1974, 1983. A birthday in January or early February belongs to the previous year for this purpose, which is the most common reason a number comes out wrong.
Is Kua 7 a good number to have?
No Kua number is better than another. Every one of the eight has exactly four favourable directions and four rough ones, and the two groups are mirror images carrying the same eight designations distributed differently. What differs is which walls work for you, never how many.
Can my Kua number change?
No. It is fixed by your birth year and the calculation basis, and it does not move with the year. Systems that shift your directions annually are a different tradition, and layering the two produces a contradiction rather than a refinement.
All eight directions for Kua 7
Computed · In severity orderBirth years that give Kua 7
Computed · Li Chun boundaryThe year is taken at the Li Chun solar boundary in early February, not at 1 January, so a birthday in January or the first days of February belongs to the previous year here. That is the most common reason a number comes out wrong.
1948, 1957, 1966, 1975, 1984, 1993, 2002, 2011, 2020, 2029
1947, 1956, 1965, 1974, 1983, 1992, 2001, 2010, 2019, 2028
What Kua 7 means for the rooms you actually have
Find your day master free →This page gives you the number and the eight directions that follow from it. A reading takes your home as it is, assigns each of the eight to a room, and says what to do when the favourable four are all in the wrong places.
Still working out which system answers your question? All eight Kua numbers
Method and sources
The group, the trigram seat, all eight designations and the birth years that produce this number are computed from the same function the readings use, never typed. What each designation tends to mean follows the classical verse listed below.
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