Ming Gua Calculation: Finding Your Personal Gua Number

Ming Gua (命卦), also known as Life Gua or Kua Number, is a personal feng shui number derived from the birth year. It indicates which trigram governs an individual's feng shui energy and determines their favorable and unfavorable directions.

Ming Gua is calculated differently for men and women using the birth year. The calculation involves summing the birth year digits, applying gender-specific reduction, and deriving the corresponding trigram. The result places each person in an East Group or West Group.

People with Ming Gua 1, 3, 4, 9 belong to the East Group, which favors east, southeast, south, and north directions. People with Ming Gua 2, 5, 6, 7, 8 belong to the West Group, which favors west, southwest, northwest, and northeast directions.

Ming Gua determines which directions are favorable for activities like sleeping, working, and exercising. Using favorable directions can improve energy flow in daily life, though it works best as one factor among many.

Eight Mansions (八宅) feng shui uses Ming Gua extensively to assess which palace positions in a space are favorable or unfavorable for a specific individual. This application helps personalize space assessment.