Where did the feng shui ba gua map come from and how it works?
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- čas přidán 20. 04. 2021
- This is a very quick video that talks about the origin of the ba gua map, which is a map used in feng shui to determine the different sectors of a house. i hope to help you understand the logic behind this map, so you can decide if it is right for you.
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I'm a geographer and I never knew about Chinese compasses pointing south. I love learning about direction and cultures and this video is just the icing on the cake for me. Just yesterday (Jan 1st), I rearranged my bedroom to flow as you have pointed out in your videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge on CZcams.
i studied chemical engineering but i wish i would've studied geography, i'm interested in life generally and in it's diversity, than the minute scientific details. I'm feeling pretty stuck in life at the moment..
@@diceydaze How are you doing now? Have you taken any time to learn some geography? Just remember that it's generally okay to change directions (even and especially with small steps)! You may not find all the answers you're looking for on the first try, and that's okay 😊
@TheCloverAffiliate12 As much as I do not want to continue in chemical engineering, I have to pursue a master's degree in it because it is the only way to move to another country where I will have the opportunity and freedom to become anything I want. When I chose to study chemical engineering, I didn't know anything about it; I just wanted to study engineering since I didn't get into medicine, trying to look good for the family. I was a bright kid fresh out of secondary school who felt he could do anything. Now I'm frustrated.
I come from a middle-income African home. If you're not a doctor, lawyer, or engineer, then you're a disappointment. I regret the five years I invested in my current degree. Although I graduated with a second-class upper, this discipline is depressing as hell. It is not for someone like me. I'm a fun and social person who likes to be happy and interact with people. I am interested in life in general, faith, animals, cultures, and families, not things that are too technical and abstract from reality.
Perhaps if I grew up in Asia, Europe, or a more technologically advanced environment, I would find the stimulation I need. But in Africa, where I'm from, to be sincere, we don't need this. We go through a lot already just to live. We are not ready for these abstract things that do not address our immediate needs or make us powerless in the current situation. As a chemical engineer, you can't be employed just anywhere. You have to pursue a distinct corporate job that is tied to locations separated from the rest of society.
Your videos have taught me so much I genuinely am able to get to sleep so much easier after following your advice and putting my bed in the command position of my room
I am happy when you can feel the effect, thank you for sharing!
So if you're in the Southern hemisphere, the map is mirrored (presumably). Honestly, if I could, I would demolish my house and build a courtyard house. That central courtyard is sanctuary.
I have self studied feng shui and it is so practical. The principals are so grounded in logic.
yeah being in the southern hemisphere ive been reluctant to try compass feng shui for the longest time because no two people seem to agree on whether you should flip north and south lol. it always made more sense to me to swap them
I am not familiar enough with Navajo culture to know what I am talking about, but it seems they are very aware of directions and they favor octagonal houses with the door facing east. I wonder if any scholar has done a deep dive into the similarities and differences between feng shui and Native American practices.
Best explanation ever! Ive struggled to understand the "arbitrary" bits of feng shui till now. You are a wonderful teacher. Thank you for sharing with us all. Much appreciated from New Zealand
Im learning so much about the concepts and the cultural context they were made in, these videos are very well made from a first-contact perspective! I also like that you keep it real and visual, since thats my best learning method - I learned my bedroom doorway is to the north andmy big window to the east - but in general this also helps putting things in relation to each other as you explain and enhances the understanding! Great work!
Thank you for the lovely comment! I'm glad you are learning:)
I just found your videos, and I love them. I’ve always wondered what feng shui really is and how to implement it. You’ve helped me understand what it is, and why it is, and it makes me want to check my place and see what areas can be improved. Thanks!
Thank you!!
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and helping so many people. Feng shui is really interesting and I can't look at any space with the same eyes again! Always try to find the command position!
This is extremely valuable info. Thanks so much. I was really getting hung up on the bagua. The historical context you provided really helped me understand what it actually means.
It is so interesting. Many cultures use the directions to set up their houses, to control the "threats", the wind, the direction of the sun for heating and cooling. It is facinating.
This is so cool. Thank you for making these videos. Very enlightening. Have rearranged my bedroom based on your videos. Understanding the reasoning/thought process behind everything and how the ideas evolved makes it even better and more memorable.
I have read about bagua and never understood it so well as I do in this monent. Thank you!
Cliff, this was a great intro to the feng shui ba gua. I will search your channel for the follow up videos on this topic. Thank you! ❤
Thank you for clarifying!! If I ever have a house built, I'll keep this in mind. In english, the lines of "stuff" are called trigrams (3 lines) and hexagrams (6 lines)
Love this, thank you for making the video! I loved learning about the cultural and practical context of feng shui.
Would you reverse this in the Southern Hemisphere? Since our sun is from the North? Love your content ☺️
I’m curious also about this
So sensible & forward thinking but with solid grounding in an understanding of the tradition 👏🏽
This was so fascinating to learn! Honestly, since watching your videos, I've been able to have a better idea on fixing up my shared room with my sister. I struggle with getting to sleep and staying asleep but after watching your videos I realized just how terrible my layout was! Haha, I've been making changes to my room and the last four nights I've been able to sleep right away and stay asleep. It's crazy but it has definitely helped - even my senior dog has been coming in and sleeping beside the bed throughout the whole night since I moved everything! X) So thank you, your videos are really awesome! Great mix of teaching and roasting the humor is fantastic!
This was so informative thank you! I feel like I have a much better grasp now!
I just listened to the Economist podcast on Beijinh Hutons. This is so timely! Fascinating
I just wanted to say thank you for these videos and sharing your cultural practices and knowledge with the world. I live in the UK and recently I feel like we've become very isolated and jingoistic. Reading the comments on your videos gives me hope that their are still open minded and friendly people here.
Wow.. just wow! I found you on Tik Tok and I wanted to learn more of your culture. I love that you explain so much in little time. Please keep posting!!
Thank you! The time limit is really fun actually haha
Another brill video, I’ve never heard of this map before but this video gave me some great info 😊👍
Ah don't take the map too seriously, if you Google about Feng Shui, this map will come up very often and it always confuses people, my advice is to put it at the end of your priorities:)
@@DearModern thanks for the tip 😁
I learned so much, thank you!
"the servants room" . Always gives me heebie-jeebies!
Love your videos! They're pretty inspirational :)
Very good explanation!
I removed clutter from my desk and repositioned the chair to the command position. I was able to sort through the mail without much distraction. Thanks.
If all houses and even city entrances were built with the entrance facing south, I feel like that would be a very easy and interesting setting to translate to a 2d pixel art overworld videogame, straight out of like 30 years ago lol
I have rearranged my bedroom also. I always knew when I liked a room, but I didn't know WHY I liked it. Now I know 😉 And now I can never unsee it. Bless you Cliff (your name: one who stands high above and sees all things)
Ooooooh!!! I’d love more information on this!! Or maybe for historical c-drama fans, explanation of how the palace is set up!! 🙏🙏🙏🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️
Wow! That is so interesting!
Thank you! But also how do you look at the map in different houses? Does the map face from the entry in or is it from south to north
What do we do in the Southern Hemisphere where our houses are often north facing? Do we turn the bagua map around so the front door is the north area?
Your video really had inspired me to look at the world differently. I have one question about this video. You mentioned that the traditional Chinese house have the main gate facing away from the enemy (Genghis Khan etc)... but wouldn't this be bad feng shui as enemy may attack from the back?
When I build shelters in the woods, I have one option for an entry and it is on the east, because the sun enters the world from the east, bees have their entrance on the east and kookaburras have their entrance on the east.
Hey Modern !! I really love your videos and can't wait to see more, will you ever accept room submissions for Fengshui design? 💖💖
Hello Candy, thank you! I actually do, just not at the moment because I am focusing on a new book:)
@@DearModern Ah thank you so much! I wish you the best with it 💖💖
Hi Cliff,
not long ago I wondered why there seems to be 2 different maps for Feng Shui, namely the "round" (actually 8 sided) map referring the compass on the one hand, and the square bagua map, referring to/aligning with the entrance side..
Now I see, in trad. Chin. homes there _is no_ difference, bc. the entrance (usually) _is_ (or rather at least traditionally was) in the south, wherefor the zones of both maps conform/overlap.
*But* now I still got one question:
What if the entrance _isn't_ in the south, which map to follow then?
Is it better to orient oneself (concerning the house) on the compas (and therefor the 8 sided map with red/fire in the south),
or on the entrance (and therefor the square bagua map, where red/fire is aligned with the entry-side)?
Thank you so much! ☆
I had exactly the same question. I hope he responds soon.
As far as i understand, you place octogonal map depending on the orientation (follow compass). To place the map depending on the entrance is a oversimplified westernised way of doing it
You’re great thank you
And now I know and have context
very helpful.
Just a question, I'm moving to a large house where I'm renting two rooms, that has an entrance in the East and one in the south I believe (not sure if I can use that one). The rooms I have are facing east and north with the windows. My kua nr is 6. I tried looking into Bazi, but I find that more confusing. Do you place the head of the bed in the health direction or in the health location (and you need to face the health direction?).
Never cared much about feng shui, but a conversation some days ago left me wondering about it. Still clueless about it.
North is great if you are a southern hemisphere inhabitant/designer.
please can you elaborate more on the central courtyard style house plan. The indians have a similar system, it's called Vastushastra.
Thank you!
Hi! If there’s a fire hydrant (across the street) directly facing the front door.. what should be the remedy?
Do you also incorporate Flying Star?
It’s so interesting to me that you’d want your back to your enemies
I would have though the travel and friends sector would be by the front door. But if you turn the chart upside down, it's in the opposite corner. Is that right?
Which way should you face the map in the northern hemisphere please?
Love this
Thank you!
If you're in the southern hemisphere, should you follow these rules but swapping north with south, north east with south east, and north west with south west?
In China, do they get blasts of cold artic air from the north? Having spent most my life on or near the great plains of North America, the north wind is enough to make me wonder why homes here don't have a thick solid wall on the north. If I was building a house I would certainly consider that.
In Finland where I live they used to build houses on the south side of a hill, the door facing south and the back of the house to facing the hill. Nothing known about feng shui here but the people of old days knew the exact same things. When people live connected to nature they sense similar things around the world.
For a house with garden, how do you find the center?
Do you take the whole plot into account or make two different maps? (One for the house and one for the garden)
Does anyone know? 🙏🏻
great so i've been using the ba gua upside down the whole time 😮💨
Question: do i need to follow the bagua map colors? Like do i need to strictly color the rooms with the ones assigned?
No, that's just the color of the element.
You need to balance the elements with colors and items. Not too much of anything, not too little either. Every part of the house needs every element and if there's only white in the metal section or red in the south it can become too overruling and it is not in balance. Fire enriches the Earth, Earth shapes the Metal, Metal enriches the Water, Water feeds Wood, Wood is the food for Fire.
And all of the points of compass (areas) have their own element, eg. South has Fire, North has Water and so on. They also have their symbolic features in areas of life, f.e. South being area of love and relationships.
When an area is balanced, the chi (the flow of energy) is balanced, not too fast or not too slow.
F.e.: don't use blue/water colors (or symbols!) in the bathroom, it has already a lot of elements of water. If possible, don't have your bathroom in North. Also too much Metal (white, gray) is not good in bathroom. Depending of the point of compass you need to restrict and balance the Water with Wood and Fire and Earth.
No red in bedroom unless you need to light up your intimate life... 😆 And even then it does not give you good sleep, just more spark...
I'm not a Feng Shui expert (hopefully one day I'll be able to study it thoroughly!) but this is how I've understood. And there's a lot that can't be fitted in here....
That was super cool. Ancient Chinese wisdom 🎉
if you live in australia, should you flip the map, because then the sun is in the north instead of the south for you?
So, what about southern hemisphere, how do we apply the map?
So, what happens when the property is facing north/set on the south side of the street? 🤔
Totally confused me because I thought that furthest left corner from the entry door is wealth... so confused now why you say wealth corner is bottom right in your example by the entry door. Would explain further please?
Depends of the point of compass. From what I've figured.
So you need to find out how your house/apartment lies according to compass (your phone might have a compass app) and define the directions by that, not by the grid only put the way that the door is on the lower side of the grid. (I've seen this done too in some books.)
Apparently there are two schools about that but from what I've studied and tried the one going along the compass works better.
Still makes sense to have south in the north because the Tortoise is behind you and the phoenix in front. Facing north is just awkward. Because the tortoise mountain should be behind you, supporting 😅
1:02 I didn’t know Chinese compass always pointing to south and so it’s called 指南針.
Now I know 😅
I'll take the servants' quarters, thank you very much.
My room has a south facing window and the light is super anoying.
Either it gets in my eyes or it falls on my computer screen. It also heats up the room during summer.
So what if your windows and door face North (northern hemisphere)?
I have a two stories department with rooms in the seoncd level and living and kitchen in the first level. I'm trying to make Fneg Shui has sense in every level. Still it's a puzzle for me.
I thought that was just the BTB bagua (western bagua). I use compass readings
Thank you for explaining this. Its all makes sense now, because China is far from the equator's line so they need more sunlight while for the tropical's countries too much sunlight is a disaster. In additions overpopulation already reached 8M humans on earth, the already hot tropical countries only become hotter every year.
You mean billion 😊
Aah explains also the old maps of china are "upsidedown" (?)
How to get bagua chinese compass
What if the house was on the south side of the street?
I've heard that Europeans placed North at the top of the maps because our rivers tipically flow from North to South, but in China it's the other way around, rivers tipically flow from South to North. If it's true, I think it's a really cute logic :)
I got a bit confused as to which hemisphere we were in as in China wouldn't the sun be coming from the north?
China is entirely in the northern hemisphere. If you take a look at a world map or a globe, you'll see that its position is very similar to that of the US. So the sun is always coming from the south.
I always thought the sun rise in the east? not from the south? Im confused!
Sun rises in the east.
Because China is on northern hemisphere, the sun's path will be slightly tilted towards south; rise from south east, sets at south West.
Hope that helps
South IS at the top tho! Haven’t they flipped space images of the earth to match the Eurocentric idea that europe is up top and Africa at the bottom
The chinese got it right, magnetic north is the south pole
The chinese don't read the compass upside down, you do
Chinese compass makes no sense. South might be the safest but you still have to move every direction. I thought a compass had one global standard. How many other countries have their own compass?
If a (older model) north hemisphere compass is used in the southern hemisphere, the south pointing end of its needle would dip a lot more, since that is the weighted end and the field lines dip toward the south. The needle would likely drag on the base of the compass. Making it a pretty useless compass.