If you like Feng Shui you know that the Bagua map is one of the fundamental tools to work this ancient art that brings us well-being and prosperity. Bagua Map, How To Use It And What It Is (Part I).
The Bagua is a map of octagonal form that allows us to divide the space in zones, to know how it is applied to work the different areas or aspirations.
The couple and love, relationships, family, prosperity and money, studies, growth, fame, and so on.
What is the Bagua
The Bagua has its origin in the I Ching that works with the energies Yin and Yang, which are represented with a broken line and a complete, what is called duality, the two.
When these elements are combined in groups of 3, eight different options appear; they are the eight trigrams that in origin represent the Turtle that unites Heaven and Earth.
Feng Shui uses the eight cardinal directions corresponding to the eight trigrams of the I Ching and that are applied to the 8 aspirations.
In these eight orientations we see represented:
- Seasons of the year
- 9 numbers
- The 5 elements and their energies Yin and yang
- Celestial animals
- Color
- The 8 aspirations
Pa Kua or Bagua Map
What does Bagua mean?
“The pa kua or Ba gua (eight states of change) is the name given to the Chinese symbol composed of eight trigrams arranged in a certain way around a center, the yin-yang.
The Bagua is divided into 8 directions, portions that correspond to the eight cardinal points of a compass.
When the division is made by means of a quadrant, 9 areas are generated on the map, each of the areas represents an area of life or we can also call it aspiration.
This octagon is one of the fundamental parts of traditional Feng Shui that joins the rational Feng Shui by linking it with the Bagua map of the Buddhist school.
How to place the Bagua Map
We are going to learn how to place the Bagua Map so that you can later work on each of the areas of your home and make the changes you have proposed.
1. Search for the Energy Center
The first thing that we need is to locate in the plane of the house the energetic center of the house, when the plant is square it is relatively easy to mark it with a few diagonal lines from the corners.
When the plan of the house indicates that it has a missing area within a square plan, the missing area is adjusted and drawn the same way.
Nevertheless when they are irregular plants it is necessary to trace diverse diagonal lines taking into account where the door of the entrance is until locating the center.
For the less experienced I’ll tell you a trick, remember that the plane must be leveled so that the entrance door is at the bottom.
The trick, cut the plane, take a pin and place it on a cork panel until it is level (the entrance door at the bottom and straight), the point of the pin where it is anchored should be the energy center.
In most planes it is easy to know where the center of the house is.
Point with a point on your plane where the center is.
2. Orientations of the Compass
In order to take the cardinal points it is enough to have a simple compass or much more comfortable with some application for mobile compass that indicates us exactly the orientation with degrees.
3. Placing the Orientations
Now we place the Bagua template in the center of the house.
Place the center of the template exactly in the energy center you have marked, now rotate the template to locate exactly the first orientation you have taken.
Verify that the second measurement you have made coincides with the main door.
Mark on your plan exactly where the eight cardinal points are.
4. The Bagua Grid
Quadrants are lines of exactly the same size and shape that will allow us to delimit the house by zones to work by areas.
When we place the grid we are also going to know if we have missing or surplus areas, to which aspiration they correspond (to work them later).
Also we will be able to see in which area are located so important stays as the bath or the kitchen and to locate to the perfection which is the part of the house where is our area of the prosperity.
The grid, so to speak, is elastic, we can adjust it making either squares or rectangles (not excessively elongated forms) so we must extend it until we get to occupy most of the space.
This is where we must begin to make the first decisions, because depending on how irregular the plant we are going to work with is, we will have missing areas and surplus areas.
The ideal thing is to look for the balance, it is preferable that we lack a zone that for us is not very relevant (if we need it already we will apply it in one of the stays with a small Bagua) to that we have many zones with excesses, since this is not good either.
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