DaoDestiny · Feng Shui

Which way should your desk face?

Your Kua number decides your four lucky and four unlucky directions — for wealth, health, love and growth. Enter your birth date and find out in ten seconds. Free.

Classical Eight Mansions method. Nothing is stored.

Your Kua number

Kua number
Group
Element
Trigram

Your four lucky directions

Four directions to avoid

How it works

1 · Your Kua number

Calculated from your birth year (counted from Li Chun, the Chinese solar new year around Feb 4) and gender. It places you in the East or West group.

2 · Eight directions

Each Kua has four supportive directions — Sheng Qi, Tian Yi, Yan Nian, Fu Wei — and four draining ones. They never change for you.

3 · Put them to work

Face your Sheng Qi at your desk, point your headboard to Tian Yi, and keep bathrooms and storage in your unlucky sectors.

Consultation with Turing Tzu

Cambridge BA & MEng, Princeton PhD in machine learning, four years at Bridgewater Associates — and a lifelong student of Chinese metaphysics. One private session a week.

$299 · 45 minutes · video

Your floor plan, your BaZi chart and everyone living with you, reviewed in person. You get a written summary afterwards.

Request a session

Four sessions a month. We reply by email with available times.

Questions

What is a Kua number?

A number from 1 to 9 (5 is not used) derived from your birth year and gender in the Eight Mansions school of feng shui. It tells you which four compass directions support you and which four drain you.

Why does my birth date matter, not just the year?

The feng shui year begins at Li Chun, around February 4. If you were born in January or early February, your Kua is calculated from the previous year.

What if my partner and I have different groups?

Very common. The bedroom and bed direction are usually set for the main breadwinner or for whoever sleeps badly; each person can still use their own lucky direction at their desk.