What does Sitting/Facing mean in Xuan Kong Da Gua?

In Feng Shui, the sitting direction is where a building’s back rests and the facing direction where it opens to the world, always 180° apart. In Xuan Kong Da Gua each lands in one segment of the 64-hexagram ring, only 5.625° wide, so the bearing is worth measuring carefully and correcting for magnetic declination.

Xuan Kong Da Gua · Glossary

Sitting/Facing

In Feng Shui, the sitting direction is where a building’s back rests and the facing direction where it opens to the world, always 180° apart.

What this means

In Xuan Kong Da Gua each lands in one segment of the 64-hexagram ring, only 5.625° wide, so the bearing is worth measuring carefully and correcting for magnetic declination.

In practice

In KAXANTA, sitting/facing is one of the concepts KAXANTA cross-references when synthesising your reading. The xuan kong da gua engine surfaces it alongside eight other wisdom traditions so you can see how the same question reads through multiple lenses.

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