Kua 6 corresponds to Qian 乾, the Heaven trigram — three unbroken lines, the creative, the father of the trigram family — seated in the north-west of the Later Heaven arrangement. It belongs to the West Group of life numbers in Ba Zhai 八宅, the Eight Mansions school, with Kua 2, 7, and 8. Classical practice treats the Ming Gua as a permanent frame: derived once from birth year and sex, it assigns each of the eight compass directions a fixed star, four favourable and four not. This guide gives the Kua 6 table in full and the standard ways of using it.
The four favourable directions of Kua 6
Kua 6's generating breath, Sheng Qi 生氣, falls in the west — the direction for enterprise, authority exercised, and work meant to be seen through. Tian Yi 天醫, the heavenly doctor, falls in the north-east, the direction of recovery and timely support. Yan Nian 延年, longevity, falls in the south-west; classical doctrine pairs this star with Wu Qu 武曲 and gives it the durable bonds — notably the Qian–Kun axis of heaven matched with earth, the old image of husband and wife. Fu Wei 伏位 rests in the north-west, Qian's own palace, the seat of order, routine, and self-command. All four are West Four positions — west, north-east, south-west, and north-west — which is why the school matches West Group people to West Four houses.
The four unfavourable directions of Kua 6
The unfavourable four for Kua 6 are south-east, east, north, and south. Huo Hai 禍害, mishaps, falls in the south-east — minor abrasions, the mildest of the four. Wu Gui 五鬼, the five ghosts, falls in the east, the direction classical texts associate with friction among colleagues, mistrust, and petty loss. Liu Sha 六煞, the six killings, falls in the north — entanglement and disrepute. Jue Ming 絕命, the severed fate and heaviest of the stars, falls in the south, where Li's fire meets Qian's metal — the furnace to the blade, in the classical image. For a trigram whose whole character is command, the doctrine's warning is specific: it is prolonged facing and sleeping toward these directions, above all the south, that the school advises giving away.
Applying the table at home and at work
A Kua 6 desk faces west for decisive work or north-west for governance of what already runs — the study, for the father-trigram, is the room the school treats as its natural seat. The bed is oriented so the crown of the head points south-west or north-west; couples are classically set toward Yan Nian. Main doors facing the favourable arc are preferred, and where a house cannot offer them, the passive functions — storage, bathrooms, utility — are assigned to the four unfavourable sectors so that what is adverse is also idle. Ba Zhai also charts the house itself, by sitting direction, as a Zhai Gua — but the table in this guide belongs to the person and travels with them from address to address.
The character of Kua 6
Qian is heaven in the Shuo Gua — the creative, the father, strength that persists without pause. Kua 6 people are classically read as natural stewards of order: principled, exacting, responsible early in life, trusted with what others cannot be trusted with. Metal is the element — edge, refinement, judgement. The tradition's cautions are the metal's own: rigidity, pride, a standard held so high that delegation becomes impossible and company becomes an audience. Its counsel runs through the table itself — enterprise toward the west's generating breath, rest toward the south-west's long bonds, and the north-west's own palace kept as the place where authority is laid down as well as exercised.
References
Canonical sources that inform this guide.
- Feng shui · WIKIPEDIA
- The Living Earth Manual of Feng Shui · BOOK
- Ba Zhai Ming Jing (八宅明鏡) · BOOK