The Dragon Gate formula names its bad configurations precisely, and every one of them is about the direction water moves relative to the house’s formation. That makes remediation practical rather than symbolic: most corrections change where water arrives from or where it leaves toward.
Water leaving through 先天, 後天 or 地刑
Water draining away through the 先天 or 後天 palace is what the sources call 流破 — breaking the positions that support the household’s people and wealth. Water leaving through 地刑 is read as harmful in every source. For a house sitting in 離 (facing north), those are the east (先天) and the northwest (後天, which is also 地刑). The correction is physical: regrade, reroute the gutter or drain, so the flow leaves toward the 天劫 palace or the front instead.
Water arriving from 天劫, or striking the front
Water arriving from the 天劫 palace is the formula’s worst case, and water striking in from the front — the 案劫 palace — is harmful, where water leaving through the front is exactly what the formula wants. The sources extend the warning at 天劫 to other things that strike toward a house from there: utility poles, building corners and roads. For the 離 house, 天劫 is the northeast. A channel or slope that sends water toward the house from that side is the arrangement to change first.
Checking the reading before changing the site
Every correction depends on the formation being right, and the formation depends on one bearing. Measure the facing carefully, correct for magnetic declination, and check whether the sitting bearing lies near a boundary between two palaces: within one line (0.94°) of it, a small error puts the house in a different formation with different positions. The 曜煞 mountains — three per formation — are worth checking at the same time for roads or corners striking toward the house.
References
Canonical sources that inform this guide.
- 论龙门八局系水法 (华夏大易学社) · WEBSITE
- 三元水法龙门八大局 (简书) · WEBSITE
- Bagua (Eight Trigrams) · WIKIPEDIA
- Feng shui · WIKIPEDIA