Kun House · Sits Southwest, Opens Northeast
A grounded, nurturing home that gathers a family in like warm earth around a seed.
- NE Sheng Qi · Prosperity · Northeast The home's most vital sector — ideal for the front door, living room, and desk; it feeds growth, drive, and wealth.
- W Tian Yi · Health · West The doctor-from-heaven sector — a fine place for the main bedroom and kitchen; supports recovery, good sleep, and helpful people.
- NW Yan Nian · Relationships · Northwest The sector of longevity and harmony — good for the bedroom and dining area; nurtures love, family bonds, and lasting partnerships.
- SW Fu Wei · Stability · Southwest The calm, grounding sector (the house's own trigram) — well suited to a study, meditation corner, or elder's room.
- E Huo Hai · Setbacks · East A minor inauspicious sector — good for a bathroom, storage, or laundry; avoid placing the bed or main door here.
- SE Wu Gui · Conflict · Southeast The five-ghosts sector — prone to arguments and mishaps; best used for storage or a rarely-used room, never the stove or bed.
- S Liu Sha · Loss · South The six-killings sector — linked to setbacks in money and relationships; suitable for a bathroom or utility space to press down its qi.
- N Jue Ming · Ruin · North The most inauspicious sector — reserve for a bathroom, storeroom, or garage; keep the bed, stove, and main door well away.
This is a West-group home (西四宅). It best suits a West-group person (西四命) — someone whose own lucky directions are West, Northwest, Northeast, and Southwest.
The feel of this home
Sitting on the southwest and opening to the northeast, this house rests on the most maternal, earth-rich orientation of all, and it feels like solid ground beneath a family's feet. The qi it gathers is warm, receptive, and slow to change, a home that holds people, steadies them, and asks them to stay awhile. As a West-group house, it thrives on continuity, well-tended rooms, and care that accumulates over the years rather than restless novelty. Living here has an unhurried, homely rhythm; it turns easily into a place of belonging, provided its earthy weight is kept warm and its air kept moving.
What it supports
This home is a natural keeper of family bonds, health, and steady accumulation, favoring marriages that last, meals shared, and savings that grow quietly over time. Its earth nature offers protection and rootedness, making it an excellent base for raising children, caring for elders, and building a life you intend to keep. Anything that rewards patience, loyalty, and the slow ripening of good things tends to prosper under this roof.
What to mind
Earth is heavy, and this home can grow stagnant, damp, or overly still if it is cluttered, dim, or seldom aired; the same weight that steadies can also bog things down. Its more difficult sectors lie toward the north, south, east, and southeast, best kept calm and uncomplicated rather than made into the busiest rooms. Because the house resists change so naturally, the household should guard against inertia, letting in fresh light, fresh air, and the occasional rearrangement to keep the qi alive.
Family & relationships
For love and family, few houses are kinder: the southwest is the very seat of partnership and the heart of the home, so bonds here tend toward warmth, loyalty, and a deep sense of shelter. It nourishes marriages and close kinship, favoring devotion shown through everyday care over dramatic gesture. The gentle caution is that so much cozy steadiness can dim the spark, so it helps to keep romance warm with light, color, and shared adventures beyond the front door.
Wealth & work
This house favors patient, accumulating prosperity rather than sudden windfalls; wealth here is built brick by brick, through steadiness, thrift, and things that keep their value. It supports work rooted in care, property, food, and service, and any endeavor that grows stronger the longer it is tended. Treat it as a reliable storehouse: guard what you gather, reinvest with patience, and let the home's grounding nature turn effort into lasting security.
Living here well
Counter the earth's heaviness with warmth and movement: keep the rooms bright, well-aired, and free of clutter so the abundant qi nourishes rather than settles into stagnation. Honor the home's strong sectors in the west, northwest, and northeast with tidy, well-used spaces, and keep the north, south, east, and southeast simple and low-key. Most of all, let the house breathe; a little fresh air, a little rearranging, and a warm, welcoming entrance keep this generous home feeling alive rather than closed-in.
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Feng shui is for reflection and entertainment, not prediction. A lucky sector still needs you to arrange and live in it well.