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Xun House · Sits Southeast, Opens Northwest

A gracious, prosperous home where gentle wind and mature wood ripen wealth and good name.

Sits Southeast Faces Northwest East group Element Wood
Keywords
GraciousProsperousFlowingRefined
The eight sectors of your home
Four auspicious
  • N
    Sheng Qi · Prosperity · North The home's most vital sector — ideal for the front door, living room, and desk; it feeds growth, drive, and wealth.
  • S
    Tian Yi · Health · South The doctor-from-heaven sector — a fine place for the main bedroom and kitchen; supports recovery, good sleep, and helpful people.
  • E
    Yan Nian · Relationships · East The sector of longevity and harmony — good for the bedroom and dining area; nurtures love, family bonds, and lasting partnerships.
  • SE
    Fu Wei · Stability · Southeast The calm, grounding sector (the house's own trigram) — well suited to a study, meditation corner, or elder's room.
Four inauspicious
  • NW
    Huo Hai · Setbacks · Northwest A minor inauspicious sector — good for a bathroom, storage, or laundry; avoid placing the bed or main door here.
  • SW
    Wu Gui · Conflict · Southwest The five-ghosts sector — prone to arguments and mishaps; best used for storage or a rarely-used room, never the stove or bed.
  • W
    Liu Sha · Loss · West The six-killings sector — linked to setbacks in money and relationships; suitable for a bathroom or utility space to press down its qi.
  • NE
    Jue Ming · Ruin · Northeast The most inauspicious sector — reserve for a bathroom, storeroom, or garage; keep the bed, stove, and main door well away.
Who this home suits

This is an East-group home (东四宅). It best suits an East-group person (东四命) — someone whose own lucky directions are North, South, East, and Southeast.

The feel of this home

Sitting on the southeast and opening to the northwest, this home rests on the trigram of gentle wind and mature wood, long associated with growth, communication, and quiet abundance. The qi it gathers is refined and gracious, spreading through the rooms the way a breeze reaches everywhere, favoring wealth that arrives through relationships, reputation, and steady cultivation. As an East-group house, its nature leans toward flourishing and gentle forward motion, so prosperity here tends to build gradually rather than arrive all at once. Living in it feels cultured and mild, with a cooler, more composed northwest-facing front, a home that rewards patience, good taste, and a well-tended flow of qi.

What it supports

This is a classic house for prosperity and refinement; the southeast is the very seat of wealth, so it favors growing income, flourishing trade, and endeavors built on communication and good relationships. Its gentle wood qi supports scholarship, creativity, and a rising, well-earned reputation, spreading your influence quietly and far. Households that value culture, gradual growth, and gracious connection tend to do beautifully beneath this roof.

What to mind

Wind scatters as easily as it gathers, so this home can let wealth or focus drift away if the qi is allowed to rush through unchecked or the wealthy southeast is neglected. Its facing sits in a subtly demanding direction, and its weaker sectors toward the northwest, west, northeast, and southwest are best kept calm and uncluttered rather than heavily leaned upon. Guard, too, against a tendency toward indecision or spreading energy too thin; the home does best when its gentle flow is given a firm, well-anchored center.

Family & relationships

For relationships, this home is gentle, considerate, and harmonious, favoring good communication, mutual understanding, and a refined, peaceable warmth between people. Its wind nature keeps affection flowing and conversation easy, though it can lean toward smoothing things over rather than facing them directly. Love here deepens when the household pairs its natural grace with honesty, giving the gentle flow a steady heart to return to.

Wealth & work

This house is strongly favorable for wealth, trade, and any work built on communication, networking, and reputation, the kind of prosperity that grows through relationships and good name rather than force. Its wood energy supports gradual, far-reaching success, planting things that keep bearing fruit long after they are sown. Keep the wealthy southeast vibrant and the flow of qi smooth but contained, and income here tends to arrive steadily and multiply over time.

Living here well

Anchor the home's flowing qi so abundance gathers rather than scatters: keep the southeast alive with healthy plants, gentle water, or fresh green life to nourish its wealth, and avoid long, rushing pathways that let the breeze run straight through. Shelter and warm the northwest-facing front against cold winds, and keep the west, northeast, and southwest calm and simple. Give this gracious home a firm, uncluttered center, and its gentle prosperity will reach as far as you let it.

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