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Gen House · Sits Northeast, Opens Southwest

A grounded, protective home where things settle, gather, and grow at their own unhurried pace.

Sits Northeast Faces Southwest West group Element Earth
Keywords
StillnessStabilityShelterRootedness
The eight sectors of your home
Four auspicious
  • SW
    Sheng Qi · Prosperity · Southwest The home's most vital sector — ideal for the front door, living room, and desk; it feeds growth, drive, and wealth.
  • NW
    Tian Yi · Health · Northwest The doctor-from-heaven sector — a fine place for the main bedroom and kitchen; supports recovery, good sleep, and helpful people.
  • W
    Yan Nian · Relationships · West The sector of longevity and harmony — good for the bedroom and dining area; nurtures love, family bonds, and lasting partnerships.
  • NE
    Fu Wei · Stability · Northeast The calm, grounding sector (the house's own trigram) — well suited to a study, meditation corner, or elder's room.
Four inauspicious
  • S
    Huo Hai · Setbacks · South A minor inauspicious sector — good for a bathroom, storage, or laundry; avoid placing the bed or main door here.
  • N
    Wu Gui · Conflict · North The five-ghosts sector — prone to arguments and mishaps; best used for storage or a rarely-used room, never the stove or bed.
  • E
    Liu Sha · Loss · East The six-killings sector — linked to setbacks in money and relationships; suitable for a bathroom or utility space to press down its qi.
  • SE
    Jue Ming · Ruin · Southeast 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 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 to the northeast and opening toward the southwest, this home carries the steady, mountain-like qi of earth, still, sheltering, and richly grounded. It gathers a calm, protective atmosphere in which routines take root, savings accumulate, and the household feels safely held. Its open southwest front draws in soft afternoon warmth, while the solid northeast back stands like a mountain at its shoulder, lending a deep sense of security. Living here tends to feel patient and restful, a place that favors quiet accumulation over noise and haste.

What it supports

This house naturally supports stability, saving, and the slow building of a secure and lasting home, favoring rest, study, and patient long-term effort. Wonderfully, its vital qi rests in the very southwest it opens toward, so the whole open front carries a generous, life-giving energy, while the northwest holds a quiet, health-giving calm. Homes like this reward those who stay the course, turning steady effort into something solid and enduring.

What to mind

The still, settled qi here can grow a little too inward, so a home this grounded benefits from movement, fresh air, and open flow to keep it from feeling closed. Its southeastern sector carries the most draining energy and is best kept calm, light, and clear of the household's most important functions. Take care that stability does not harden into stagnation; let windows open, let things circulate, and invite the occasional change to keep this steady house alive.

Family & relationships

Family life here is loyal, steady, and quietly devoted, a home where care shows through presence and consistency more than grand gestures. The western sector carries the warmest, most harmonizing qi, and tending it, with a gathering space or a place to sit together, nourishes closeness and eases the household's natural reserve. When this home lets its inner warmth show as freely as it offers shelter, its bonds grow deep, patient, and lasting.

Wealth & work

This home favors patient, well-founded work and the steady growth of savings, supporting those who build carefully and think in the long term. Its most auspicious wealth qi rests in the generous southwest it faces, so keeping that open front bright, welcoming, and well-used tends to strengthen income over time. Prosperity here accumulates quietly and holds, rewarding diligence, prudence, and the discipline to stay the course.

Living here well

Keep the southwest front open, bright, and welcoming, since that is where this home's most vital and prosperous qi gathers, and let it be the generous face it naturally is. Keep the southeastern area calm and uncluttered, softening it rather than filling it with the household's busiest life. Above all, invite movement and fresh flow into the stillness here, so that steadiness stays a shelter and never becomes a wall.

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