What is a Feng Shui reading?
Classical Feng Shui (風水, “wind & water”) is the Chinese art of arranging a space so that chi — the life energy that flows through it — supports the people who live there. At its core sits your Kua number (Ming Gua), a single digit from 1 to 9, never 5, calculated from your birth year and gender. Your Kua places you in the East or West life group and, through the Eight Mansions (Ba Zhai) system, fixes your four auspicious directions — Sheng Chi, Tian Yi, Yan Nian and Fu Wei — and the four to avoid.
On top of that come the nine-area Bagua map — Career, Wealth, Love, Fame, Family, Knowledge, Children, Helpful People and the grounding Centre — and the five elements (Wu Xing: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water) and their feeding and controlling cycles. Together they tell you where to sit, sleep and enter, and how to cure a room that is working against you.
How Astronaad computes it
Feng Shui’s knowledge is fixed and classical, so Astronaad doesn’t let an AI improvise it. A deterministic engine computes your Kua from the Chinese solar year — correctly rolling a birth before Li Chun (around 4 February) back to the previous year — then derives your life group, ruling element, all eight directions, an evaluation of the direction your main door faces, the full Bagua and the Wu Xing element balance.
Only after that ground truth is set does the AI layer step in — to interpret those exact facts in plain language, suggest room-by-room cures and build a plan for the life area you choose, in any of 24 languages. The directions, the Kua and the elements never change; only the words around them do.
What you learn from your report
Enter your name, date of birth, gender, the direction your main door faces and the concern you most want to improve. Your report returns your Kua number and trigram, your East/West life group, your four lucky and four unlucky directions (so you know where to place your desk, bed, stove and study), a verdict on your door’s facing, a walk through all nine Bagua zones with specific enhancers, a five-element balance, and a focused action plan for your goal — whether that is wealth, love, career, health or overall harmony.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a Feng Shui (Kua) number?
- Your Kua number (also called Ming Gua) is a single digit from 1 to 9 — never 5 — calculated from your birth year and gender. It places you in the East or West life group and fixes your four auspicious and four inauspicious compass directions under the classical Eight Mansions (Ba Zhai) system. Astronaad computes it deterministically from the Chinese solar year, so a birth before Li Chun (~February 4) correctly rolls back to the previous year.
- How is my Kua number calculated?
- It is derived from the last two digits of your Chinese solar birth year reduced to a single digit, then a fixed formula by gender (men and women use different formulas, and the rules differ before and after the year 2000). A result of 5 is reassigned — to 2 for men and 8 for women. Because the solar year begins at Li Chun around February 4, a January or early-February birth uses the prior year. This is classical, fixed knowledge, so the result is exact and reproducible.
- What are my lucky and unlucky directions?
- Eight Mansions gives every Kua four good directions — Sheng Chi (success & prosperity), Tian Yi (health & support), Yan Nian (love & relationships) and Fu Wei (stability & clarity) — and four to avoid: Huo Hai, Wu Gui, Liu Sha and Jue Ming. Your report names the exact compass direction for each, so you know where to face your desk, point your bed, site the stove and place the main door.
- What is the Bagua map?
- The Bagua is the nine-area energy map of a space — Career (North), Wealth (South-East), Love & Marriage (South-West), Fame (South), Family & Health (East), Knowledge (North-East), Children & Creativity (West), Helpful People (North-West) and the grounding Centre. Each zone has its ruling element, favourable colours and a cure. Your report walks every zone with specific, practical enhancements for your home.
- What do I need to provide for the reading?
- Just your name, date of birth, gender, the direction your home's main door faces, and the life area you most want to improve. From those, Astronaad computes your Kua, life group, ruling element, all eight directions, your door evaluation, the full Bagua and a five-element (Wu Xing) balance — then the report layers room-by-room cures and a plan for your chosen concern.
- Is this real Feng Shui or a generic AI answer?
- It is real Classical (Eight Mansions) Feng Shui. The Kua number, life group, the eight directions, the Bagua zones and the five-element cycles are all computed by a deterministic engine — not invented by an AI. The AI layer only interprets those fixed facts into clear prose and tailored cures, and it can write the full report in 24 languages. The numbers and directions stay exact.