Knowing the feng shui elements based on birthday will enable you to have a better understanding of your personal traits, character, behaviour and potential.

Feng shui elements based on birthday is also known as BaZi which is a literal translation of the Eight Characters in Chinese. As these eight characters are arranged in 4 columns with each column consists of 2 characters, it is also known as Four Pillars.

The 4 pairs of chinese characters are derived from your birth information; starting from the left, your Hour, Day, Month And Year of birth. These characters are made up of the five basic feng shui elements such as Wood, Water, Metal, Fire and Earth. Each element will have its Yin and Yang representation.

You can bet that BaZi is a lot more precise than your newspaper horoscopes prediction as there are thousands of possible combination that one can come up with. From the analysis of one's BaZi, a person's character and nature can be determined as one progresses through life. Knowing these traits will make you more well prepared in making decisions at certain juncture in your life. You will be able to strengthen your relationships, improve your potential and fully utilize your talents and also overcome your inherent weakness.


As I mentioned earlier, the Yin and Yang of feng shui elements are decoded from your birthday. Therefore, there are four pillars with each column consists of two characters; one on top of the other. The top character is known as Heavenly Stem while the one on the bottom is known as Earthly Branch.

The most important character in BaZi is the Heavenly Stem character in the Day Pillar which represents oneself. The character in the picture is Metal and therefore it signifies that the person with his birth date decoded belongs to the Metal element with the Yin variation.

A person with the Yin Metal as his self element is usually someone who like to be under the spotlight, be it due to his look or intellect. As Yin Metal people are attention getter, "face value" or reputation are very important to them. Why are Yin Metal people like to be under the spotlight? Well, in feng shui or more specifically BaZi analysis, Yin Metal is associated with fine jewelry and beautifully engraved metal which are usually worn to steal the limelight.

Unlike Yin Metal, Yang Metal people are very tough people who can endure hardship and sufferings. There are simply no short cut to success for Yang Metal people as they really have to sweat it all out to be successful. As they are so tough, this group of people will make perfect leaders. By now I bet you can guess that Yang Metal is associated with swords and axes.

Do you the element that represent wisdom in feng shui? Yes, it is water as water is formless and can take any shape and moving endlessly even if it might look like that it is staying still. Therefore Yang Water people are intelligent and adventurous. It is very hard for them to follow rules as routines are never part of their lives and really have their own wills.

In contrast to Yang Water, Yin Water people are creative and good at nurturing talents and imparting knowledge which makes them perfect candidate for teachers. However, they don't have much will power and determination in completing hard tasks.

If you have a Yang Earth friend, then you have a very dependable person there as Yang Earth people are trustworthiness and loyal. Possessing traits like the boulders, Yang Earth people are very stubborn and inflexible in their dealings.

As the Yang Earth people, Yin Earth people are also dependable and also tolerable towards other shortcomings and weakness.

Yang Fire people are noble and generous people. Check out the feng shui element of most philanthropists birthdays. Who know? They might belong to the Yang Fire group.

Imagine the flicker of the candle light and you would get Yin Fire people traits. Well, for one, these people are often fickle minded. They are very good at motivating people and natural leaders as with light, it guides one out of darkness.

As for Yang Wood people, they are quite conservative and "fixed" in their thinking. As with those tall trees in the forest, they are quite determined and strive to improve their lives albeit slowly.

In contrast to Yang Wood, Yin Wood people are flexible and adaptive in their endeavors. These two traits makes them very good in surviving in the "rough jungle" out there.

So much information on oneself has been revealed by just analyzing one of the characters of the feng shui elements based on your birthday. Have you ever imagined how much more information can we get by completely decodes the entire BaZi or Four Pillars chart?

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Most of us will spend endless hours daily in our desks in the office. So what better way to energize your career or business by practicing some feng shui tips on the place that you are spending more than half your waking time daily?

It is best to select a desk that faces your sheng chi direction to tap the auspicious chi that is coming your way. Next, never place any piles of papers or files directly in front of the part of the desk that you are sitting. This is consistent with the feng shui practice of having a bright hall in one's house.

As the left side of the desk corresponds to the green dragon, make sure that this area will be higher than the right side of the desk that is associated with white tiger. You can put more stack up more files or put a desktop file cabinet here. Your telephone should be placed in a direction that is auspicious to your personal KUA direction.

Have you seen some of your colleagues placed some small plants on their desks? Well, they might know a thing or two about feng shui as placing a small plant on the Southeast corner of a desk will attract good income and a good career growth.



Your pc desktop should be located on the right hand side of the desk but make sure the left hand side of the desk is higher after doing so as you wouldn't want to awake the white tiger there. If you have the privilege, place the pc on a separate table in the west or northwest of your main desk as pc is categorized under metal element.

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In feng shui, we can have a wide variety of colors for our home to create a favorable environment there. Black can also be used but of course most of us rather won't use it as it looks so dull and dark.

First, use a compass to determine the South sector of your house and apply then use the following feng shui tips on color as the color of your house.

For the North sector, you can use red, orange, yellow, green or even a combination of all these colors. Black or blue is a no no.

Black, white or blue should be used for the North sector while yellow and beige should be avoided.

For the east sector, go for green, brown, black or blue while white is out of the question.

White, gray or yellow fit perfectly in the west sector and red and orange should not be painted here.

For the southeast sector, light green and light blue would look nice here but gray and white should be located elsewhere.

Go for yellow, beige, orange or red in the southwest and northwest sectors. Don't ever consider green and brown in these two sectors.

Finally for northwest, white, gray and yellow would be appropriate here but you should never consider using red and orange.

As a rule of thumb, it is always a good idea to use light color to provide a bright and yan surrounding in the house. As feng shui is about balance, never make your place to Yan by having metallic or striking color all round the place.

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According to feng shui tip, kitchens, the place where we cook, is not a place where good luck can be created. However, they are very useful in its usage to countering bad luck.

Hence, the kitchen can be located in your not auspicious sector according to your GUA number. It is better to locate your kitchen in the inner half of your home and placing the kitchen near the main door should be avoided at all cost as surely you won't want something where good luck could not be created to be located in one of the most important area in your house.

As white tiger normally reside on the right side of a house (the right side when you are inside of the house facing outwards), it is best to have your kitchen positioned in the inner right side to control the white tiger influence.

Since kitchen is not a very auspicious place in feng shui, putting mirrors or even using mirror tiles in the kitchen is not a good idea to go about. Doing so means that you are extending this inauspicious area in your house and might to great misfortune to your family members.

When it comes to the stove and oven placement, it should never be located in the northwest part of the kitchen. As the northwest is known as heaven's gate, cooking in this sector will symbolically putting fire to heaven's gate. This might lead to incur severe financial loss or your house ends up in smoke!

As common sense dictates, feng shui also suggests that kitchen should at least one window to channel out all the cooking smokes out of the house.

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Getting a good night sleep is paramount to our success; be it in career or business. Hencefore, it would be wise to check out one's sheng chi direction in his sleep to tap his auspicious sleeping direction.

Bedrooms are best located in the higher storey of a house, that is if you have a two or three-storey house. The bedroom door should not directly face anything sharp such as the edge of a wall, a staircase, a toilet or another room door. Common sense will denote that we will only invite trouble and injury when the door is facing such a structure. If your bedroom door faces another room door, try hanging wind chimes at the upper part of the door frame as a feng shui cure. This feng shui remedy will lessen the confrontation that you have with the occupants of the other room.

If the bedroom contains overexposed beam, locate your bed way out of the beam. Under no circumstances should anyone sleep under the exposed beam as the beam will symbolically 'sit" on top of one's body. No wonder we can't sleep soundly with the negative bad energy directed by the beam hitting us throughout our sleeps.

The best location to place your bed is diagonally opposite the bedroom door. Even though it is not a good thing to place your bed directly behind a window, in situation where you want to tap your best sleeping direction and have to sleep with the window directly above your bed, keep your curtain drawn to lessen the bad effect of such practice. And never ever place your bedroom between the toilet door and the bedroom door.

When choosing the bed, go for one with a headboard as the headboard will provide a solid foundation to get a good night rest.

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Many people think that hanging wind chime in one's home can attract bad spirit to one's house. These people believe that the sound generating by the wind chimes will invite malevolent spirits to the its surrounding. Hmm, where did they get this perception? Hmm, maybe from those Chinese horror movies that associated the tingling sound of the wind chime to the appearance of bad spirit in one place.

Actually, wind chime can be used as a very potent feng shui cure in channeling and dispersing bad energy flow in one house. In contrast to attracting bad spirits, the tingling sound generated will scare off bad spirits that may be lurking around the place. You wouldn't think that something that sounds so melodius and pleasant to our ears could invite bad spirits to our place, would you?

In feng shui, wind chime can be used to overcome bad luck as well as enhance good luck. Feng shui wind chime that is used to overcome bad luck usually contains five rods which may be solid or hollow and come with a pagoda structure on the top of the rods. This type of wind chime is especially useful to be placed under an overhead beam, a straight row of doors or sharp overhang wall. However, for those beams in the bedroom, it is best not to go for such an option as the wind chime might make the room too YAN. It is much better to cover the exposed beam or move your bed out of the position under the beam.

To enhance good luck, place hollow metal rod wind chimes made of metal in the west and northwest sections of the house. These sections belong to the metal sector of a house.
Use wind chime that has 6 rods for the northwest to activate the luck of the breadwinner of the house and 7 rods if you intend to place it in the west to energize good health being and longevity of the family.

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It is really convenient to have a bathroom attached to your bedroom, isn't it? But from the aspect of feng shui , a good feng shui bedroom design is one that comes in a regular shape such as a rectangle or square. Having a bathroom attached will change your bedroom shape to a L-shape, looking similar to a chopping knife and also the space occupied by the bathroom might sit on the favorable sector of the owners, which bring further ill effect to its occupants that sleep there.

So how do we rectify the situation? Surely we won't ask you to hack the curtain as a simple remedy such as putting a beads curtain (as shown by the dotted line) will change the bedroom design back to a regular shape. It is also a good feng shui idea to have your bedroom structures free of protruding or square corners, overhead beams and over sized doors. If not, feng shui cures would have to implemented to ward off the effects of these inauspicious features that present negative chi to the bedroom occupants.

On the bed layout in the room, never sleep with the door locating at your back. It is also a feng shui taboo to sleep with your head pointing directly to the door as well as the window. Surely you would be shocked if someone suddenly "intrudes" you when your back is facing the door or window. This applies as well to your sitting position as well.

Even though mirror is a great feng shui enhancing tool, it can cause great misfortune if it is put incorrectly in the bedroom. How would you feel if you suddenly wake up on the bed in the middle of the night or in the morning seeing a reflection of yourself in the mirror? I know you always check yourself in the mirror but such a sudden reflection of image might startle you.

As a general rule, it is never a good idea to put a plant in your Yin bedroom as a plant is always growing.

A good sleeping position will ensure that you have a good night sleep and goes a long way in enhancing your career and business prospects.

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