Your personal trigram
Find your year-based Ba Gua and its associated element, symbolism, and traditional directions. Your birth information is processed locally in this browser.
Use your date of birth and the sex traditionally used by the Eight Mansions formula. No account or email is required.
Enter your birth details to reveal the traditional Life Gua number, element, symbolic theme, and favorable directions.
Your year-based result
Metal · West group
Year-based Life Gua is one traditional layer. It is not a complete birth chart or a forecast.
How to read this
A Life Gua result is a symbolic lens. It can be used to think about orientation, rhythm, and environment—not to predict fixed outcomes or define who you are.
The traditional arithmetic reduces your birth year to one of eight Life Gua numbers. Each links to a trigram and one of the five elements.
Numbers 1, 3, 4, and 9 form the East group; 2, 6, 7, and 8 form the West group. Each group has its own favorable direction set.
Traditional direction advice is only one factor in Feng Shui. A good home also depends on architecture, light, airflow, use, and practical comfort.
Common questions
Life Gua is a year-based personal trigram used in several Eight Mansions Feng Shui traditions. It is often associated with favorable directions, but interpretations and calculation boundaries vary.
No. BaZi—also called Four Pillars of Destiny—uses the year, month, day, and hour of birth. Life Gua uses a simpler year-based method. They belong to different systems and should not be treated as interchangeable.
Calculators may use the Chinese lunar year, the Li Chun solar term, or the Gregorian year. They may also differ around Gua 5 mapping. This tool states its assumptions so the result can be compared clearly.
No. They are interpretive traditions, not guarantees. Treat direction guidance as a reflective framework and prioritize practical design, safety, accessibility, and comfort.