Life Gua library · 1–9
Your year-based
personal trigram.
Explore the symbolic meaning, element, and traditional directions associated with each Life Gua number.
Life Gua library · 1–9
Explore the symbolic meaning, element, and traditional directions associated with each Life Gua number.
Life Gua—also called Ming Gua—is a year-based personal trigram used in several Eight Mansions Feng Shui systems. Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 9 each correspond to one of the Eight Trigrams. Number 5 is traditionally mapped to Kun or Gen depending on the method.
Each guide explains the trigram, common interpretations, the four favorable directions, and practical ways to use the symbolism without treating it as a prediction.
Kan is deep water: the ability to move through difficulty by adapting, listening, and finding the passage that remains open.
LIFE GUA 2Kun is the receptive earth: the ground that receives, supports, and gradually brings things into form.
LIFE GUA 3Zhen is the first thunderclap: a shock of movement, awakening, and energy that breaks inertia.
LIFE GUA 4Xun is wind: subtle, persistent, adaptable, and able to enter spaces that force cannot reach.
LIFE GUA 6Qian is associated with heaven, creative force, principle, and the clarity of a direction chosen deliberately.
LIFE GUA 7Dui is the lake: a surface that reflects, gathers, and invites exchange. It is associated with joy, speech, attraction, and relationship.
LIFE GUA 8Gen is the mountain: stillness, a deliberate stopping point, and the stability that creates room for later movement.
LIFE GUA 9Li is fire and light: visibility, insight, warmth, and the capacity to make something apparent.
If your calculation produces number 5, read the Gua 5 explanation to understand how it is mapped to Kun for men and Gen for women in this calculator’s convention.
Common methods reduce the birth year to a single digit with formulas that traditionally differ by sex. The year boundary may be based on Chinese New Year, Li Chun, or the Gregorian year depending on the system. Our calculator uses a February 4 approximation and states that boundary explicitly.
Read the full Life Gua and natal Ba Gua guide for the calculation context and why online calculators sometimes disagree.
Life Gua does not describe your whole personality, guarantee compatibility, diagnose health concerns, predict finances, or replace a complete BaZi chart. It is a traditional symbolic framework best used for cultural learning and deliberate reflection.