The Feng Shui Behind Your ProperQi™ Match

From your birth year and sex, we calculate your classical Kua number and, from it, which of the eight compass directions falls into which of eight traditional categories for you specifically -- four supportive, four not. This is the same Eight MansionsEight Mansions

A classical Compass School method that sorts everyone into one of eight personal directions of best and worst fit, based on a number calculated from their birth year and sex. It's the system behind ProperQi™ Match's per-person readings and the Expanded tier's Kua Direction Compatibility factor.

Every one of your four "directions to watch" comes with a practical, plain-language adjustment -- object placement, room use, or when to bring in a professional -- never shown without one. That's a hard rule in the underlying engine, not just a copy convention: a build that ever produced a direction to watch with no paired fix would fail its own tests.

About the point values. Each direction also carries a small display number (+4 down to -4) so the report can show relative strength at a glance. That scale is our own authored way of expressing an ordering that multiple independent classical sources agree on -- Sheng Chi strongest, Fu Wei mildest of the supportive four, Chueh Ming most severe, Ho Hai mildest of the four to watch. It's a ranking, not a measurement pulled from any single source, and we'd rather say that plainly than let four decimal-looking numbers imply more precision than the tradition itself claims.

Xuan Kong Flying StarXuan Kong Flying Star

A Compass School system that reads a home's energy as changing over time, based on when it was built and which way it faces -- distinct from Eight Mansions, which is fixed to a person rather than a point in time.

If a home's construction year falls outside 1984–2043, or we simply don't have it on file, we say that plainly and leave the era unresolved rather than guessing -- everyone's own Eight Mansions directions above are unaffected either way.

When both a home's era (above) and a resolved facing direction are available, we can go a layer deeper: a full 9-palace natal chartNatal chart

A fuller 9-room Flying Star reading tied to a home's specific facing direction, on top of its construction period. Needs an actual compass reading (not just an estimate) to compute, and ships labeled "Preview -- pending verification" while one classical edge case (kong wang, below) is still being checked against a practitioner's review.

The classical literature treats a facing that falls too close to the seam between two of the chart's palaces as ambiguous -- which palace's numbers even apply becomes uncertain right at that boundary (traditionally called kong wangKong wang

A classical concept describing when a home's facing sits close enough to a boundary line between two directions that the Flying Star reading becomes genuinely ambiguous. This is the specific open question keeping the natal chart labeled "Preview" on this site.

When a facing can't be resolved precisely enough, or a construction year is missing, we fall back to the era-only read above rather than showing an incomplete chart.

If you have a saved $29 Floor Plan for the same address -- included free with every $49 purchase, so there's nothing separate to buy for this -- we rotate its rooms onto your home's real-world facing direction and sort each one into the compass sector it actually falls in. When a room's real shape was traced rather than boxed (an angled wing, an irregular nook), we sort it by that traced shape's true center, not the center of a simplified rectangle, so an angled or irregular room lands in the sector it actually occupies. Each resident's own Eight Mansions directions (above) are then matched against the rooms that land in their supportive vs. watch-list sectors, weighted by how much a room matters day to day: Entrance 30%, Bedroom 30%, Kitchen 20%, everything else (the remaining "San YaoSan Yao

A classical rule that three rooms matter more than any other when reading a home against a person's directions: the front door, the stove/kitchen, and the bedroom. ProperQi™ Match's scoring weights reflect this -- Entrance and Bedroom each carry 30% of your score, Kitchen carries 20%.

That weighted match lands in one of four bands: Strong Match (68% or higher), Good Match, Fair Match, or Growing Match (below 40%) -- with the specific rooms behind that score always shown, never just a single number. This reuses the exact same Eight Mansions reading shown above, so a Room-by-Room Match can never quietly disagree with your own personal directions.

One specific rule that does move this score: a bathroom landing in a resident's Sheng Chi sector subtracts 2 points from that room's contribution, on top of whatever its Eight Mansions category already earned. Classical sources treat a bathroom draining a home's strongest sector as a genuine leak of otherwise-favorable energy -- this is the one place in Room-by-Room Match where a specific room type, not just its compass sector, changes the number. Every other room type is scored purely by which sector it falls in.

When your home's era and facing are both resolved (see the Xuan Kong sections above), the Geometry table also shows each room's Water Star and Mountain Star numbers side by side with its Eight Mansions category -- two independent classical methods read against the same room, so you can see where they agree rather than taking either on its own.

No floor plan saved for this address yet? Everything else on this page still works without one -- Room-by-Room Match is the one piece of a Match reading that needs it.

When two or more residents on the same address have both provided birth year and a sex/reading selection, we check for compass directions that land in one of the four supportive categories for more than one person at once -- so a shared space like a living room, kitchen, or dining table can be oriented to work in everyone's favor at the same time, not just one resident's. The two people don't need to share the exact same category (one person's Sheng Chi can overlap with another's Fu Wei and still count) -- what matters is that the same physical direction genuinely supports both.

This section only ever shows good news -- unlike the personal directions above, there's no "watch list" or cure here, since every entry by definition already works for everyone it includes. With fewer than two residents' birth info on file, this section simply doesn't render rather than showing an empty "no overlap" state.

Every other classical read on this page is fixed once your Kua number or your home's facing is set. This one shifts every year: it reads this year's Tai SuiTai Sui

The compass direction associated with the current year in classical Compass School practice -- resets every January 1st and applies to the whole household equally, unlike your personal Eight Mansions directions.

This needs no extra input from you: your home's facing direction (already resolved for Eight Mansions above) plus today's date are enough. It's household-level, not personal -- it reads the same for every resident -- and it's advisory only: it never changes your Room-by-Room Match score, only adds a time-sensitive note alongside it. We use the regular calendar year for this, not the lunar new year classical sources technically use, the same simplification Eight Mansions already makes for birth-year Kua calculation.

Classical Feng Shui also reads a home's overall footprint against the BaguaBagua

An 8-sided (plus center) map of a home's overall footprint, where each of the 8 outer sectors corresponds to a different life area -- wealth, relationships, career, and so on. FengShuiIQ divides a home's footprint into a 3-by-3 grid using true compass directions to check how completely each sector is actually built out.

This reuses the same building footprint already fetched for the free-tier Building Shape Irregularity factor -- no new data, just a second, more specific question asked of it: not "how irregular is this shape overall" but "which particular sector is underrepresented." Like This Year's Outlook above, it's household-level and advisory only -- it never changes your score. When we can't find a reliable building footprint for an address, this section simply doesn't render rather than guessing.

See also: general guidance on missing-corner floor plans in our Feng Shui observations reference.

When three or more of a home's doors -- front, interior, and/or back -- line up substantially straight through the home, classical Feng Shui reads that as chi entering and exiting too quickly to gather and circulate. We check every saved floor plan's door positions for this, using the same $29 Floor Plan data Room-by-Room Match already draws on, so there's nothing new to buy or upload for this section either.

Like the two sections above, this is a structural, household-level read (not personal -- it looks the same for every resident) and it's advisory only, never folded into your Room-by-Room Match score. We flag substantially-collinear runs of doors; we don't attempt to separately detect a protruding-corner "poison arrow," since that needs real wall-outline data this app's floor-plan tool doesn't capture -- we'd rather leave that unclaimed than guess at it.

See also: general chi-flow guidance in our Feng Shui observations reference.