Today, I am into my Feng Shui journey. Although I know how to use a bagua map and have a fairly good view of how to apply its concepts I am at a bit of a quandary. The bagua map, when laid over the house plan, basically shows you the energy areas in your house and helps you to determine how to organise each area. Usually the map is oriented according to the main door of the house. It sounds terribly easy to apply but I am pondering a situation there is a yin and a yang door.
The yin or yang door argument is where there is a type of porch or enclosure before reaching the main door. The yang door is the actual main door of the house and the yin door that of the enclosure where you have to move through the yin door to get to the yang door. It would be easy, if the two doors face the same direction, but there is a question of which is the best to use when they point in different directions. The usual answer seems to be to use the Yang door for orientating the bagua map. However, in the case that I am looking at the yin door faces the same way than the main gate to the yard of the house. Which makes a potentially good case for using the yin door rather than the yang door. Another factor in favour of the yin door is that the enclosure is under the same roof and it is totally enclosed although not by a concrete wall like the main house.
This is the type of thing that makes, what should be simple, a complex issue. To get to an answer I have to drill down deeper into the fundamental principles of Feng Shui. It seems that both could be feasible answers and one have to ask which orientation will give the best harmony and flow of energy. It is not about the one being the right answer and the other wrong but the one being more effective than the other. A simple application will put the bagua map on the yang door since it is the main door. However, the yin door combines well with the main gate which is the containing space of the space within the house.
I hope to be finding a solution for my Yin/Yang door problem.
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