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The front door is a major point in any Feng Shui school. Some schools define it at the main entry point of the Chi, while others consider more the main façade or the Chi setup. Nevertheless the front door is always considered to be a major “Chi mouth”.

How to choose the right door direction?

In Feng Shui we pay attention to both direction and location. The main door direction must therefore fulfil such criteria as:

• Facing an auspicious direction

• Taking a live Chi in

• Taking the right Element in

• Being in a good personal sector

• Being in an auspicious house sector

The door auspicious or inauspicious facing is determined through the 64 hexagrams present on the Luo Pan: the same used in I Ching. Each facing is linked to a specific hexagram, and each hexagram has a meaning that will bring a different outcome to the house. This technique is called Xuan Gong Da Gua.

In case of a door facing an inauspicious direction, the practical solution is a slight tilt of the door to have it face another hexagram.

Xuan Gong Da Gua method also determines if the Chi taken by the main door is weak or alive. It depends if the door facing is the right one for the current period (currently Period 8 until 2024).

The house door other important aspect is that the Chi intake should bring in the right Element and that the door should be located in an auspicious personal and house sector. Those correspondences are seen through the Bazi and Gua analysis.

What about the door direction bringing the type of Element you need?

Allright, let’s imagine that you are sitting in the middle of the desert, exposed to the hot sun and dry wind. You can turn your chair to sit in front of North, South, East, West and so on. With some directions you might be more protected from the wind, or the sun: however you are still under the same environment, which is the desert. The facing make a minor difference. The only way to be under a very different atmosphere is to physically move your chair to a totally different location – an oasis a few miles away for example.

 

So this is the same thing with your main door. As I’ve said the facing brings a slightly different outcome – depending of the strong or weak Chi and of the prediction based on the door hexagram. However the SECTOR where the door is located brings the Element in, not the facing! This is very logical.

 

Think of a revolving door in a big financial office in the City of London. The revolving door is located in the Southwest corner of the façade. Do you think the Chi intakes changes every second someone is using the revolving system? Certainly not: the point of intake is still the same, and this is the type of Chi that comes in. So if the door is under a Wood mountain sector, but facing a Metal direction, the Chi that comes in is still Wood.

To see if the Chi is good or bad for you depends of your individual chart, and of the house setup. You understand by now that this is an intricate process, and that advising people through books or distant consultations on such matters is nonsense. Only a specialist doing a Feng Shui audit at your place can determine such a thing.

Should my home have a big front door or a small one?

A whale has a bigger mouth than a rat, doesn’t it? Same logic for your living space: the front door has to be in proportion. If the house is big the door should be relatively big, if the house is small the door should be human sized. It all depends of how much Chi you need to let in for the living space. If you have a door which has two panels, you can in some case use only one panel to let some of the Chi in. If the door is located at the limit between two mountains, with one sending a better Chi for the house, it can be useful.

What should not be opposite my front door?

A good idea would be to not obstruct your front door with a pole, three, a streetlight etc. The flow of Chi there should be easy. Such structures “split” the Chi and weaken it down.

 

 

What about the door colour? Should I have a white front door, a blue front door, a red one?

As for the colours, the idea is either to enhance the Element of the sector, or to convert it through the use of colour. For example if your main door receives a Fire Chi (being in a fire sector), and if you need Earth but not fire, you can paint it yellow or brown to convert it one step. So the colours must be chosen carefully in accordance with the door Element based on the sector and the charts of the people living in. There is no such thing as “white front doors” or “red front doors”, popular in Asia, that would be good for everyone. Everything in authentic Feng Shui must be tailor-made.

 

 

 

Should I hang a Ba Gua mirror under my door, or on top of it?

The Ba Gua mirror is a nice symbol. That is what it is: a symbol. If you feel good hanging it, do it. However if you do it for Feng Shui purpose, this is inefficient for several reasons:

• It does not convert the energy received by the door

• It cannot alter a Sha Chi received by the surrounding

• A mirror is used to attract, not to deflect!

So don’t become obsessed with putting such a pakua or Bagua mirror under your main front door, or above it. Remember that Feng Shui, being Chinese by origin, is sometimes mixed with some Chinese symbols and superstitions, and a Feng Shui expert must know where to draw the line.