Feng Shui - 8 Influences

Feng Shui exerts influences up on us in many specific areas of our lives.

These eight more commonly know ones which are associated with the eight trigrams are:-

LoShu number and Trigram	Influence
	Career and Business - this area affects things to do with how we earn our living, whether it’s in somebody else's business or our own.
	Knowledge - this area affects things to do with studying, learning and other” brain work” related activities.
	Family - this area affects things to do with our real family, our friends, our colleagues at work - “our” circle of people.
	Wealth - this area affects things to do with our prosperity, not so much how much we earn, but the extent to which it accumulates.
	Fame - this area affects things to do with how people perceive us -our reputation.
	Marriage and Partnerships - this area affects things to do with our close partnerships, the “one on one” relationships, whether with our “significant other”, our business partner, or just someone we work closely with.
	Children and Projects - this area affects things to do with creating things, whether children in a home, projects at work, a painting, or whatever else.
	Helpful People - this area affects things to do with those people who come into our lives out of nowhere, help us then disappear whence they came - General public in Western terms.

These trigrams are also associated with specific family members and specific parts of the body and wherever they occur they influence the corresponding aspect of our lives.

The BaGua, PaKua, Ba Chap, Flying Star etc. analysis tools are used to tell us where these occur in buildings and in individual rooms and whether the influence they exert is a beneficial one or whether it is harmful.

There are many specific beneficial and harmful influences in Feng Shui which combine with the above influences to tell us for instance whether “Helpful People” will indeed help us or whether they will cause trouble. Eight of the more common ones are :-

Pin Yin	English	Effect
Tien Yi	Healthy Wealthy	This influence helps resolve difficulties, improve health, improve relationships.
Sheng Chi	Vitality	This is a very beneficial influence which improves whatever aspect of your life it is associated with.
Nien Yen	Longevity	This is a stabilizing influence which is especially favourable to supporting stable relationships.
Fu We	Gate of Chi	This is a favourable influence, but nothing very spectacular, sometimes said to favour career.
Ho Hai	Accidents & mishaps	This is the kind of influence which causes things to go wrong, hassle and general irritation.
Wu Kue	Five Ghosts	This is actually very powerful energy. So powerful that it overwhelms most people causing injury, burglary, quarrels and the like.
Lui Sha	Conflicts	This is the influence that causes conflicts and poor decisions.
Chueh Ming	Total Loss	This influence actually destroys the energy, causing loss in whatever it is associated with.

Wherever these occur they exert their influence on those aspects of the Feng Shui that occupy that same space.

So for instance a “Wealth” influence can affect our wealth beneficially or harmfully, depending on which of the above influences it combines with.

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By boosting the energy in an area where one of these occurs you can generally increase the strength of that influence.

e.g. if you want to boost your career try adding White and or Gold (both Metal element) to the decorations in the North (Career on the PaKua).

But be careful though, not all influences are beneficial - you may boost a harmful one. That’s why it’s always best to change one thing at a time in a way that’s easy to reverse and observe the results.