Three orientations the tradition weights most.

This page assumes you know your Kua number and your four supportive directions. If you do not, find your Kua number first.

The rule under all of it is small and easy to miss. The system reads the direction your body faces, not the orientation of the furniture. The headboard points where your head points when you lie down. The chair faces where your eyes face when you sit. The door faces where you face when you walk out of it.

Furniture is just the frame.

In order of leverage: bed, chair, door.

The head of the bed.

The bed is the highest-leverage placement because the body spends the most still hours there. Eight quiet hours, repeated. The tradition's default for ordinary seasons is Tian Yi, "Heavenly Doctor." When the body's task is rest rather than effort, the tradition points it that way. For a launch season, a new job, a push that needs momentum, the tradition points the headboard toward Sheng Qi, "generating qi." For couples, the tradition points the shared headboard toward Yan Nian, "long years", the direction it associates with bonds meant to last.

Honest aside. The bed rarely turns. Wardrobes, windows, plug sockets, the wall the room asks for. If the only available wall is one of your cautious four, the rough adjustment is the one the tradition weights most: any of your four supportive directions is better than any of the four cautious ones. Better than you had before is the point.

Where your chair faces.

The chair is the second orientation, because work is the longest active task most people do at home. Sheng Qi for the working chair when you want momentum, the laptop chair, the call chair, the seat where you push something forward. Fu Wei, "sitting in stability", for deep, slow, solitary work, the study desk, the reading chair, the morning corner with the first cup. The doing seat and the thinking seat, different jobs, both worth doing.

A softer-priority case sits at the dinner table. Tian Yi for the head of the household's dining seat, the one that anchors the meal.

The chair turns. The bed rarely does. If you can only do one this week, make it the chair.

Where the front door opens.

The door is the third orientation. The tradition reads the door's facing as what the home is angled toward. You cannot move a front door. But you can know what it is doing.

If the door faces one of your four supportive directions, the tradition reads the home as broadly aligned with you. If it faces one of the cautious four, the tradition does not say the home is wrong. It says the interior placements, the bed and the chair, carry more of the work. If you want one place to keep your four directions and your floor plan together, a printable personal compass overlay is the simplest way. Perfect alignment is rare and not the point.

A move to try this week.

Pick the chair. Turn it so your eyes face one of your four supportive directions when you sit. Sit for a week. Watch for something small and quiet, not a transformation. The tradition names the direction. The noticing is your job.

Where to go next.

If you have not yet, find your Kua number. The three orientations above assume you already know your four directions.

If you want the wider frame, the overview of why Compass School sits next to Form School is one click away.

If you want the deeper read on Eight Mansions, including the full direction names and the Kua formula, the methodology page walks through it step by step.