Your chart, carried into your space.

Your Chinese name answers your birth chart with the elements it needs. Feng shui (风水), the Chinese tradition of arranging space, reads the same Five Elements in the rooms around you. We are building a way to bring the two together.

What we are working on

1. A Kua number calculator. The Eight Mansions school (八宅) gives each birth year a number, also written Gua, and a set of directions. Enter your birth year and sex at birth to see your number, the directions the tradition pairs with it, and what the school says about where it comes from.

2. Room guides, with your own elements. Starting with the bedroom, then the living room, the home office and the front door: how the tradition thinks about layout, colour and materials in each room. Each guide ends with the elements your birth chart calls for, and how the tradition would bring them into that room.

3. Your element palette. The colours, materials and shapes the tradition links with your chart’s elements, on a card in the same style as your name card. East is Wood, South is Fire, West is Metal, North is Water and the centre is Earth, so the card shows your directions too.

How we will share it

As with your reading, we will share feng shui as a living cultural tradition, with sources and plain-English explanations. It describes what the tradition associates with each element; it is not a promise about your life and does not replace advice from architects, builders or health professionals.

To be continued. In the meantime, start with your name: it already shows which elements your chart needs.