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Dui (Lake)

Eight Trigrams (八卦)

At a glance

The Metal energy of joy gathered in a lake — the trigram of joy, communication, and sociability.

Direction
West
Element
Metal
House group
West Four Houses

What is Dui (Lake)?

Dui (兌) is the trigram of Lake and Metal (澤·金), seated in the west of the Later Heaven bagua; a person whose Life Gua is Dui belongs to the West Four Houses (西四命). Such a person is seen to hold joy like a lake — gifted in speech, at ease among people, and strongly sociable. In a home, the most auspicious direction (Sheng Qi) is the northwest, and the four West-group guas — Qian, Kun, Gen, and Dui — share directions that work auspiciously with one another.

Frequently asked

What is Dui (Lake) (兌) in Feng Shui?
The Metal energy of joy gathered in a lake — the trigram of joy, communication, and sociability. Dui (兌) is the trigram of Lake and Metal (澤·金), seated in the west of the Later Heaven bagua; a person whose Life Gua is Dui belongs to the West Four Houses (西四命). Such a person is seen to hold joy like a lake — gifted in speech, at ease among people, and strongly sociable. In a home, the most auspicious direction (Sheng Qi) is the northwest, and the four West-group guas — Qian, Kun, Gen, and Dui — share directions that work auspiciously with one another.
What does a Dui (Lake) Life Gua mean?
Its core grain is Joy and communication · Sociability · West Four Houses. As a Life Gua it places you in the West Four Houses.
How do I find my own Dui (Lake)?
Your Life Gua comes from your birth year and sex; from it, the eight directions map to their eight stars automatically.

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Feng Shui is a traditional art of spatial arrangement, for reference only. Source: Standard Yang House Feng Shui (Eight Mansions / Ba Zhai) interpretation.

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