艮
Gen (Mountain)
Eight Trigrams (八卦)
- Prudence and accumulation
- Tenacity
- West Four Houses
At a glance
The Earth energy that halts like a mountain — the trigram of prudence, accumulation, and tenacity.
- Direction
- Northeast
- Element
- Earth
- House group
- West Four Houses
What is Gen (Mountain)?
Gen (艮) is the trigram of Mountain and Earth (山·土), seated in the northeast of the Later Heaven bagua; a person whose Life Gua is Gen belongs to the West Four Houses (西四命). Such a person is seen to know when to stop, as a mountain does — prudent, and steadily building things up with quiet tenacity. In a home, the most auspicious direction (Sheng Qi) is the southwest, and the four West-group guas — Qian, Kun, Gen, and Dui — share directions that work auspiciously with one another.
Frequently asked
- What is Gen (Mountain) (艮) in Feng Shui?
- The Earth energy that halts like a mountain — the trigram of prudence, accumulation, and tenacity. Gen (艮) is the trigram of Mountain and Earth (山·土), seated in the northeast of the Later Heaven bagua; a person whose Life Gua is Gen belongs to the West Four Houses (西四命). Such a person is seen to know when to stop, as a mountain does — prudent, and steadily building things up with quiet tenacity. In a home, the most auspicious direction (Sheng Qi) is the southwest, and the four West-group guas — Qian, Kun, Gen, and Dui — share directions that work auspiciously with one another.
- What does a Gen (Mountain) Life Gua mean?
- Its core grain is Prudence and accumulation · Tenacity · West Four Houses. As a Life Gua it places you in the West Four Houses.
- How do I find my own Gen (Mountain)?
- 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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Find your Life Gua and how Gen (Mountain) sits in your home.
Find my Life Gua →Feng Shui is a traditional art of spatial arrangement, for reference only. Source: Standard Yang House Feng Shui (Eight Mansions / Ba Zhai) interpretation.