坎
Kan (Water)
Eight Trigrams (八卦)
- Wisdom and flexibility
- Endurance
- East Four Houses
At a glance
The Water energy of the north — the trigram of wisdom, flexibility, and endurance.
- Direction
- North
- Element
- Water
- House group
- East Four Houses
What is Kan (Water)?
Kan (坎) is the trigram of Water, seated in the north of the Later Heaven bagua; a person whose Life Gua is Kan belongs to the East Four Houses (東四命). Such a person is seen to be deep and wise like water, with a flexibility that never stays fixed in one place and a strong capacity for patience. In a home (陽宅), the most auspicious direction (Sheng Qi) is the southeast, and the four East-group guas — Kan, Li, Zhen, and Xun — share directions that work auspiciously with one another.
Frequently asked
- What is Kan (Water) (坎) in Feng Shui?
- The Water energy of the north — the trigram of wisdom, flexibility, and endurance. Kan (坎) is the trigram of Water, seated in the north of the Later Heaven bagua; a person whose Life Gua is Kan belongs to the East Four Houses (東四命). Such a person is seen to be deep and wise like water, with a flexibility that never stays fixed in one place and a strong capacity for patience. In a home (陽宅), the most auspicious direction (Sheng Qi) is the southeast, and the four East-group guas — Kan, Li, Zhen, and Xun — share directions that work auspiciously with one another.
- What does a Kan (Water) Life Gua mean?
- Its core grain is Wisdom and flexibility · Endurance · East Four Houses. As a Life Gua it places you in the East Four Houses.
- How do I find my own Kan (Water)?
- 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 Kan (Water) 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.