乾
Qian (Heaven)
Eight Trigrams (八卦)
- Leadership and strength
- Creation
- West Four Houses
At a glance
The firm Metal energy of heaven — the trigram of leadership, strength, and creation.
- Direction
- Northwest
- Element
- Metal
- House group
- West Four Houses
What is Qian (Heaven)?
Qian (乾) is the trigram of Heaven and Metal (天·金), seated in the northwest of the Later Heaven bagua; a person whose Life Gua is Qian belongs to the West Four Houses (西四命). Such a person is seen to be firm and commanding like the sky, with a strong leadership and creative power for setting things in motion. In a home, the most auspicious direction (Sheng Qi) is the west, and the four West-group guas — Qian, Kun, Gen, and Dui — share directions that work auspiciously with one another.
Frequently asked
- What is Qian (Heaven) (乾) in Feng Shui?
- The firm Metal energy of heaven — the trigram of leadership, strength, and creation. Qian (乾) is the trigram of Heaven and Metal (天·金), seated in the northwest of the Later Heaven bagua; a person whose Life Gua is Qian belongs to the West Four Houses (西四命). Such a person is seen to be firm and commanding like the sky, with a strong leadership and creative power for setting things in motion. In a home, the most auspicious direction (Sheng Qi) is the west, and the four West-group guas — Qian, Kun, Gen, and Dui — share directions that work auspiciously with one another.
- What does a Qian (Heaven) Life Gua mean?
- Its core grain is Leadership and strength · Creation · West Four Houses. As a Life Gua it places you in the West Four Houses.
- How do I find my own Qian (Heaven)?
- 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 Qian (Heaven) 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.