The importance of back doors | Feng Shui

Now for the houses and their lucky and unlucky areas. According to the compass school of Feng Shui, there are eight different types of houses, depending on which compass point the back door is facing. (It doesn’t seem to matter, whether your house actually has a back door, it’s automatically the side opposite the side with the front door.)

The eight kinds of houses and their beneficial/detrimental directions are:

Kan (back door facing north)

• most important direction/direction for harmony – north
• direction for health – east
• direction for long life – south
• direction for wealth – south-east
• direction for difficulties – west
• direction for loss and scandal – north-west
• direction for obstacles – north-east
• direction for death – south-west

Ken (back: north-east)

• most important direction/direction for harmony – north-east
• direction for health – north-west
• direction for long life – west
• direction for wealth – south-west
• direction for difficulties – south
• direction for loss and scandal – east
• direction for obstacles – north
• direction for death – south-east

Chen (back: east)

• most important direction/direction for harmony – east
• direction for health – north
• direction for long life – south-east
• direction for wealth – south
• direction for difficulties – south-west
• direction for loss and scandal – north-east
• direction for obstacles – north-west
• direction for death – west

Sun (back: south-east)

• most important direction/direction for harmony – south-east
• direction for health – south
• direction for long life – east
• direction for wealth – north
• direction for difficulties – north-west
• direction for loss and scandal – west
• direction for obstacles – south-west
• direction for death – north-east

Li (back: south)

• most important direction/direction for harmony – south
• direction for health – south-east
• direction for long life – north
• direction for wealth – east
• direction for difficulties – north-east
• direction for loss and scandal – south-west
• direction for obstacles – west
• direction for death – north-west

Kun (back: south-west)

• most important direction/direction for harmony – south-west
• direction for health – west
• direction for long life – north-west
• direction for wealth – north-east
• direction for difficulties – east
• direction for loss and scandal – south
• direction for obstacles – south-east
• direction for death – north

Tui (back: west)

• most important direction/direction for harmony – west
• direction for health – south-west
• direction for long life – north-east
• direction for wealth – north-west
• direction for difficulties – north
• direction for loss and scandal – south-east
• direction for obstacles – south
• direction for death – east

Chien (back: north-west)

• most important direction/direction for harmony – north-west
• direction for health – north-east
• direction for long life – south-west
• direction for wealth – west
• direction for difficulties – south-east
• direction for loss and scandal – north
• direction for obstacles – east
• direction for death – south