QUESTION 1
I have just recently moved into a double-storey house for the first time and am confused about whether the Bagua should be applied to each floor separately or whether the Bagua is applied according to the layout of the ground floor.

QUESTION 2
Also the first floor has only two rooms and does not cover the entire ground floor. I'm wondering if this then creates missing areas of the Bagua in the first floor that need to be remedied?

QUESTION 3
Finally I am curious as to whether the fact that the house would have two relationship areas, two wealth areas, etc, and does that somehow lessen the energy of the area seeing as it is spread out among different floors and not concentrated in one place?

- C.V., UK

Karen's replies:

QUESTION 1

In Creating Sacred Space with Feng Shui, I explain: If your home has more than one storey, each floor has its own bagua, and in most buildings the bagua will be aligned in different directions on different storeys. Simply align the lower edge of the bagua diagram in my book with the direction you face as your staircase arrives on that level.

The houses this does not apply to are those where you can hear just about everything happening on one floor even when you are on another floor. In these homes, treat the bagua as being aligned in the same direction as the main floor all the way up the building.

QUESTION 2
If parts of the upper floor are missing it makes it difficult for you to access the higher levels of the aspects of your life that those areas represent (eg. higher levels of relationships, etc). You'll find Feng Shui cures listed in Chapter 19 of my book.

QUESTION 3
The plot of land your home is on has a bagua of its own. Each storey of your home has a bagua of its own. Each room in your home has a bagua of its own. It's baguas within baguas. The most important bagua is the space you spend the most time in.