All About the Bagua Mirror
Bagua Mirror Usage, Function, Placement, Rules in Feng Shui
The feng shui bagua (or “pa kua”) mirror is one of the most well-known classical feng shui adjustment objects. It also happens to probably be one of the most misused as well! Here’s our guide on the bagua mirror and how you can use it properly.
About Bagua Mirrors
The bagua mirror is typically five or more inches in diameter and made of wood, plastic, or metal framing a round mirror in the center. The colors of the frame vary but the traditional ones usually include red for vitality and may also include a combination of green, yellow (gold), and black. The shape of the frame is usually an eight-sided octagon. As mentioned earlier, make sure you have it oriented with the trigram with three solid lines at the top. Usually the bagua mirror will have a hook there indicating which way is up. You can find them for sale in most Chinatowns around the globe.
General Uses For Bagua Mirrors
Bagua mirrors belong on the outside of the house, usually over the front door or main entrance of a home. The bagua mirror is a protective amulet used in classical feng shui schools to deflect and ward off any “poison arrows” or “sha qi”. This means if you have a large structure like a corner of a building or a sharp roof line directed towards your front door, you can hang the bagua mirror above your front door, facing towards the structure.
Bagua mirrors should not be placed in an interior environment, such as the outside of your apartment door inside of the building. In addition, the mirror should always face out and away from the home.
If your main door is in the wrong direction, such as East or Southeast, hang a Bagua mirror above the main door at the center point to stop the wrong energy field the entering the building.
You can also use the Bagua mirror if your main door faces a graveyard, police station, hospital, nursing home, or butcher shop.
Different Types of Bagua Mirrors
Flat Bagua
A flat mirror sits inside an eight-sided frame painted with the bagua colors and trigrams. Flat bagua mirrors are an all-purpose feng shui cure for poison arrows and may be hung over the front door — or near it — in a direct line with the offending projectile or traffic flow. You should never hang a flat mirror of any kind inside the front door, because it will stop the entering chi and send it back out the door.
Convex Bagua Mirror
A convex mirror multiplies chi and reflects it. This is a strong cure and should not be used lightly. If a large building angles a sharp edge toward your door, the convex mirror will reflect that piercing or cutting energy back. Feng shui practitioners recommend that you never place a convex mirror without consulting a feng shui expert.
Concave Mirrors
Concave bagua mirrors draw good chi into their curve or basin, and collect it. A beautiful outdoor view of scenery such as distant mountains or a river gives off positive chi, and a concave bagua mirror will gather that energy for your home and for anyone who enters there. Another use for the concave mirror is to neutralize poison arrows by drawing all the negative chi into itself and rendering sha chi harmless.
Tips And Taboos
1. The best time to hang a Bagua Mirror is at noon (11:00–13:00), especially 12:00 when Yang is at the peak of the day.
2. Make sure there is no picture or statue of a god or the Buddha on the way of reflection, or it can be disrespectful and affect your blessings.
3. Do not reflect the light into other people’s home; otherwise, the evil spirits will enter their home. Remember not to do evil; otherwise, the Bagua Mirror will play a bad role rather than good!
4. Do not put the Bagua Mirror indoors but outdoors; do not look in the mirror or put too many Bagua Mirrors — hang one in each direction, and limit the total number to three.
5. Do not hang a Bagua Mirror on the ceiling. Generally speaking, the ceiling can map people and a Bagua Mirror here will undermine your luck.
Wrap Up
Bagua Mirrors are believed to transform negative chi into positive chi, hence promoting harmony (negative chi is called sha). Bagua mirrors are made by Feng Shui experts according to calculations based on the kua number and the date and year of birth of the native of the house. These instruments help protect homes, factories, and business houses from negative energies, which may adversely affect the owner’’s prosperity and happiness.
It is obvious: the application of the bagua is a very technical matter that cannot be done without the advice of a real specialist.
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