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Each home sector should be carefully assessed to see if there are imbalances in the energy there that should be corrected using the attributes of the Pa Kua.

Using the Pa Kua highlights the effects of missing and protruding corners, which can be good or bad depending on how they impact on the personalized feng shui of residents. Detailed examination of the sectors also shows the effect of shapes, colors, and room usage on the overall luck of the family.

Here the way you assess the sectors depends on whether you use the Lo Shu method or the Pie Chart method. The space covered under the two methods differs quite considerably. If you examine the two methods used on the floor plans below, you will see how the rooms and corners of rooms deemed to fall into different directions of the compass sectors differ quite considerably. If you are unsure which method to use you might want to follow my example and do away with the Pie Chart method completely. I have always used the Lo Shu Square method to demarcate rooms as I find this to be the most practical.

In addition, readers may be interested to know that the Lo Shu numbers actually make up the base upon which many of the most powerful formulas of feng shui are formulated. Secondly, since most rooms of most houses are either square or rectangular, using the grid method is much easier from a practical viewpoint. Some of you may find that certain rooms fall into two, or even three, different sectors. In such cases, the conventional wisdom to which many feng shui masters of repute subscribe is to follow the attributes indicated by the largest floor area covered.

1. The entrance is in the north sector. 2. The living room is in the east and northeast, which protrudes so the east and northeast are emphasized. 3. Bedrooms are in the southeast and southwest. 4. Bathrooms and toilets are in the south. 5. The dining room is in the west