Kua number calculator: your lucky feng shui directions

Your Kua number is your personal feng shui number, worked out from your birth year and your sex at birth. It gives you four lucky directions for work, sleep and the things that matter, and four to keep away from. Enter your birth date to find yours.

Lucky and unlucky directions for each Kua number

Find your number below. Open your phone's Compass app to see where each direction falls in your room.

What each direction is for

Money & success Sheng Qi

Face this way at your desk, in meetings, whenever you're asking for something.

Health Tian Yi

Sleep with your head pointing this way to rest and recover.

Love & family Yan Nian

Good for your bed or sofa. Dates and family time too.

Calm & personal growth Fu Wei

Face this way to study, pray, meditate or feel steady.

Small mishaps Huo Hai

Fine for a storeroom or bathroom. Just don't face it for long.

Arguments Wu Gui

Don't face it during meetings or tough conversations.

Gossip & setbacks Liu Sha

Don't sleep with your head pointing this way.

Big losses Jue Ming

Your weakest direction. Never face it at your desk or in bed.

How to work out your Kua number

1. Find your feng shui birth year. It starts at Li Chun, around 4 February, not on 1 January or at Chinese New Year. Born before Li Chun? Use the year before.
2. Add up the digits of that year until one digit is left: 1995 → 1 + 9 + 9 + 5 = 24 → 2 + 4 = 6.
3. Male: take that digit away from 11. Female: add 4 to it. If the answer has two digits, add them together.
4. If you land on 5, men use 2 and women use 8.

So for 1995: men get 11 − 6 = 5 → Kua 2, and women get 4 + 6 = 10 → 1 + 0 = Kua 1.

Kua numbers by birth year

Born between 1 January and early February? The feng shui year only starts at Li Chun (3–5 February), so use the year before.

More feng shui in Astrelle

Your Kua directions are one part of the Feng Shui tab in Astrelle. The rest changes with the day and the year:

• Good days for 14 activities, from cutting your hair to signing a contract or moving house, picked from the Chinese almanac and skipping days that clash with your zodiac animal
• Your home's lucky and unlucky zones this year, from the annual Flying Stars
• Where the Grand Duke (Tai Sui), the Year Breaker and the Three Killings sit this year, so you know which spots to leave alone
• Daily lucky colours and outfit ideas from your Five Elements balance, on the Today tab

Feng shui is a traditional practice for reflection and inspiration, not science.