All of the feng shui schools agree that the front door of your home is an important area.
Front door feng shui bagua mirror.
It is always placed on the outside or if you place it on the inside as in case of a window for example you will position it to face the source of negative energy.
I have not in my over 17 years of doing feng shui ever met a person that felt comfortable using a bagua mirror.
There s nothing wrong with having a mirror at the foyer or close to the front door.
This type of mirror protects a house or place of business from the negative energy known as sha chi or poison arrows it s important to select the right type of bagua mirror for your needs.
A feng shui bagua mirror pa kua mirror is a powerful cure to protect against negative energy and create good fortune and harmony.
It s called the mouth of qi because the entry is how energy and qi life force enters a space.
How to place the bagua mirror.
Typically the feng shui bagua mirror is placed above the front door or a big window.
This is the most aggressive and usually least desirable use of a bagua mirror because it promotes the endless bouncing of negative energy.
Mirror placed near the front door is fine as long as it doesn t face the front door.
A mirror facing the front door is really bad feng shui as it pushes away all the good energy chi that you want to come inside the house.
A mirror facing a staircase.
Generally speaking feng shui experts do not recommend placing a mirror directly across from the front door but rather on a wall perpendicular to it.
The classical schools tend to recommend against a mirror facing the front door do so because for them the reflection of a mirror reflects energy back.
The feng shui bagua pa kua or pakua mirror is a round mirror surrounded by an octagonal wooden frame with the feng shui bagua design in either red green and yellow gold colors pictured here or yellow black and red colors the bagua mirror design is further divided into the so called early heaven and later heaven baguas both originating from the i ching wisdom.
Third a bagua mirror placed to reflect back bad energy can affect you negatively as you are coming home and approaching your own front door.
The front door is very important in feng shui the holistic home author laura benko tells mydomaine.
In feng shui a ba gua mirror or octagon mirror can often be seen above the door of a chinese souvenir shop or feng shui shop you 39 ll notice these octagonal shaped mirrors with lines trigrams representing each section of the ba gua map.