Knowing your personal ming gua is information that can be very useful. Ming gua is equivalent to your lucky palace, location or direction. It relates to your health, fortune, and personality. It is a location in your home or office. It determines your four auspicious directions and four inauspicious directions. So you can see that you might want to know how to find your ming gua.
Determining your personal ming gua is based on a few simple calculations. The calculations are different for women and men but both calculations start the same way. Here is the procedure.
Just as when you determine your Chinese zodiac sign, you must take into consideration the start of the solar Chinese New Year when you calculate your ming gua. So if your birthday is on or around February fourth or fifth then you must use the previous year in your calculations. For example if you were born on March 5, 1995 then you use 1995 to calculate your ming gua. But if you were born on January 5, 1995 then you must use 1994 to do your calculations.
First add up all the digits in your birth year. If you were born for example in 1964 you would add 1 to 9 then add that to 6 then add that to 4.
1 + 9 + 6 + 4 = 20
If your answer has two digits keep adding until you end up with one digit. In this case it’s easy 2 + 0 = 2
Let’s try another. A person is born in 1995
1 + 9 + 9 + 5 = 24
You have two digits so add them together. 2 + 4 = 6
Now for the second part of the calculation.
If the person is a male you subtract the previous answer from 11. In the first calculations we ended up with a 2. Subtract this from 11 and your min gua answer is 9. In the second calculations you ended up with a 6. Subtract 6 from 11 and you end up with 5. There is no ming gua associated with the number 5. In this case, for males only, you transform a 5 into the number 2. This male’s ming gua is now 2 instead of 5.
If the person is a female you add the result of the first calculation to 4. Our first example again resulted in a 2. Add this to 4. 2 + 4 = 6. There is your ming gua.
In our second female example of the birth year is 1995. 1 + 9 + 9 + 5 = 24 add the two digits
2 + 4 = 6 for females add this result to 4. 6 + 4 = 10 Add the digits to get a single digit
1 + 0 = 1 and you end up with 1 for the ming gua.
Let’s try one more female example. Birth year is 1999.
Step one: 1 + 9 + 9 + 9 =28.
Step two: 2 + 8 = 10,
Step three: 1 + 0 = 1
Step four: 1 + 4 = 5
Since we ended up with a 5 and there is no ming gua 5, we transform the answer to an 8 for females only.
Now that you know your ming gua go back in the archives and find the trigram associated with your ming gua number.
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