Articles

Each of these explains one rule the tools here calculate — what it says, where it comes from, and where practitioners disagree. Nothing predicts anything.

The bedroom

• Which direction should the head of your bed face?
  The direction depends on your birth year, not on a single rule that suits everyone — and in a square room half of all people can only reach one of their four good directions.

The year

• Which signs stand in a named relation to the 2027 Goat year?
  Four signs — Goat, Ox, Rat and Dog — stand in a named relation to 2027, and each one is a fixed step around the wheel of twelve branches. Here is the rule behind each.
• Feng shui 2027: what actually changes, and what does not
  What turns over when 2027 arrives is a short, specific list of five compass positions. Your Kua number and your house's chart are not on it.
• Tai Sui 2027: where not to break ground this year
  In 2027 Tai Sui sits at 202.5°–217.5° and the three Sha fall in three separate arcs between 232.5° and 307.5°. The rule covers digging and demolition, and nothing else.
• Lucky colors of 2027: where the list actually comes from
  2027 is the yin Fire Goat year, and the color lists published for it come from the Fire in its stem — an association, not a calculation.
• Year of the Goat 2027: what the Fire in Fire Goat means
  2027 is the Fire Goat year, running 6 February 2027 to 25 January 2028 — and the Fire half of that name only meets the Goat once every sixty years, not every twelve.
• When does the Chinese year actually start? Two answers
  The zodiac animal turns at Chinese New Year and the Kua year turns at the start of spring, and in 2026 those two dates are thirteen days apart.