Feng shui 2027: what actually changes, and what does not
Published 2026-08-19
When the year turns to 2027, five compass positions move: Tai Sui, Sui Po and the three Sha. That is the whole list. Your Kua number does not change, your house’s chart does not change, and the sectors your bedroom and bathroom fall into do not change, because none of those are calculated from the year.
A lot of “feng shui 2027” writing implies an annual reshuffle: new lucky directions, a new layout, things to move before a deadline. The annual positions come from the almanac, not from Eight Mansions (八宅, Ba Zhai), the compass school this site runs. They sit on top of a chart that stays still.
The five positions that move
2027 is 丁未, the yin Fire Goat, number 44 of the sixty-year cycle. Its branch is Wei (未), and every one of the five positions below is derived from that single branch.
| Position | Mountain | Bearing | Palace |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tai Sui (太歲) | 未 | 202.5°–217.5° | Southwest |
| Sui Po (歲破) | 丑 | 22.5°–37.5° | Northeast |
| Robbery Sha (劫煞) | 申 | 232.5°–247.5° | Southwest |
| Disaster Sha (災煞) | 酉 | 262.5°–277.5° | West |
| Year Sha (歲煞) | 戌 | 292.5°–307.5° | Northwest |
Tai Sui, “the year”, sits in the mountain of the year’s own branch. Sui Po is the mountain directly opposite. The three Sha are a run of three neighboring mountains, worked out from the branch opposite the peak of the year’s combination group.
That last one catches people out, so it is worth spelling out. Wei belongs to the Wood combination group, whose peak is in the East, so the three Sha land opposite it in the West. Note that the year’s element is Fire — that comes from the stem, Ding — while the group that sets the three Sha is Wood, which comes from the branch. Two different things, both called an element.
The chinese zodiac 2027 page computes all five and shows which animal branches stand in a named relation to Wei.
“The three Sha are in the west” is a summary
Those five rows cover 75° of the 360° circle. Five mountains, 15° each. Said as palaces, the same five positions touch Southwest, Northeast, West and Northwest — four of eight, or 180°, which overstates it by well over double. Southwest appears twice in the table and holds two different 15° slices, not the whole sector.
So “2027 disturbs the west” is a rounding of 232.5°–307.5°. Sector edges fall at 22.5°, 67.5° and so on, and a bearing two degrees off moves a wall from one mountain into its neighbor.
What does not change
None of the following takes a year as an input, so none of it can turn over on a date:
- Your Kua number. It comes from your birth year and sex. Someone born in 1990 has the same number in 2027 that they had in 2026 and will have in 2028.
- Your four favourable and four unfavourable directions. These come from the Kua number, so they are fixed for life too.
- Your house’s gua. It comes from the building’s sitting direction. Unless you move house or rebuild a wall, it is the same chart in 2027.
- Which sector each room falls in, and what Eight Mansions says about it. Same chart, same answer.
The compass bagua map computes the house chart, and you can check this yourself: there is nowhere on it to enter a year.
We also do not compute the annual flying star or the five yellow. Those belong to Xuan Kong, a different school, and mixing its output into an Eight Mansions chart produces something neither school would recognise. See method and assumptions for where we stop.
Two dates, and in 2027 they are unusually close
There are two year boundaries in use, and both are right — they answer different questions.
- The annual positions above turn at the start of spring (立春), which in 2027 is 4 February at 09:46 (UTC+8). They hold until the next one, 15:31 on 4 February 2028. The Kua year uses this same boundary.
- The zodiac animal turns at Chinese New Year, which in 2027 is 6 February. The Goat year then runs until 25 January 2028.
Usually the gap between them is a week or two. In 2027 it is two days. That still produces a real window: on 4 and 5 February 2027, the five positions above are already the Goat year’s, while the zodiac animal is still the Horse. Both statements are true at once.
The start of spring is an astronomical moment, not a fixed date. Across 1900–2100 it falls on 3 February in 39 years, 4 February in 128, and 5 February in 34. A tool that hardcodes 4 February is wrong at the boundary in 73 of those 201 years, and someone born in the first days of February gets the wrong Kua number from it. On the lichun day itself the hour decides: born at 08:00 on 4 February 2027 counts as the previous year, born at 10:00 counts as 2027. Chinese New Year moves more widely still, landing anywhere from 21 January to 20 February.
What the annual layer actually asks of you
The advice attached to these positions is narrow: do not break ground, demolish or renovate in them during the year. Nobody in this tradition suggests you stop using a room that happens to sit in one. If your kitchen is in the Southwest in 2027, the almanac reading is about not knocking the wall through, not about where you cook.
Here practice does split. Some sources keep it to construction, as above. Others extend it to sleeping or desk-facing direction, or attach yearly objects to the affected sectors. This site states the narrow version and labels it as narrow, so you can tell what you are getting.
Practice is also split on the boundary itself. We date the five positions from the start of spring, because they follow the stem-branch year; you will find almanacs that date them from Chinese New Year. That is where conflicting claims about “when 2027 starts” come from, and it is a disagreement about which calendar governs the almanac, not an error one side has made.
The 2026 to 2027 diff
If you want to know what genuinely moved, this is it in full:
| Position | 2026 (丙午, Fire Horse) | 2027 (丁未, Fire Goat) |
|---|---|---|
| Tai Sui | 午 — South | 未 — Southwest |
| Sui Po | 子 — North | 丑 — Northeast |
| Three Sha | 亥 / 子 / 丑 — Northwest, North, Northeast | 申 / 酉 / 戌 — Southwest, West, Northwest |
Five rows changed. Everything else on your chart is where you left it.
One closing limit, the same one that applies to every page here. Eight Mansions names a direction and the almanac names a position. Neither predicts what happens to anyone, and neither do we.