| In some approaches the Nine Ki are mapped onto a plan of your house using the buildings compass direction as a guide. It also is used for astrological purposes, for timing a move to a building or predictions for the current year. When applied to your home, balance will be achieved if all the Nine Ki are represented proportionally; no area is dominant, or missing. The area where the numbers appear on your house can also affect the activities that take place within them. Click on the Nine Ki symbol which you are interested in from the selection above, and read about its properties. Alternatively you can look at the balance of the Five Elements and attempt to achieve harmony by weakening or strengthening elements using the Cycles of Creation and Destruction.
 - direction; north
- element; water
Ki One is associated with a sense of calm, and individual reflection. This energy can also be reflected negatively as isolation or loneliness if over-represented or if the area clashes with the current use by the occupants.
 - direction; south-west
- element; earth
Ki Two is a slow-moving, deliberate energy suitable for rational and methodical consideration, perfect for clear-thinking. Negatively, this hampers creativity and emotional responses, creating a feeling of disassociation. The settled environment can be perfect for family harmony as long as the energy is not too strong.
 - direction; east
- element; wood
The energy in Ki Three is directed and intense, and is perfect for the creation of ideas, and their implementation. However it can also create a single-minded state where thinking laterally is difficult, your focus could be too directed.
 - direction; south-east
- element; lesser wood
Ki Four creates is an activated energy, creating a desire to work but with maturity and using lateral thinking. Its negative affects can bring a lack of focus, and also decreased enthusiasm for tasks making activities taking place within routine, and toiled.
- ki number 5
- direction; centre
- element; earth
Ki Number 5 is the only direction that does not have a associated trigram. It is considered the most powerful area of a building and should be kept as empty as possible as it contains the extremes of all the directions and their reactions together.
 - direction; north-west
- element; lesser metal
Ki Six brings with it responses of authority, honour and leadership. The area is perfect for organisational decision-making, and for commanding respect. Negatively, the force can impose arrogance, unwarranted self-assurance, and blindness to other opinions.
 - direction; west
- element; metal
Ki Number Seven in some approaches is considered most beneficial for financial activites. It is also associated with a sense of completion of tasks, and creates a relaxing and romantic area which is not intruded upon by stress. When the energy is over represented it can cause feelings of self-gratification, and a sense that all work is completed (whether or not this is the case), leading to lost motivation.
 - direction; north-east
- element; lesser earth
The penetrating energy of Ki Eight creates a atomsphere that is perfect for high levels of self-motivated action, and determined resolve. When the energy is too strong individuals can be emotionally stubborn and lacking empathy with those around them.
 - direction; south
- element; fire
Ki Nine emits brilliant energy, benefitting passionate, sociable emotions. It is also associated with fame, and both self-esteem and recognition by others. When the energy is too intense it can become difficult to concentrate, and feeds explosive emotional responses.
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