Sheng Chi
Sheng Chi, ‘generating breath’, is the best of your four favourable directions in Eight Mansions Feng Shui. Linked with success, vitality and prosperity, it is the direction to face when you work, study or negotiate.
Also known as: sheng qi, generating breath
In the Eight Mansions system each Kua number has four good directions, ranked Sheng Chi (success), Tien Yi (health), Yen Nien (relationships) and Fu Wei (personal growth), and four less supportive ones. Sheng Chi is the strongest, associated with ambition, opportunity and fresh energy.
Each Kua has its own Sheng Chi: south-east for Kua 1, north-east for 2, south for 3, north for 4, west for 6, north-west for 7, south-west for 8 and east for 9. It always falls within your own East or West group.
To use it, sit so that you face your Sheng Chi at your desk, face it in important meetings or while studying, and, where possible, have a main or office door that faces it. It is the direction most people start with when they first use their Kua.
In general Feng Shui talk, sheng qi also means lively, nourishing energy in a space. In the Eight Mansions it names one precise compass direction, which differs from person to person.