Guide
Bagua Map Crystals: Placement for All 9 Areas (2026)
How to lay the bagua map over your home and which crystals belong in each of the nine areas — with both the door-aligned and compass methods explained, because the two schools disagree.
What the bagua map is
The bagua is feng shui's energy map: a grid of nine areas, each tied to an aspect of life. Wealth, relationships, career, health, family, creativity, knowledge, fame, and the helpful-people area that governs travel and support. You overlay this grid on your home, on a single room, or even on a desk, and then treat each zone as a place where that part of your life can be supported.
Crystals are one of the most common tools for that support. Each stone carries a traditional association, and placing it in the matching bagua area is a way of setting an intention somewhere you will see it every day. The practice is symbolic rather than mechanical — the stone is a reminder and a focus, not a switch.
The word bagua means "eight areas" in Chinese, referring to the eight outer zones around a ninth center. You will see it drawn as a three-by-three grid or as an octagon; they mean the same thing.
The two bagua schools, and why guides contradict each other
This is the part most crystal guides leave out, and it is the reason people give up on the bagua.
There are two mainstream ways to orient the map, and they place the areas differently.
Classical (compass) feng shui orients the bagua by actual compass direction. The wealth area is the southeast of your home, no matter where the front door is. You need a compass, and you take the reading from the center of the home.
Western or BTB (Black Sect) feng shui orients the bagua by your front door. You stand at the main entrance looking in, and the grid lays over the floor plan from there — wealth is always the far back-left corner. No compass required.
Neither is a corruption of the other; BTB is a twentieth-century Western adaptation that deliberately swapped compass alignment for door alignment. But because most published guides use one method without saying so, a reader can follow one page's instruction and then find the next page putting wealth somewhere else entirely, and reasonably conclude the whole system is arbitrary.
This guide uses the door-aligned (BTB) method, because it needs no compass and it is the version most Western crystal practice assumes. Each area below also lists its classical compass equivalent, so if you have been working from a compass-based source you can follow along without re-learning anything.
Pick one method and stay with it. Mixing them is the actual mistake.
How to lay the map over your home
Four steps.
- Sketch your floor plan. Rough is fine. Include the main rooms and, importantly, the front door — the one the house was built to be entered by, even if you always come in through the garage.
- Stand at the front door looking in. Everything follows from this orientation. The wall you are facing is the back of the grid.
- Divide the plan into a three-by-three grid. Nine roughly equal zones. Don't agonise over precision; the areas are conceptual, not surveyed.
- Place the map. The bottom row — the one containing your front door — is knowledge, career, and helpful people. The top row, furthest from the door, is wealth, fame, and relationships.
So from the front door: wealth is the far back-left corner, relationships the far back-right, and the center of the home is health.
If your home is not a neat rectangle — an L-shape, an extension, a wing — you have what feng shui calls a missing area. The common remedy is to treat that zone's qualities as needing extra support elsewhere: place its crystal in the corresponding corner of a single room instead, since the bagua applies fractally.
All nine bagua areas and their crystals
Positions are given from the front door looking in, with the classical compass equivalent in brackets.
Wealth and abundance — far back-left [southeast]
Purple, green, and gold. The most popular area in the whole map. Citrine is the merchant's stone, associated with prosperity and a steady flow of income. Pyrite, known as fool's gold, is linked with wealth, confidence, and protecting resources. Green aventurine is used for opportunity and good fortune. Keep this corner uncluttered — the tradition holds that stagnation here matters more than what you put in it.
Fame and reputation — back-center [south]
Red, fire element. How you are seen and recognised. Carnelian for confidence and visible energy, red jasper for steady endurance, sunstone for warmth and personal radiance.
Love and relationships — far back-right [southwest]
Pink and red, earth element. Rose quartz is the classic choice, and the tradition is specific: place a pair of stones here, because pairs symbolise partnership. Rhodonite is used for emotional healing within relationships, garnet for passion and commitment.
Family and new beginnings — middle-left [east]
Green, wood element. Family, ancestry, and things that are starting. Green aventurine and jade for growth and harmony, amazonite for calm communication among people who live together.
Health and center — the middle [center]
Yellow and earth tones. The heart of the home, connected to every other area. Clear quartz to amplify and clarify the whole space, jade for wellbeing, amethyst for calm. Keep the center of a home open where possible.
Creativity and children — middle-right [west]
White and metallic, metal element. Creative projects, and children. Moonstone for cycles, intuition, and new creative phases, carnelian for creative spark, selenite for clarity.
Knowledge and self-cultivation — front-left [northeast]
Blue and green. Study, skill, inner work. Amethyst for insight and spiritual awareness, fluorite for focus and mental order, sodalite for clear thinking. A natural corner for a desk or reading chair.
Career and path — front-center [north]
Black and deep blue, water element. Contains or sits beside your front door. Black tourmaline filters heavy energy at the entrance, obsidian for grounding and clarity of direction, lapis lazuli for wisdom and truthful self-presentation.
Helpful people and travel — front-right [northwest]
Grey, white, metallic. Mentors, support, and journeys. Clear quartz for clarity in asking for help, hematite for grounded protection while travelling, angelite for connection and guidance.
Using the bagua on one room
The map applies fractally, which is the most practical thing about it. If you cannot rearrange a whole house, use a single room — or a desk.
Stand at the room's doorway looking in and lay the same three-by-three grid over the floor. The far back-left of your bedroom is that room's wealth corner; the far back-right is its relationship corner. On a desk, sit down and treat the far left edge as wealth and the far right as relationships.
This is the version most people can actually act on. A citrine cluster at the back-left of a desk is a real, daily practice; rearranging a house is usually not.
Common bagua mistakes
- Mixing the two schools. Reading a compass guide and a door-aligned guide and averaging them leaves you with a map that is neither. Choose one.
- Orienting from the door you actually use. The tradition takes the formal front door, even if you always come in from the garage or the back.
- Filling every area at once. Nine areas, nine crystals, all bought in one afternoon tends to produce a house full of stones and no practice. Start with one or two areas that genuinely matter to you now.
- Clutter in the wealth corner. In the tradition, blocked or stagnant energy in this corner outweighs anything you place there. Clearing it is the first step, not the crystal.
- Treating placement as mechanical. The stone is a focus for intention. It is a contemplative practice, not a guarantee of an outcome.
Stones for your bagua
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Frequently asked questions
What is a bagua map?+
It is feng shui's energy map — a three-by-three grid of nine life areas that you overlay on a home, a room, or a desk. Each area corresponds to an aspect of life such as wealth, relationships, or career.
Which crystal goes in the wealth corner?+
Citrine is the traditional choice, often with pyrite or green aventurine. The wealth area is the far back-left corner as you stand at the front door looking in, which corresponds to the southeast in compass feng shui.
Do I orient the bagua by my front door or by compass?+
Both methods exist. Western or BTB feng shui aligns it to the front door; classical feng shui aligns it by compass direction. This guide uses the door-aligned method and lists compass equivalents alongside. The important thing is to pick one and not mix them.
Can I use the bagua on a single room?+
Yes — it applies fractally. Stand in the room's doorway and lay the same grid over that room's floor. It works on a desk too.
What if my house isn't a rectangle?+
An L-shape or extension creates what is called a missing area. The usual remedy is to support that area's qualities in the corresponding corner of a room instead.
How many crystals do I need?+
One or two, to begin. Choosing the areas that matter to you right now is more useful than placing a stone in all nine.
Does the bagua have to face a particular way?+
In the door-aligned method the grid always orients from the main entrance, regardless of which way the building faces.
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