Your Personal Feng Shui Element

• Take the last two digits of your year of birth, add the numbers up till you arrive at a single digit number.
• Use 10 to subtract the single digit number derived from the above step.
• The final number after the addition and subtraction is your Ming-Gua (命卦), or your base element number.
• eg, Male born in 1974, 7+4=11 => 1+1=2, Use 10 to subtract away 2 = 8. A Male born in 1974 is a Ming-Gua (命卦) 8 person.

• Take the last two digits of your year of birth, add the numbers up till you arrive at a single digit number.
• Add another 5 to the answer derived above. If the answer is bigger than 9, add the two digits in the answer and derive at a single digit answer again.
• This final answer after additions is  is your Ming-Gua (命卦), or your base element number.
• eg. Female born in 1975, 7+5=12 => 1+2=3, Add 5 to the answer 3 = 8. A female born in 1975 is a Ming-Gua (命卦) 8 person.