Which House Direction Suits Your Age? Bát Trạch Lookup
Life palace (cung mệnh) by lunar birth year and sex, East / West group, the four good and four bad directions, a facing check and couple compatibility.
Result
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Implements the Eight Mansions school (Bát trạch) used in Vietnamese real estate: from the lunar birth year and the sex it returns the life palace (cung phi: Khảm, Khôn, Chấn, Tốn, Càn, Đoài, Cấn, Ly), its element and East / West group, and the eight directions with their stars: Sinh khí, Thiên y, Diên niên and Phục vị (good), Họa hại, Ngũ quỷ, Lục sát and Tuyệt mệnh (bad), each with its compass range.
Send a solar birth_date and the lunar year is computed (people born before Tết belong to the previous year). Add facing (degrees or a direction) to check a door, house or desk, and partner_year to compare a couple’s palaces and find their common good directions.
This is folk belief, given as cultural reference: it has no scientific basis. The formula is the common one (men: (2 − year) mod 9, women: (year − 5) mod 9, 5 → Khôn for men, Cấn for women).
Use this in your code
curl "https://apibox.io.vn/v1/vn-house-direction?year=1990&sex=male&facing=135" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"const res = await fetch('https://apibox.io.vn/v1/vn-house-direction?year=1990&sex=male&facing=135', {
method: 'GET',
headers: {
Authorization: 'Bearer YOUR_API_KEY',
},
});
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);import requests
res = requests.get(
"https://apibox.io.vn/v1/vn-house-direction?year=1990&sex=male&facing=135",
headers={"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"},
timeout=30,
)
print(res.json())<?php
$ch = curl_init('https://apibox.io.vn/v1/vn-house-direction?year=1990&sex=male&facing=135');
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => ['Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY'],
]);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
print_r(json_decode($response, true));API documentation → Get a free API key
FAQ
Is the year the solar or the lunar year?
The lunar year. Send birth_date to have it computed, or year if you already know the lunar year.
Which school is used?
Bát trạch with the usual cung phi formula; other schools may differ for some years.
What is the house direction?
The direction the main door faces, measured from inside the house looking out.