Find your Kua Number in 15 seconds

Your Kua Number (命卦) comes from your birth year and decides your best directions. Born before Li Chun (about 4 Feb)? Use the year before. For 2000 or later the formula changes, and the calculator handles it for you.

The worked example uses 1985, but the same steps work for any year before 2000. Two catches trip people up. If you were born before Li Chun, around 4 February, use the previous year. If the result is 5, men use Kua 2 and women use Kua 8. For births in 2000 or later the formula changes, and the calculator handles all of this for you.

1. Your lucky direction is hiding in your birth year.
2. Born 1985? Add the last two digits: 8 + 5 = 13, then 1 + 3 = 4.
3. Men (before 2000): 10 − 4 = Kua 6.
4. Women (before 2000): 4 + 5 = Kua 9.
5. Kua 6: face West. Kua 9: face East.
6. Comment your birth year, or get yours free.

• Add the last two digits of your birth year and reduce to a single digit.
• Before 2000, men subtract that number from 10 and women add 5 (reduce again if needed).
• Born before about 4 February? Use the previous year, or let the calculator do it.

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