The wealth corner — xun gua in classical feng shui — is the area of the bagua governing prosperity, abundance and the flow of resources into your life. In the Western school it is found by standing at your front door facing in: the far left corner of the home (and of each room) is the wealth area. Its element is Wood — growth — fed by Water and expressed in purples, greens and golds. Feng shui reads this corner's condition as a portrait of your finances: a dark, cluttered, leaking or dead wealth corner mirrors stagnant or leaking money, while a thriving one supports growing abundance. It is the most famous — and most tended — corner in all of feng shui.
How to Apply The Wealth Corner
Locate it: stand at your front door facing inward — the far left corner of the home is the wealth area; repeat within any important room
Clean and repair it first: fix anything broken or leaking there (leaks are literal money drains in feng shui's grammar)
Add living Wood energy — a healthy, rounded-leaf plant such as a jade plant is the classic wealth resident
Introduce wealth colours and symbols: purple, green and gold accents, a coin bowl, or an object that genuinely represents prosperity to you
Keep it lit — a dark wealth corner is a dim financial outlook; a warm lamp is one of the simplest effective cures
Common Mistakes
Storing bills, broken items or rubbish bins in the wealth corner — assigning your money-energy to debts and breakage
Dead or dying plants left in place — worse than no plant at all
Overloading the corner with every wealth trinket sold — sincerity and order attract more than symbol hoarding
Quick Tips
A small water feature or image of flowing water here feeds the corner's Wood (but keep water clean and moving)
Let the corner hold your intention, not just objects: place something connected to a real financial goal
Check the wealth corner of your workspace and bedroom too — the office corner often matters most
If the corner falls in a bathroom or closet, keep that space impeccable and add Wood energy to compensate
Curious about your personal energy?
Your home has its energy map — and so do you. Numerology reveals the numbers behind your own flow.