Azure Dragon without feet

Name and specific form

In this supplied list, Azure Dragon without feet means no building or a gap on the left side of the home. “Without feet” is a metaphor for an incomplete layout, not foundation settlement or a person’s injured feet. Distinguish planned open land, unbuilt work, demolition and damage before interpreting the gap.

How to identify and record it

Define left while looking outward from inside the home, then draw the open land, existing buildings and site boundary together. Roof shadows alone cannot establish whether a house exists. Record the land’s use, access and construction stage.

• Identify whether the whole left is unbuilt or only a local gap exists.
• Record its relationship to the entrance, drainage routes and neighboring land.
• State whether the opening is intentional or follows removal; symmetry is not a substitute for investigation.

Sources, versions and related names

This page follows the list’s no-building-on-the-left wording without presenting a verified universal old form. The older leaking-qi entry involves a more specific combination of halls and connections. A gap on the right is a different location and should not change names when the observer turns.

Folk meanings and limits of interpretation

Traditional Four Symbols language imagines surrounding masses as protective companions. “Without feet” describes a missing side mass symbolically. It does not establish an absent relative, incomplete family or lost fortune. Open land has no fixed favorable or unfavorable meaning by itself.

Practical observation: what determines the effect

An open side may improve daylight, views and ventilation, or need clearer boundaries, access and drainage. Evaluate its actual function rather than building merely to fill a plan. If something was demolished, separately check remaining components and site management.

Improvements and what they cannot replace

Address verified boundary, standing-water, clutter or privacy issues on the left. Modest landscape or movable changes may help. Check site conditions before adding a building or enclosing land; matching both sides must not sacrifice necessary circulation.

• Retain useful existing open-space functions rather than automatically treating emptiness as a defect.
• Mark areas requiring management and check drainage and visibility at night.
• Do not promise that adding a room or placing an object will restore family fortune.