What it does
Guides what to build in the ESE and what to keep out of it.
Where
East-South-East zone of the house
Cautions
Explanation and notes
Suitable: washing machine, mixer-grinder, wash area, bathroom (basically a septic tank or any underground waste activity), guest room, lift (a pit is acceptable here), and a kids room for children below 12 years; the belief that small children will over-churn here is a myth. For a PhD or research scholar this churning zone is the best study place. Kitchen: many kitchens span ESE and SE; keep the burner in the SE part, since the Sun is in SE from 9 to 12. A stove in ESE is very good when cooking finishes early, by 9 am. Drawing room: possible in a combined East and ESE area if the decision-maker sits in the East zone facing East; the others sit in ESE, discuss and propose, and the decision-maker decides.
Before any interior, fix the goal of the space, study the owner's kundali, check the current (energy) flow and base every arrangement, colour and artifact on planet combinations. Harmful yogas of the kundali must never be recreated with artifacts, while good yogas should be built.
Interior vastu is emotion and action controlled by the interior: what the eye sees daily at home changes the mind. Pictures of God and loving family scenes bring good thoughts, while vulgar, violent or sorrowful images change emotions at once.
For a person who gets angry often, the room is done up only with anger-controlling, mind-calming portraits, photos, idols, artifacts, symbols and colour combinations.
Family photos at home should show the whole family complete from head to feet, with no hand or foot cut, and statues or idols should show the full body. Close-up face photos and cut or bust figures bring trouble.
Everyone is made of the five elements; a person likes the colour of their own element or of its friend element, and the exact shade they like matches the percentage of that element within them.
Humans are made of four working elements, water, earth, fire and air; nobody belongs to the space element alone. Water and earth are friends, fire and air are friends, water and fire are enemies, earth and air are enemies, while water-air and earth-fire are sam-mitra (neutral friends).
The element friendship chart is also the basis of compatibility: two people of the same element or of friendly elements (water with earth, fire with air) keep a heart-to-heart bond. Compare the rashi elements of both before a marriage, partnership or close friendship.
A person's element comes from the janma rashi, the rashi number written with the Moon (Cha) in the kundali. Writing the 12 rashis in order under Fire, Earth, Air and Water gives each element three rashis.