What it does
Guides what to build in the East so that association, reputation and politics prosper.
Where
East zone of the house
Cautions
Explanation and notes
Suitable: office (including a political office), general office, social meeting area, dining room, bathing area (ideal, as it is a sun bath), main door, windows, open area, garden, puja room or temple, living room, meditation room, balcony and study room. A bedroom or study room is excellent for people whose Sun is exalted. A kitchen suits only homes where cooking is finished by 9 am, or where food for sadhus and saints is cooked. Creation begins in the East, so start every work from the East. Nobody can stop the Sun's rays; whoever blocks them with a hill, a wall or anything else is ruined. Sweetness comes from the Sun's rays, so fruit-bearing trees are planted in the East and the sweetest fruits belong to it. A politician who had lost by 500 votes had a toilet and his election office in the East; after correction he won the next election by about 5,000 votes. East is politics and the Sun is the king.
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.