What it does
Helps place fire sources correctly for money, status and fame.
Where
South-East zone, from East-South-East to South-South-East
Cautions
Explanation and notes
Attributes: shape triangle; colour orange, and red also brings fire; zone South-East, covering East-South-East (purvi agneya), South-East and South-South-East (dakshini agneya); nature hot, dry and bright; sense sight, as the eyes are the door of the fire element and anger shows in the eyes; dosha pitta; quality rajoguna (people with strong rajoguna are pitta natured and have excess fire at home); planets Sun and Mars. In the house: the natural source is sunlight; artificial fire is the gas stove, transformer, generator and inverter (secondary forms); any triangle shape or red colour also brings fire. Balanced: name, fame and financial gain. Imbalanced: loss of name, fame and money. Heat in the body is life; when the fire goes, the body turns cold and the eyes close.
In Vedic vastu the five elements arose one from another in a fixed order: Space, then Air, Fire, Water and Earth, after which the cycle returns to Space. This order, described in the Shiv Puran, is the base for knowing which element creates or destroys another.
The five chakras from the throat downwards hold the five elements in the same order as creation: Vishuddhi holds space, Anahata air, Manipur fire, Swadhishthan water and Muladhara earth.
Both geopathic and cosmic energy exist in the form of the five elements. The universe, the body, the nine planets and every material, food, metal and artifact represent one element or another, so a building is balanced by balancing its elements.
Land (geopathic) energy, which is the earth element, carries 70 percent of the result of a building, while orientation and zoning carry 30 percent. A site with zero land energy fails however good its orientation and interiors are.
The earth element is golden yellow, square, located in the South-West and solid, heavy and dense by nature; in a house it is represented by the land energy, the plot shape and the slope. Balanced, it gives the greatest stability and success; disturbed, it brings business uncertainty and unhealthy relationships.
The South-West holds the earth element, whose nature is solid, heavy and dense, so this zone is kept solid, heavy and compact with the fewest openings. Infrared rays also arrive from the South-West at a particular time of day, another reason to keep it closed.
The taste of the earth element is sweet, so where the people of a house speak sweetly the earth element is balanced, and where people in a home, factory or business speak bitterly it is disturbed.
Ivory, a very light yellow, represents the earth element, which is why ivory floor tiles are the most preferred and generate the most energy in a house.