What it does
Guides what to build in the NW for storage, ventilation, water and movement.
Where
North-West zone of the house
Cautions
Explanation and notes
Suitable: grain storage, fridge, parking, gaushala, stairs, overhead tank (ideal), lift (pitless, or only a shallow pit), kitchen, electric meter, AC compressor (its ideal zone) and a well-ventilated toilet, which the teacher prefers to an ESE toilet because air leaves under strong pressure here. Bedrooms for guests, marketing people and those who must travel abroad; for a person with an exalted Moon a bedroom here is very good, and others may sleep with feet to North. A drawing room suits a marketing person. The overhead tank belongs here because the Moon's kalas, fullest around purnima, mix with the stored water and purify and energise it; it can also go in Varun's West.
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.