Your home's directions, and three things you can actually do

How it works

1. 1Tell us which way the main door faces and which room lies in which direction — only the ones you know.
2. 2Each placement is read against the classical guidance for that direction; what you did not provide is reported as not provided, never guessed.
3. 3Read the analysis in about a minute: what your home already does well, what to adjust, and three remedies you can complete this week.

What you receive

The eight directions, and what each one carries

Vastu reads a home as eight directions around a centre, each associated with an element and a kind of activity it supports best. None of them is bad — each simply suits some uses better than others.

Northउत्तर — water

Associated with Kubera and flow — of money, work and visitors. Suits entrances, water sources and the desk where accounts are kept.

North-Eastईशान — the most sattvik corner

The direction of stillness and clarity. Best kept light, open and clean; the classical seat for the pooja space and for study.

Eastपूर्व — the sunrise line

Beginnings and health. Favours main doors, living rooms and any room where mornings actually happen.

South-Eastआग्नेय — fire

Agni's corner. The classical seat of the kitchen; fire placed here is fire in its own home.

Southदक्षिण — stability

Strength and rest. Bears weight well — storage and sleep sit comfortably here; it asks mainly not to be left hollow.

South-Westनैऋत्य — earth

The heaviest corner, and the seat of the household's head. Master bedroom and heavy storage anchor the home from here.

Westपश्चिम — gains

Varuna's direction: completion and returns. Comfortable for dining, children's rooms and the day's winding-down.

North-Westवायव्य — air

The moving corner. Suits guests, marriageable daughters in the classical texts, and anything meant to circulate rather than settle.

How a remedy is chosen

Every remedy this analysis gives is non-structural: placement, light, colour, cleaning, plants. The classical logic is balance — strengthen what a direction wants, lighten what burdens it.

Placementmove things, not walls

The heaviest furniture drifts south and west; the north-east breathes. Most homes improve from carrying things, not building.

Lightthe cheapest correction

A dark north-east or a harsh south-west is often the whole finding. A lamp lit where stillness lives changes a room's use of itself.

Colour and clothreversible by design

Direction-friendly colours in covers and curtains — chosen because a tenant can take every one of them down.

Orderthe remedy nobody sells

A cluttered corner behaves like a blocked one. Half the classical guidance amounts to: keep the sattvik directions clean and open.

Things few people know about vastu

• The Vastu Purusha Mandala — the diagram the whole science rests on — is a body laid over the plot, head to the north-east, feet to the south-west. The heavy corner and the open corner follow from that image.
• Vastu directions are eighths of a circle, not compass degrees. A door 'faces east' across a 45-degree arc, which is why a phone compass held roughly is measurement enough.
• The tradition treats the north-east open-and-light rule and the south-west heavy rule as the two findings that matter most — most remedies anywhere in a home serve one of those two.
• Classical vastu is siting and proportion for builders; applying it to finished homes through placement and light is the modern, renter's form — and the only form this analysis practises.

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