What it does
Helps keep doors, windows, ventilation and heights right so that work moves fast.
Where
North-West zone; doors, windows, ventilation and heights throughout the house
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Explanation and notes
Attributes: shape like a flag (a flag flies only with air); colour green; zone North-West; work breathing (without breath for two minutes a person dies); planet Saturn; dosha vata; quality tamoguna. In the house: main door, windows, balcony, garden, plants and floor-to-slab height; green colour or a flag-like shape also brings air. Balanced: speed in work (people run like the wind), capacity to take big risks and do big works, self-confidence and will power, courage and patience. Imbalanced: delay and obstacles in every work, payments not returning on time, constant breakdowns, machines not running on time, and more arguments.
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.