Guide · About two minutes
How to use Vastu & Feng Shui
A Vastu score for your home or office, room by room, with what to fix first, plus your personal Kua number and lucky Feng Shui directions.
Open Vastu & Feng ShuiStep by step
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Choose home or office
The rules differ slightly for living and working spaces.
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Place each space
For each room, choose the direction it sits in, seen from the centre of the home. On a phone, the compass shows which way you are facing; elsewhere, use a map or a compass app.
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Read your score
You get a score out of 100, the rooms that are well placed, and the fixes that make the most difference first.
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Find your Kua number
Enter your date of birth and gender to get your Kua number and your four lucky and four challenging directions.
What happens behind the scenes
The eight directions
Each direction has a ruling deity, planet and element in Vastu: north-east for water and prayer, south-east for fire and the kitchen, south-west for stability and the master bedroom.
Scoring
Every room you place is scored by how well its direction suits its use, and the score out of 100 is the average of those rooms. The fixes come in order of the points they would add, the largest first.
Kua number
Your Kua number comes from your birth year (the Chinese solar year, which starts at Li Chun in early February) and gender, and gives your best directions for sleeping, working and the main door.
Reading your results and tips
Reading your results
- Start with the top fix: most can be done with placement, colour and light, without construction.
- Sleep with your head towards one of your lucky Kua directions, and face one while you work.
Tips
- Take compass readings from the centre of the home, away from metal and electronics.
- Re-run the score after moving rooms around to see what changed.
Words to know
- Vastu ShastraVastu Shastra is the traditional Indian science of architecture and space. It aligns a building with the directions, the five elements and the path of the sun, guiding where rooms, doors and heavy objects belong.
- BrahmasthanThe Brahmasthan is the central zone of a plot or home in Vastu, the seat of Brahma in the Vastu Purusha Mandala. Tradition keeps it open, light and free of heavy loads, toilets, kitchens and staircases.
- Directions in VastuVastu divides a home into eight directions plus the centre. Each has a guardian deity, a planet and its own character, and each suits particular rooms: north-east for prayer, south-east for cooking, south-west for the master bedroom.
- Kua numberThe Kua number is your personal number in Eight Mansions Feng Shui, worked out from your birth year and gender. It places you in the East or West group and gives you four favourable and four unfavourable directions.
- Vastu Purusha MandalaThe Vastu Purusha Mandala is the sacred square grid at the heart of Vastu. It pictures the cosmic being Vastu Purusha lying face down, his head in the north-east and his feet in the south-west, held in place by 45 deities.
- Main entrance in VastuIn Vastu the main entrance, the mukhya dwar, is the mouth of the home through which energy enters. North, north-east and east are the most favoured directions, and the door’s exact position along the wall, its pada, matters too.