The east is the 震 palace, 67.5° to 112.5°. Whether water arriving from it helps a house depends, in the Dragon Gate formula, only on the palace that house sits in: for three houses it is a welcome arrival, for three it is an exit.
The east, house by house
Sitting 離 (south): the east is 先天 — arriving welcome, leaving harmful. Sitting 艮 (northeast): 後天 — arriving welcome, leaving harmful. Sitting 巽 (southeast): 輔卦 — arriving helpful, leaving harmful. Sitting 坎 (north): 賓 — arriving water favours outsiders; leaving harmless. Sitting 乾 (northwest): 天劫 — the preferred exit and the worst arrival. Sitting 坤 (southwest): 客 and 天劫 together — the 天劫 reading governs. Sitting 兌 (west): 案劫, the front — water leaves through it. Sitting 震: the east is the house’s own back.
Where east water is welcome, and where it is not
Eastern water arriving is welcome at the houses sitting in 離, 艮 and 巽. At the houses sitting in 乾 and 坤, the east is 天劫: water should leave that way, and water arriving from it is the case the formula warns about most. The house sitting in 兌 faces east, so its eastern water should flow away through the front. The house sitting in 坎 reads eastern arrivals as favouring outsiders.
Reading it on the ground
Follow the flow, not the view: water to the east that runs toward the house is arriving from the east; water that runs away eastward is leaving toward it. A drain discharging eastward from a house sitting in 離 or 艮 breaks its 先天 or 後天 — the sources call that 流破. KAXANTA shows which position the east holds for your house from the facing saved in Settings.
References
Canonical sources that inform this guide.
- 论龙门八局系水法 (华夏大易学社) · WEBSITE
- 三元水法龙门八大局 (简书) · WEBSITE
- Bagua (Eight Trigrams) · WIKIPEDIA
- Feng shui · WIKIPEDIA