The southeast is the 巽 palace, 112.5° to 157.5°. For the classic house that sits north and faces south, it is where the Dragon Gate formula most wants water to leave — and for three other houses it is where water should arrive.
The southeast, house by house
Sitting 兌 (west): the southeast is 先天 (and 地刑) — arriving welcome, leaving harmful. Sitting 坤 (southwest): 後天 — arriving welcome, leaving harmful. Sitting 離 (south): 輔卦 — arriving helpful, leaving harmful. Sitting 艮 (northeast): 客, and sitting 震 (east): 賓 — arriving water favours outsiders; leaving harmless. Sitting 坎 (north): 天劫 — the preferred exit, and the worst arrival. Sitting 乾 (northwest): 案劫, the front — water leaves, never strikes in. Sitting 巽: the southeast is the house’s own back.
Where southeast water is welcome, and where it is not
Southeastern water arriving suits the houses sitting in 兌, 坤 and 離. For the house sitting in 坎 — back to the north, facing south — the southeast is 天劫: its water mouth is the 巽, 丙 and 丁 mountains, and water should drain away through them, never flow in from them. The house sitting in 乾 faces southeast and should let water leave that way too.
Reading it on the ground
For a north-sitting house, the practical question is the fall of the site: does water leave toward the southeast or the south, or does it arrive from the southeast? For a west- or southwest-sitting house the question reverses. Measure the facing, correct for magnetic declination, and read the flow against your own formation — KAXANTA shows it 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