The figure in the ground
The classical Vastu tradition pictures every dwelling as holding a cosmic figure — the Vastu Purusha — lying face down across the site, his head toward the north-east and his body spanning the grid to the south-west. The image is a teaching device of great economy: it gives every part of the plan a bodily meaning, so that care for the house becomes care for a living form. Where the figure's head rests, the tradition asks for lightness and purity; where the body's weight gathers, it permits weight in the building too.
What the tool shows
Enter your facing degree and the tool lays the figure over your actual orientation, marking the fields of the head, the heart, the navel and the limbs, and the sensitive points the tradition treats with special care. Each field is described, and the calculator quotes the practice's source records with the result, so the classical account of the figure accompanies the drawing verbatim.
How to use this tool
Enter the degree, then compare the marked fields with your plan: what sits at the head, what presses on the heart or navel. The tradition's broad counsel is to keep the figure's upper fields clean and open and to avoid pinning the sensitive points under columns, toilets or heavy storage.
FAQ
Q. Is the Purusha a deity to worship? It is best understood here as the tradition's living map of the dwelling — a way of reading the plan with reverence.
Q. Why does the head lie in the north-east? Because the tradition treats that corner as the subtlest and lightest; the figure encodes the rule.
Q. What are the sensitive points? Junctions on the figure the tradition protects from load; the practitioner Marma tools examine them in depth.
The classical basis appears with each calculation result, quoted from the practice's source records.