East- Beginning (Genesis 11:2); Law (therefore blessed or cursed); birth; first (sun rises in the east bringing hope and new day); false religions (as in “Eastern religions”)
Psalm 103:12 “As far as the east (law) is from the west (grace), so far hath He removed our transgressions from us.”
East Wind – judgment, hardship (Genesis 41:23, 27; Exodus 10:13)
West – End (as in the end of the day); grace; death; last (Exodus 10:19)
Luke 12:54 “And he said to the people, when you see a cloud (of glory) rise out of the west (grace of God), straightaway ye say, There cometh a shower (blessing); and so it is.”
North – Spiritual: judgment; Heaven or heavenly; spiritual warfare (as in “taking your inheritance”) (Deuteronomy 2:3; Proverbs 25:23; Jeremiah 1:13-14)
South – Natural: sin; world; temptation; trial; flesh; corruption; deception (Joshua 10:40; Job 37:9)
Right – Natural: authority, power; the strength of man (flesh) or the power of God revealed through man; accepted, place of favor (Matthew 5:29-30a; Genesis 48:18; Exodus 15:6; Matthew 25:33; 1 Peter 3:22)
Right Turn = natural change
Left – Spiritual: weakness (of man); God’s strength or ability demonstrated through man’s weakness; rejected (Judges 3:20-21; Judges 20:16; Matthew 25:33)
Left Turn = spiritual change
Back – Past: (as in backyard or back door), Previous event or experience (good or evil); that which is behind (for example, past sins or the sins of forefathers); unaware, unsuspecting; hidden; memory (Genesis 22:13; Joshua 8:4; Philippians 3:13)
Front – Future or Now: (as in front yard or front porch) prophecy of future events; immediate; current
Rev.1:19 “Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which (presently) are (before, or in front of you), and the things which shall be hereafter.”