The fire element is very essential for a woman as basically she inherently possesses more of feminine Yin energy. The Southeast plays an important role here as it is the source of the fire element (being the agnikon). Houses or bedrooms having their entry from the southeast prove very lucky for women because more energy goes to the Brahmasthan from the southeast or agnikon. Houses with more open space at the north and having water bodies or basement in this direction are extremely lucky for women and they do well in a short period of time.
According to vaastu, the southeast is dominated by Shukra or Venus which is associated with women. While constructing a house, care should be taken to keep the southeast open otherwise the fairer gender will not do well in that house. When a house is already built with a defective, southeast, a Shukra Yantra should be installed on a Friday and a red bulb should be kept lit at the southeast corner. Red curtains can be used at the window at southeast.
Suggestions for prosperity
1. Women should worship the Tulsi plant daily in the morning and evening. Water should be offered and a lamp (diya) of cow ghee should be lit. There will be no shortage of money as Goddess Lakshmi will be highly pleased. This ritual guarantees success in all fields.
2. While going to sleep at night, some rocksalt or kala Namak should be kept on a piece of paper. This should be thrown out in the morning after waking up. Salt absorbs negative energy. Doing it once a week is enough. This will bring peace and happiness in the house.
3. It is traditionally believed that women should NOT wash their hair at night. It is not ascertained whether this is because, the hair will not dry and sleeping with wet hair may lead to other hair problems like growth of fungus, dandruff, hair loss and infections. Women are also forbidden not to wash their hair on Thursdays.
Living Room Vastu Tips:
1. The living room should be located at East (not in the South East corner, except for South facing houses) or in the North.
2. A living room is better in the North.
3. The North-West is also good for the living room. Interestingly since the ruling element of the North-West part of a home is 'Air', the guests in this drawing-room start to feel restless after sometime and tend to leave early. This is a boon in disguise if you do not want your guests to hang around for too long!
4. The North-East of the house is full of spiritual energy and this is one of the ideal locations for a living room, however it is better suited for a pooja or prayer room. NEVER have a toilet, septic tank, garbage bin, staircase, kitchen or godown in the northeast.
5. A living room in the North brings lot of wealth and health for the entire family.
6. A living room in the Southwest makes your guests feel at home and they stick to your home for a long time. However, this may not be always good for you!! So it is better to avoid this direction for a living room. However, this place is best suited for the master bedroom.
7. The living area floor should slope towards the East or North.
8. The ceiling of the living area, sloping towards the East or North is good.
9. Have the door of the living room in East or North as this is very auspicious and brings wealth, health and overall progress.
10. The South, North-East or South-East entrance indicates success but then it takes lot of hard work to achieve this success.
11. A West entrance for the living area is good for scholars and researchers.
12. The living area's North-West entrance supports development in all areas of life.
13. A South entrance for the living area is considered inauspicious; therefore just shift the entrance to the West for better results.
14. Within the living area keep internal furniture, articles and heavy things in the West or the South. However, if there is no option, then use a base of 1-3 inches height to keep the furniture in North or North-East.
15. The head of the family, in the living area, should sit facing the East or North so that he remains in command and guests are not able to dominate him.
16. Put the television in the South-East corner and not in North-East corner (direction of water element).
17. If the television is in the South-West corner, the rate of breakdowns will be more.
18. If the television is in North-West corner then the family will waste a lot of precious time watching television.
19. Keep the telephone in the East, South-East or North.
20. Do not keep telephone in the South-West or North-West.
21. Place air coolers and air conditioners in West, North-West or East and not in the South-East.
22. You can hang portraits of Gods or some beautiful paintings in the North-East wall or corner.
23. Do not hang any portrait depicting negative energy e.g. war, crime, weeping etc in the living area (actually avoid them anywhere in a home).
24. Use white, light yellow, blue or green colors for living room walls.
25. Avoid red or black for living area wall colors.
26. Keep square or rectangular furniture in the living area and avoid circular, oval or any other shape of furniture (this is applicable to furniture in entire home).
27. Provide a staircase in the South, West or South-West corner of living area.
28. Put light curtains on the North-East facing windows and doors and heavy curtains in the South-West (this is applicable anywhere in a home) of living area.
29. Keep the North-East corner of the living area clean and empty if possible. Also, to make things better, keep some healthy plants in this corner.
30. Never keep artificial flowers, dried flowers (they attract misfortune), cactus/cacti or bonsai plants (have negative influence on finance and career) and are inauspicious. Dried flowers signify death.
31. Hang a chandelier in the South or West of the living area and do not hang anything in the centre.
32. Illuminate the living area brightly with soothing lights.
33. Keep a fish aquarium in the East, North or North-East of the living area. In Feng Shui as well as vaastu shastra, a fish aquarium is considered a very powerful tool. It can be used as a remedy for many vaastu defects. But proper guidelines of vastu should be followed otherwise; it may backfire and cast negative effects. For example, keeping an aquarium in the southeast may cause conflict between the water and the fire element.
34. If there is an error in the North-West corner then placing an aquarium will solve it.
35. Do not keep an aquarium in the South as it will suck all positive energy out of the home.
36. You can place a water fountain in the North.
Q. My main door opens from eastern southeast. I cannot change it. Please suggest a remedy.
Mridula Dutta, Jorhat
Ans. Paint the main door red from outside. You may also use a red curtain. Install a Shukra Yantra at the southeast corner on a Friday. A red bulb may be kept lit at night over the main door.
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