Questions and Answers

Yes. Your rashi is Kumbh and your element is air.

No. Doors taken up to the ceiling start touching the space element, which is not good.

No. In practice even very tall chimneys in the SE showed no dosh, because the fire element always goes upward, as swar vigyan also shows; a rising chimney suits fire.

No problem. When a name cannot be taken from the birth rashi, it can be taken from a friend rashi or friend element; air makes fire blaze, so they are friends.

The kitchen is fire, and a person standing at an L-shaped platform forms a triangle, the shape of fire. A U-shape forms the water element, a wavy, moon-like structure, and in homes with moon-like structures the health of women stays poor.

Fire lives with stone: deep below the earth's crust, in the mantle, the rocks are molten like fire. So wherever a platform is made, the part where the burner sits must be stone; laminate and wooden platforms are not good and stainless steel is only partly acceptable.

The South is the proper location of Mars and represents fire, but all the principles are based on the Sun. When the Sun is in the South its rays are so hot that the vitamins and minerals they carry are destroyed, and cooking there affects the cook's mind badly. Fire stays balanced up to the South-East, which is why the kitchen is made there; in the South the fire becomes imbalanced.

Yes, it has to be the fire-element triangle, drawn as a straight (sidha) triangle, not an inverted (ulta) one.

The SE suits the kitchen, where fire is needed just as a roti needs fire to cook. In a drawing room we do not want heat or aggravated pitta while putting our views across; in the SE pitta and heat rise, bringing anger, irritation and an aggressive tone, so it is advised against.

Yes, a round table works if it is placed in a water-element zone. Furniture shapes for each direction are covered in the next class.

No. An AC or cooler is cooled by electricity, not by ice; when the power goes it stops. It runs on electricity and so represents the fire element, which suits the SE. Place coolers in the same zones as ACs.

What runs it is electricity, which represents fire; the kitchen in the SE also has water. So a washing machine can go in the SE, ESE, SSE and also the North-West.

Very good. It is a sandstone and represents the earth element.

It is better avoided. In the North, choose a half-moon type shape as far as possible.

Not at all. Brown on the ceiling starts representing fire in the space element.

Both the square and the rectangle represent the earth element.

A chabutra is a solid structure built as a cube, with equal length, width and height. There are 24 kinds for different purposes; the general one comes from swar vigyan and balances the five elements of the house. It stands for the earth element, which belongs to the South-West, and once the earth element is balanced it balances all the others more or less.

The coconut holds all five elements and captures the most cosmic energy as well as underground energy, passing it into the home without disturbing anything. That is why it can be planted in every direction, and why South India follows the custom of one coconut tree for every house.

Curtains represent the air element: they move only when air comes in. The main door, every door and every window also represent the air element.

First see what Mercury is in your chart (exalted, bhagyesh or lagnesh, which supports health) and where it sits. If its own colour cannot be used in that zone, use the colours of Mercury's friends, and the colours of the friends of that zone's element must also be taken.

Anywhere; multi-coloured items are allowed in all directions, just as you wear multi-coloured clothes. All five elements can exist within an inch of space; trouble comes only when anti-element items are used in large quantity.