"She looked a bit odd, but it was good to have her assess our home - I was worried about bad vibes and magnetic currents" she said. We were sitting round a lunch table at Mainland China. This was the Expat. group lunch - she was from the North of India but had lived in the U.S. for some years. With the downturn in the economy in the West, she and her husband had returned to India - he.... to work for the family company.
I had always thought their house had a somewhat gloomy air about it, one always felt on edge and never quite comfortable - too much furniture crammed into rooms which were small and dark - the effect was cloyingly 'cute' and I wondered who she had consulted. It turned out to be a Vaastu expert. According to the revered art of Vaastu, written about in ancient Indian texts, a house should be orientated in a certain direction and beds should face in a particular direction - even the position of doors and windows is important.
Talking to an architect about the science of Vaastu, he maintained that there was a lot in it, but he also declared that if you took into account the climate and adapted your house design to best fit in with this and the position of the sun, neighbourhood, etc., your house design would automatically fulfil the criteria of Vaastu. In India, being an exceedingly hot country, a house should not face East or West, because the full brunt of sunshine would then heat the house like a microwave oven. Being sensitive to your environment, is what Vaastu is all about. According to Vaastu, beds should face East.....towards the rising sun !
But what advice would be given to someone whose house was wrongly orientated ? What if the axis of rooms was wrong ? Move ?
I had always thought their house had a somewhat gloomy air about it, one always felt on edge and never quite comfortable - too much furniture crammed into rooms which were small and dark - the effect was cloyingly 'cute' and I wondered who she had consulted. It turned out to be a Vaastu expert. According to the revered art of Vaastu, written about in ancient Indian texts, a house should be orientated in a certain direction and beds should face in a particular direction - even the position of doors and windows is important.
Talking to an architect about the science of Vaastu, he maintained that there was a lot in it, but he also declared that if you took into account the climate and adapted your house design to best fit in with this and the position of the sun, neighbourhood, etc., your house design would automatically fulfil the criteria of Vaastu. In India, being an exceedingly hot country, a house should not face East or West, because the full brunt of sunshine would then heat the house like a microwave oven. Being sensitive to your environment, is what Vaastu is all about. According to Vaastu, beds should face East.....towards the rising sun !
But what advice would be given to someone whose house was wrongly orientated ? What if the axis of rooms was wrong ? Move ?
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