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for a garage, choose the southeast or northwest. Your car uses electricity and fuelheat elements. The element of fire is in the southeast. Because your car also comes and goes, the garage can also work in the northwest, the quadrant of air and movement.
Welcoming Door
An entrance on the north wall of the northeast quadrant of the building allows the positive energy, which comes from the northeast, to flow into your house. An entrance on the east wall fills your home with inspiration and enlightenment. A southern entrance reminds you of your responsibilities. A western entrance speaks of the calm of night and is essentially neutral. Ancient vastu guidelines say that the door to a residence should not be located at the precise center of a cardinal direction, because such placement is restricted to religious institutions.23 For a home, it is better to have the door to the left or right of the center point of the northern, southern, eastern, or western point on a wall.
Interior Layout
Enhancing Positive Energies
Because positive energy, which enters through the gateway of the gods in the northeast, travels in an arc to the southwest of the home, try not to disturb this energy flow. If possible, keep the northeast corner in the home and the northeast corner of each room empty of furniture, at least heavy furniture that can stop the circulation of the energy. Keep lightweight furniture
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23 Kapila Vatsyayan, general ed. and Bruno Dagens, trans., Mayamata Vol. 1 (Delhi: lndira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts in association with Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 1994).

 
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