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The full purification done where a bone has been dug out, the land's equivalent of the rites after a death: vastu registry with five coconuts, removal of the affected soil, agni sanskar with mango wood, water, gomutra and cow-dung purification, lime and sulphur, a 24-hour lamp and mercury.
After a birth or death in the family (sutak or patak) the Vastu devtas are affected too, so the whole house is purified: clothes are washed, raw clay vessels are thrown away, a dhoop kund is carried through the house and offerings are made to the Vastu devtas.
Coming out of the main door and reaching the boundary wall gate by moving clockwise forms purna bahu (complete arm) dwar, which completes the purpose of every outing.
On a full moon day, plaster the floor at the three Mahalakshmi door spots with desi cow dung and draw a rangoli with a small flower.
Interior work is done to change the mind, because everything follows from the mind. Pictures, colours and objects (chitra) change the state of mind (chitt), so the goal the mind should be led to must be fixed first.
Anti-clockwise stairs make the mind turn the wrong way; building the mumty (stair head room) above them in a pyramid shape turns the current positive.
A metal or paper pyramid placed on the head for 10 minutes when tired, and pyramids kept on top of each book studied, keep a child's energy positive and concentration high.
If a direction of the house is cut, quartz suited to that direction is put into the ground there to extend it, or kept in a glass bowl when that is not possible.
Where the floor is already laid, plenty of quartz soaked in water in a glass bowl charges the water, which is then used to mop the office.
After demolition or the removal of a defect, a short Vastu pooja is done even when a full one is not possible: offer 45 small pieces of gud to the 45 devtas, or at least invoke the nine lords of the directions and the centre with the words Bho [name] Vastu Dev Vastu Shanti Kuru Kuru.
The South-West is the zone of Rahu-Ketu. Its interior uses golden yellow, white or ivory, black stone, blue sapphire, amethyst and iron, a Nandi, awards and certificates, mountain and village sceneries, and tall outdoor trees.
Instead of a boring in the West, keep a water source as a tub built above the surface level and grow a lotus in it.
On tilted plots, directions and zones must be read in degrees with a compass. Vedic vastu never says to treat any corner as Ishaan or to accept a direction however tilted it is, and a wrong reading leads to costly and harmful changes.
A magnetic compass with a straight side edge, set so that its North-South line, mirror line and axis line coincide, is placed parallel to a straight wall on a level, metal-free surface and read from directly above. The offset of the red needle from the compass North gives the tilt of the building.
Each sense works through one element: sight through fire, hearing through space, touch through air, smell through earth and taste through water; a weak sense points to an imbalance of its element.
Gandharva nagar are clouds that form shapes like cities and palaces; Parjanya devta is contained in them, and their colour and form foretell what is coming for the world.
Besides measuring how many angul the breath reaches, the active element (tatva) can be recognised from the state of the mind: steadiness, joy, restlessness, anger or indifference.
A full Moon painting in the North-West strengthens the zone, and an actual photograph of the Sharad Purnima Moon works far more powerfully than an artificial image.
Red represents Mars and the Surya swar; it creates heat, fire and zeal in the body, so it is used wherever heavy physical work must be done fast.
A havan of red flowers of every kind with red sandalwood (lal chandan) at the Surya pad activates Surya devta.
Red horses represent the fire element and the Sun (Surya nadi), so they are placed in the South in an odd number (1, 3, 5, 7 and so on) for fame and recognition.
Every vastu consultant should carry small red cloth pouches of energised yellow mustard, because a client calls only when negative energy is present and it can come home in the consultant's bag. Potlis are also kept in the drawing room and under beds, and given to clients.
If the foundation stone (shilanyas) has been laid in the wrong direction, the earlier shilanyas is formally dissolved and a fresh one is performed in a new auspicious muhurta.
A house with E4, N4 and W4 doors all open has religious, devout and theist people who keep up pooja and faith in God.
A peepal that sprouts by itself in the house is moved while still small: the deity in it is requested to move, an offering is made, cow urine is poured at the roots and it is replanted in a forest.
When a two-shutter main door is not possible, correct the single-shutter dosh with a painting, door power, door decoration or a door bandhan hung outside.
When someone phones from a land and asks about its energy, a trained swar expert reads the answer from his own element; when asked next about vastu defects, the element that becomes active points to the defective direction, such as air for the North-West and fire for the South-East.
A slope toward the North-East is best for homes, temples and schools, while business premises do best with a slope toward the North or North-North-East, then the North-East. Slopes toward the South, South-East, South-West, West and North-West each bring specific harm.
A retrograde planet acts at full power, a combust planet is weakened by the Sun, and a planet's degree shows its age: 10 to 20 degrees is youth with full power, while 0 to 6 and 26 to 30 degrees give little or no result.
The ring worn on one's own finger, cleaned and tied to a thread, can be used as a pendulum for dowsing.