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Three Vastu Defects and the Remedy for Each
Three Vastu defects are not one dosha. A toilet in the northeast disturbs Ishan. A kitchen in the northeast puts fire in the water corner. A missing southwest removes the heavy corner the couple's room needs. Each has its own remedy.
Northeast toilet
Ishan is the corner kept clean, light, and free of waste. A toilet or a septic tank there is the defect families notice as a restless house, and the remedy is to stop using that toilet as the main one, or to relocate it when the building allows. No bowl of salt substitutes for that. The chart's 4th house may be perfectly strong. The building is still wrong. Blame the corner you can see before you blame Saturn.
Northeast kitchen
Fire belongs in the southeast. Mars is the fire graha, and the kitchen is fire's room. In the northeast the fire sits in the water corner. The remedy is a kitchen shifted toward the southeast, or at least the cooking flame moved off the northeast wall if a full shift is impossible. This is not Mangal dosha. Mangal dosha is Mars in the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 7th, 8th, or 12th of the kundli. A southeast kitchen does not move natal Mars.
Cut southwest
The southwest should be heavy and present. A plot with that corner missing, or a building that puts a light open shaft there, loses the stability Vastu gives the couple and the elders' weight of the house. The remedy, when construction allows, is to restore weight: a closed room, storage that is genuinely heavy, the couple's bedroom. A mirror or a plant does not rebuild a missing corner. Read the 7th house separately if the complaint is the marriage. The missing corner and a 7th lord in the 12th can both be true, and they are fixed in different ways.
Frequently asked questions
What is the remedy for a northeast toilet?
Stop it being the working toilet, or relocate it. The northeast stays the clean, light corner. An object in the room is not the remedy.
Where does the kitchen belong?
Southeast. A northeast kitchen is fire in the water corner. Shifting the flame is the remedy. It does not change Mangal dosha in the chart.
What is done with a missing southwest?
Restore weight there if the building allows: a closed heavy room, often the couple's bedroom. A symbol will not replace a missing corner.
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