Q: I am a first-year student of an engineering diploma course. My study-cum-living room is on the second floor of the house, in the north-west. The door is in the east, near the south wall. There are three windows ? in the north, west and south. How can I make my room better for my studies? My date of birth is 19.06.85.

RPB, Howrah

The Solution: Divide the room into nine equal parts and then decorate or energise it. Place your study table in the north-east. A lamp here will keep your vision clear and steer you towards your goal. The eastern wall can have a picture of buds, symbolic of a promising future, rather than flowers. The south-east can be enhanced in the same way.

The north can have a picture of a successful person in the engineering field who could be your role model. The south can have a picture of a sun glowing at a summit to help you reach such heights. The west and north-west can have a display of your achievements, like trophies and shields. The south-west that helps to stabilise must have a picture of a mountain.

Q: My date of birth is 11.12.89. I can?t focus on my studies and would like to energise my surroundings. Where should my study table be placed and in which direction should I sleep? What is my lucky number, element, colour and animal sign?

Soumadeep

The Solution: Your pillars of destiny reveal that you are an intelligent person with three elements of fire. As you are a weak wood person, intelligent elements in excess make you think of multiple things at the same time and hamper your concentration. To keep a check on this, wear blue and sit on a blue upholstered chair. Study facing the north or the south-east and place a blue soft board in front of you. Your head pointing to the south would be best for sleep. Your lucky number is 4 and your animal sign is snake.

Among the five elements, only plants have life. So they absorb negativity, avoid any kind of stagnation and stimulate the healthy chi energy. They act as powerful energisers for finances when placed in the south-east

Q: I will sit for the CAT this year and would want to get into a business school. Luck has not favoured me for the past few years in my career moves. Please help me improve my prospects. My date of birth is 10.05.83.

Debashish Sharma Paikpara

The Solution: You should sit in the south-west and study facing the north-east. Keep the admission forms of business schools in a white or a blue folder and fill them up on an auspicious day facing the north-east. As you have fire elements in excess in your chart, try to make yourself comfortable in an environment that is suggestive of cool and calm shades of blue. To absorb bad luck related to education, keep a metal bowl filled with salt dissolved in water in the north-east of your study table. Change the salt water every day.

Q: We live in a flat where the front door faces the south. When we moved in, the flat opposite was empty and we were doing fine. We have a copper figure of a woman with hands folded in a gesture of welcome outside our door. Then our neighbours moved in and put a similar figure on their door, only twice the size.

They have also grown plants in the same arrangement as ours outside the flat. They are very competitive and this is leading to tension. This year, my daughter had to be hospitalised and we are going through a bad financial phase. How can I change the environment? My date of birth is 28.07.49 and my daughter?s is 24.04.77.

Name and address withheld

The Solution: Do not panic about your neighbour placing a symbol that is double the size of yours. It is all in the mind and nobody can harm us if we are mentally strong. Still, if you want, try placing a small bowl filled with dry salt hidden behind a plant at your entrance. It will absorb any kind of negativity and will not be harmful for the neighbours as well.

Try growing some bamboo plants in the east and south-east of the house. Among the five elements, only plants have life. So they absorb negativity, avoid any kind of stagnation and stimulate the healthy chi energy.

They act as powerful energisers for finances when placed in the south-east. Ensure that nothing metallic is kept here.