The house has a southern aspect, i.e. a position which faces the south.

GEOPATHIC STRESS / The Earth has its own subtle energy field and meridians (called ley lines). If the earth's grid is disturbed, creating geopathic stress

And here I'll fling the pillow, there the bolster, / This way the coverlet, another way the sheets.

Trepidative moments trailed off around him, the broad beam of the moon bewitched him.