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Bharani Nakshatra Homa

Also spelled Bharani Nakshatra Homam

भरणी नक्षत्र होम

The second star of the zodiac, carried by Yama. A fire offering to steady your birth star, guard your path and settle what feels unfinished.

  • Never a group ceremony — only the names you give are spoken
  • Muhurta fixed from your own birth chart, confirmed within 24–48 working hours
  • Free energised Bharani Nakshatra Yantra, sealed in a silver amulet, shipped worldwide at no charge
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The Ritual and Its Weight

Bharani is the star that bears. Its symbol is the yoni, the vessel that holds and releases; its lord is Yama, keeper of dharma and of every boundary a life must cross. If you were born under Bharani, this star sets the tempo of your effort — intense, capable, unwilling to leave a thing half-done. The Bharani Nakshatra Homa is the traditional fire rite by which that tempo is honoured and steadied, so that the star's force works with you rather than through you.

Classical practice prescribes a nakshatra homa when the Moon's transit over your janma nakshatra brings restlessness, delay, friction at home or repeated obstacles in work — and equally as a yearly act of gratitude on your star-birthday. Performed as a Bharani nakshatra shanti puja, the rite offers the star's presiding mantras into consecrated fire with your name, gotra and birth star spoken aloud. At AstroBhava our priests perform it at our Yagna Ashram on your behalf and telecast it live, so you may sit anywhere in the world and follow each offering. Devotees who chant along often look for the mantra in their own script; the sankalpa sheet we share carries the Sanskrit with Roman and Kannada transliteration so the syllables stay true.

ॐ यमाय नमः । यमाय त्वा मखाय त्वा सूर्यस्य त्वा तपसे । Salutations to Yama; this offering is made to Yama, to the sacrifice, and to the burning tapas of the Sun — that righteous order and inner heat may hold this life steady.

Why Devotees Book This

Tradition prescribes the Bharani Nakshatra Homa for those who wish to stand in right relation with their birth star. What the rite is offered for:

Alignment with your janma nakshatra

The homa is offered to settle the Bharani pada you were born in, so the star's energy supports your work instead of scattering it.

Protection on the path

Yama is the guardian of thresholds. Devotees invoke him before journeys, moves, surgeries and other crossings, seeking safe passage.

Relief during difficult transits

Traditionally performed when Moon, Ketu or Venus transit Bharani brings friction, delay or an unsettled mind.

Steadiness in effort and livelihood

Bharani carries intensity. The rite is offered so that intensity ripens into completed work and stable earning.

Harmony at home

Families book the homa when quarrels repeat, or for a child born in Bharani, seeking calm and good conduct in the household.

Yearly gratitude on your star-day

Many devotees renew the homa every year on their Bharani birth star as an act of thanks and continued shelter.

Brahmashree Shivaaya, Chief Operating Officer & Head of Astrological & Spiritual Solutions at AstroBhava
Brahmashree ShivaayaChief Operating Officer & Head of Astrological & Spiritual Solutions
Who performs your homa

Under the guidance of Brahmashree Shivaaya

Every priest who performs your Bharani Nakshatra Homa is trained in a traditional Padashala and personally recruited by Brahmashree Shivaaya — Chief Operating Officer & Head of Astrological & Spiritual Solutions at AstroBhava. Your ritual is conducted at our own Yagna Ashram — never a rented venue — with Yantra Pujas inside our consecrated sanctum.

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  • Certified Vedic priests — trained in traditional Padashalas
  • 100% Agama Vidhi — as prescribed in the scriptures
  • One chart, one sankalpa, one fire — never a group ceremony
  • Muhurta from your chart — date fixed to your birth details
  • Free worldwide delivery — prasadam & energised Bharani Nakshatra Yantra
Book your Bharani Nakshatra Homa

Choose your homa in two steps

In every package
  • The complete Bharani Nakshatra Homa, with the same ritual stages and the same kinds of offerings
  • A private ceremony for you and up to four family members, never combined with anyone else’s booking
  • Live telecast from our Yagna Ashram, and prasadam shipped free
  • The energised Bharani Nakshatra Yantra, sealed in a silver amulet
What changes

Only the number of priests: 1, 3 or 5. Every priest makes their own offerings, and all of them perform at the same time, in one ceremony.

108 ahutis by each priest, with the mula mantra of Yama — so 108, 324 or 540 in all, by package.

Step 1 How many priests will perform your homa?

Has your astrologer prescribed a different number of ahutis? Our priests can review it and arrange a customised homa. Call our Devotee Relationship Team on +91 96295 55442 — they confirm the count, the priests, the approximate duration and the total price before you book.

Step 2 Enhance with the 48-Day Anushthan? (optional)

* Your Bharani Nakshatra Yantra is a copper plate approx. 1–2 inches, rolled and sealed inside a silver amulet approx. 2–4 inches. Sizes are approximate and the amulet's design varies between supplier batches — shape, metal and consecration remain the same.

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1

You book — and add birth details on the next page, straight after payment.

2

Within 24–48 working hours — your muhurta is confirmed by email.

3

The day before — your telecast link arrives by email.

4

After the homa — tracking email with how and when to wear the Bharani Nakshatra Yantra.

Sacred timing

The most auspicious days for a Bharani Nakshatra Homa

Nakshatra homas are timed to the Moon. Our panchanga desk fixes the muhurat for your homa and confirms the date and streaming time to you.

The monthly Bharani day

Each lunar month the Moon transits Bharani for roughly a day. This is the classical window for the rite, most auspicious in the morning hours.

Your nakshatra birthday

When Bharani falls in the solar month of your birth, it marks your star-birthday — the traditional day for an annual Bharani nakshatra shanti puja.

Before a crossing or new beginning

Ahead of a marriage, a move abroad, a new venture or a medical procedure, the homa is offered to Yama for safe passage.

Bharani in Shukla Paksha

When the Bharani day falls in the waxing fortnight, priests regard the muhurat as especially favourable for prosperity-oriented sankalpa.

You do not need to wait for one of these days. Whenever you book, our astrologers calculate the muhurta from your own birth chart — a date chosen for you personally, which tradition regards as more precise than a calendar date chosen for everyone. If you would like the homa on one of the days above, tell us at checkout and we will fix the muhurta within it.

Every package, and the 48-day option

What you receive

The sealing of the Bharani Nakshatra Yantra

The Bharani Nakshatra Yantra is consecrated over three days — Jala (holy-water consecration with mantras), Prana (life force through pranayama & chants) and Jeeva Pratishta (awakened with 108 recitations & offerings) — then present through your homa, receiving the energies raised in the fire. When your homa concludes, it is rolled and locked inside its silver amulet according to Agama vidhi — the practice by which those energies are held within a consecrated object rather than dispersing. It is why a homa performed at our ashram can still reach a devotee ten thousand miles away: what the fire raised travels to you, sealed.

Personal sankalpa

Your name, gotra & nakshatra — and up to four family members if you wish. No one else is named.

Live telecast

Watch your own homa in real time from the ashram. Streamed openly on our YouTube channel by default — or request an unlisted telecast at checkout.

Free energised Bharani Nakshatra Yantra, sealed in a silver amulet

Shipped to you with your prasadam.

Prasadam, shipped free

Sacred vibhuti, sandalwood powder & kumkum from your fire — delivered to any country.

Yantra Pujas inside our consecrated sanctum

48-Day Anushthan (optional) — daily pujas for 48 days — the 27 Nakshatras + 12 Rashis + 9 Planets — then sealed in a silver amulet of approximately 2–4 inches. Performed in our consecrated sanctum at the Yagna Ashram.

A note on sacred tradition

As per strict Agama vidhi, no videography is permitted inside the temple sanctum — this preserves the pure sacred energies and undisturbed divine focus of the ritual. The main homa is respectfully telecast live from outside the sanctum.

Homas are telecast openly on our YouTube channel so that devotees everywhere may witness the rituals — and because we believe you should be able to see our work before you trust us with yours. Your sankalpa names you and any family members you add, so if you would rather your ceremony were not public, choose the private telecast option at checkout and it is streamed as an unlisted link, which does not appear on our channel or in search, though anyone who has the link can watch it and share it.

We state this plainly — transparency about what tradition forbids filming, and about what is public, is part of performing these rituals honestly.

After it arrives

How to wear your energised Bharani Nakshatra Yantra

01

Your auspicious time to wear it

Wear it for the first time on the day named in your dispatch email, between 6.30 and 7.30 in the morning. Bathe first, place the yantra on your pooja altar and offer your prayers, then wear it around your neck or your waist, on a red or black thread or a silver chain.

02

At a funeral

Take the yantra off before you attend a funeral.

03

Purify the amulet

Whenever the yantra has been taken off, or if it was worn at a funeral, dip it in raw milk or Ganga jal, show it incense, dhoop or attar (perfume), and then wear it again.

04

Keep the energy intact

You may repeat this energising once a week or once a month.

Inside the fire ritual

How your Bharani Nakshatra Homa is performed

01

Sankalpa

The priest states your name, gotra and nakshatra — and those of up to four family members — with the intention this homa is performed for.

02

Ganapati Puja

The customary invocation to Ganapati, clearing obstacles before the deity is approached.

03

Agni Pratishtha

The fire is consecrated in the homa kunda and Agni invoked as the carrier of every offering that follows.

04

Yama Avahana

The mula mantra of Yama is chanted, inviting the deity's presence into the fire — by one, three or five priests as your package sets.

05

Ahuti

Ghee and akshata, with the flowers, grains and dravyas proper to this deity, are offered in sequence with mantra. Each priest makes 108 of these offerings with the mula mantra of Yama — 108, 324 or 540 in all, by package.

06

Purnahuti

The final complete offering seals the sankalpa stated at the opening.

07

Aarti & Dispatch

Aarti is performed live on your telecast. Vibhuti, sandalwood powder, kumkum and your energised Bharani Nakshatra Yantra are then packed and shipped free to your door.

Who is invoked

Yama

Lord of dharma and of every boundary a life must cross, Yama presides over the star Bharani. The Vedas know him as the first mortal to walk the path of death and so the one who marks that road for all who follow; the Rig Veda addresses him as son of Vivasvan, the Sun, and brother of Yami. He is shown dark of form, seated on a buffalo, holding a noose and a staff, with the record of deeds kept beside him. Devotees turn to him not in fear but for order — he weighs actions without favour, holds each soul to its word, and governs endings, thresholds and the discipline that carries an undertaking through to completion. Where restraint, truthfulness and right timing are sought, his name is spoken.

In this homa that grace is invoked through fire, with your own name and birth details spoken in the sankalpa.

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Questions

Frequently asked

The Bharani Nakshatra Homa, also called the Bharani Nakshatra Homam, is a Vedic fire ritual dedicated to Bharani, the second nakshatra, whose presiding deity is Yama, the lord of dharma and of every boundary a life must cross. The homa offers mantras into consecrated fire along with your name, gotra and birth star. Its significance lies in alignment: your janma nakshatra colours your temperament and timing, and tradition holds that honouring it through fire keeps that influence balanced, protected and productive.
The Bharani Nakshatra Homa is traditionally prescribed for protection during journeys and life transitions, for relief when difficult transits cross your birth star, for steadiness in work and livelihood, for harmony in the household, and as a yearly act of gratitude on your nakshatra birthday. Families also offer it for a child born in Bharani. The tradition speaks of grace and shelter: it is offered as prayer, and outcomes rest with the deity and with your own effort.
The Bharani Nakshatra Homa is for anyone born with the Moon in Bharani nakshatra, in any of its four padas. It is also taken up by parents on behalf of a Bharani-born child, by those advised a Bharani nakshatra shanti puja by their astrologer, and by devotees facing an unsettled period when the Moon or a planet transits their birth star. You need no prior initiation, and you do not perform it yourself: our priests perform it at our Yagna Ashram in your name, and you watch the live telecast.
The priests begin with achamana, Ganapati puja and punyahavachana, then declare the sankalpa in which your name, gotra and nakshatra are spoken aloud. Agni is invoked in the kunda, and kalasha and Navagraha aradhana follow. The ahutis follow: ghee, samidha of the star's ruling tree, havis, black sesame, rice and herbs, every priest making their own offerings in the one ceremony. The rite closes with purnahuti, deeparadhana and blessings in your name. You watch it all on live telecast.
You can book the Bharani Nakshatra Homa with one, three or five priests. Each package is the complete homa, with the same ritual stages and the same kinds of offerings, performed privately for you and up to four family members and never combined with another booking. What changes is the number of priests: every priest makes their own ahutis, the offerings into the fire, and all of them perform at the same time, in one ceremony. An ahuti count is a count of these offerings, not a japa count, which measures repetitions of a mantra. Each priest makes 108 ahutis: 108 in all with one priest, 324 with three and 540 with five, in approximately 1 hour. A larger package adds priests and offerings, not a second ceremony. Choose the scale that fits your intention, preference and budget; the one-priest homa is complete in itself, and no package guarantees a particular result.
Yes. Our listed Bharani Nakshatra Homa packages specify standard ahuti counts and priest numbers. If your astrologer has prescribed a different count, we can arrange a customised homa following review by our priests. Please share your requirements with our Devotee Relationship Team on +91 96295 55442. The team will confirm the ahuti count, number of priests, approximate duration and total price before you book. Your customised homa remains a private ceremony dedicated to your sankalpa, never combined with other customers' bookings.
About an hour, whichever package you choose: the priests perform together and make their offerings at the same time, so three or five priests do not lengthen the ceremony. Your muhurta, the date and time, is confirmed by email within 24–48 working hours of booking, and the live telecast link arrives the day before, so you can follow every stage wherever you are.
You do not need to wait for an auspicious day. Whenever you book, our astrologers calculate the muhurta from your own birth chart — a date chosen for you personally, which tradition regards as more precise than a calendar date chosen for everyone. If you would prefer one of the days tradition favours for the Bharani Nakshatra Homa — the day the Moon transits Bharani each lunar month (above all in the bright fortnight), your nakshatra birthday, when Bharani falls in the solar month of your birth, or the days before a marriage, a move abroad or a new venture — tell us in the notes at checkout and we will fix the muhurta within it. Our Panchang shows the tithi and nakshatra for any date.
Yes. What directs a homa is its sankalpa: the solemn resolve the priest makes before the fire is kindled, stating who the homa is for and what it is offered for. The deity invoked and the ritual remain the same; the purpose is yours, as your astrologer has advised it. So if you have been advised the Bharani Nakshatra Homa for a reason other than those on this page, write that purpose in your own words in the “Your sankalpa” box on the birth-details page, straight after payment, and the priest will state it in the sankalpa with your name, gotra and nakshatra. If the advice also names a date, a number of ahutis or a number of priests, mention it in the notes at checkout, or call our Devotee Relationship Team on +91 96295 55442 before you book.
Book the Bharani Nakshatra Homa online on this page, from India or from any other country; devotees living abroad book it the same way, and prices are shown in your currency. Choose one, three or five priests, and straight after payment add your name, gotra if you know it and your birth star, with your prayer for the homa in the “Your sankalpa” box. Your muhurta is confirmed by email within 24–48 working hours and the live telecast link arrives the day before, so you can watch the entire homa live, wherever you are. Afterwards, prasadam and your energised Bharani Nakshatra Yantra are couriered to you anywhere in the world, free of shipping cost.
Every Bharani Nakshatra Homa package includes the energised Bharani Nakshatra Yantra: a copper plate of about 1–2 inches, consecrated over three days and present in the fire through your homa. It is then rolled and sealed inside a silver amulet of about 2–4 inches, made to be worn, and couriered to you with your prasadam, free of shipping cost; the tracking email gives your personal time to wear it. If you add the optional 48-Day Anushthan, the yantra is also worshipped daily in our consecrated sanctum for 48 days before it is sealed.
Our silver amulets are specially made for everyday wear: copper is added to the silver to make them more durable. With regular use, the amulet may turn black, reddish or brown as it is exposed to heat and reacts with the chemicals in cosmetics. Wipe it regularly with a soft, dry cotton cloth, keep perfume and cosmetics away from it, and clean it by rubbing it gently with a pinch of vibhuti (sacred ash). Every six months, polish it with cotton dipped in a silver cleaner, but never soak or dip the amulet itself. Never open it, as the energies of the yantra are sealed inside. If it is ever damaged, send it back to us, not to a jeweller.
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