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HomeHomaObstruction Removal › Chinnamasta Homa
Telecast Live Vintage devotional illustration of Goddess Chinnamasta shown symbolically and modestly above a Homa fire
Obstruction Removal · standard Homa · Live from our Yagna Ashram

Chinnamasta Homa

Also spelled Chinnamasta Homam

छिन्नमस्ता होम

When every road seems half-blocked, the sixth Mahavidya is invoked to cut through what stands between you and your next step.

  • Performed for you alone — never a group ceremony
  • Muhurta fixed from your own birth chart, confirmed within 24–48 working hours
  • Free energised Chinnamasta Yantra, sealed in a silver amulet, shipped worldwide at no charge
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The Ritual and Its Weight

The Chinnamasta Homa is a fire rite addressed to Chinnamasta, the self-decapitated Goddess of the ten Mahavidyas. Her image is fierce and unmistakable: she severs her own head, and the life-force streams outward as nourishment. The tradition reads this not as violence but as decisive cutting — the end of hesitation, the breaking of a knot that has held too long. Where other rites coax, this one cuts.

Devotees turn to the chinnamasta homa when progress has stalled without obvious cause. A file that never moves. A negotiation that reopens and reopens. A plan approved in principle and never in fact. In the obstruction-removal tradition, such stagnation is treated as a build-up of resistance around your karmic path, and the chinnamasta homam is prescribed to dissolve it in fire. Ghee, herbs and mantra go into the flame while the priest offers the sankalpa in your name, your nakshatra and your gotra.

ॐ श्रीं ह्रीं क्लीं ऐं वज्रवैरोचनीये हूं हूं फट् स्वाहा An invocation to the radiant, thunderbolt-bright Goddess, calling on her power to strike through and dissolve every obstruction in the seeker's path.

Why Devotees Book This

The chinnamasta homam benefits described in the Tantric and Puranic sources centre on one theme — decisive movement where there has been none.

Stalled work set moving

Prescribed when projects, applications or approvals have sat still for months with no clear reason.

Cutting through indecision

Chinnamasta is invoked for the clarity to choose and act, rather than circling the same question.

Repeated hurdles addressed

For the pattern where one obstacle clears and another appears in its place, the rite is offered as a root-level remedy.

Courage in confrontation

Sought by those who must face a difficult negotiation, a legal matter or an entrenched opposition.

Release from draining ties

Traditionally performed to loosen attachments, habits and associations that quietly consume your energy.

Steadying the mind under pressure

Like the wider homa benefits of Mahavidya worship, the fire is offered for inner composure when circumstances press hard.

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 Chinnamasta 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.

Meet our priests →
  • Certified Vedic priests — trained in traditional Padashalas
  • 100% Agama Vidhi — as prescribed in the scriptures
  • Individual, never group — one ritual, one devotee's sankalpa
  • Muhurta from your chart — date fixed to your birth details
  • Free worldwide delivery — prasadam & energised Chinnamasta Yantra
Book your Chinnamasta Homa

Choose your homa in two steps

Step 1 How many priests will perform your homa?
Step 2 Enhance with the 48-Day Anushthan? (optional)

* Your Chinnamasta 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.

Your packageTrayi Chinnamasta Homa3 Priests + Free Yantra

All prices are all-inclusive — no shipping charges, no additions at checkout. See everything included →

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 Chinnamasta Yantra.

Sacred timing

The most auspicious days for a Chinnamasta Homa

Chinnamasta puja follows the Shakta calendar.

Chinnamasta Jayanti

The Vaishakha Shukla Chaturdashi is the Goddess's own day and the most sought-after date for this homa.

Ashtami and Chaturdashi tithis

These lunar days are held especially receptive for Mahavidya fire rites through the year.

Navaratri

Both Chaitra and Sharada Navaratri offer strong windows, particularly the fiercer middle nights.

Ashlesha or Moola nakshatra

Chosen when the obstruction is long-standing and the aim is a decisive cut rather than a gentle easing.

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 Chinnamasta Yantra

When your homa concludes, the yantra that stood in the fire is rolled and locked inside its silver amulet according to Agama vidhi — the practice by which the energies raised in a ritual 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 — for you and up to five family members.

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 Chinnamasta Yantra, sealed in a silver amulet

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. Immediately afterwards it is rolled and sealed inside a silver amulet by Agamic rite, locking those energies within, and 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 your family, 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 Chinnamasta Yantra

The energised yantra is carefully rolled and sealed inside a sacred silver amulet before shipping. Wearing it is itself a small ritual.

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 Chinnamasta Homa is performed

Priests performing the Chinnamasta Homa at AstroBhava's Yagna AshramThese seven steps, as they happenFrom a live telecast at our Yagna Ashram
01

Sankalpa

The priest states your name, gotra and nakshatra — and those of up to five 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

Chinnamasta Avahana

The mula mantra of Chinnamasta 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.

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 Chinnamasta Yantra are then packed and shipped free to your door.

Who is invoked

Chinnamasta

Sixth among the ten Mahavidyas, she stands naked and radiant on the coupled forms of Kama and Rati, holding her own severed head in one hand and the sword that cut it in the other. Three streams of blood rise from her neck: two feed her attendants Dakini and Varnini, one feeds the mouth of her own head. Tantric teachers read this as the life-force freely given, the knot of ego cut through rather than argued with. Her mantra names her Vajra Vairochani, the lightning-bright one. She governs sudden severance, the courage that acts, the awakening of the central channel in yogic practice. Devotees turn to this form when something has to be cut rather than coaxed, and when self-restraint has become self-obstruction.

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

Not sure this is the right homa?

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Nirnaya, our free ritual guide, recommends the traditional ritual for your situation instantly. For a full reading of your chart, book a live session with our astrologers.

Questions

Frequently asked

It is a Vedic-Tantric fire ritual offered to Chinnamasta, the sixth of the ten Mahavidyas. She is depicted severing her own head — an image the tradition reads as the decisive cutting of what binds. The homa is performed when progress is blocked, and its significance lies in that decisiveness: it is invoked to end stagnation rather than merely soften it. Offerings of ghee, herbs and grains are made into the consecrated fire while her mantra is chanted the prescribed number of times, with a sankalpa taken in your name.
The chinnamasta homa benefits named in tradition include the clearing of delays and repeated hurdles, clarity in place of indecision, courage before difficult confrontations, release from draining attachments, and steadiness of mind under pressure. As with tryambakam homa benefits and other classical fire rites, these are what the scriptures prescribe the ritual for — the fruit rests with the Goddess and with your own karma, and no outcome is promised.
Anyone facing obstruction may sponsor it — those whose work or education has stalled, people caught in prolonged litigation or negotiation, entrepreneurs whose ventures keep meeting resistance, and seekers advised a Mahavidya remedy by their astrologer. You do not perform it yourself. Qualified priests trained in Shakta upasana perform the chinnamasta puja and homa on your behalf at our Yagna Ashram, and you watch the live telecast from wherever you are.
Chinnamasta Jayanti, on Vaishakha Shukla Chaturdashi, is the foremost day. Ashtami and Chaturdashi tithis are favoured through the year, as are the nights of Chaitra and Sharada Navaratri. Ashlesha and Moola nakshatra are chosen for deeply entrenched obstructions. When you book, our panchanga team fixes the muhurat against your birth star and tells you the date and time before the rite.
The priests begin with achamana, Ganapati puja and punyahavachana, then take the sankalpa in your name, gotra and nakshatra. The kalasha is established and Chinnamasta invoked with her dhyana shloka. Agni is kindled in the kunda, and the root mantra is offered with ghee through the prescribed count of ahutis, along with samidha of palasha and other woods, red flowers, sesame, rice, honey and specified herbs. The rite closes with purnahuti, the waving of deepa and aarti, and prayers for your family. Prasadam and an energised Chinnamasta Yantra are then couriered to you.
Book online from any country. Choose your package on this page, enter your name, gotra, nakshatra and sankalpa intent, and our team confirms the muhurat with you. On the day, a private live telecast link reaches you so you can sit with the fire wherever you are. Afterwards, prasadam and the energised Chinnamasta Yantra are couriered to your address worldwide at no extra cost.
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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