Chitra Nakshatra Homa
Also spelled Chitra Nakshatra Homam
चित्रा नक्षत्र होमFor those born under Chitra, the star of the divine craftsman — fire offered to Tvashta, that your work, your form and your fortune stay whole.
- 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 Chitra Nakshatra Yantra, sealed in a silver amulet, shipped worldwide at no charge
The Ritual and Its Weight
Chitra is the bright single star of the zodiac, ruled by Tvashta, the celestial artisan who shapes every form in creation. Those born under it carry his signature — an eye for design, a hand that builds, a life that turns on what they make. The Chitra Nakshatra Homa is the fire offered back to that shaping power. Priests kindle the agni on the day your birth star is running, chant the Tvashta and Chitra suktas, and place ghee and havis into the flame in your name and your gotra.
In the Vedic reckoning, a birth star is not fixed luck — it is a channel, and channels need clearing. When Chitra is transited by a difficult graha, or when a dasha turns heavy, tradition prescribes the nakshatra homa to steady that channel. The Chitra Nakshatra Homa is done for protection on the road and in the workplace, for the health of the body Tvashta fashioned, and for prosperity that holds its shape. You do not travel to it. The fire is lit at our Yagna Ashram, telecast to you live, and the prasadam and energised Chitra Nakshatra Yantra reach your door.
ॐ त्वष्ट्रे नमः । त्वष्टा रूपाणि हि प्रजाः पशून् विश्वान् बिभर्ति । स नो रयिं सर्ववीरं नि यच्छतु ॥ Salutations to Tvashta, the divine shaper, who fashions and sustains all forms and all living beings — may he grant us wealth complete with strength and worthy progeny.Why Devotees Book This
Devotees born under Chitra, and parents booking for a Chitra-born child, come to this fire for these reasons.
Alignment with your birth star
The offerings are made on the day Chitra is running, in your name and gotra, so the rite meets your star at its own hour.
Protection through hard transits
Prescribed when Mars, Saturn or Rahu press on Chitra, or when a heavy dasha begins, as a traditional shield for the period.
Steadiness in craft and career
Tvashta is the maker. Devotees in design, engineering, medicine, architecture and the arts offer here for clarity and skill in their work.
Prosperity that holds its form
The Vedic verses ask for rayi — wealth that endures with strength — rather than gain that arrives and scatters.
Well-being of body and form
Chitra governs the shaping of the body. The homa is offered in the tradition for vitality and for freedom from recurring troubles.
Peace within the family
Booked at birthdays, before marriage, and at the start of a new venture, so the household begins the cycle with the star propitiated.
Under the guidance of Brahmashree Shivaaya
Every priest who performs your Chitra 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.
Meet our priests →- 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 Chitra Nakshatra Yantra
Choose your homa in two steps
- The complete Chitra 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 Chitra Nakshatra Yantra, sealed in a silver amulet
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 Tvashta — so 108, 324 or 540 in all, by package.
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.
* Your Chitra 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.
All prices are all-inclusive — no shipping charges, no additions at checkout. See everything included →
You book — and add birth details on the next page, straight after payment.
Within 24–48 working hours — your muhurta is confirmed by email.
The day before — your telecast link arrives by email.
After the homa — tracking email with how and when to wear the Chitra Nakshatra Yantra.
The most auspicious days for a Chitra Nakshatra Homa
The homa carries its full weight when the star itself is present in the sky. Our panchanga team fixes the muhurat for you after you book.
The ideal day — when the moon transits Chitra, once each lunar month. This is the classical time for the Chitra Nakshatra Homa.
The Chitra day in your birth month, observed as the Vedic birthday, is traditionally the strongest occasion for a nakshatra homa.
The full moon in Chitra, sacred to Chitragupta and to the light of the star, is kept by many families for this rite.
When Mars, Saturn or Rahu is about to touch Chitra, or a new mahadasha begins, priests advise performing the homa in advance.
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.
What you receive
The sealing of the Chitra Nakshatra Yantra
The Chitra 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.
Hear yours read back, as the priest will say it →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 Chitra 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.
How to wear your energised Chitra Nakshatra Yantra
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.
At a funeral
Take the yantra off before you attend a funeral.
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.
Keep the energy intact
You may repeat this energising once a week or once a month.
How your Chitra Nakshatra Homa is performed
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.
Ganapati Puja
The customary invocation to Ganapati, clearing obstacles before the deity is approached.
Agni Pratishtha
The fire is consecrated in the homa kunda and Agni invoked as the carrier of every offering that follows.
Tvashta Avahana
The mula mantra of Tvashta is chanted, inviting the deity's presence into the fire — by one, three or five priests as your package sets.
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 Tvashta — 108, 324 or 540 in all, by package.
Purnahuti
The final complete offering seals the sankalpa stated at the opening.
Aarti & Dispatch
Aarti is performed live on your telecast. Vibhuti, sandalwood powder, kumkum and your energised Chitra Nakshatra Yantra are then packed and shipped free to your door.
Tvashta
The celestial artisan of the Vedas, he is the shaper of forms — the one who fashions bodies in the womb, gives each creature its shape and beauty, and forges the tools of the gods, including Indra's vajra. The hymns of the Rigveda call him the giver of forms and the bestower of offspring and long life; he is counted among the Adityas in later reckoning and stands as presiding lord of the Chitra star. Craftsmen, artists, builders, physicians and all who work with their hands turn to him, as do those praying for the well-being of the body he is held to have shaped. His domain is precision, wholeness and the making of things that endure. Ghee and havis offered in fire return the work of the hands to the one who taught it.
In this homa that grace is invoked through fire, with your own name and birth details spoken in the sankalpa.
Ask before you book
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.
Frequently asked
Your ritual date is an auspicious muhurta calculated personally for you — not a slot on a rota. Once it is confirmed, rescheduling from the customer's side is not available, and cancellation does not carry a refund. If we ever have to move your ritual for unforeseen reasons at the ashram, we will inform you immediately and provide a fresh auspicious date at no cost — and your telecast, recording, prasadam and yantra remain exactly as promised.
Read the full refund and cancellation policy.
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Ashlesha Nakshatra Homa
For those born under Ashlesha — birth-star alignment, protection and steady prosperity.
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