Rahu Homam
Also known as Rahu Homa · Rahu Havan
राहु होमWhen the shadow planet clouds your judgement and stalls your days, the fire is lit in your name — and the smoke carries your prayer.
- 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 Rahu Yantra, sealed in a silver amulet, shipped worldwide at no charge
The Ritual and Its Weight
Rahu is the shadow graha, the head without a body, endlessly hungry and endlessly restless. When Rahu sits afflicted in your chart, or when his dasha or bhukti turns, life can feel strangely out of focus — decisions that will not settle, fears with no name, delays with no visible cause, people and situations that appear and vanish. The Rahu Homam is the classical Vedic response. Fire is kindled, Rahu is invoked by name, and the prescribed offerings are given so that the shadow is honoured rather than resisted.
The Rahu Homam is not an attempt to remove Rahu. Rahu is a karaka of ambition, foreign lands, research, technology and sudden rise — the tradition asks that his force be steadied, not silenced. Priests at AstroBhava's Yagna Ashram perform the rite on your behalf with your name, gotra and nakshatra spoken into the sankalpa, whether you are booking as a family, for a child, or as part of a longer Rahu ki puja observance. You watch the flames live from wherever you are.
ॐ भ्रां भ्रीं भ्रौं सः राहवे नमः Salutations to Rahu — may the shadow planet be pacified and turn his force to my good.Benefits of the Rahu Homam
Devotees turn to the Rahu Homam when Rahu is prominent, afflicted, or running in dasha. These are the purposes the tradition assigns to the rite.
Pacifying an afflicted Rahu
Offered when Rahu is debilitated, combust, or placed in a difficult house — the rite is prescribed to settle his agitation.
Through Rahu dasha and bhukti
The eighteen-year Rahu mahadasha and its sub-periods are traditionally marked with this homam at their beginning and at difficult turns.
For Rahu-Ketu dosha in the chart
Where the shadow axis binds the chart — kala sarpa patterns, Rahu-Ketu affliction to the lagna or Moon — the homam is the classical remedy prescribed alongside a Rahu-Ketu dosha reading.
Clarity over confusion
Rahu is said to cast illusion. The rite is offered for steadiness of mind, clean judgement, and freedom from the fog of indecision.
Strengthening Rahu's benefic side
Rahu governs foreign travel, research, technology and unconventional paths. The homam asks that these significations open rather than obstruct.
Removing unnamed obstruction
For delays with no clear reason, agreements that dissolve, and repeated near-misses — the offerings are made so the path clears.
Under the guidance of Brahmashree Shivaaya
Every priest who performs your Rahu Homam 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 Rahu Yantra
Choose your homam in two steps
- The complete Rahu Homam, 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 Rahu 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 Rahu — so 108, 324 or 540 in all, by package.
Not sure which homam, or which package? Get a free ritual suggestion.
Send your name, date, time and place of birth and your concern; our astrologers tell you which rite to perform, from your chart (by Prashna if your birth time is unknown). We do not answer questions about the future, such as marriage or jobs. Reply within 24–48 hours.
A different number of ahutis prescribed? Our priests arrange a customised homam — WhatsApp or call; they confirm the count, the priests, the duration and the price before you book.
* Your Rahu 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 homam — tracking email with how and when to wear the Rahu Yantra.
The most auspicious days for a Rahu Homam
Rahu answers to particular hours and days.
Saturday is Rahu's day in South Indian practice, and the daily Rahu Kaalam window is the classical hour for his worship.
The three nakshatras ruled by Rahu. A homam performed on these stars is held to reach him most directly.
The new moon, and solar or lunar eclipses, belong to the shadow grahas. These are strong days for Rahu ki puja.
The start of a Rahu mahadasha, antardasha, or a Rahu transit over your Moon or lagna — the tradition asks for the fire at these thresholds.
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 homam 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 Rahu Yantra
The Rahu 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 homam, receiving the energies raised in the fire. When your homam 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 homam 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 homam in real time from the ashram. Streamed openly on our YouTube channel by default — or request an unlisted telecast at checkout.
Free energised Rahu 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 homam 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 Rahu Yantra
Your auspicious time to wear it
Wear it for the first time on a Saturday, 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 Rahu Homam is performed
Sankalpa
The priest states your name, gotra and nakshatra — and those of up to four family members — with the intention this homam 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.
Rahu Avahana
The mula mantra of Rahu 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 Rahu — 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 Rahu Yantra are then packed and shipped free to your door.
Rahu
Rahu is the ascending lunar node, counted among the nine grahas yet without a physical body of his own. Puranic astronomy knows him as the immortal head of the daitya who once seized a share of amṛta. Jyotiṣa assigns him the northward crossing of the Moon’s path, the direction of sudden inversion, and the significations of smoke, eclipse, foreign connection, and the hunger that outlasts form. Iconographic manuals give him a serpentine lower half or simply a severed head with wide mouth and living eyes, mounted on a lion or a chariot of eight horses. He is neither fully deva nor fully asura after the beheading, and that liminal status is the core of his identity among the planetary deities.
In this homam that grace is invoked through fire, with your own name and birth details spoken in the sankalpa.
Rahu: meaning, pronunciation & how to chant
The mantra word by word, how it is pronounced, and how devotees chant it at home.
Read the Mantra Guide →Ask before you book
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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.
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