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Telecast Live Skandamata Homa for progeny blessings: four-armed Goddess Skandamata holding infant Skanda on a lotus throne
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Skandamata Homa

Also spelled Skandamata Homam

स्कन्दमाता होम

The mother who holds Skanda on her lap. Devotees who long for a child turn to her fire, and priests carry that prayer for you.

  • 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 Skandamata Yantra, sealed in a silver amulet, shipped worldwide at no charge
From$177 6 packages · free energised Skandamata Yantra · free worldwide delivery · all-inclusive
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The Ritual and Its Weight

The Skandamata Homa is a fire offering to the fifth form of Navadurga — the Goddess seated on a lotus with the infant Skanda held in her lap. She is worshipped not as a distant power but as motherhood itself, the force that receives a soul and shelters it. For this reason the tradition places her homa among the progeny rites: couples praying to conceive, mothers carrying a child, and families seeking blessings for the generation to come all light this fire.

In the Skandamata Homa, ghee, herbs and grains are offered into the consecrated kunda while her mantra is chanted through prescribed rounds. Fire is the mouth that carries an offering upward; the sankalpa spoken in your name, gotra and nakshatra is what it carries. You do not need to travel. Our priests perform the rite at AstroBhava's Yagna Ashram on your behalf, telecast it to you live, and courier the prasadam and energised Skandamata Yantra to your door.

सिंहासनगता नित्यं पद्माश्रितकरद्वया। शुभदास्तु सदा देवी स्कन्दमाता यशस्विनी॥ May the ever-glorious Skandamata, seated on her lion with lotuses held in two of her hands, always be the giver of what is auspicious.

Why Devotees Book This

The tradition prescribes the Skandamata Homa for these prayers. Offer it with faith; the fruit rests with the Goddess.

Prayer for conception

Couples hoping to conceive offer this homa to place their longing before the mother of Skanda.

A protected pregnancy

Families invoke her shelter through the months of carrying, seeking a calm and safe term for mother and child.

Blessings for the child

The rite asks for strength, health and good character in the child to come, as Skanda himself was raised in her lap.

Ease of mind for the mother

Worship of Skandamata is traditionally taken up for steadiness and courage during a time that is heavy with waiting.

Harmony in the household

The homa is offered for warmth and accord between husband, wife and elders as the family prepares for a child.

Relief from obstacles in progeny matters

Where astrologers point to afflictions in the fifth house or santana-related doshas, this fire is the prescribed remedial offering.

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 Skandamata 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 Skandamata Yantra
Book your Skandamata Homa

Choose your homa in two steps

In every package
  • The complete Skandamata 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 Skandamata 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 Skandamata — 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 Skandamata 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 packagePancha Agni Skandamata Homa5 Priests + Free Yantra
$537

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 Skandamata Yantra.

Sacred timing

The most auspicious days for a Skandamata Homa

Certain days carry the Goddess's presence more openly.

Panchami of Navaratri

The fifth day of Sharada and Vasanta Navaratri belongs to Skandamata. This is the most sought-after day for her homa.

Friday and Tuesday

Days sacred to the Devi. Fridays especially are chosen by families offering the rite for progeny.

Pushya and Rohini nakshatra

Nourishing stars traditionally favoured for rites concerning children and the growth of a family.

Shukla Paksha Panchami

The waxing fifth tithi in any month, taken when devotees cannot wait for Navaratri.

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 Skandamata Yantra

The Skandamata 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 Skandamata 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 Skandamata 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 Skandamata Homa is performed

Priests performing the Skandamata 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 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

Skandamata Avahana

The mula mantra of Skandamata 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 Skandamata — 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 Skandamata Yantra are then packed and shipped free to your door.

Who is invoked

Skandamata

The fifth of the nine forms of Durga worshipped through Navaratri, she appears seated on a lotus, four-armed, holding lotuses in two hands while the infant Skanda rests on her lap. A lion carries her. Her name says everything the tradition sees in her: mother of Skanda, the child-god who leads the armies of the devas. Where other forms of the Goddess hold weapons and face demons, this one holds a child, and her fierceness is the fierceness of a mother sheltering what she has received. Devotees turn to her when the prayer concerns children and the continuing of a family line — conception, safe carrying, the wellbeing of the young. The Devi Kavacha names her among the Navadurga forms. Her gaze is called compassionate; through the child on her lap she is approached as motherhood itself.

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 Skandamata Homa, also called the Skandamata Homam, is a Vedic fire ritual dedicated to Skandamata, the fifth of the nine forms of Durga, who is depicted seated on a lotus with the child Skanda in her lap. Because she is worshipped as motherhood embodied, her homa belongs to the progeny rites. Ghee, herbs and grains are offered into the consecrated fire with mantra while the sankalpa is spoken in your name, placing the prayer for a child before her. Our priests perform it at our Yagna Ashram, and you watch it live.
Tradition prescribes this homa for couples praying to conceive, for a safe and steady pregnancy, and for blessings of health and strength upon the child. It is also taken up for steadiness and courage through a time heavy with waiting, for harmony within the household, and as a remedial offering where an astrologer has pointed to afflictions of the fifth house or santana-related doshas. The rite is an offering of prayer, made alongside medical care, never in place of it.
This homa is for married couples hoping for a child, couples expecting one and their families, and parents offering thanksgiving or seeking blessings for children already born. Grandparents may also book it on a couple's behalf, with the couple's names and gotra in the sankalpa. There is no bar of country or community. Our priests perform it at our Yagna Ashram as one private ceremony for you and up to four family members, and you watch the live telecast from wherever you are.
Our priests begin with achamana and Ganapati puja, then speak the sankalpa in your name, gotra and nakshatra. Kalasha sthapana and the invocation of Skandamata follow. Agni is kindled in the kunda, and the ahutis are made with mantra, every priest making their own offerings of ghee, samidha, navadhanya, herbs, flowers and payasam. The rite closes with purnahuti, deeparadhana and the blessing of the prasadam. All samagri is arranged at our Yagna Ashram, so you need send nothing, and you watch it all on live telecast.
You can book the Skandamata 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 Skandamata 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 traditionally sacred to Skandamata — the Panchami of Sharada or Vasanta Navaratri, a Friday or Tuesday, Pushya or Rohini nakshatra, or the Panchami of any bright fortnight — 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 Skandamata 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 Skandamata 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 Skandamata Yantra are couriered to you anywhere in the world, free of shipping cost.
Every Skandamata Homa package includes the energised Skandamata 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, usually reaching you in 1–2 weeks within India and 2–4 weeks internationally from the homa’s completion; 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.

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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