The Ashlesha Nakshatra Homa is offered for those born under Ashlesha, the ninth nakshatra, whose presiding powers are the Sarpa Devatas — the serpent deities of coiled, patient energy. Tradition holds that each of us carries the signature of our birth star through life, and that the star's own devata answers most readily to fire. In this homa the priests kindle the kunda, name you and your gotra, and offer to Ashlesha's devata the oblations the texts prescribe, so that the current of your janma nakshatra runs clean rather than knotted.
Ashlesha is a star of depth. It gives penetrating insight, hypnotic speech, the capacity to hold a secret and to see beneath surfaces. The same depth can turn inward as restlessness, entanglement in others' affairs, or a mind that will not put a matter down. The Ashlesha Nakshatra pooja is prescribed to settle that current — on your birth star each month, in your Ashlesha or Mercury periods, before a marriage, a move or a new venture. The ashlesha nakshatra shanti puja vidhi is followed as the Nakshatra Suktas lay it out, without shortening.
ॐ नमोऽस्तु सर्पेभ्यो ये के च पृथिवीमनु।
ये अन्तरिक्षे ये दिवि तेभ्यः सर्पेभ्यो नमः॥ Salutations to the serpent powers — to all those upon the earth, to those in the mid-region and to those in the heavens; to all these serpents, our reverence.
Why Devotees Book This
Devotees turn to the Ashlesha Nakshatra Homam to stand right with their birth star and ask its devata for shelter and increase.
Birth-star alignment
The homa is offered in your name and gotra on your janma nakshatra, so the rite reaches the star you were born under rather than a general blessing.
Protection of the Sarpa Devatas
Ashlesha's presiding serpent powers are invoked as guardians — traditionally sought for shelter from unseen harm, hostility and fear.
Clarity in a deep mind
Ashlesha gives penetrating thought. The rite is prescribed to steady that depth, so insight serves you instead of circling.
Ease in relationships
Families book this before betrothals and weddings, including when looking for the best match for an Ashlesha nakshatra female, so the union begins with the star propitiated.
Steady prosperity
Nakshatra homas are performed at the start of ventures, new work and new homes, asking that effort meet with unobstructed growth.
Relief during Mercury and Ashlesha periods
When the dasha or bhukti of Ashlesha's lord is running, the shanti puja vidhi is the traditional recourse for a smoother passage.
Brahmashree ShivaayaGuru, Head of Astrological & Spiritual Solutions
Who performs your homa
Under the guidance of Brahmashree Shivaaya
Every priest who performs your Ashlesha Nakshatra Homa is trained in a traditional Padashala and personally recruited by Brahmashree Shivaaya — Guru and Head of Astrological & Spiritual Solutions at AstroBhava. Your ritual is conducted at our own Yagna Ashram — never a rented venue — with temple rites performed across our seven temples in Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
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* Copper yantra 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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You book — and send birth details at checkout.
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Within 24–48 working hours — your muhurta is confirmed by email.
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The day before — your telecast link arrives by email.
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After the homa — tracking email with your personal time to wear the yantra.
Sacred Timing
The homa carries most force when the sky itself is turned toward Ashlesha. Our priests fix the muhurat for you from your birth details.
Ashlesha Nakshatra day
The moon's monthly transit through Ashlesha is the first choice — your own janma nakshatra day, the fittest hour for the ashlesha nakshatra puja.
Wednesdays and Mercury hora
Ashlesha falls in Mercury's ownership by traditional reckoning; Wednesday mornings and the Mercury hora are favoured for the homa.
Panchami and Naga Panchami
Fifth tithis, and Naga Panchami in Shravana, are classically kept for the Sarpa Devatas who preside over Ashlesha.
Before a beginning
Ahead of a marriage, a house-warming, a new venture or the start of an Ashlesha or Mercury dasha, the homa is performed as shanti.
Every package, and the 48-day option
What you receive
The sealing of the 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 a private, unlisted telecast at checkout.
Free energised Sarpa Devatas 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.
48-Day Anushthan (optional)
Daily temple worship for 48 days — the 27 Nakshatras + 12 Rashis + 9 Planets — then sealed in a silver amulet of approximately 2–4 inches.
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; the daily rituals of the 48-day Anushthan are performed with full devotion but are not telecast.
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 visible only to you.
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 Sarpa Devatas Yantra
The energised yantra is carefully rolled and sealed inside a sacred silver amulet before shipping. Wearing it is itself a small ritual — and even its timing is set for you personally.
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Your auspicious time to wear it
Our astrologer marks the auspicious date and time to wear the yantra according to your birth details — sent to you in the email carrying your shipment's tracking number.
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Purify the amulet
Dip the silver amulet in raw milk or Ganga jal for an hour before wearing, then clean with normal water.
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Face East or North
Perform the wearing process facing east or north for maximum benefit.
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Offer dheep & dhoop
Show lamp and incense to the amulet before wearing it.
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Wear it
Around your neck or waist, on a thread or chain.
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Keep the energy intact
Repeated offering of dheep and dhoop keeps the energisation alive.
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If you prefer not to wear it
Place the amulet at your puja altar, or keep it in your wallet.
Inside the fire ritual
How your Ashlesha Nakshatra Homa is performed
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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.
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Ganapati Puja
The customary invocation to Ganapati, clearing obstacles before the goddess is approached.
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Agni Pratishtha
The fire is consecrated in the homa kunda and Agni invoked as the carrier of every offering that follows.
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Sarpa Devatas Avahana
The Sarpa Devatas Sukta and Sarpa Devatas Gayatri are chanted, inviting the goddess's presence into the fire — by one, three or five priests as your package sets.
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Ahuti
Ghee, white flowers, akshata and honey are offered in sequence with mantra — the offerings traditional to her worship.
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Purnahuti
The final complete offering seals the sankalpa stated at the opening.
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Aarti & Dispatch
Aarti is performed live on your telecast. Vibhuti, sandalwood powder, kumkum and your energised yantra are then packed and shipped free to your door.
Who is invoked
Sarpa Devatas — the goddess of knowledge itself
Sarpa Devatas is one of the Tridevi and the mother of the Vedas — the presiding deity of knowledge, learning, memory, speech, music and every art. She is depicted in white upon a white lotus, holding the veena, a book, a rosary and a water pot, with the swan of discernment beside her.
In this homa, her grace — Sarpa Devatas Kataksham — is invoked through fire with your own name and birth details spoken in the sankalpa.
Sarathi, our free AI ritual guide, recommends the traditional ritual for your situation instantly. For a full reading of your chart, book a live session with our astrologers — the fee is fully credited when you book any ritual.
Yes. No nakshatra is bad. Ashlesha is a star of great depth — it gives sharp perception, persuasive speech and the patience to wait out a situation. Like every star it also asks something of you: that you not let depth become entanglement. The homa is offered to keep the star's gifts flowing clean.
Ashlesha is intense and inward. Its symbol is the coiled serpent, its devata the Sarpas, its lord Mercury, and it sits wholly within Karka (Cancer). Natives are typically observant, private, strategic and emotionally deep, with a gift for reading people that few others notice.
Ashlesha is classed among the tikshna or sharp nakshatras, which the texts consider excellent for mantra practice, healing, research and decisive action, and less favoured for gentle beginnings like a first journey. Auspiciousness is a matter of the right work at the right hour, not of good or bad stars. The Ashlesha Nakshatra pooja is done precisely to turn its sharpness to your benefit.
Anyone whose moon occupied 16°40' to 30°00' of Cancer at birth is an Ashlesha native. Such people are commonly drawn to medicine, research, psychology, law, occult study, negotiation and any field that rewards seeing what is hidden.
Ashlesha's presiding devatas are the Sarpas, the serpent powers, and Naga worship is central to it. In tradition the star is associated with Ketu-like depth and with Adisesha; devotees also honour Nagaraja and Subrahmanya in connection with it. The homa is directed to the Sarpa Devatas themselves.
For marriage matching, Ashlesha is traditionally read as harmonising well with Punarvasu, Pushya, Magha, Anuradha, Jyeshtha and Revati, depending on the full koota score. Compatibility is never decided by nakshatra alone — the whole chart, including Mars and the seventh house, must be read. Many families book this homa alongside such matching.
Ashlesha is the ninth of the twenty-seven nakshatras, spanning 16°40' to 30°00' of Cancer. Its name means 'the embrace' or 'the clinging one'. Symbol: a coiled serpent. Devata: the Sarpas. Lord: Mercury. Nature: tikshna, sharp and penetrating.
Some regional traditions read the fourth pada of Ashlesha as calling for shanti in respect of the mother-in-law, and a few texts extend this to the first pada. These are cautions, not verdicts — no pada is cursed, and countless people born in them live in warm households. Where a family wishes it, the Ashlesha Nakshatra Homa with the prescribed shanti vidhi is the traditional remedy, offered before the marriage.
It is a fire ritual offered to the Sarpa Devatas, the presiding powers of Ashlesha, in the name and gotra of a person born under that star. Its significance is alignment: the tradition holds that when your janma nakshatra is honoured in fire, its energy supports you instead of pressing on you, and its devata stands as protector.
Tradition prescribes it for protection under the Sarpa Devatas, clarity of mind, harmony in family and marriage matters, steadiness at the start of new work, and relief during Ashlesha or Mercury periods. The rite is an offering, not a guarantee — what it gives is the shelter of a devata rightly invoked.
Anyone born with the moon in Ashlesha; parents on behalf of an Ashlesha-born child; those running an Ashlesha or Mercury dasha; and families arranging a marriage where Ashlesha appears in a horoscope. You do not perform it yourself — our priests perform it for you at the Yagna Ashram, naming you in the sankalpa.
The moon's transit through Ashlesha each month is the finest window. Wednesdays, the Mercury hora, Panchami tithis and Naga Panchami are also favoured. Send your birth details and our panchanga team fixes the muhurat and tells you the exact hour of your homa.
The priests begin with achamana, Ganapati puja and punyahavachana, then the sankalpa in your name, star and gotra. Kalasha sthapana and Naga or Sarpa puja follow. Agni is invoked in the kunda, and oblations of ghee, samidha, milk, honey, sesame, durva and the prescribed herbs are offered with the Ashlesha Nakshatra Sukta and Sarpa mantras through the full count. Purnahuti, deeparadhana and prasadam distribution close the rite.
Book online from any country on this page. Give your name, birth star and gotra. We confirm the muhurat, share the live telecast link so you can watch from wherever you are, and courier your prasadam and energised yantra to your address free of charge.
