Ashwini is the first nakshatra, the opening light of the zodiac, set in the early degrees of Mesha and governed by Ketu. Its symbol is the horse's head; its deities are the Ashwini Kumaras, the twin physicians of the gods who travel by golden chariot and arrive before they are called. If Ashwini is your janma nakshatra, this star is the doorway through which your breath, your speed of mind and your instinct for beginnings all enter your chart. The Ashwini Nakshatra Homa is offered to keep that doorway clean and bright.
In the older practice, a person returned to their birth star each month — on the day the moon re-entered Ashwini — with offerings for the presiding devata. Few can keep that rhythm now. So the Ashwini Nakshatra Homam is performed on your behalf at our Yagna Ashram: your name, gotra and birth star are spoken into the fire, the nakshatra devata is invoked by its Vedic mantra, and ghee is offered while the star is strong overhead. You watch the flames live from wherever you are, and the prasadam reaches your hands afterwards.
ॐ अश्विभ्यां नमः ॥
अश्विना यज्वरीरिषो द्रवत्पाणी शुभस्पती । पुरुभुजा चनस्यतम् ॥ Salutations to the Ashvins; O swift-handed twin lords of light and wellbeing, generous givers, be pleased with the offerings of this sacrifice.
Why Devotees Book This
Tradition prescribes the Ashwini Nakshatra Homa for those who wish to stand in right relation to their birth star. What the rite is offered for:
Strength in your birth star
Offerings are made directly to the devata of Ashwini, so the star you were born under is honoured by name and gotra.
Protection on the road
Ashwini rides. The Kumaras are invoked in the traditional way for safe travel, safe returns and steadiness in movement.
Support for wellbeing
The Ashwini Kumaras are the physicians of the devas. Devotees offer this homa as a prayer for vitality and physical resilience.
Clean beginnings
As the first nakshatra, Ashwini rules starts — a new venture, a new house, a new course of study. The fire is offered before you begin.
Relief from Ketu's restlessness
Ketu governs Ashwini. The homa is prescribed during Ketu periods and transits to steady a mind that is running faster than its own feet.
Prosperity through swiftness
The prayer is not for luck but for capacity: quick decisions, timely help, and the good fortune that follows a well-aligned star.
Brahmashree ShivaayaGuru, Head of Astrological & Spiritual Solutions
Who performs your homa
Under the guidance of Brahmashree Shivaaya
Every priest who performs your Ashwini 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 is strongest when the moon stands in your own star, or on the days the tradition sets aside for it. Our priests fix the muhurat from your birth details.
Ashwini nakshatra day
The day each lunar month when the moon transits Ashwini. This is the classical day for a janma-nakshatra homa and the first choice for scheduling.
Your birth star day (janma dina)
The annual return of tithi and nakshatra from your birth. Devotees book the Ashwini Nakshatra Homam for that morning as a yearly offering.
Ketu periods and transits
During Ketu dasha, bhukti or an important Ketu transit, since Ketu is the lord of Ashwini.
Before a beginning
On the eve of a journey, a wedding, a new business, a treatment or a move — Ashwini is the nakshatra of the auspicious start.
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 Ashwini Kumaras 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 Ashwini Kumaras 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 Ashwini 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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Ashwini Kumaras Avahana
The Ashwini Kumaras Sukta and Ashwini Kumaras 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
Ashwini Kumaras — the goddess of knowledge itself
Ashwini Kumaras 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 — Ashwini Kumaras 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.
Ashwini itself is presided over by the Ashwini Kumaras — Dasra and Nasatya — the twin sons of Surya, celestial physicians who ride a swift chariot. In the Mahabharata, the Pandava twins Nakula and Sahadeva are their sons and carry their qualities of healing and horsemanship. Rather than asking which god was born in the star, the tradition asks devotees to invoke the star's devata; that is what the Ashwini Nakshatra Homa does.
Ashwini is the first of the twenty-seven nakshatras, spanning the opening 13°20' of Mesha (Aries). Its symbol is a horse's head, its ruling planet is Ketu, its deities are the Ashwini Kumaras, and its qualities are speed, healing, initiative and freshness. If the moon stood in this arc at the moment of your birth, Ashwini is your janma nakshatra.
It is a Vedic fire ritual offered to the presiding deities of Ashwini on behalf of a person born under that star. Sankalpa is taken in your name, gotra and nakshatra; the Ashwini mantras are chanted; ghee and prescribed dravyas are offered into the fire. Its significance lies in alignment — the nakshatra is the seat of the moon in your chart, and honouring it is held to steady the mind, guard the body and clear the path for beginnings.
The tradition prescribes it for protection during travel, for vitality and physical resilience, for calm during Ketu periods, for an auspicious start to new work, and for general prosperity that follows a well-honoured birth star. Devotees also offer it annually on their birth star day as an act of gratitude rather than request.
Anyone whose janma nakshatra is Ashwini, and parents who wish to offer it for a child born under this star. It is also taken up by those in a Ketu dasha or bhukti, by people who travel constantly, and by those about to begin something new. If you are unsure of your birth star, share your date, time and place of birth and our team will confirm it before booking.
The day the moon transits Ashwini each lunar month is the classical muhurat, and the morning of your annual birth-star day is equally auspicious. Ketu periods, and the days before a journey or a new undertaking, are also prescribed. Our priests fix the exact hour from the panchanga and your birth details, and confirm the time with you in advance.
The priests begin with Ganapati puja and punyahavachanam, then take sankalpa in your name, gotra and Ashwini nakshatra. Agni is invoked in the kunda, navagraha and Ketu prayers are offered, and the Ashwini mantras are chanted with ghee ahutis. Samagri includes cow ghee, samit wood, tila, yava, rice, honey, navadhanya, herbs associated with the Ashwini Kumaras, flowers and fruit. The rite closes with purnahuti, aarti and blessings in your name.
Book online from any country. Choose the Ashwini Nakshatra Homa on this page, give your name, gotra if known, and birth details, and our team confirms the muhurat with you. The homa is performed by our priests at AstroBhava's Yagna Ashram in Coimbatore on your behalf and telecast live to you — you do not need to travel. Prasadam and an energised yantra are couriered to your address worldwide, free of shipping cost.
