Rahu and Ketu are the chhaya grahas, the shadow planets — the severed head and the tail of the celestial serpent, always sitting opposite one another in your horoscope. They own no body and no light, yet they colour every planet they touch. When they fall on your Moon, your seventh house, or the whole spine of your chart in a Kala Sarpa pattern, life takes on a particular texture: effort that does not land, alliances that stall, a restlessness you cannot name. The Rahu-Ketu Shanti Homa is the Dosha Nivarana rite prescribed exactly for this.
In this Maha homa the two nodes are invoked together, because in the Vedic view they cannot be addressed apart. Priests at our Yagna Ashram offer the Rahu and Ketu bija mantras into the fire with black sesame, urad, kushmanda and darbha, then close with a Navagraha shanti so the remaining seven planets are settled around the pacified axis. The tradition frames this rite as an act of respect toward forces that carry your unfinished karma — not as a way to defeat them, but as a way to ask them to walk beside you rather than across you. You watch the fire live from wherever you are.
ॐ रां राहवे नमः । ॐ कें केतवे नमः ।
अर्धकायं महावीर्यं चन्द्रादित्यविमर्दनम् ।
सिंहिकागर्भसम्भूतं तं राहुं प्रणमाम्यहम् ॥
पलाशपुष्पसंकाशं तारकाग्रहमस्तकम् ।
रौद्रं रौद्रात्मकं घोरं तं केतुं प्रणमाम्यहम् ॥ I bow to Rahu, half-bodied and mighty, who eclipses the Sun and the Moon and was born of Simhika; and I bow to Ketu, blazing like the palasha blossom, crest of the stars and planets, fierce and awesome — may both grant me peace.
Why Devotees Book This
Devotees come to the Rahu-Ketu Shanti Homam when a competent astrologer has read the nodal axis in their chart. These are the intentions the tradition attaches to the rite.
Pacifying the nodal axis
Offered when Rahu or Ketu sits on the ascendant, the Moon, or in a Kala Sarpa formation, to soften the grip of the shadow planets on the chart.
Restoring planetary balance
The closing Navagraha shanti addresses the other seven planets, so the whole chart is invoked rather than one afflicted point in isolation.
Marriage and alliance matters
Among the rahu ketu pooja benefits for marriage, tradition names the seventh-house nodal affliction that shows as repeated delay or unsettled alliance talks.
Rahu and Ketu dasha-bhukti periods
Prescribed at the opening of a Rahu or Ketu major or sub-period, as a prayer for steadiness through years the nodes govern.
Clarity where confusion sits
Rahu is said to obscure and Ketu to detach. The homa is offered as a prayer for discernment in decisions that have felt clouded.
Ancestral and karmic threads
Ketu carries the residue of past karma. The rite is performed in the Dosha Nivarana spirit of settling old debts with reverence.
Brahmashree ShivaayaGuru, Head of Astrological & Spiritual Solutions
Who performs your homa
Under the guidance of Brahmashree Shivaaya
Every priest who performs your Rahu-Ketu Shanti 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.
Not every fire ritual is performed at the same scale. A Maha Homa is our largest form — more priests, a longer fire, and the complete chanting sequence the rite prescribes rather than an abridged one. This is what that means in practice.
Priests5 or 10Chanting in unison, never in rotation
The fire burnsApprox. 2 hoursFrom the sankalpa to the final aarti
ChantedIn fullThe complete sequence the rite calls for, not an excerpt
TelecastEvery minuteNothing is performed off camera
A Maha Homa is performed for one devotee and their named family, the same as any homa we conduct. What the scale changes is the weight of the offering — ten trained voices holding one hymn for two hours is a different undertaking from one voice for an hour, and it is reserved for the intentions that warrant it.
Book your Rahu-Ketu Shanti Homa
Choose how many priests will chant
Both packages are the same rite. The complete Rahu-Ketu Shantim, all thirty-one verses, over approximately two hours, with the same offerings, the same free energised Surya Yantra sealed in its silver amulet, and the same live telecast. What changes is how many trained voices carry the hymn at once.
Your packageRahu-Ketu Shanti Maha Homa5 Priests · approx. 2 hours · Free Surya Yantra
₹36,850
All prices are all-inclusive — no shipping charges, no additions at checkout. See everything included →
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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 nodes have their own hours. Our priests fix your muhurat from the details you submit, and confirm the slot before the fire is lit.
Rahu Kalam avoided, Tuesday and Saturday favoured
Saturday is traditionally given to Rahu and Tuesday to Ketu. The sankalpa is set outside Rahu Kalam and Yamagandam of that day.
Ardra, Swati, Shatabhisha — Rahu's nakshatras
Ashwini, Magha and Mula belong to Ketu. When your chart calls for one node in particular, that node's nakshatra is preferred.
Eclipse periods and Amavasya
Grahana kaala is the classical hour of the nodes. Homas near a solar or lunar eclipse, and on Amavasya, are held to carry particular weight for shadow-planet shanti.
At the turn of a Rahu or Ketu dasha
When a nodal major period or antardasha begins, the homa is offered at its threshold as a prayer for a settled passage.
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 Rahu and Ketu 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 Rahu and Ketu 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 Rahu-Ketu Shanti 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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Rahu and Ketu Avahana
The Rahu and Ketu Sukta and Rahu and Ketu 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
Rahu and Ketu — the goddess of knowledge itself
Rahu and Ketu 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 — Rahu and Ketu 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. There is no bar of gender, caste, age, marital status or country — the question 'can anyone do rahu ketu pooja' really asks whether you are entitled to approach the nodes, and the tradition says you are. What matters is that the mantras are offered correctly by trained hands. At AstroBhava the priests perform the homa on your behalf at our Yagna Ashram, with your name, nakshatra and gotra in the sankalpa, and you watch it live from wherever you live.
Tradition does not speak of removing the nodes so much as pacifying them. The prescribed remedies are mantra japa of the Rahu and Ketu bijas, feeding and giving to those in need, honouring the nodal deities, and above all a shanti homa in which the mantras are offered into consecrated fire. The Rahu-Ketu Shanti Homa is the Dosha Nivarana rite for exactly this purpose. It is performed as an act of prayer, not as a guarantee.
Rahu-Ketu dosha is the name given to specific placements of the two shadow planets in a horoscope that classical texts flag for remedy — the nodes on the ascendant or the Moon, in the seventh house of marriage, conjunct a chart's important planet, or holding all seven planets between them in the Kala Sarpa pattern. It is not a curse or a verdict on your life. It is a reading of where the nodal axis asks for attention.
Classical astrology treats Rahu as generally comfortable in the third, sixth, tenth and eleventh houses, and Ketu as at ease in the third, sixth, eleventh and twelfth, where detachment and effort serve well. Placement in the first, fifth, seventh or eighth is more often taken up for shanti. But no single placement is read alone — the lord of the house, the aspects on it and the running dasha all change the picture. A qualified astrologer reading your full chart is the right guide here.
Because the nodes always sit opposite one another, the tradition never addresses them singly. Balance is sought by invoking both in one rite, then settling the other seven planets around them — which is exactly the structure of this homa. Alongside it, devotees are counselled toward daily Rahu and Ketu mantra japa, wearing or installing the energised yantra we courier to you, dana on Saturdays and Tuesdays, and simple discipline in food and sleep during nodal periods.
Rahu is described as amplifying desire, ambition and worldly appetite; Ketu as loosening attachment and turning attention inward. Under their periods people often report sudden expansion in one area and sudden disinterest in another, restlessness, foreign travel, unconventional paths, or matters that stall just before completion. The classical view is that the nodes deliver karma rather than reward or punishment — which is why they are approached with offering and respect.
You need an accurate birth date, time and place. From these, a jyotishi locates Rahu and Ketu, examines which houses and signs they occupy, which planets they sit with or aspect, whether the seventh house or the Moon is involved, and whether a Kala Sarpa arrangement exists. Whether you are looking for the best rahu ketu dosh report or simply want the placements read, ask for the analysis before choosing a remedy — the rahu ketu dosh report price and format vary by astrologer, and the reading should come first.
Rahu Ketu dosham is the Tamil and South Indian form of the same term. Devotees searching in Tamil often look for the nodal mantras themselves — ஓம் ராம் ராஹவே நமஹ and ஓம் கேம் கேதவே நமஹ — along with the Navagraha stotra verses for Rahu and Ketu given above. The dosham is understood identically: a nodal placement in the birth chart that the shastras mark for shanti, addressed traditionally through mantra and homa.
It is a Maha-tier fire ritual of the Dosha Nivarana tradition in which both shadow planets are invoked together with their bija and stotra mantras, offered black sesame, urad dal, darbha grass and ash-gourd, and then followed by a Navagraha shanti. Its significance lies in treating the nodal axis as one thing — the head and the tail of a single serpent — and in restoring the balance of the whole chart rather than patching one house.
The rahu ketu pooja benefits named by tradition are the pacifying of nodal affliction, steadiness through Rahu and Ketu dasha periods, clarity in clouded decisions, relief in matters that repeatedly stall, and — where the seventh house is involved — support in marriage and alliance matters. These are the intentions the shastras attach to the rite. We offer the fire on your behalf; the fruit rests with the deities.
Anyone whose chart shows Rahu or Ketu on the ascendant, the Moon, or the seventh house; anyone in or entering a Rahu or Ketu dasha or antardasha; those with a Kala Sarpa arrangement; and families where marriage talks or long-planned work keep stalling. Many devotees also book it annually as a general planetary shanti. You do not perform it yourself — our priests do, in your name.
Saturdays for Rahu and Tuesdays for Ketu are the traditional days, with the sankalpa fixed outside Rahu Kalam and Yamagandam. Rahu's nakshatras — Ardra, Swati, Shatabhisha — and Ketu's — Ashwini, Magha, Mula — are preferred, as are Amavasya and the days around a solar or lunar eclipse. Once you book, our priests calculate the muhurat from your birth details and confirm the exact slot with you.
The priests begin with achamana, Ganapati puja and punyahavachana, then take the sankalpa in your name, nakshatra and gotra. A kalasha is established, Rahu and Ketu are invoked in their yantras, and the bija mantras are recited with japa. Agni is kindled and the ahutis are offered — black sesame, urad dal, darbha, ash-gourd, ghee, honey and the prescribed samidha woods. A Navagraha shanti follows, then purnahuti, and finally arati and the energised yantra's consecration. Prasadam and that yantra are couriered to you, worldwide, free of charge.
Book online from any country on this page. Send your name, birth date, time and place, nakshatra and gotra along with your sankalpa. Our priests fix the muhurat and confirm it with you, then perform the homa at our Yagna Ashram in Coimbatore and telecast it live so you can sit with the fire from home. Prasadam and the energised yantra reach you by courier afterwards, anywhere in the world, at no extra cost.
