Matsya Homam
Also known as Matsya Homa · Matsya Havan
मत्स्य होमWhen the waters rise and every path seems closed, the first avatar of Vishnu swims ahead and pulls the boat through.
- 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 Matsya Yantra, sealed in a silver amulet, shipped worldwide at no charge
The Ritual and Its Weight
The Matsya Homam is a fire rite offered to Matsya, the fish form Vishnu took when the great deluge covered the world. In that flood the Vedas were lost and Manu's boat had nowhere to go. Matsya appeared, took the rope, and drew the boat safely across water that had no shore. That is the image the homam holds. You are not asking for a shortcut. You are asking for a guide through a stretch where the landmarks have gone under.
Devotees turn to the matsya homam when things stop moving — a file that never clears, an approval that never arrives, a plan that stalls a step before completion. The tradition treats such blockage as obstruction that has settled in the path rather than in the person. Ghee, samidha and the Matsya mantra are offered into the consecrated fire to loosen it. The rite is prescribed for clearing the way; the walking is still yours to do.
ॐ मत्स्यरूपाय विद्महे जलचराय धीमहि । तन्नो मत्स्यः प्रचोदयात् ॥ We contemplate the one who took the form of the fish and meditate upon the dweller of the waters; may that Matsya guide and impel us forward.Benefits of the Matsya Homam
The Matsya Homam is offered in the tradition for these purposes. Book it as an act of faith, not as a transaction.
Movement in stalled matters
Offered when work that should have closed months ago is still sitting open, and no one can say why.
Clearing repeated delays
For the pattern where each step forward is followed by a postponement — dates that shift, papers that return.
Safe passage through uncertainty
Matsya is invoked as the one who steers through waters with no visible shore, when you cannot see the next landmark.
Support for new beginnings
Traditionally sought before starting a venture, a course or a move, so the path opens rather than closes.
Steadying the mind under pressure
The rite is prescribed to settle the restlessness that long waiting brings, and to restore patience and clarity.
Protection of effort already made
For work you have poured years into, offered so that what you have built is not lost while the waters are high.
Under the guidance of Brahmashree Shivaaya
Every priest who performs your Matsya 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 Matsya Yantra
Choose your homam in two steps
- The complete Matsya 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 Matsya 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 Matsya — so 108, 324 or 540 in all, by package.
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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 Matsya 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 Matsya Yantra.
The most auspicious days for a Matsya Homam
These are the windows the tradition favours for the Matsya Homam.
The day marking Matsya's appearance. The most fitting occasion in the year for this homam.
Shravana belongs to Vishnu; Revati carries the sign of the fish. Both are held auspicious for invoking Matsya.
Vishnu's own tithis, kept for offerings to any of his avatars, and favoured when the aim is clearing obstruction.
Guru's day suits rites for opening blocked paths. The fire is kindled in the early hours and the offerings follow.
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 Matsya Yantra
The Matsya 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 Matsya 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 Matsya Yantra
Your auspicious time to wear it
Wear it for the first time on a Thursday, 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 Matsya 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.
Matsya Avahana
The mula mantra of Matsya 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 Matsya — 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 Matsya Yantra are then packed and shipped free to your door.
Matsya
This Matsya Mantra page gathers the Matsya avatar mantra forms used for Vishnu as the Fish: a Gayatri, a name mantra, and two passages of the Bhagavata Purana. Mantra 1, the Matsya Gayatri, follows the three-line pattern shared by the Gayatris of Vishnu's avatars and names its subject Mahamina, the Great Fish; it is a devotional formula carried in printed editions, and no scripture is known to contain it. Mantra 2, "Om matsyaya namah", is the plain salutation to Matsya and also opens the common list of his 108 names. Mantra 3 and Verses 1-3 are Bhagavata Purana 5.18.25-28, where Manu hails the Great Fish as breath, vigour and strength, then recalls the flood he crossed with it. Verses 4-7 are Bhagavata 8.24.27-30, the four verses King Satyavrata speaks when he grasps that the fish is Narayana; these are often printed on their own as the Matsya Stotram.
In this homam that grace is invoked through fire, with your own name and birth details spoken in the sankalpa.
Matsya Mantra: 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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Kapaala Bhairava Homam
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Vancha Kalpa Ganapathi Homam
For long-stalled work, repeated delays and hurdles that block a wish from ripening.
Maha HomamLet Matsya's name be spoken with yours
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