Kali Puja on Kartik Amavasya

Kali Puja falls on the Kartik Amavasya, the same new-moon night as Diwali, and the Moon's phase is read on a Lahiri sidereal calendar. Amavasya means the Moon is with the Sun. In much of India that night is Lakshmi's. In Bengal and in many Kali temples elsewhere it is Kali's, with the worship concentrated after sunset. The two pujas share a tithi and do not share a meaning. Lakshmi is approached for prosperity and the 2nd and 11th houses of wealth. Kali is approached as the fierce form who faces fear, time, and the end of what has to end. If your family keeps one, keep that one. Do not stack them because a list said both bring results.

A Kali night is not a planet. An astrologer mentions fierce Devi worship when the Vimshottari period already running is a hard Saturn, Mars, or 8th-lord chapter, the same neighborhood as Rudra, and should say which. The 8th house of sudden change and longevity is the chart room for crisis and transformation. The 6th is conflict and enemies. Kali is sometimes dragged into the 6th as a promise that opponents will fall. That promise is not a reading, and a method aimed at another person's harm is not a puja this page will describe. Your own fear, your own hard bhukti, your own lamp: that is the size of the night. Career remains the 10th. A new-moon festival does not appoint anyone.

Kalratri is the seventh Navadurga, worshipped on Saptami of Navratri, weeks away from Kartik Amavasya in the lunar year. Same fierce register, different tithi, different iconography. Do not merge the vidhis. Kali Puja uses the order your Bengali or temple priest already has: the night, the offering, the vigil. This page does not invent a second order or a guarantee. No gemstone is traditional to the tithi. If someone adds blue sapphire or red coral, that is a graha decision and requires the chart to name Saturn or Mars. Most households need the lamp and not the stone. When the Amavasya ends, the Moon moves on. The dasha you were in remains the dasha. The festival marked a night inside it.