Which Puja Follows Which Planet

The planet the Lahiri chart has named chooses the puja, and the weekday follows that planet. Sunday belongs to the Sun, Monday to the Moon, Tuesday to Mars, Wednesday to Mercury, Thursday to Jupiter, Friday to Venus, and Saturday to Saturn. The common pairings follow: Surya or the Gayatri for the Sun, a Devi or Shiva remembrance for the Moon on Monday in many homes, Hanuman or Durga for Mars, Vishnu for Jupiter, Lakshmi for Venus, and Shiva or Rudra when Saturn is the named graha. These are household maps, not a claim that no other deity may be loved. Your family deity remains your family deity. The map is for the moment an astrologer says 'do a puja' and does not say for whom.

The Vimshottari dasha already running is the filter. In a Jupiter mahadasha, Thursday and Ekadashi address the planet who is actually timing your life. In a Saturn mahadasha, adding a new Lakshmi vow every Friday because money feels tight may ignore Saturn, who is the one running the clock, and may ignore the 2nd and 11th lords if they are different planets. In a Mercury period, a green-emerald conversation and a Wednesday discipline belong together only if Mercury was named. Collecting all seven weekdays is not thoroughness. It is a refusal to choose. The 10th house still rules career outcomes. A puja does not become a promotion because it was sincere during the wrong lord's year.

Stop adding rites that promise every wish, every enemy's fall, or a medical cure. Those promises are not jyotish and the harmful ones are not worship. A clean path is short. Read the lagna. Name the house of the problem: 7th for marriage, 5th for children, 6th for conflict and debt, 8th for sudden change, 10th for career. Name the lord and the dasha. Then keep one weekday that matches that lord, in the form your family already knows. If a gemstone is mentioned, it waits until that same naming is finished. If a priest's vidhi is longer than this, follow the priest you have met, not a paragraph that claims to be the only right road.