Puja and the Rahu Ketu Axis

Rahu and Ketu are the lunar nodes, always opposite, with mahadashas of 18 years and 7 years. Getting rid of them would mean a chart with no eclipse points. No puja does that. Kaal Sarp, the hemming of Sun through Saturn on one side of the axis, likewise remains after a temple visit. What a puja can be is worship: attention, a vow, a day set aside. What it cannot be is a new birth time.

People ask which puja. The honest answer is that the chart problem should be named first. A node in the 7th is a marriage question. A full hem is a different pattern. A Moon conjunct Rahu is an eclipse on the mind. One rite sold for all three is not a reading.

If Rahu mahadasha is in force, the 18 years continue through their antardashas: Rahu, Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury, Ketu, Venus, Sun, Moon, Mars. A Saturday or a temple morning does not skip Rahu-Saturn. Ketu's 7 years are just as fixed. Conduct during those years, keeping promises, reducing the speculation Rahu enjoys, doing the work of the sign lord, is the practical companion to whatever devotion you choose.

Hessonite and cat's eye strengthen the nodes. They are the opposite of removal. Do not add them to a puja whose aim was quiet.

Ujjain is associated with Mahakaleshwar, and people travel there for Kaal Sarp rites because of that living temple tradition. The journey is optional religion. The nodes will occupy the same signs on the way home. Read which houses the axis cuts, and which mahadasha is running, before you decide a shrine is the remedy.

Jupiter's aspect on a node, from the 5th, 7th, or 9th counted from Jupiter, is the softening that already exists inside some charts. If it is present, you do not need to invent a harsher dosha than the aspect allows.