Kumbh Vivah

At the time of match making, the “maanglik dosham” act as a villain . Despite having good match from all the angles one has to discard the match just because of one fault. It is not necessary that only mangal dosham is the sole cause of marital separation between couple. Some times there are dreadful combinations of widowhood and widowerhood are present in the respective horoscopes of girl and boy which can backfire badly. In a male dominated Indian society a lot of questions are fired on girl’s horoscope. That is why parents are worried at the time of marriage of daughter. In hindu system of astrology there is a method of “kumbh Vivah” which has to be performed in case the girl’s horoscope qualifies for any problem to life of a partner. In this process a symbolic ceremony is performed between a girl and urn made up of clay. The moment the marriage ceremony is over the urn is crushed indicating that the girl become widow. After this ceremony the marriage between girl and boy is performed. The whole process is done with the mantras. In this special pooja the girl sit along with parents and she had to wear a red thread which is discarded at the end. This tradition has some variations where instead of clay pot, the marriage is performed with either peepal or banana tree.

Nakshatra Shaanti

According to astrological classical books every constellation is associated with certain plant or a tree. One can easily perform the propitiation of constellation called Nakshatra Shaanti by worshipping the associated tree.Following are the trees associated with each nakshataras
1) Ashwini-Vishmushti
2) Bharini- Amla
3) Kritika-Gullar
4) Rohini-Jamun
5) Mrigshira-Ber
6) Ardra-Baheda
7) Punarvasu-bamboo
8) Pushya-Peepal
9) Ashlesha-Nag Kesar
10) Magha-Vat
11) Porva Phalguni-Palaash
12) Uttar Phalguni-Pakar
13) Hasta-Reetha
14) Chitra-Coconut
15) Swati-Arjun/Jarul
16) Vishakha- Kaith
17) Anuradha- Maulsari
18) Jyeshtha-Devdaar
19) Moola-Anjan
20) Poorva aashada-Giloi
21) Uttara Aashada-phalsa
22) Shravana-Ark
23) Dhanishtha- Shami
24) Shatbhisha-Kadamba
25) Poorva bhadrapad-Aam(Mango)
26) Uttar Bhadrapad-Neem
27) Revati-Mahua

Navgrah Vatika

In astrology it is believe that there are 9 planets which are controlling the destiny of person. To minimize the ill effect of nav grahas one of the easiest method is to plant the nav-grah vatika (garden) near the temple. Each planet is associated with a sacred plant which has to be plant in a 3 by 3 grid as follows.
Ark(for sun) in the centre
Palash(for moon) in the South east
Khair (for mars) in the South
Apamarga(for mercury) in NorthEast
peepal (for Jupiter) in North
Doomar(For venus) in East
shami(For Saturn) in West
Durvaa (for Rahu) in South West
kusha (for Ketu) in North West