Chhath Puja 2024: Aligning Your Sign’s Spirit with the Sun’s Cosmic Blessings on Kharna

Chhath Puja is an Vedic celebration honouring the Sun God, Surya. As attendees seek blessings for health, wealth, and happiness, this four-day celebration consists in rites, fasting, and prayer. Kharna, the second day of the puja, is among the most important ones since it connects the first day of purification (Nahay Khay) with the rigorous fasting and prayer of the next days.
Kharna is very important in getting the devotee physically, spiritually, and psychologically ready for the closer spiritual contact with the Sun God.
Kharna’s Rituals: Preparation and Cleaning
Kharna is a day of purification highlighted by a strict fast practiced by followers usually from sunrise to dusk. The fast is broken only after a sequence of rites cleansing the body, mind, and spirit. Following cleansing and cleaning the holy area, devotees offer roti (a handcrafted wheat flatbread) and kheer, a rice pudding cooked with jaggery and milk, at sunset. Made with great simplicity and dedication, this cuisine represents humility, purity, and thankfulness. The fast itself is considered as a form of soul cleansing, of releasing material attachments, and of creating room for spiritual rewards.
The Sacred Ingredients: Their Significance
The components of the Kharna prasad have great symbolic value in addition to being just food:
Made with rice, milk, and jaggery, kheer—rice pudding—represents purity and spiritual nutrition. Whereas milk is connected with cerebral clarity and emotional equilibrium, rice is indicative of plenty. Being raw and un polished, jaggery represents humility and simplicity. Eating this prasad is supposed to clean and revitalize the body, therefore bringing it into line with higher vibrations for the Chhath Puja’s latter days.
Made with wheat flour, roti, a flatbread, captures the simplicity and grounded aspect of the Chhath Puja offerings. It emphasizes simplicity and thanks by signifying humility and the relationship to the elements that sustain the Earth.
Every component connects with the festival’s values of thankfulness, purity, and loyalty, thereby arming attendees to welcome Sun’s cosmic bounties.
This Chhath Puja 2024, let us ive into how each zodiac sign can align their energies with Kharna of Chhath Puja.
Aries
For Aries, under Mars, Kharna is a day to cool their inner fire and foster patience. This day helps Aries people focus their energies and regulate their occasionally erratic disposition, therefore guiding their drive into spiritual discipline. Aries might discover a closer concentration by embracing the humility of the rites, therefore strengthening their resilience and will.
Taurus
Venus rules Taurus, an Earth sign that excels in customs linking people to nature and simplicity. Their desire of groundedness and harmony is much aligned with the Kharna custom. Engaging in Kharna can help Taurus people eliminate attachments and develop more self-control, therefore harmonizing their strong energy with a more spiritual use.
Gemini
Under Mercury, Gemini is a sign of inquiry and communication. Kharna invites Gemini people to focus inside, so creating a place for reflection. This ceremony allows students to calm their frequently restless thoughts and increase their self-awareness thereby enabling them to link their intellectual might to the Sun’s enlightening presence.
Cancer
Under control by the Moon, cancer is naturally sensitive and intuitive. For Cancer locals to release pent-up emotions and revitalize their spirit, Kharna offers a caring space. Honoring the Sun’s energy helps Cancerians to find inner strength and balance, therefore supporting their natural drive toward helping others.
Leo
Under the Sun herself, Leo finds Kharna especially empowering. This day gives Leo people an opportunity to realign with their natural inclination for leadership and kindness and clear their intentions. By means of fasting and dedication, Leos can strengthen their connection with the Sun’s energy, therefore supporting their inner confidence and power.
Virgo
Mercury rules the Earth sign Virgo, who values the Kharna rituals’ exactness and simplicity. On this day Virgos can clear any mental clutter and arrange their ideas. By means of Kharna, participants strengthen their inherent predisposition for discipline and self-improvement, therefore enabling them to discover peace in simplicity and loyalty.
Libra
Considered under Venus, Libra is a sign of harmony and balance. Kharna provides Libra people with a place to separate from outside influences and readjust their inner equilibrium. Librans can improve their feeling of justice and inner peace by fully engaging themselves in the ritual and thus strengthening their relationship to the Sun’s balanced force.
Scorpio
For Scorpio, governed by Mars and connected with metamorphosis, Kharna is a potent day of spiritual purging. Native Scorpios can release prior emotional attachments by focusing their great vitality on introspection and rejuvenation. This custom helps them to be more resilient and to match the transforming power of the Sun, therefore promoting spiritual development and clarity.
Sagittarius
Under Jupiter, Sagittarius is continually seeking better knowledge and direction. Kharna gives people time to stop and consider their spiritual road forward. Sagittarians can anchor their great energy by accepting the humility of the rites, therefore harmonizing with the knowledge of the Sun to improve their philosophical endeavors and perspective of life.
Capricorn
Saturn’s Earth sign Capricorn, inclined to discipline and duty, is driven. Kharna exhorts Capricorns to shed their aspirations and concentrate on personal development. The simplicity and dedication of the rites enable one to relinquish material attachments and match their strong force with the purity and clarity of goal of the Sun.
Aquarius
Under Saturn and Uranus, Aquarius is a sign of values in invention and humanitarian causes. Kharna encourages Aquarians to use spiritual discipline, therefore developing their humility and grounding. This day lets them clear mental clutter and bring their vision into line with the Sun’s illuminating power so inspiring significant, positive transformation.
Pisces
Rising under Jupiter and Neptune, Pisces is renowned for its spiritual depth and sensitivity. Kharna is a season of great emotional purging and divine connection for Pisceans. Through the rituals, Pisces people can direct their sensitivity into dedication, in line with the Sun’s energy to obtain insight, emotional healing, and spiritual alignment.
Through this holy day, which reminds us of our relationship to the universe, the people discover fresh vigor, clarity, and calm.
This article is written by, Sidhharrth S Kumaar, Registered Pharmacist, Astro Numerologist, Life & Relationship Coach, Vaastu Expert, Energy Healer, Music Therapist, and Founder, of NumroVani