Shani Jayanti 2025: Date, auspicious timings, puja rituals, significance and all you need to know

Shani Jayanti 2025: Shani Jayanti, observed on May 27, honors Lord Shani, the deity of justice and karma, coinciding with Vat Savitri Vrat.

Updated on: May 27, 2025, 07:37:30 IST

By Adrija Dey

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Shani Jayanti 2025: On May 27, Shani Jayanti is observed. Shani Jaynti is also known as Shani Amavasya. Lord Shani is a powerful deity who rules over the planet Saturn, as per astrology. He is associated with strict discipline and karma. This day also coincides with Vat Savitri Vrat. Devotees pray to Lord Shani, also the deity of justice, to bless them with protection from negative influences and balance their karma. This auspicious day falls on Amavasya (new moon) Tithi during the Jyeshtha month of the Hindu lunar calendar.

Shani Jayanti 2025: Lord Shani, associated with discipline and karma, is worshipped on this day. (Pinterest)

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Shani Jayanti date and time

Shani Jaynti is observed on 27 May. As per Drik Pachang, the auspicious timings for Shani Jayanti are:

Amavasya Tithi begins- 12:11 PM on May 26, 2025
Amavasya Tithi ends- 08:31 AM on May 27, 2025

Significance

Shanti Jayanti marks the birth anniversary of Lord Shani. He is the son of Surya Dev. Devotees observe his birth anniversary with great faith and reverence, worshipping him. Lord Shani also holds a powerful place in astrological and religious traditions. This day is spiritually very valuable as devotees get the opportunity to appease Shani Dev. It is astrologically important as with the blessings of the deity, the negative effects of Saturn in their horoscopes are reduced. In other words, the effect of ‘Shani Dosha’ is lowered with pujas, mantras and havans.

Rituals

The rituals include performing a hawan, a sacred fire ceremony to invoke positive spiritual energy. Along with this, devotees also visit temples dedicated to Lord Shani, light oil lamps, and donate black-coloured clothes or black til (sesame seeds.) Black is donated as it is the deity’s favourite colour. Moreover, devotees chant mantras on this day to seek his blessings.

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Adrija Dey’s proclivity for observation fuels her storytelling instinct. As a lifestyle journalist, she crafts compelling, relatable narratives across diverse touchpoints of the human experience, including wellness, mental health, relationships, interior design, home decor, food, travel, and fashion that gently nudge readers toward living a little better. For her, stories exist in flesh and bones, carried by human vessels and shaped through everyday endeavours. It is the small stories we live and share that make us human. After all, humans and their lores are the most natural and raw repositories of stories, and uncovering them, for her, is akin to peeling an orange under a winter afternoon sun. Always up for a chat, she believes the best stories come from unfiltered yapping, where "too much information" is kind of the point. A graduate of Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi, and an alumna of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Delhi, Adrija spends her idle hours cocooned with herbal tea and a gripping thriller, scribbling inner monologues she loosely calls poetic pieces, often with her succulents in attendance. On lazier days, she can be found binge-watching, for the nth time, one from her comfort-show holy trinity: The Office (US), Brooklyn Nine-Nine, or Modern Family. Dancing by herself to her peppy playlists, however, is an everyday ritual she swears by religiously.Read More

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