English
Half of the body is adorned with peacock feathers, A splendid and colorful body appears. I prostrate to the crest of light. Om, peacock feather, holding sword and hook, lineage deity sword, so-and-so's life and, health and, the meaning of desires and, the meaning of pacifying all diseases, for the desired offering, I offer you the silver-made goat-kid. In order for the desired goat-kid to abide, I will increase the offerings. Its incense is the seed of the wood apple, the vessel for offerings is the nature of earth, the offerings are the five precious jewels, black sesame seeds and, milk and, brown sugar torma, the offering is the goat-kid. Then, offer to the birth star: Om Janma Nakshatraya, Vajrapushpe Pratitsa Svaha. (Tibetan: ཨོཾ་ཛནྨ་ན་ཀྵ་ཏྲཱ་ཡ།, Sanskrit Devanagari: ॐ जन्म नक्षत्राय, Sanskrit Romanization: oṃ janma nakṣatrāya, Literal Chinese meaning: Om, Birth Star). Vajrapushpe Pratitsa Svaha. (Tibetan: བཛྲ་པུཥྥཾ་པྲ་ཏཱིཙྪ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།, Sanskrit Devanagari: वज्रपुष्पं प्रतीच्छ स्वाहा, Sanskrit Romanization: vajrapuṣpaṃ pratīccha svāhā, Literal Chinese meaning: Vajra Flower, Accept, Svaha). Om, I prostrate to the birth star. Please accept the offerings individually. Om, for the life of so-and-so's birth star and, health and, the meaning of desires and, the meaning of pacifying all diseases, I offer you the silver-made lotus. In order for the lotus to abide, I will increase the offerings. This is the ritual for offering to the Nine Planets. This was translated by Youthful Auspiciousness from the words recorded by the Indian Eastern Pandit Forest Jewel, from the words of his teacher named Hangsa. The Ritual of Offering to the Nine Planets.