6PM Thiruvilakku puja, postponed from Aadi Pooram which was last Friday.
Simple puja, ladies buy a ticket, come set up lamp on banana leaf, rice, with vettrilai-paakku, banana, vatti, flowers to suit their tastes, oil, wicks, a little turmeric vinayaka bangles, kunkuma, pasupu. Bell, arati thattu. Coconut. Puja done first to vinayaka (nirapeksha murti, which refers to his formless, temporary status, gone after visarjanam), and then a kunkuma archana to the lamp while the priest reads the Lalita Sahasranamavali. Deeparadhanai to the utsavar, who is decked with thazhampoo today, and the puja is done. Kunkuma taken home to apply on aathukarar’s nethi.