Shaniwar Shanidev Tailabhishek & Peepal Vriksha Pooja Vidhi (Sade-Sati & Dhaiya Shanti)

After bathing on Saturday morning, wear clean dark blue, black, or simple cotton clothes. Pour mustard oil into a small iron or steel bowl, drop a coin and a few black sesame seeds into it, look at the reflection of your face in the oil for a few moments, and donate it at a Shani temple or to a needy person.

Visit a sacred Peepal tree on Saturday morning (since Lord Vishnu and Lakshmi reside in the Peepal tree on Saturdays). Pour water mixed with a little raw milk, jaggery, and black sesame at its roots. Walk 7 clockwise parikramas while tying raw cotton thread. In the evening after sunset, light a mustard oil earthen diya with a few grains of black urad under the Peepal tree.

At a Shani temple, stand slightly to the side (at a 45-degree angle rather than directly in front of Shanidev's eyes) and offer mustard oil, black sesame, whole black urad, Shami leaves, and blue Aparajita flowers on the Shani Shila or at Shanidev's lotus feet. Recite the Nilanjana Samabhasam mantra and King Dasharatha's Shani Stotra.

Conclude Saturday worship by visiting Lord Hanuman or reciting the Hanuman Chalisa before a ghee/jasmine oil lamp, as Shanidev promised Lord Hanuman never to afflict His sincere devotees. Feed a sweet roti brushed with mustard oil to a black dog or crow, and offer food or footwear to hardworking laborers and the needy.