Nakshatra 9 of 27
Ashlesha
Ashlesha sees through people. It gives penetrating insight and a hypnotic pull, along with guardedness and a habit of holding on.
A nakshatra is one of the 27 lunar mansions of Vedic astrology. Yours is the one the Moon stood in when you were born, measured in the sidereal zodiac. Ashlesha spans 16°40′ Cancer to 30°00′ Cancer.
Its ruler, Mercury, also opens the first of your life chapters (the Vimshottari dasha) if your Moon sits here.
Each nakshatra splits into four padas of 3°20′, 108 in all. Each pada falls in a navamsa sign, so the same mansion can lean four slightly different ways.
- Ruled by
- Mercury
- Deity
- the Nagas, serpent spirits
- Symbol
- a coiled serpent
- Spans
- 16°40′ Cancer – 30°00′ Cancer
- Padas (navamsa)
- 1 Sagittarius · 2 Capricorn · 3 Aquarius · 4 Pisces
Gifts
- perception
- persuasion
- depth
Watch for
- secrecy
- entangling others