Ashlesha illnesses

• The Ashlesha native can make oneself quite sick from toxicity or infection, due to compulsive reuse of intimate personal items without being able to relinquish control enough to wash or replace the item.

• See: Ashlesha lagna for educated woman who died of long-term poisoning from compulsively reusing old tea-bags.

Happy Habits

• Ashlesha feel comforted and delighted with activities that squeeze more value from small amounts of material. 

• Ashlesha ladies may enjoy "quilting" which is an artisanal sewing art that re-uses scraps of old household cloth from discarded garments, old linen, worn curtains etc and re-assembles these scraps into a sewn coverlet for the bed. (Quilting is now a hobby in the USA; but not so long ago it was an essential skill of scarce-resources housekeeping). Quilting involves intensive handwork (Budha-ruled Ashlesha) and a quilting "bee" is highly conversational (Budha).

• Similarly may be expert "scrappers"

Ashlesha compulsion vs. "socially responsible practice"

• In our era of shrinking natural resources and astronomically expanding global population, the ethic of "reduce, reuse, recycle" is commendably promoted throughout the modern world. Choosing to "squeeze" more utility from a resource or an object, before disposing of it, or "going without" an environmentally expensive luxury such as air-conditioning, is a noble social practice in many cases.

• What makes Ashlesha's behavior different from modern and traditional conservation practices is (1) the compulsive quality and (2) cheap, tight control on personal items (drinking cups, razor blades) while happily allowing the greater world to "run amok".

• Ashlesha rarely has a rational, altruistic global conservation motive. Its concerns are strictly personal. Also, Ashlesha is unable to stop hoarding, stealing, scrimping, saving, and obsessively re-using -- even in the face of abundant natural resources or personal wealth.

• Socially responsible practices like "reduce, re-use, recycle" are rational programs of social behavior change that are sensible responses to limitations in global environmental resources.

• Reusing one's razor blades until the face bleeds with shaving, or drinking from an unwashed teacup after red mould has grown around the rim, or compulsively over-billing for professional services when the legitimate billing would still create a very substantial profit, are not rational responses to environmental stress. They are compulsive behaviors, connected with Ashlesha's deep trauma of not being able to get the attention of the distracted parent, without slithering into their lap and "squeezing" to get affection.

• Graha in Ashlesha can manifest trauma-driven behavior that is "inappropriate" = "not in its own space".

• Ashlesha is invasive, manipulative, and binding.

• The graha's karaka role will determine the object of invasive attention.

Surya in Ashlesha:	invades the boundaries of the father, tries to entwine the father in order to disable him. This reaction occurs because the father was invasive and binding. Like Guru and Chandra, Surya is strong in Karkata so the native has a strong and confident public personality. Yet underneath the confidence is a manipulative insecurity. [.]	Fidel Castro, Alfred Hitchcock, Martha Stewart, Madonna, Barack Obama
Chandra	(see above)	Mahatma Gandhi, Katie Holmes, Jawaharlal Nehru, Queen Elizabeth II, Desmond Tutu
Mangala in Ashlesha -	invades the boundaries of the brother-competitors. This reaction occurs because the one experienced entrapped, invasion and binding in childhood. The native is "trying to do business" but the competitors feel tricked and trapped, "squeezed" for information. Sexually manipulative. Likes to strangle and bind. A suspicious character: passive-aggressive emotionally, covertly jealous and morally corrupt. Mark of devious fraud: a charlatan, thief, or cheat. Damages the marriage agreement when in domain-4 and damages the emotional trust in marriage when 4th-from-Chandra. [.]	Hillary Clinton, Al Gore
Budha in Ashlesha	invades the boundaries of the conversation partner. Wants to be your friend, but only for purpose of finding out everything about the person in order to use this information for personal gain. A fair-weather friend, exceptionally manipulative and secretive in dealings. Often "trying to help" or "deepening the friendship" - the friend feels entrapped. []	GW Bush, Fidel Castro
Guru in Ashlesha	most implications of the uchcha Brihaspati are of course excellent, but Guru in Ashlesha has a potential underbelly which bears increased awareness. In a jovial and sagacious style, the native may invade the boundaries of the children. If receiving a strong (sexual) drishti from Mangala, can be a setup for pedophilia or inappropriate relations with children: the native is "loving them" or "blessing them" but the children feel entrapped. At a higher level, the native may manipulate one's priestly powers for personal trauma-healing purposes, and embrace the religious students in a very tight psychological grip. [.]	Osho-Rajneesh. Rabindranath Tagore, Shri Aurobindo, Rudolf Steiner, Desmond Tutu
Shukra in Ashlesha	invades the boundaries of females and sweets-drugs-sexual pleasure providers. Manipulates and squeezes to get one more drop of the precious substance. []	Michael Jackson. GW Bush-43, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Alfred Hitchcock
Shani in Ashlesha	invades the boundaries of the servants. The native is over-involved in the lives of one's servants and employees. Invades their privacy under pretext of helping or needing to protect the underlings in a parental way. The servants feel trapped.	Camilla Parker-Bowles, Hillary Clinton, Indira Gandhi, Al Gore, Adolf Hitler
Rahu in Ashlesha	- invades the boundaries in a highly amplified way. The object of strangulation-manipulation will be determined by Rahu's lord	Aristotle Onassis; Bepin Behari, Tom Cruise
Ketu in Ashlesha	- invades the boundaries in a detached and devalued way, but the object of manipulation will be determined by Ketu's lord	Harish Johari, Vladimir Putin