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Ashlesha - Naga
Chandra
in Ashlesha
Aslesa - Aazlesha -
Aayilyam - Ahideva -
Ahidaivata - Bhujamgabha - Bhaujamga - Uraga
- Vaba - Kak (Tibetan)
"Rama and
Laxmana Bound by a Serpent" -- from The Huntington Archives
http://huntington.wmc.ohio-state.edu/public/index.cfm?fuseaction=showThisDetail&ObjectID=30029152
The Ninth Nakshatra
16:40 - 30:00 Karkata (Cancer)
Location = "the head
of Hydra": delta, epsilon, eta, rho & sigma Hydrae
-- The
Circle of Stars
"The Clinging"
- "The Embracing"
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Azlesha:
uraga
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"breast-going"', a serpent , snake, a
female snake
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a Naga (semi-divine serpent usually represented
with a human face)
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the Nakshatra Ashlesha (presided over by the
Nagas)
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lead
bhuja
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a bending , curve: the arm, the
breast, the hand, the trunk of an elephant, a branch , bough
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coil of a serpent
gabha
bhujaMgabha
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Cologne
Digital Sanskrit Dictionary
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"All the snake-like associations of
clinging, creeping, and poison; of embracing and sexual union."
~~ Valerie Roebuck, Circle, p.
107
"The
Gods and the Demons were at war. The Gods made an offering to Ashlesha. This
drove away the Demons. One who makes the appropriate offering to the Serpent
God, to Ashlesha, drives away his hateful opponents.
In Ashlesha one can defeat one’s enemies. Through it one gains the poison
of the serpent to use on others. Those born under Ashlesha make powerful
warriors with powerful weapons."
~~ David
Frawley, Fruits of Worshipping Each Nakshatra
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Ashlesha, for
females:
"... this person is careless and
unclean about herself and the manner in which she dresses. She is not
good-looking but indeed rather homely. She is distinguished by some
disfigurement on face of body and is rather miserable and unhappy.
She has a secretive and rather bitter
nature and is somewhat harsh and unkind in her dealings with others, where
opportunity presents itself.
If she cultivated kindness and tact, her shortcomings
might be forgotten by those with whom she comes in contact. But her
attitude and appearance are not conducive to popularity."
~~ Shil-Ponde. (1939). Hindu
Astrology Joytisha-Shastra. p 94.
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Ashlesha, for
males:
"Outstanding characteristic of these
people is their rather unpleasant and unsociable disposition. They are
awkward and gauche in their manners and are not quick to profit by their
mistakes because of their inability to adapt themselves to their
surroundings and their apparent reluctance to be gracious or kind to
others.
This attitude militates against success
in life and is a barrier to progress. These people should live less introspectively
and learn to appreciate the good in other people. They should cultivate the
habit of doing things for others."
~~ Shil-Ponde. (1939). Hindu
Astrology Joytisha-Shastra. p 82.
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General
Description of Ashlesha characteristics
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from
Das/ Behari
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General
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General results of being born in Ashlesha Nakshatra:
You will possess the quality of a penetrating glare.
Character & general events: You will have difficulty showing gratitude. You may be of a duplicitous nature. You will possess the gift of intriguing speech. You have the qualifications of a leader, possibly as a politician. You will be very intelligent.
There is also an indication of being soft spoken and meek. But your external shyness may be misunderstood by others as arrogance. You are not easily swayed by others. Be cautious of this trait when dealing with those of questionable character.
You do not keep any distinction between rich or poor, good or bad. You work well independently
& would be suited towards managerial positions. You are not of a cheating nature, but are often mistaken by others. You have difficulty distinguishing between those who are
truly in need and those who are not.
You enjoy being recognized for your good deeds. You will be lucky
& popular, but have difficulty controlling your temper. You may lose it at inappropriate times and remain silent when it may be necessary. You will have difficulty enjoying your fortune, mainly due to poor
association. You will be the recipient of anonymous donations.
3 . Education, sources of income/profession: You may have your education in arts or commerce. In the professional field, you will get speedy promotions
& sudden reversals. A heavy loss of money at the age of 35-36th years of age and unexpected and unearned income when you are 40 years of old.
4. Family life: You will have to shoulder much of the family responsibilities, due mainly to your being the eldest. You may experience some miscommunication with your spouse in the realm of finances.
5. Health: You may suffer from intestinal disorders. Be aware of addictive
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Description
of the Four Padaa
(quarters) of
Ashlesha
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Padaa 1
Alice Bailey, theosophical
writer
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Das/ Behari:
You are rich, kind and intelligent. You will earn your living through automobiles.
You will be respected by your community.
You will be amiable and cause no trouble to others.
Shil-Ponde. (1939).
Hindu Astrology Joytisha-Shastra.
p 107, FOR THE MALE ONLY:
Usually laborers and people of the
service type... Bold, daring, thoughtless and cruel; ungrateful,
easily angered, and quite stupid. Cause of great anxiety and misery to
the mother; may sell and use drugs; quite often contracts venereal
diseases
Drug peddlers are found in the
first quarter. |
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Padaa 2
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Das/ Behari:
You will have difficulty saving large
amounts of money. Be mindful of serious curable and preventable diseases.
Shil-Ponde. (1939).
Hindu Astrology Joytisha-Shastra.
p 107: FOR THE MALE ONLY.
Thieves or people who borrow
money with no intention of returning it are found in the second
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Padaa 3
Shri
Aurobindo Ghosh
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Das/ Behari:
You may experience some discord with your relatives. You may suffer from venereal diseases. This moon placement indicates a troubled relationship with your mother.
Shil-Ponde. (1939).
Hindu Astrology Joytisha-Shastra.
p 107, FOR THE MALE ONLY:
and when the third and
fourth parts are rising, the father of the native will suffer
much financially thought the native's acts. |
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Padaa 4
Katie
Holmes
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Das/ Behari:
There is difficulty for both the father
& mother together in a short span of time.
Also, you may find that sometimes
you earn your money in ways which you must keep somewhat secret,
& that also may take place far away from your place of birth.
Shil-Ponde. (1939).
Hindu Astrology Joytisha-Shastra.
p 107, FOR THE MALE ONLY:
same as padaa-3
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from BPHS, Ch. 94: "Remedies from the
Effects of Birth in Jyestha Gandanta" -- (Ranjan edition, 1995, p. 1035 Vol 2.)
11-13
"A boy or girl born in the 2nd, 3rd,
or 4th quarter of Ashlesha nakshatra destroys his/her
mother-in-law
and
a boy or girl born in the 2nd, 3rd, or
4th quarter of Moola nakshatra becomes the
destroyer (cause of death) of his/her father-in-law.
Therefore, suitable measures, as may be
possible within one's means, should be taken at the time of the marriage of
such boys and girls. There will be no evil effect if the husband has no
elder brothers.
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9. Ashlesha
-- 16:40 - 30:00 Kataka
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Ruler:
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Budha |
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Body part:
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Ears
of
Kalapurushaa |
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Related activities:
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Auspicious
events: Fierce
competition, things relating to serpents, as in serpent puja, things
relating to poison, rash actions, starting a business, money
exchange. [BPHS] |
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Deity:
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Sarpas
(Snake that became a
God) or Naga
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Symbol:
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coiled
snake
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Gana/Caste:
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Demonic / Rakshasa
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Tibetan deity forms:
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BPL comments on Ashlesha:
One item of confirmation for the 05:00 birth
time of Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th President of the United States, is L.B. Johnson's legendary
Cheapness and compulsive re-use of personal items.
"Poor Mouth" Also,
Johnson was famous for "poor mouth" behavior - pretending to be
subsistence poor and in debt, while in reality he was one of the richest men
in America at the time. Snake-like Ashlesha is known for secreting away piles of money while
"squeezing" money
from sympathetic others by pretending to be terribly poor. However,
they are capable of supervising greed and waste of corporations and governments
on a massive scale. The compulsion is strictly personal.
According to Wikipedia, "Johnson
was famously frugal.
Even as President, White House tapes
recorded him asking a photographer to take his family portraits for
free, saying he was a very poor man living on a weekly paycheck and had
a very great deal of financial debt. In fact Johnson was a
multimillionaire, but he still wasn't charged for the photographic
portraits.
The White House press corps made
jokes at his expense regarding his habit of turning off all lights in
the White House when the rooms were not
in use.
Johnson's secretary revealed years later that he would wash and
reuse Styrofoam cups." ("Fresca"
= a bitter soft drink made from grapefruit juice and carbonated water.)
Denial of Wealth The compulsion to seek
poverty
discounts and behaviors of extreme, compulsive frugality - even when one
is quite wealthy -- is a known behavior of manipulative Ashlesha
nakshatra. Embezzling,
False Billing, and Stealing Ashlesha
may overtly or covertly steal resources from others in the compulsive belief
that there is "no other way" for one to obtain these "life
sustaining essentials". Ashlesha is very quiet and is rarely detected in
the act of theft. Ashlesha does not intend to harm. This one is simply
obsessively trying to "get what one desperately needs". This
nakshatra does not engage in violent crime; and the Serpent almost always
works alone in its manipulative schemes. Ashlesha
professionals such as physicians, psychologists, accountants or attorneys may
feel a compulsive need to "squeeze"
profits from large "parental" organizations such as charities and
governments by false invoicing or billing for services not rendered. (See Chandra
in Ashlesha for the core emotional trauma profile.) Ashlesha
are very quiet and unassuming during their "squeezing" operations;
they have skilled record-keeping knowledge (Budha-ruled) and endurance to
pursue small-dose, long-term accumulations. Ashlesha are famous shop-lifters,
pick-pockets, & embezzlers. Even the very wealthy Ashlesha may steal food.
Control Fixation on small,
personal objects
Ashlesha natives are famous for
writing (quite long) letters on scraps of multiple old envelopes and in the
margins of already-used correspondence. But this is not just modern recycling
ethic! It is an obsessive need to "squeeze"
more usage out of a resource or an object. Ashlesha have a
deep self-loathing which expresses control fixation
upon
small, personal-use objects (writing paper, drinking cups, plastic water
bottles, tea-bags, razor blades, toothbrushes, undergarments...) 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.
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 = 'Space
Invaders'
Graha in Ashlesha will 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.:
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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.]
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Chandra (see above) Mahatma
Gandhi, Katie
Holmes, Jawaharlal
Nehru, Queen Elizabeth II,
Desmond Tutu
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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.]
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Budha
is 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]
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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.]
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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]
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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]
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Rahu
in Ashlesha - invades the boundaries in a highly amplified way, but
the object of manipulation will be determined by Rahu's lord
[Aristotle Onassis; Bepin
Behari, Tom
Cruise]
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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]
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file update: 31-Jan-2010