Chandra in Ashlesha Nakshatra
Asavari Ragini, Ragamala Tradition, c. 1610
(woman with snakes in a rocky cavern with wild animals)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragamala_paintings
Emotional & Relationship effects in Radix and Navamsha
Ashlesha - Budha
16Karka40 - 29Karka59
Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi
India-PM Jawarharlal Nehru
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
UK-Queen Elizabeth II
Chairman Mao Zedong
USA Pres 36, Lyndon B. Johnson
Bepin Behari (Jyotishi, economist)
Paul McCartney (Beatle)
Katie Holmes (actor)
Barbra Streisand (entertainer, producer, political activist)
Larry Ellison (Oracle) + Rahu
Catherine Deneuve (actor)
Condoleezza Rice (USA Sec of State)
Rudi Giuliani (New York mayor, failed presidential candidate)
Feroz Khan Gandhi (Mr. Indira Gandhi)
Leon Trotsky (Marxist revolutionary)
Nikita Khruschev (USSR Supreme Leader)
Placido Domingo (opera singer)
Zubin Mehta (symphony director)
USA Pres 18, Ulysses S. Grant
Joseph Kennedy Sr. (father of Kennedy clan, inc. JFK)
Thomas Merton (mystical spirituality writer)
Swami Sivananda of Rishikesh
Jacques Cousteau (oceanographic explorer)
Radix Moon in Ashlesha = "Serpent" - entangling & embracing
(Budha-Chandra-Sarpa)
Deeply concerned with Security, and emotionally driven to be "involved" in the intimate lives of others.
Ashlesha has an overtly threatening & covertly manipulative emotional style. Deeply engaged in behaviors which seem to the native to increase one's personal security (Rudi Giuliani).
Ashlesha expresses their devotion to family through profound concern for the welfare of others. This concern is frequently expressed as manipulation and interference. The nurturing touch and psychological engagement of the less conscious Ashlesha native may develop into a subtle, entwining, choking embrace.
Ashlesha likes to be in the middle of the action, whether the action is interpersonal, interfamilial, or international. These natives crave to be in every nook and cranny of the environment.
Tends to get tangled up in other people's (other corporations, other nation's ...) business, manipulating both friend and foe. Puts the "squeeze" on others (Lyndon B. Johnson), trying to meet their need for attention. (The 'ten' in 'attention' means 'holding'.)
Does not hear the psychic alarm which signals that it is time to pull out of another's decision process. Remains engaged for too long with a strong tendency ('ten') to interfere and manipulate.
Needs to intervene in the loves of others. Slithering, entwining instinct tells Ashlesha to keep wrapping around their victim until that victim becomes paralyzed.
Cf: USA Pres 36 Lyndon B. Johnson unable to exit from the USA-Vietnam War. He could not extract himself from a draining situation. Typical of Ashlesha, Johnson became as more enslaved to the bondage than his victims.
The Ashlesha intends the squeezing embrace as a loving way to engage with the beloved and to ensure one's own security. Yet their friends, family, clients (and other victims) may experience Ashlesha as a psychic vampire.
One prefers to work in stealth, not announcing one's plans to imminently enter or re-enter an involvement.
Ashlesha is well-suited to therapeutic professional relationships where the helping agent is socially approved to become over-involved with clients, such as psychologist, social worker, counselor, divorce attorney, or diplomat. (Also snake-handling.) Brilliant in interpretive and exploratory work with oceans (Cousteau).
Specialists in "intervention", which is a sudden attack made possible after a long period of quietude and building trust.
Unfortunately Ashlesha can get embroiled in one's own convolutions. If the object of Ashlesha's desires suddenly gains superior strength, Ashlesha's psychically invasive behaviors can be aggressively punished..
Affinity for poisons & murder. Quite capable of criticizing others but Ashlesha is unable to bear criticism or humiliation (reverse of Ardra) and will seek revenge if they feel threatened. (Budha-Chandra-Naga).
Deep emotional need to involve & control
Hypnotic eyes. Extremely sexual & seductive, able to mesmerize their prey. Crafty, sneaky. Self-poisoning.
Best result = applied medicine, when Ashlesha uses their genius for poisons in the service of healing. Also can channel positive effects by defeating the public enemy through extremely skillful manipulation & deceit (espionage, disinformation) .
Spiritual director of this section of the path:
Sarpa (Naga).
It is very difficult for Ashlesha (the Naga-sarpa) to disentangle from negative situations. It is quite counter-intuitive for this type to release their instinctive desire to wrap and control. The best example in public life is dear old Queen Elizabeth II, who tried to control all her children's marriages and is still apparently a manipulative force to be reckoned with!
The control force has to be re-focused, away from trying to control the healing process of the wounded surrounding one, and toward one's own healing. It's much more attractive for Ashlesha to keep coiling around the others, than to look within. It's more comfortable and instinctive to cling and slither.
But... if Ashlesha is going to get anywhere liberation-wise, the control-force needs to be redirected within, into the kundalini channels.
After that shift is accomplished, it won't be so tempting to over-cling. Then what's going on with the inside-snake becomes much more compelling.
Trauma profile:
Childhood security was endangered by a distracted mother/caretaker. Often the mother had important public duties or perhaps was ill, making her physically or emotionally unavailable to the child.
Ashlesha learned to get caretaker attention by clinging.
Subtle, hypnotic, movements allowed the child to wriggle into the arms of the caretaker without resistance.
They learned to be sneaky & controlling in getting love.
The reptile brain signals, "manipulation and clinging is the only way I can get what I need."
Navamsha Moon in Ashlesha (intimate relationships).
In order to mirror one's own subconscious emotional patterns, one attracts a core partner who expresses Ashlesha behavior.
Navamsha Moon in Ashlesha = Al Gore, Jr.
Q:Hi Barbara -- What is it about Ashlesha? It seems like the Jyotish scriptures, and most consulting Jyotishi's, complain about Ashlesha too much. I have an Ashlesha Moon - and I've been warned by several Indian jyotishi that this thing can get me into trouble. Something about snakes? What can you tell me about this position? Anything to watch out for emotionally? Do I tend to get stuck in a particular type of anxiety or unmet need? Any good stuff? Healing powers? Thanks.
A: As H.H. Dalai Lama says, the desire for happiness is the most fundamental characteristic of human life. Everyone wants to be happy!
The question of whether or not a person will be happy, feel happy, register the confirming thought that one is indeed experiencing a state of happiness - all depends on the person's belief system. Whether one achieves the happiness of a deep and satisfying connection with divine love, or whether one spends most of the incarnation in a state of resistance to that love, depends on one's subconscious expectations and one's consciously held beliefs.
For example, there are people who subconsciously believe that money is the root of all evil, or who believe they are not worthy enough to earn money themselves and therefore must steal it in order to have any at all. Those people will not ever be happy in the money department! Every time they go out to earn money, spend money, or have anything to do with money, their subconscious belief that this stuff is evil will destroy their ability to manage, possess and enjoy material wealth
Similarly in the love department, what is one's fundamental belief about love? Is love defined as one's ability to see the divine in another human? If so then one's potential for happiness is amazingly complete and absolute. By contrast, if one's definition of love is "attention for me, meeting my unmet childhood needs, flattery and sexual attraction" then this anxious desire to meet a chronic emotional need, rather than to simply bask in the glory of divine life, will frustrate that person in all of their love relationships.
There is one key first step to transforming every single experience in life from a negative judgment into a positive confirmation of the presence of the divine in every molecule and every moment. That is to realize that there are no victims. Nothing happens "to" anyone. Each person is intentionally and individually creating his/her own experience, every detail of it. Conscious experience is generated precisely from the script of one's own subconsciously held beliefs and expectations. There is only one person who has the power to control one's script. No outside person or agency can originate any action or influence that the native is not subconsciously in agreement with.
To sit around waiting for "good" things to happen "to" oneself and at the same time living in fear of "bad" things possibly happening "to" one is a form of psycho-spiritual debility called superstition. Superstition literally means "above one's own place". Superstition is the extremely self-destructive mental act of placing the responsibility for one's own experience outside of the self, of investing one's reality-creating authority into the person of a mysterious "Other". There is no "Other". The divine is the creative force, and the divine lives within. The divine is the source of all experience and the seed of all Love.
If you are interested in looking CLOSER to the karmic learning curve assigned to the Ashlesha Moon, look to one's own childhood trauma. Ashlesha = a deeply needy Moon. Ashlesha Chandra wants endless holding and attention.
Yet Ashlesha is convinced in advance (due to past-life and early childhood trauma) that it must sneak and slither and manipulate and cajole, invading boundaries both physical and psychic, in order to get the loving emotional recognition (esp touch) that it needs.
Typically the seeds of this script are buried in childhood rejection trauma. The parents were too busy or unavailable to the child in a way that the child needed to sneak into the parents' lap, or their bed, or slither in like a snake silent and deceptive, in order to have the only possible chance at being recognized and held.
Mom in particular is likely to have been mentally distracted and unable to sit quietly with the nurture-craving child. Most likely the mother's attention was directed to her own mercurial sexual-conversational relationships (Ashlesha is a nakshatra of Budha) not only personal but also administrative and commercial activities. Mom is a busy person with a lot going on in her head, and the child develops a manipulative style of getting her attentive touch - often involving deception.
The key childhood behavior is to "sneak" into the parental embrace - such as waiting until the busy parent sits down for a work break, and instantly sliding into their lap - or sneaking into the parent's bed when they are sleeping. Then (here is the key Ashlesha behavior) refusing to let go. Ashlesha develops a pattern of putting their loved ones into psychological and sometimes physical bondage, and even to the point of entrapment, in order for Ashlesha's need for touch-healing and emotional attention to be satisfied.
As a result of deep unmet needs getting locked into the repeating deceptive-entry and bondage pattern, Ashlesha can be a manipulative and demanding "control-freak" in adult relationships. In Ashlesha's own mind, one tells oneself that one is reaching out to touch others as a nurturing healer. But the deeper motive is usually a profound personal need. Unless that need can be satisfied on the level of divine union, Ashlesha tends to exert too much anxiety-drive control in human unions, and their marriage-type unions generally do not last long.
Despite the fact that when Ashlesha factors are conscious and controlled, the Ashlesha moon can be a great healer, the partners and children of less conscious types of Ashlesha natives often learn to resent the man or woman with Ashlesha Moon.
One famous Ashlesha Moon woman is Queen Elizabeth II of UK, who is famous for super-manipulating her children but at the same time being unavailable to them due to her public responsibilities. In reality, she rarely held them. Typical of Ashlesha, Elizabeth used guilt and psychic manipulation as the primary glue to try to hold her core emotional relationships together, and naturally she felt resentment and anger from most of the recipients of this treatment within her family. The public may admire her, but she is not overly loved in her own family, due to the constant insecurity that drives her to manipulate anxiously rather than trust that her need for connection will be met in an honest fashion. Ashlesha tends to be emotionally dishonest. Ashlesha Moon also represents her own anxious upbringing with distant, distracted parents who used guilt and moral obligation as the primary method of bonding with their loved ones.
Unique factors for your personal Jyotisha nativity:
Rahu periods always exacerbate the traits of Chandra, the Moon. You're enjoying a Rahu period now!
Because your Chandra sits directly in the ascending rashi (the seat of the social personality "self") it is especially difficult for you to be objective regarding how you might be affecting other people.
Moudhya Chandra and Surya in the ascendant gives characteristic solipsism.
With Surya, Shukra, and Chandra all in Ashlesha lagna, there is an all-defining need for validation and attention for the Self, but not much energy available for validating and attending to the divine in others.
Attention is sought for one purpose, and that is to feed a deep need for "love". Unfortunately it is impossible to love others in the true sense of love when one believes that the love comes from outside, from the other person. Much of the pain in this relationship scenario will reduce when one realizes that "love" is not an act of possession.
Unethical love relationships
Certainly the Ashlesha graha in this nativity exacerbate the drive to possession, but at the same time Shani's harsh and invalidating transit to Simha-Rahu is battering Rahu's similar need to possess the object of its desire. Shani's gochara oppression to Rahu temporarily imposes an unethical quality upon the objects of one's desire.
Thus the native is involved in a hopeless dilemma of being entwined in a profoundly unethical love relationship which seems to be ill-conceived (Shani-Rahu) and yet due to the compulsions of Ashlesha one feels a deep and driving need to hold this person in sexual and emotional bondage.
Love indeed has nothing to do with any other person. Love originates not outside the self but rather inside oneself. Love is always present inside the self. In a love relationship, love is a gift to the other person. Love can not be "obtained" - especially not from surreptitiously binding and controlling another person!
These may be the "Simha" lessons intended to be learned in this nativity during this very difficult period.
With such a cluster of "personal" graha near the Chandra-radix lagna, this incarnation features a tremendous focus on attention to self. A constant questioning of "what about me?" "what am I getting out of this" "where is my reward?" along with psycho-mental distortions such as jealousy can be expected whenever the Ashlesha cluster is triggered by bhukti or by a strong gochara graha. The person is usually quite positive even radiant socially and a pleasurable companion -- until the emotional hunger for attention rises to the moment of urgency. Even while one believes that one is acting from a motivation to love others, all decisions in relationship are ultimately motivated by one's very deep expectation that without boundary invasion, without manipulation, and without guilt, one will never be loved. These are deep convictions that are often buried down in the subconscious expectations. Yet it's worth looking into if you are interested in looking CLOSER.
Ashlesha people have the constant potential to develop into great healers esp. in any of the physical or psychological healing-touch professions. They are wonderful with children because of all the touch and emotional bonding that teaching, nursing, and other therapeutic professions require. Attentive and successful psychologists, psychiatrists, hair stylists, and match-makers in traditional cultures. They are angels to the weak, the addicted, and the victim class.
However the Ashlesha moon, esp for the female, will tend as a pattern to alienate their emotionally mature partners in adult life. Ashlesha has the contradictory traits of being psychically invasive. Initially, the Ashlesha native makes a concerted effort to earn the other person's trust. Ashlesha works assiduously to discover as many private details as possible about the other person.
In the beginning of a relationship, Ashlesha's hunger for information may feel to the new partner like flattery or admiration. Yet the soon- alienated will often come to realize that Ashlesha's motive for prying and slithering so deeply into their psychic-emotional-physical space and trying to bond so tightly, is really just a way for the Ashlesha to feel secure. The Ashlesha native bonds through manipulation and entrapment, seduction, and guilt. The longer term prognosis for honest and open relationships with almost any other adult (except possibly other Karkata or Vrischika Moons) is typically quite limited when Ashlesha consciousness remains trapped in its default, emotionally urgent bonding patterns.
Ashlesha mothers love their children. Yet they usually combine a distancing-rejection pattern with a guilt-bondage pattern . They pry into their adult children's lives claiming a motive of love; but unfortunately it is a deeper motive of hungry neediness for bondage and control (Queen Elizabeth II).
There are no victims. Ashlesha is always capable of reversing the emotional dysfunction but few actually do. Ashlesha's early deprivation of affection trauma imposes is a deep pattern of waiting passively for prey, deeply invading, not trusting, and then feeling extremely resentful that the Other has withdrawn.
Usually, in Jyotisha readings, I like to focus on positive traits. Most people get more than enough criticism in their daily lives. It is usually not helpful to frighten people! I prefer to validate Spirit, knowing that everyone is doing the best they can at one's current level of consciousness.
Yet, one of the values of Jyotisha is the power of the vidya to detect certain past-life originating behaviors. Ashlesha Moon is a notorious marker for superstition (placing love power outside oneself) as well as self-centeredness masquerading as a sincere concern for others.
The Ashlesha native will be healed from the dysfunction through conscious replacement of the subconscious conviction that things happen "to" one with the conscious conviction that one is completely in charge of the moment-to-moment roll-out of one's own incarnation. And as a corollary, confirmation of the principle belief that love comes only from the divine heart within - love can never come from without.
With these positive beliefs in firmly in place, there is no need to feel anxious regarding the love behavior of another person. There is no basis for the compulsion to bind and manipulate so that one can "receive" love, be validated, be held, be praised, be recognized, be honored.
All the wonderful feelings of support and validation indeed originate within. These feelings can be matched by outside mirrors whom we attract through the beauty of our souls. Let us not be deceived (like Narcissus!) into believing that the truth somehow originates in the mirror. The true source of love is the eternal and unchanging brilliance of the heart-centered Divine.
file update: 09-Feb-2010
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