Ashlesha (आश्लेषा) is the ninth of the 27 nakshatras, spanning 106°40' to 120°00' of the nirayana zodiac. It is ruled by Mercury, its deity is The Nagas, the serpents and its symbol is a coiled serpent. Ashlesha nakshatra lies entirely in Kark rashi (Cancer), so every Moon in Ashlesha is a Kark Moon. Children born with the Moon here are traditionally named with the syllables Dee, Doo, De, Do.
Ashlesha is the embracing serpent: penetrating, hypnotic and hard to read. Budh rules it, sharpening the intelligence, and the Nagas are its deities. It is associated with insight into other people's motives and, in the classical texts, with the temptation to use that insight.
Tradition sums Ashlesha up as “the one that sees what is concealed”. A person whose Moon is here begins life in the Mercury mahadasha, and the nakshatra's Rakshasa gana is read as the fierce, independent temperament that does not yield easily. Its symbol, a coiled serpent, and its deity, The Nagas, the serpents, are the images the texts use to describe it. Read these as the nakshatra's character rather than a portrait of a person: the rest of the chart, the Moon's strength and the running dasha shape how it shows.
Each nakshatra is split into four padas of 3°20'. The pada a birth falls in decides the navamsa and, in the naming tradition, the first syllable of the child's name. For Ashlesha those syllables are Dee, Doo, De, Do.
The baby name letters calculator marks the syllable for a chosen pada, and the rashi by name calculator works the other way, from a name to its rashi.
Guna Milan reads three of this nakshatra's classifications directly. Its gana is Rakshasa, compared with the partner's for temperament. Its nadi is Antya (kapha): partners who share a nadi score zero on the largest koota, worth 8 of the 36 points. Its yoni animal is the cat, compared for instinctive compatibility. The South Indian nakshatra porutham reads the two birth stars in its own ten tests, and kundli milan gives the full 36-point match.
Only if the Moon was in Ashlesha when you were born. The Moon crosses a nakshatra in about a day, so a birth date narrows it to two candidates at best and the birth time settles it. Ashlesha nakshatra lies entirely in Kark rashi (Cancer), so every Moon in Ashlesha is a Kark Moon. Find your birth nakshatra, check your Moon sign, or make the full kundli.
Short answers about Ashlesha: its lord, rashi, name letters, symbol and gana.
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Find my nakshatraMercury is the lord of Ashlesha nakshatra. The nakshatra lord decides which Vimshottari mahadasha a person is born into, so someone with the Moon in Ashlesha begins life in the Mercury mahadasha. How far the Moon had already travelled through the nakshatra sets how much of that first period is left.
Ashlesha nakshatra lies entirely in Kark rashi (Cancer), so every Moon in Ashlesha is a Kark Moon. A nakshatra is 13°20' wide and a rashi 30°, so most nakshatras cross a sign boundary and the pada decides which Moon sign applies. The pada is fixed by the birth time, which is why two people with the same nakshatra can have different rashis.
The name letters for Ashlesha nakshatra are Dee, Doo, De and Do, one for each pada in order. Traditional namkaran gives the child a name beginning with the syllable of the pada the Moon occupied at birth, so the pada is needed as well as the nakshatra.
The symbol of Ashlesha nakshatra is a coiled serpent and its presiding deity is The Nagas, the serpents. Tradition sums the nakshatra up as "the one that sees what is concealed", and the symbol and deity are the starting point for reading its nature. Its yoni animal, the cat, is a separate classification used in marriage matching.
Ashlesha is Rakshasa gana and Antya (kapha) nadi, and its yoni animal is the cat. All three are used in Guna Milan, the 36-point marriage match. Nadi carries the most weight at 8 points, and partners who share a nadi score zero on it; gana carries 6 points and yoni 4.
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