नक्षत्र · Nakshatra 9 of 27 · 16°40′–30°00′ Karka
आश्लेषा Āśleṣā(Ashlesha)
Data
| Span | 16°40′–30°00′ Karka |
|---|---|
| Lord | बुध Budha |
| Deity | The Nāgas, the wise serpents |
| Symbol | A coiled serpent |
| Gana | rakshasa |
| Temperament | Sharp and penetrating (tīkṣṇa) — the embracing coil of serpent insight. |
Ashlesha, 'the entwiner', grants serpent wisdom: hypnotic perception, emotional depth, and an ability to read what people hide even from themselves. Handled consciously, this is the signature of gifted psychologists, healers and strategists; the growth path is learning to embrace without gripping — its closing degrees touch the gandanta threshold, a zone of profound (and workable) inner transformation, not a sentence.
Cited fromTaittirīya Brāhmaṇa 1.5BPHS, Chs. 46–49BPHS, Ch. 6Nakshatra tradition
पद · The four padas
| Pada | Reading (by navamsa) |
|---|---|
| 1 | Dhanu navāṁśa (Jupiter): the wise serpent — penetrating insight guided by ethics and teaching. |
| 2 | Makara navāṁśa (Saturn): the strategist — depth-perception applied with patience and structure. |
| 3 | Kumbha navāṁśa (Saturn): the researcher of minds — detached, original, quietly revolutionary. |
| 4 | Mīna navāṁśa (Jupiter): the mystic coil at the gandanta edge — intense intuition that matures into healing and letting go. |
Sources
- Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa 1.5Taittiriya Brahmana 1.5 (with parallels in Taittiriya Samhita 4.4.10 and Atharva Veda 19.7): the Vedic nakshatra lists with their presiding deities. Vedic corpus, public domain.
- BPHS, Chs. 46–49Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra (attrib. Maharshi Parashara), Chs. 46–49 (97-chapter recension, R. Santhanam ed.): the Vimshottari dasha as the foremost dasha system — sequence and years (Ketu 7, Venus 20, Sun 6, Moon 10, Mars 7, Rahu 18, Jupiter 16, Saturn 19, Mercury 17; total 120), effects of each graha's dasha, and antardasha doctrine. Sanskrit classic, public domain.
- BPHS, Ch. 6Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra (attrib. Maharshi Parashara), Ch. 6 'The Sixteen Divisions of a Rashi' (97-chapter recension, R. Santhanam ed.): the navamsa (D9) scheme underlying the pada framework — each pada of 3°20′ is one navamsa. Sanskrit classic, public domain.
- Nakshatra traditionCommon Jyotish nakshatra doctrine — symbols, the deva/manushya/rakshasa gana classification, and temperament — standardized across muhurta and jataka manuals and consistent from the medieval synthesis treatises (e.g., Jataka Parijata) onward. Editorial synthesis in our own words; no copyrighted translation reproduced.