Nakshatra

Seekra balapratha bava bayahaarini suba aayilyathevi sahaayakrube

Azlesa * Naga * Sarpa

False Rescue

The Leash, The Lashing: Binding, Tension, Holding, Fixation

Chandra in Azlesa

Nag Champa = Sacred tree for Azlesa nakshatra

"Rama and Laxmana Bound by a Serpent"

from the Huntington Archives

• Fruits of Worshipping Each Nakshatra

"The Gods and the Demons were at war.

• The Gods made an offering to Azlesa.

• This drove away the Demons.

One who makes the appropriate offering to the Serpent God, to Azlesa, drives away his hateful opponents.

• In Azlesa one can defeat one' s enemies.

• Through it one gains the poison of the serpent to use on others.

Those born under Azlesa make powerful warriors with powerful weapons."

Nakshatra Vana

• Sacred tree for Azlesa nakshatra

see nakshatra gardens at: www.vedicvanas.com/nakshatravana.html

• western botanical name = mesua ferrea

• Sanskrita namah: Naga (kez-ari)

• Tibetan (bodkye):

• Common names: Naga Champa Ceylon Ironwood, Indian rose chestnut, Cobra's saffron

Vocabulary for Azlesa

• Koeln Digital Sanskrit Dictionary

Azlesa:

• intimate connection , contact

• embracing , embrace

• entwining, entanglement

• Adherence , clinging to

• the seventh Nakshatra

• serpent

uraga

• "breast-going"', a serpent , snake, a female snake

• A Naga (semi-divine serpent usually represented with a human face)

• The Nakshatra Azlesa (presided over by the Nagas)

• lead

bhuja

• Abending , curve:the arm, the breast, the hand, the trunk of an elephant, a branch , bough

• coil of a serpent

bhujaMgabha

• "serpent-asterism" name of the Nakshatra Aslesha

gabha

• "slit", the vulva

Planetary Ruler of Azlesa Nakshatra:

• Budha

Nakshatra Body Part:

• Ears of Kalapurushaa

Nakshatra group "Moola"

• Azlesa belongs to the group of six nakshatra called "Moola" (Azwini, Azlesa, Magha, Jyestha, Mula, and Revati). Of these six, Azlesa is called the "Sarpa Nakshatra".

• Traditionally, birth in Azlesa "the leash" is considered inauspicious due to implications of binding, involuntary holding, snakes, unsavory attachments, and entrapment. Therefore certain rituals are performed 27 days after the birth to eradicate these images from the front line of the subconscious image inventory.

Auspicious events:

[BPHS]

• Fierce competition,

• things relating to serpents, as in serpent puja,

• things relating to poison,

• rash actions,

• starting a business,

• money exchange.

Deity:

• Sarpa (Snake that became a God) or Naga

Symbol:

• coiled snake

Gana / group:

• Demonic / Rakshasa

Tibetan Tradition

• Kak- goddess

• Dengchen Lhamo,Dragon-tailed goddess

• "the Clinging" - "the Embracing" - "Strangulation"

• "All the snake-like associations of clinging, creeping, and poison; of embracing and sexual union." ~~ Valerie Roebuck, Circle , p. 107

• intimate connection , contact ; slight contact

• embracing , embrace ; intwining

• adherence , clinging to

• Hypnotizing, poisoning, seducing, squeezing - entrapment of the victim.

• wikipedia = Azlesa

  Latin 'tenir' = 'to hold' = intense, tension, tenacious, attention, maintenance, sustenance, tenet, tenant, lieutenant, appurtenance, countenance, concatenation

Azlesa + Jyestha + Revati

• the Ninth Nakshatra

• 16:40 until 30:00 Karkata (Cancer)

• pada 33, 34, 35, 36 of total 108

• Location = "the head of Hydra": delta, epsilon, eta, rho and sigma Hydrae - The Circle of Stars

General Description of Azlesa characteristics -- from Das/ Behari

FEMALES

• Azlesha in lagna

• See also: Chandra in Azlesa

Males

• Azlesa radix lagna

• see also: Chandra in Azlesha

Description of the Four Pada (quarters)of Azlesha

Azlesha pada-1 * Dhanushya navamsha

MALES

Pada 1

• gov New York Eliot Spitzer (forced out of office by prostitution scandal)

• political radio preacher Rush Limbaugh (drug scandal)

FEMALES

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.

Azlesha pada-2 * Makara navamsha

MALE

• Beatle John Lennon

FEMALE

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 part "

Azlesha pada-3 * Kumbha navamsha

MALE

FEMALE

• partner of 2012 pres-cand Newt Gingrich, Calista Gingrich

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.

Azlesha pada-4 * Meena navamsha

MALE

• [Chandra] Jane Fonda

Das/ Behari:

• There is difficulty for both the father and 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,

• and 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 pada-3

• ... when the third and fourth parts are rising, the father of the native will suffer much financially thought the native 's acts.

BPL comments on Azlesa:

• Azlesa = penetrating, invasive qualities driven by profound need for binding embrace

• Regardless of one's factual material situation, Azlesa = feels financially, emotionally, and spiritually impoverished

• Rhythmic, emotionally forceful, sloganizing speech characterized by emotional "hooks"

• naturally affinity for activities which involve psychological or physical bondage, straps, tight embrace, control of hands or arms,

Please tell me about this evil nakshatra. If I cannot help myself then at least I can avoid harming others.

In reality, there is no power outside of oneself.

Azlesha is a karmically inherited set of subconscious emotional expectations and partly conscious behaviors. Due to the profundity of its unmet need for holding, soothing embrace (which is a carry-over from previous lives) Azlesha begins life in a state of extreme childhood neediness and develops manipulative skills to attempt to get the physical-emotional needs met.

Unfortunately in the process, Azlesha the Naga may become self-obsessed, "pining for entwining" so that a major portion of the life force may be directed into the behaviors of manipulation, cajoling, and surreptitious quest for embrace.

Of course Azlesha at birth indicates a fixed starting point for the incarnation. However as the native develops a more conscious awareness of the nature of the unmet need and of one's own characteristic but often unsuccessful style of trying to fulfill the need. consciousness gains power and authentic changes in both understanding and behavior may easily be accomplished.

Once the Azlesha "leash" syndrome is brought into sharp and realistic focus, healthy ways of engaging in therapeutic touch can be developed such as healing massage, or working with needy children, or other non-predatory touch modalities.

Every nakshatra indicates the emotional starting point for the incarnation. Permission to move past the starting point into greater emotional health is granted by no outside power. Permission to heal is granted by the self, to the self.

The karmic "curse" is largely resolved at the moment of granting tp oneself Permission to Heal.

You were born in Azlesha, for a specific and intended spiritual reason, according to the agenda set by your spirit. That is true, you chose Azlesha as a defining start point.

Now the question is whether you are willing to grant yourself permission to heal.

In truth, you are not cursed at all.

However freedom requires a conscious decision to move forward. The decision is yours. No one else, no external object, controls the power to seek conscious healing. Only you.

The people who talk about curses are themselves victims of the 'spell' of ignorance. All features of the Jyotisha nativity are starting points only.

Of course, most people are sleep-walking through their incarnations, caught in a dream-state of vague and shifting desires. These people remain lashed to their starting points. For them, there has been no change since the moment they emerged from their mothers birth canal and drew their first burning breath of Earth's atmospheric gas. That is why Jyotisha nativities are so easy to read!

If you are ready to step out of the dream into a realistic view of Self, the healing change can begin.

Naga Behaviors

• Azlesa is not a Rahu-ruled Nakshatra , but Azlesa = ruled by Naga kings (sarpa).

• Azlesa-Naga has traits of snake-like slipperiness

• Naga qualities of invasiveness, pretense, deception, surreptitious control

Parents

• Azlesha are born to inattentive, distracted parents (Karkata) who do not overly value the child.

• In childhood, the Azlesha was effectively discarded by parents.

• In adulthood, Azlesha is engaged in reclaiming value from discarded articles

Azlesha can be a manipulative controller surreptitiously seeking to "squeeze" affection from an unwilling Other, to the point of strangling the life force.

Or Azlesha can be a provider of nourishment, protection and fixed shelter to those desperately seeking respite from a frightening unpredictable insecure world.

In a terrible storm, Azlesha can be the anchorline which holds the boat securely in place. Once the storm has passed, Azlesha needs to unlash the holdings and lift the anchorline so that the boat can sail forward into better weather.

Azlesha flourishes in protective, holding, grounding, binding roles such as parenting, elementary schoolteaching, and nursing. However Azlesha are often challenged to release their adult children into lives of self-determination. Unconscious Azlesha parents may be persistently, even deviously, controlling of their adult children, slithering into every nook and cranny of their children's adult lives and over-manipulating all family decisions.

Azlesha are also gifted in psychology, often as addictions specialists. They are past masters of guilt and can use every trick in the book to keep an addict bound to their promise to stay clean.

It is really a genius of Azlesha to hold people, whether physically or emotionally, to a fixed place or fixed idea such as a promise, contract, or vow.

Azlesha flourishes in roles such as probation officer, 12-step sponsor, pastoral counselor, and those responsible to help others keep their vows such as abbots of monasteries.

Azlesha binds and anchors in times of turbulence. They are generally a source of stability and security to those who seek Azlesha's help in getting settled, getting established, getting planted, grounded, rooted, dug in, set in place. Azlesha brings people back to a fixed place.

Azlesha can capture runaways and recover lost objects. Azlesha can recover monies owed from evasive debtors. They can bind and reinforce broken families; heal personalities damaged by trauma and abuse.

Azlesha engineers can design binding and strapping systems to protect buildings in high winds and earthquakes. As scientists, Azlesha are careful to manipulate the test group separately from the control group.

They are genius massage healers who manipulate the long sinews of the binding muscles. Azlesha's tentacles have a broad reach like the "long arm of the law" which can find people who think they are successfully hiding - but no one can hide from Azlesha for very long, if Azlesha really wants to find them! Therefore anyone who needs to bind, capture or trap an elusive prey should hire an Azlesha who are the best in the world for holding down, lashing, strapping, and restraint.

Like each of the 27 nakshatra, Azlesha has a characteristic set of behaviors. When directed toward service to others, the holding, binding, securing, stabilizing talents can be skillfully applied to produce beneficial results.

When overly self-focused, Azlesha can develop a convoluted pattern of increasingly obsessive unmet need for attention and embrace.

When conscious, Azlesha are protective parents, steady and reliable schoolteachers, reputable and responsible builders, productive farmers with an intuitive knowledge of plant-roots, and patriotic citizens bound to the land they love.

As always, consciousness makes the difference and a conscious Azlesha can be a great healer indeed.

Azlesha Traits

• Compulsively Manipulative, needs to "squeeze " information, Attention , affection, Agreement , or other value from a person or object.

• Cheapness and compulsive re-use of personal items.

• Pretending to be subsistence-poor and crippled by debt .

• Azlesa-sarpa = secreting away piles of money, all the while "squeezing" money and favors from sympathetic others by pretending to be terribly poor.

• Ironically, Azlesa capable of supervising greed and waste of corporations and governments on a massive scale. Azlesa compulsiveness = strictly in the personal sphere.

• Example:

  Lyndon Johnson (birth time uncertain) was in reality one of the richest men in America during the time of his USA presidency. 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 bittersoft drink made from grapefruit juice and carbonated water.)

Pretending to be Poor

• Compulsive value-squeezing frugality - even when one is quite wealthy

• Obsessive need to extract value from merchants by asking for low-income discounts, "sliding scale".

• Obsessive need to extract value from government support services by (fraudulently) claiming that one lives in poverty.

Embezzling, False Billing, and Stealing

• Azlesa may overtly or covertly steal resources from others in the compulsive belief that there is "no other viable way" for one to obtain these "life sustaining essentials".

• Azlesa-sarpa is very quiet and is rarely detected in the act of theft. Azlesa does not intend to harm anyone. One is simply following an inner directive 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. Does not join gangs or crime syndicates, and waits in darkness for the opportunity to "extract value". No direct attack.

• Azlesa professionals such as physicians, psychologists, accountants or attorneys may feel a compulsive need to "squeeze" profits from large "parental" organizations such as insurance agencies, charities and governments, via false invoicing or billing for services not rendered. (See Chandra in Azlesa for the core emotional trauma profile.)

• Azlesa 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. Azlesa are famous shop-lifters, pick-pockets, and embezzlers. Even the very wealthy Azlesa may steal food.

• Azlesha = 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. (M. Gandhi, Azlesha Chandra + Rahu = letter writing on scraps)

• Compulsive bargain-shopping for household items (Karkata). Martha Stewart's daughter writes that her millionnaire mother compulsively shops "tag sales" at which less marketable items are sold at a deep discount. Her daughter remarks that mom hoards hundreds of bargain-bought tablecloths.

• Addiction = a behavior which damages or interrupts one's ability to perform one's normal tasks. Azlesa may exhibit an addiction or OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) fixation re: the normally productive habit of reclaiming value from discarded articles.

  • Azlesa may be unable to release from active use the sorts of small, personal-use objects which are normally disposed as waste, or washed and dried, or otherwise cleansed, reprocessed, or repaired before another use cycle is undertaken.

  • The unique Azlesa trait is not the habit of recycling materials. Recycling is culturally normalized.

  • What is unusual is the habit of using the personal materials in a way that either interrupts which are normally (writing paper, drinking cups, plastic water bottles, tea-bags, razor blades, toothbrushes, hairbrushes, shoes, undergarments)

Azlesa illnesses

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

Happy Habits

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

• Azlesa 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 Azlesa) and a quilting "bee" is highly conversational (Budha).

• Similarly may be expert "scrappers"

Azlesha "the leash" 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 Azlesa'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".

• Azlesa rarely has a rational, altruistic global conservation motive. Its concerns are strictly personal. Also, Azlesa 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 mold 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 Azlesha'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 Azlesa can manifest trauma-driven behavior that is "inappropriate" = "not in its own space". Calista Gingrich

• Azlesa is invasive, manipulative, and binding.

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

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