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
US Pres # 18, Ulysses S. Grant
Paul McCartney (Beatle)
Katie Holmes (actress)
Condoleezza Rice (US Sec of State)
Leon Trotsky (Marxist revolutionary)
Placido Domingo (opera singer)
Radix Moon in Ashlesha = "Serpent" - entangling & embracing
(Budha-Chandra-Sarpa)
Deeply concerned with Security, and emotionally driven to be "involved".
Ashlesha has an overtly threatening & covertly manipulative emotional style.
Ashlesha expresses their devotion to family through a subtle, entwining, choking embrace.
Tends to get tangled up in other people's business, manipulating others rather compulsively. Does not hear the psychic signal to pull out of another's decision process.
Needs to intervene in the loves of others. Slithering, "entwining" instinct tells Ashlesha to keep wrapping around their victim.
The Ashlesha interprets this embrace as a loving way to ensure their own security. But their friends, family, clients (and other victims) may experience Ashlesha as a psychic vampire.
Likes to work in secret. Ashlesha is suited to therapeutic professional relationships where one can become over-involved with clients, such as psychologist, social worker, counselor, divorce attorney, or diplomat. (Also snake-handling.)
Specialists in "intervention", which is a sudden attack made possible after a long period of 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.
updated: 28 August 2008
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