ASHLESHA

Ashlesha Nakshatra - General Info, Characteristics & Compatibility

Ashlesha Nakshatra embodying the energy of Mercury and strength of serpent God, Ashlesha happens to be the ninth Nakshatra in the zodiac. Also known as 'Naga', and 'Clinging Star', Ashlesha Nakshatra exudes substantial negativity, despite its forcefulness and power. Presenting itself in a constellation of five stars, Ashlesha Nakshatra is located in close vicinity of the sun.

Basic information about Ashlesha Birth Star

With Naga being its guarding deity, Ashlesha Nakshatra unfolds the common serpentine features like clinging, twining, coiling and embracing. Besides the lordship of Mercury, lunar aspects of Ketu also influence the nakshatra significantly. The lunar aspect contributes towards its general characteristics of craftiness, glutton and deceit. Besides deceitful and demonic attributes other general characteristics of Ashlesha Nakshatra include darkness, danger and dishonesty.

General characteristics of Ashlesha Nakshatra

Natives born with Ashlesha Nakshatra in ascendance, generally display cold ruthlessness, deceit and an aura of suspicion in their personality traits. Endowed with unattractive features and lack of pleasing appeal, they possess small eyes filled with suspicion. Used to cunningness and guile, one of their leading personality traits includes the use of guile for the sheer achievement of purpose. Reflecting negativity, cunningness and scheming ways, it is very difficult to tackle serpent like shrewdness dominating the personality traits of such natives.

As far as their behavioral characteristics are concerned, they reflect utmost grace and polish in social interaction. In other words, they are skillfully adept in hiding their serpent like qualities for the purpose of greater social acceptability and recognition. Equally skilful are they in the use of flattery, so as to make themselves acceptable. They stop at nothing for the purpose of going up the social ladder. Displaying a note of calculated cautiousness, their behavioral characteristics are marked by anxious planning and skilful preparation. In the absence of genuine feelings and emotion, natives of Ashlesha are prone to deceiving and deception. With their intrinsic dishonesty and negativity, they are susceptible to creating an ambience marked by fear and suspicion.

Power of observation and intuition are two of their leading positive traits. They prove their mettle when it comes to overcoming a situation steeped in danger. Strategically oriented natives of Ashlesha Nakshatra are also good at planning and cool calculation, Courage, leadership disposition and able handling of mental resources also count amongst their positive traits.

Negative traits of such natives relate to their merciless guile and use of tact. Insidious harmfulness, dependence on others and shamelessly plotting nature also count amongst their manifold negative traits. Besides the essentially negative traits of deception, dishonesty and falsehood; they also exhibit miserliness, selfishness, ungratefulness and total absence of benevolence. Owing to their acute suspicion they may be prone to bouts of depression, anxiety and schizophrenia. 

Career Options for Ashlesha Nakshatra Born People

Using their guile and scheming ways, they excel in careers related to politics, filing law suits and business. They shape out well as lawyers, advocates, cunning politicians and business men. They also do well in careers related to entertainment industry and that of occult mysticism and astrology. With the planetary lordship of Mercury, natives of this Nakshatra are more liable to succeed in business than in profession.

Ashlesha Nakshatra Compatibility and Incompatibility

Going by the norms of 'yoni kuta' or instinctive compatibility, Ashlesha Nakshatra is most compatible to Punarvasu Nakshatra with former being symbolic of male cat and latter being that of male cat. Consequently, both are non compatible to Magha and Purvaphalguni nakshatras. Cat's instinctive hostility to rats symbolizing the mentioned Nakshatras account for Ashlesa's mutual non compatibility to Magha and Purvaphalguni birth stars. Cat's instinctive affinity with hare, mongoose and monkey accounts for Ashlesha Nakshatra's compatibility with stars such as Anuradha, Sravana, Jyestha, Purvaashada and Uttarashada.

ASHLESHA NAKSHATRA

There is a saying that persons born in Ashlesha Nakshatra possess serpent's sight that even the look of these persons on others will have the effect of penetration of certain unknown force. In order to escape from such sight, it is the ancient traditional practice that the neighbours grow bamboos on the border or fences of their houses. Probably the bamboos have magnetic power to catch both sight and sound

Male Natives

1. Physical Features: Ashlesha born normally possess rude appearance. He may appear to be having stout body and rude features but inside built up is void

2. Character and general events: He will not be grateful to anybody even to those who have given him life. Outwardly he tends to show that he is very sincere and would like to share the tragedy of others but he is not like that. He is very talkative. One of the added advantages is that he can attract people with hypocritical words and he is fit to man various organizations. Since there is an inherent quality of leadership and eagerness to reach the top he can shine very well in the political field. In spite of all those mentioned above, which may appear to be an adverse indication of the character, he is the most intelligent person who can give suitable leadership to a country

It is also seen that some Ashlesha born who are cowards, poor-hearted and soft-spoken. They are not arrogant by themselves but they are arrogant to the world, because of the peculiar expression they show to the world

He does not believe others blindly. Even then it is seen that he mostly associates himself with black marketers, thieves and murderers. He does not keep any distinction between rich and poor, good and bad people. He does not like to have any resistance to his independence from any circle and has a good liking towards the persons who are ready to accept his leadership and obey his orders whether in the negative or in the positive approach. To such persons he is ready to sacrifice anything. He never likes to cheat others nor he likes to engulf others property. But it is seen that he is quite often mistaken by others

One of the drawbacks with the Ashlesha born is that his brain always supports the persons who are not in need and reject the request of the persons who are in need. Suppose he renders a helping hand to a needy person he will not hesitate to publicize such act

Whatever may be the plus and minus points in the Ashlesha born, it is generally noticed that he is luckiest, popular but hot-tempered person. If anybody closely watches him it will be seen that he loses his temper where it is not required and where it is required he keeps silent. On the one side when we say that the Ashlesha born is luckiest, the fruit of that lucky existence cannot be enjoyed by him

Mostly he is betrayed by the relations and friends and helping hand is extended by the unknown

3. Education, source of income/profession: He may have his education in Arts or Commerce line. In the professional field, the native gets speedy promotions and sudden reversals. A heavy loss of money at the age of 35-36th years of age and unexpected and unearned income when he is 40 years of age

4. Family life: He will have to shoulder much of the family responsibilities, most probably it may be due to the native being the eldest in the family. His wife cannot understand him. She does not want to share her wealth with other relatives (sister-in-law or cousin brother etc.)

5. Health: He will have flatulence, jaundice, and pains in legs and knees, stomach problem. He will be addicted to drugs

Female Native

Females born in Ashlesha will also enjoy almost all the results mentioned for the male natives

1. Physical features: Most of the females born in this Nakshatra are not good looking. However, if Mars is associated in this Nakshatra, she will have beautiful figure

2. Character and general events: She will be self-restrained and will possess non-caring attitude. The inherent quality of shyness in the females is present in a greater degree in the case of Ashlesha born females. Her moral is of a very high order. She will enjoy good respect and recognition from her relations. She has the capacity to conquer her enemies mainly through vocabulary twisting

3. Education, sources of earning/profession: She will be very efficient in her official work. She maybe, if educated, employed in an administrative capacity. Illiterate females may be engaged in selling fishes or work in the agricultural field

4. Family Life: She is very efficient in the household administration. She should be careful while dealing wit in-laws, as there is a possibility of making some plot against her so as to create friction with her husband

5. Health: Joint pains, hysteria, dropsy, jaundice and indigestion. She will have frequent nervous breakdown