Vedic Astrology

Ashlesha

Ruled by Mercury, presided over by the Nagas, the serpent deities. The power to embrace, entwine, and penetrate. The coiled wisdom that sees through everything.

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  • Ashlesha means the embrace, the clinging, the entwining. Its symbol is the coiled serpent and its shakti is visasleshana, the power to inflict with poison and to release it. The theme is the serpent's intelligence: hypnotic, penetrating, able to bind or to heal.
  • The Nagas, the deified snakes, preside here, lending depth, mystery, and a piercing insight into hidden motives. There is magnetism and the power to influence, alongside a capacity for kundalini-like spiritual force and for the subtle politics of attachment.
  • Mercury rules it, sharpening the mind into something cunning and perceptive. The growth edge is to use the serpent's wisdom to liberate rather than to entangle, transmuting the venom of manipulation into clear-eyed healing.

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