Planets in Ashlesha Nakshatra

Moon in Ashlesha

Moon in Ashlesha is a combination where the person can find oneself entangled in one's own thinking. You can be an over-thinker. You can perceive a threat, which isn't really a threat. Your judgement can be clouded.

So being practical in life would be very important if you have Moon in Ashlesha. You'd always have this fear of losing friendships, relationships, losing contact with family members, your job. This fear you'd always have. Ashlesha is known to have this unjust fear of some kind.

When Moon is there in Ashlesha, this fear is highlighted. You'd have a mind of a person who's very vigilant, like you're crossing the road, but you have the sense of where the traffic is. Or you're sitting on public transport and you're very aware of who's watching your phone, for example. So you're very aware and that awareness can help you understand the human mind and human behaviour very well and therefore you could be a psychologist if Moon in Ashlesha is linked to your career in some ways.

Your style of thinking is always going to be very unique. You are going to turn against people in a very strong, aggressive manner if someone has done something wrong to you. So that is a side of Moon Ashlesha which you need to control. A Moon Ashlesha-like person can be the most loyal person.

A Moon Ashlesha-like person can be blessed with all the riches of a royal life. Moon is known for royalty and I've earlier mentioned that the world of Lord Vasuki is full of riches. So that may become your world, but amongst those riches is going to be this entangled web of fear, of scepticism that's going to hold your happiness back. So once again, living life practically and logically is going to be very important for you.

Your way of thinking is going to be very unique but in that uniqueness you might find yourself clouding your own judgement. What you might see as right, you may later realise that wasn't the case. So on a mental plane, Moon Ashlesha can be a difficult position. So following right guidance, following a life philosophy would be very important.

That's my view of Moon in Ashlesha.

Sun in Ashlesha

Sun in Ashlesha is likely to make you a leader of an outcast group. You may represent ideas which not necessarily conform to societal norms. Like an island, they have their own set of rules. Their leader says we are going to allow citizens of all countries to come to our island.

We don't believe in having visas etc. So you represent unique ideas and you become a leader of those ideas. The person may however plan strategically to be in a position of a leader which may lead to the native following a path which isn't always right. Self-serving politicians is a prime example of Sun Ashlesha.

It's a difficult position for Sun as Sun represents consistency. On the other hand, this Nakshatra very strongly represents changeability. But in most cases it might lead to the person changing one's position to be in a position of a leader. So the principles linked to Sun of nobility and consistency can get compromised.

The person can become power hungry, may not want to let go of power like we see in those ancient movies. A king does everything possible to stay in power. A Sun Ashlesha-like person can be excellent at defeating one's enemies. Sun belongs to the caste of a Kshatriya.

So a warrior now also has the powers of strategic planning. So this leads to planning a war in such a way that the opponents feel they are totally encircled. And this can translate to the corporate world where a business leader has launched a campaign in such a way that it has left the opponents totally encircled. They have no answer.

If other planets linked to Ashlesha are favourably placed, then a Sun Ashlesha-like person can become very spiritually inclined and very loyal to that cause. The selfless side so strongly linked to Ashlesha would then be more visible in the native's way of life. That's my view of Sun in Ashlesha.

Mars in Ashlesha

Mars in Ashlesha is likely to lead to your efforts not leading to anything. This is a difficult position as Mars is weak in this Nakshatra. In fact, it's the weakest in this Nakshatra. And Mars is known for doing things.

So every effort you are making to achieve something is likely to be frustrated by one thing or the other. So you must see which houses Mars is ruling, which planets and houses Mars is having an impact on to understand which aspects of your life might be affected due to this combination. And what might happen eventually is that you might become an expert in recovering from a difficult situation. Like we hear stories that the person failed 71 times and then finally was able to find success.

Ashlesha's ability to hold on to one thing, even when it doesn't seem practical, might actually work in your favour. You might hold on to a cause, a goal, despite failing, despite feeling it's no longer practical for you to pursue it. You keep following it, keep failing, but eventually you're likely to find success. Mars and Ashlesha, both of them, are known to go to the extreme to win a battle.

So Mars-Ashlesha like person can make an excellent war strategist or a spy of some kind if the person is working in the finance sector. Again, the person can work tirelessly to achieve one's goal. When I refer to tirelessly working on one's goal, I'm referring to the ever awake state linked to Ashlesha. The person can always have one's eyes on the goal, like a surveillance officer.

Surveillance is 24-7. You're monitoring the activity in the city 24-7 to see if there's a crime. So Mars-Ashlesha like person can be that surveillance officer, always having an eye. Mars represents single-mindedness and Ashlesha demands changeability.

So together this can be very frustrating for the native, for this reason. Mars is a builder and an innovator and Mars- Ashlesha can lead to you building something never built before. Your creation can be very captivating and your engineering skills, your technical skills can be very unique. It reminds me of the story of the Iron Man, the first one, where he built this suit in a cave.

With his unique engineering skills, he put together raw materials and built that suit. It's a very Mars-Ashlesha like thing to have happened. Mars represents innovation and Ashlesha belongs to the caste of an outcast. That's my view of Mars in Ashlesha.

Mercury in Ashlesha

Mercury in Ashlesha immediately brings to mind careers in psychology, consumer behaviour, strategy, business consultancy, risk management and the like. The person would have the intelligence to comprehend what might happen in the future and plan accordingly. In the field of psychology, you're trying to prevent your patient's mental health from becoming worse. In the field of risk management, you're trying to protect your client's money.

Mercury Ashlesha can also end up building a career in the fields of data analytics or even espionage. These professions are all about understanding the future. What do you think is going to take place? A Mercury Ashlesha-like person would have the answer and the person would have the ability to be the best in one's field of work as the person would have a natural intuition that, yes, I've seen the numbers.

Based on that and my natural intuition, I can say this is going to happen. The market is going to crash in 18 months or the stock prices for that company are going to rise in three months. The demand for this product in this region is going to rise in four months. So, intuition is likely to be a superpower the native is likely to be blessed with and the person may also become an expert in telling stories creatively.

You captivate the attention of your audience like a public speaker telling a story of one's trip to the forest. So, you hear the story and you feel totally lost in the story. Mercury Ashlesha has that ability. So, advertisers, sometimes you see an ad and you just can't stop watching it.

It leaves you spellbound. Mercury represents businesses and therefore earlier I had taken the example of the native being a business consultant. If not a business consultant, the person, if running one's own business, the person would do very well understanding how the demand is going to be for one's products or services. The major downside to having Mercury in Ashlesha is changeable behaviour.

Mercury is known to change its position without worrying of the consequences. That's the main reason and Ashlesha has this changeability linked to wanting to be in a position which is more favourable. So, here the person can become an opportunist. Perhaps in businesses you need to be opportunistic to take advantage of market conditions.

This flexibility and adaptability linked to both Mercury and Ashlesha would make the native extremely flexible in one's approach and way of life. So, if you ask the person to move to a different country and build a new life, the person would mentally prepare oneself in such a way that the person does not feel that the change was very challenging and so the person may excel at a job that requires this constant intellectual stimulus where challenges keep changing. You are studying one market today, another industry tomorrow, something on those lines. Business consultancy comes to mind again.

A business consultant is hopping from one project to the other. So, you need to adapt to a new market. You need to adapt to your client's way of working. So, adaptability can actually be an asset.

That is how I view Mercury in Ashlesha.

Jupiter in Ashlesha

When Jupiter is in Ashlesha, you become a strategic planner. See it's a coming together of wisdom and intelligence. Jupiter signifies wisdom, and this Nakshatra's planetary ruler, Mercury, signifies intelligence; therefore, strategic planning. Jupiter's purpose in society is to guide the society and that education is imparted without selfish reasons.

But this Nakshatra is known to be self-serving and therefore the person may use one's knowledge, one's experience, one's wisdom to better one's circumstances, like an education startup, a business. So they no longer are educating people, they are also trying to grow their wealth. It's a business. You hear of so many education startups.

They start on the principle of offering quality education but eventually you find them to be simply businesses. The quality of educators goes down. They want you to download their apps. The whole education sector becomes commercialized.

So this combination can lead to commercialization of education. Moderation here would be the key. You have to serve yourself. There's nothing wrong with that.

Using your knowledge the right way would be a challenge for you and I think you'll also encounter teachers who want something from you. The passing of knowledge from them to you may not be entirely selfless. So Jupiter Ashlesha can be a difficult position from that point of view. Foreign travel is directly linked to Jupiter and in Ashlesha that foreign travel may not be a source of pleasure.

It can actually lead to you being entangled in a difficult situation. You naturally need to read the birth chart entirely but I'm trying to highlight the possibilities that can arise if you have Jupiter in Ashlesha. And lastly and on the bright side a Jupiter Ashlesha native can educate the society in a very captivating manner. Your style of teaching can be very unique.

You can attract a huge following. That's my view of Jupiter in Ashlesha.

Venus in Ashlesha

When Venus is in Ashlesha, you would have the most magnetic personality. You'll be very attractive and in relationships, you'll find yourself holding on to relationships longer than they are good for you. Romance is great but practicality is very important and your judgment in relationships is likely to be clouded. You may instantly like someone and having done so, you may feel, oh, I shouldn't have done it.

I shouldn't have liked someone so quickly. So, on a mental plane, you're likely to burden yourself by reacting quickly. So, this can be a difficult position as I believe your attractive personality would lead to you attracting partners easier than other planet-Nakshatra combinations. But you may also not make the best decisions in relationships.

Again, practicality would be the key. If you'd like to do something creative, your creations are going to be the most captivating. I had earlier given you the example of Michael Jackson, who has Venus in Ashlesha. Your creations are going to leave others spellbound.

Within the finance sector, you'd excel at jobs requiring managing risks. You'll always have an eye on how things are changing in the markets and you'll build your risk management strategy accordingly. Even in personal finance, I think you manage money really well. You might even fear not having enough, not being able to pay the rent, not being able to buy groceries and that unjust fear at times might make you an excellent manager of money.

You may become an expert in personal finance. Venus in Ashlesha can lead to you becoming sexually very active. Venus is all about seeking pleasure and as I mentioned earlier, Ashlesha is directly linked to sexuality. Everything in moderation, you need to control this side to your personality.

Venus is known to be excellent at building relationships and this Nakshatra is known for its changeability. So professions that require that flexibility, like someone working in foreign affairs, so you move from one country to the other, you need to change your mannerisms in accordance with the country you're going to. You need to change your manner of speaking or your manner of behaving according to that country's culture. This is a great example.

Similarly, if you're working as a human resources manager, there you deal with employees who come from different backgrounds, so you manage them accordingly based on their culture. So you change your relationship with them according to where they are coming from. So you are going to be extremely flexible and that's a quality you're going to possess. And lastly, you can be a very loyal partner.

I had earlier mentioned that you'll have to remain practical, not go to extremes, and not decide too quickly. Despite all of this, I think you'll make a very loyal, committed partner. As this Nakshatra is known for loyalty, if you go back to the story I had shared with you earlier of Lakshman protecting Lord Rama, that's the story I'm referring to.

Saturn in Ashlesha

Saturn Ashlesha makes an excellent long-term strategic planner. In life however you may find yourself entangled in a long-term issue. Particularly if you're going through Saturn's AntarDasha for example. And that issue can be from the government sector specifically as Saturn and Sun, with Sun representing the government, do not share a great relationship.

You can also be a master technician particularly where you are building something. You're using your technical skills in combination with your intelligence like building a machine learning algorithm. That's a very Saturn Ashlesha like creation. It's long term, it's ever evolving, becoming better.

That is what Saturn is all about. Saturn represents following traditions and being more conservative whereas Ashlesha represents the caste of an outcast. So it might be that you're following a tradition which is no longer followed by anyone. Or you are conservative in your thinking about certain aspects of the society on which others have moved on.

You feel no we shouldn't be doing this but others have moved on. They say this is from the past. Don't get stuck up on that. And being stuck up on certain issues is going to be one of the main issues you might encounter if you have Saturn in Ashlesha.

Saturn is known to be a service provider and is known for empathy and this Nakshatra I had mentioned is directly linked to the field of psychology. So therefore the person can make an excellent healer particularly healing wounds which haven't healed for a long time. Someone's lost one's life partner in an accident. Their wound requires healing over a long time and a Saturn-Ashlesha-like person can provide the elixir.

My views on Saturn in Ashlesha are that you must not get caught up in things. Be practical, keep moving on, forgive and forget and be mindful of when you are going to go through Saturn's Dasha. That's my view.

Rahu in Ashlesha

When Rahu is in Ashlesha, the desire to draw pleasure from life can be quite strong, so the person can be very inclined towards exploring one's sexuality. When you feel hurt by someone, you may go to the extreme trying to hurt the other person, and that aspect of this combination needs to be controlled. Instantly liking and disliking people, immediately classifying them as a friend or as an enemy is a very Rahu Ashlesha like way of thinking and the person can fall prey to addictions. Ashlesha is directly linked to drugs of any kind whether it's simply having a drink or smoking a cigarette to something more extreme than that and Rahu Ashlesha like person can have that tendency. Amongst all the things that I've mentioned I think delusion is the one which can be your biggest enemy.

Rahu creates that delusion, Ashlesha creates a cloud over your judgment. Your way of looking at things, the way you perceive things you'd eventually find over time to be very different particularly when you are going through Rahu's Dasha so you have to be very careful by not falling into your own delusions. Seeking guidance from someone more experienced would be a great strategy. I must add Rahu Ashlesha is a difficult position but we must also see how other planets are there in your chart.

It's not as if Rahu Ashlesha would drive your entire life. Every chart would have planetary positions which are favorable and unfavorable so if this is an unfavorable position and if you are going through Rahu's Dasha, now that you have this knowledge that this is a difficult position you must be more careful. That's how you use astrology. One thing both of them have in common is changeability and therefore the person can be an expert in handling situations which are ever evolving.

Like a police officer following a crime, situations keep changing and the person needs to react accordingly. The person is likely to go through phases of being stuck at something which was very extreme and then the person pulls oneself out of that. Like you fall into bad company and you go into that downward spiral and then suddenly you realize no this is wrong this isn't right for me and then you pull yourself from it and then again something else happens. So Rahu Ashlesha is a difficult position then again now that you know that it's a difficult position what you can do is to be more thoughtful and careful with how you live your life.

Ketu in Ashlesha

People with Ketu in Ashlesha are the most intuitive people in the world. They can foresee what others cannot. So they make the best spies, they make the best data analysts, they make the best risk managers, they make the best strategists as they can comprehend what might happen based on their intuition alone. I had earlier given you the example of Vladimir Putin who has Ketu in Ashlesha.

He was a spy before he became the president. So the greatest positive arising from this combination is your piercing logic. Unlike Rahu in Ashlesha where your opinions can be clouded by delusion, don't think that delusion would be the same in Ketu in Ashlesha. With your logic and your intuition you'll see things as they are.

The downside is you are likely to react impulsively, aggressively and in an extreme way if someone or something has hurt you. So being vindictive, revengeful, I'd associate with Ketu Ashlesha's character. Ketu is known to not have a self-identity and this Nakshatra is known to have the Guna, the quality of selflessness. So together this can lead to a situation where the person may go to the extreme, sacrificing oneself for the cause of someone else.

So everything that happens in Ketu Ashlesha would be in the extreme. Ketu Ashlesha can be the most loyal person, so much so the person can be willing to give up one's own life for the sake of that loyalty. So it's a difficult position. Proper guidance would be needed and you must see when you are going to go through Ketu's Dasha if you have Ketu in Ashlesha.