The Nakshatras

Ashlesha

Nakshatra 9 · ruled by Mercury · the Nagas

The ninth mansion, a coiled serpent guarded by the Nagas — hidden, penetrating knowledge.

Ashlesha is intuition that wraps around a thing until it knows it wholly: magnetic, perceptive, deep. Its insight can bind or heal, and its growth is to use its knowing to hold rather than to grip.