Lord
Mercury
Nakṣatra
Ashlesha
Ashlesha is the ninth nakshatra, closing Cancer
See where Ashlesha falls in your birth chart — the sign, house and nakṣatra it occupies.
Ashlesha is the ninth nakshatra, closing Cancer. It carries the serpent's gifts — penetrating insight, persuasion, and emotional depth that can heal or entangle depending on how it is used. People shaped by it tend to be wise, insightful and independent, with spellbinding speech and a gift for leadership that carries them into positions of trust; magnetic and shrewd about which ties are worth keeping, though the serpent's coil can turn impulsive or entangling if misused. Its emotional depth can heal or ensnare.
Presided over by the Nagas, the serpent deities, with the coiled serpent as its symbol. Its Vimshottari lord is Budha.
— Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra daśā adhyāya (Vimśottarī lords)
Span 16°40′–30°00′ Karka; lord Mercury in the Moon's sign — the probing-mind-in-feeling-waters signature. Its final degrees end at the Karka–Simha junction: late Ashlesha births are flagged for nakshatra gandanta, the water-to-fire knot.
Your placement is shown in the band above: this states where Ashlesha falls in your chart and links each term to its page.
Interpretation — what the placement means for your life and timing — belongs to your personal reading, not the reference library.