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Folklore #077 Moon in the signs

The ninth mansion is the Nagas, the serpent people, and its symbol is a coil. Tradition gives it hypnotic charm and does not pretend that is always a compliment.

Ashlesha means 'the embrace', and the embrace in question is a snake's. Its lord is Mercury. This is the mansion of penetrating insight, medicine, poison and the ability to see straight through somebody — a set of gifts the texts describe frankly rather than flatteringly.

Tradition: Vedic astrology; nakshatra 9, sidereal Cancer 16°40'–30°00' · checked Sep 2026

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The ninth mansion is the Nagas, the serpent people, and its symbol is a coil. Tradition gives it hypnotic charm and does not pretend that is always a compliment.

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The ninth mansion is the Nagas, the serpent people, and its symbol is a coil. Tradition gives it hypnotic charm and does not pretend that is always a compliment.

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