Diane Downs: a Case Study of Ashlesha Nakshatra
In March of 2019, ABC news highlighted videos of Diane Downs the woman convicted of murdering her children while interviewing one of Down's daughters now an adult woman.
From the videos of Downs along with the evidence against her as well as the many books written about her, Downs exhibits qualities making her the poster child of Ashlesha's shadow.
Information about Down's birthrate was taken from Wikipedia. Without birth time information. the default time of 12:00 Local Time of birth was used. Calculations of her natal chart were calculated with Kala software.
Ancient and modern texts describe Ashlesha as a sharp, dreadful nakshatra known as "the embracer," "the clinging star" and a nakshatra considered good in assisting in activities such as poisoning, destroying, polluting, digging and many other destructive activities. Many nakshatra natives are medical health professionals using these skills in destroying disease and affliction. Like all nakshatras, Ashlesha is only considered "bad" if afflicted by planetary position, aspect to other planets, as well as transits according to Vedic Astrology.
Ancient and modern astrologers describe Ashlesha natives as highly intuitive, young looking, clever, sharp and cunning. Ashlesha's shakti power is "the power to inflict poison."
Five of Diane Down's planets/ celestial bodies are in the sign of Leo. Out of the five Leo planets/ celestial bodies, three of these planets are in Ashlesha.