Shravana (श्रवण)

Shravana at a Glance

Number

22 of 27

Sidereal span

Capricorn 10°00′ – 23°20′

Rashi

Capricorn

Ruling planet (lord)

Moon — 10-year Vimshottari dasha

Presiding deity

Vishnu

Symbol

Ear

Gana

Deva

Yoni

Monkey (female)

Nadi

Antya (Kapha)

Muhurta class

Chara (movable)

Keywords

Listening, learning, connecting

Degrees are sidereal, using the Lahiri ayanamsa as the Indian ephemeris does. A Western chart uses tropical longitudes and will place the same Moon roughly 24° earlier in the zodiac.

Character of Shravana Natives

An ear, presided over by Vishnu, ruled by the Moon. Shravana is the listening nakshatra, and in a tradition transmitted orally that makes it the nakshatra of learning itself. These natives absorb through hearing, remember conversations verbatim, and connect people who ought to know each other. Shravana produces the best interviewers, teachers and counsellors of the twenty-seven.

The Four Padas and Their Naming Letters

Each nakshatra divides into four padas of 3°20′, and each pada falls in a different navamsa sign — which is why two people born in Shravana on the same day can read quite differently. The pada also fixes the traditional first syllable for a child’s name.

27 nakshatras × 4 padas = 108 = 12 signs × 9 navamsas, so the padas run through the navamsa signs in one unbroken cycle. Syllables vary a little between regional traditions; a family pandit’s list takes precedence over any table. Each pada above links to its own page: the exact 3°20′ arc, the rashi it falls in, where the Moon stands in that navamsa, and how much Moon mahadasha a birth there starts with.

Career and Work

Teaching, counselling and therapy, journalism and broadcasting, music, languages and translation, public relations, and traditional scholarship.

The nakshatra sets the flavour; the 10th house and its lord decide the actual profession. Where the Moon sits and how strong it is matters more than the list above — see Moon in Vedic astrology.

What to Watch For

A movable nakshatra, so travel and relocation feature. The specific difficulty is absorbing too much of other people — Shravana carries everyone's confidences and their moods with them, and gossip is the classical warning. Learning to stop listening is the discipline.

Shravana in Kundli Milan

Nakshatra matching scores 36 guna across eight kootas. Three of them are read straight off the birth nakshatra, and these are Shravana’s values:

18 of 36 is the conventional pass mark. Guna Milan is a filter, not a verdict — Mangal dosha, the 7th house and both Venus positions still have to be read, and a high score does not override a badly afflicted 7th.

Muhurta: What Shravana Is Used For

Shravana is classed as Chara (movable) — one of 5 nakshatras in that class, alongside Punarvasu, Swati, Dhanishta and Shatabhisha. Movable nakshatras suit motion: travel, relocation, buying vehicles, changing jobs, and anything involving trade across distances. They are also used for gardening and for acquiring anything with wheels. They are avoided for construction and for marriage, because what begins under them tends not to stay put.

A real muhurta needs the tithi, vara, yoga and karana too, not the nakshatra alone — the day’s panchang carries all five, and choghadiya narrows it to the hour.

Remedies and Practice

• Worship Vishnu, the presiding deity of Shravana, particularly on the day the Moon transits this nakshatra — which happens roughly once every 27 days and is listed in the daily panchang.
• Strengthen the Moon, the nakshatra lord, through its beej mantra and weekday observance. This matters most while the Moon mahadasha or antardasha is running.
• Feed or donate on the Moon weekday. Charity attributed to the lord is the remedy the classics prefer over gemstones, because it carries no risk of strengthening the wrong graha.
• Recite the nakshatra’s 108 names or the Nakshatra Suktam during the Moon’s transit through Shravana if you want a practice tied to the nakshatra rather than the planet.

If a stone is being considered: the lord here is Moon, whose stone is Pearl (Moti). Selection by janma nakshatra is the more precise of the two routes, so this differs from the rashi recommendation for Capricorn (Blue Sapphire (Neelam)).

More precise is still not automatic. Remedies are prescribed for a specific affliction, not for a nakshatra as such: nothing above needs doing unless the Moon is genuinely weak or badly placed in your chart, and no stone should be worn on nakshatra grounds alone. See dosha remedies.

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