Shravana Pada 1 (Aries Navamsa)

Shravana Pada 1 at a Glance

Pada

1st of 4 — navamsa 85 of the zodiac's 108

Sidereal span

Capricorn 10°00′ – 13°20′ — 280°00′ – 283°20′ sidereal

Rashi (Moon sign)

Capricorn, the whole of Shravana being inside it

Navamsa (D-9)

Aries, ruled by Mars

Navamsa from the rashi

4th from Capricorn — a kendra, and the most private of the four

Moon in Aries

in a neutral’s sign — neither helped nor hindered

Name syllable

Ju

Moon dasha balance

7 years 6 months to 10 years of the 10-year period

What Pada 1 Settles About a Shravana Birth

All four padas of Shravana fall inside Capricorn, so the pada leaves the rashi alone — a Shravana native is a Capricorn native whichever quarter the Moon occupied. What pada 1 settles instead is the navamsa: Aries, the 4th sign from Capricorn, where the other three quarters of Shravana give Taurus, Gemini and Cancer. The D-9 is where the classical texts look for the strength behind a promise the rashi chart only states, which is why a Shravana pada 1 birth and a pada 2 birth are both Capricorn natives with Saturn as rashi lord and still do not read the same.

The pada is fixed by the Moon’s exact longitude, so it needs the birth time and place rather than the date: a Shravana Moon anywhere in Capricorn 10°00′ – 13°20′ is pada 1, and the Moon crosses 3°20′ in roughly five to seven hours depending on how fast it is moving. A free kundli will say pada 1 rather than just Shravana, and with it the Aries navamsa and how much of the Moon mahadasha was left.

Aries Navamsa: What the D-9 Adds

The first pada of Shravana is the Aries navamsa, lorded by Mars — the 4th sign from Capricorn, a kendra, and the most private of the four. Capricorn and Aries are different signs, so the D-9 shifts the reading rather than confirming it. They share a mobility — both movable — while differing in element, Capricorn being earth and Aries fire. Pada 1 is not the vargottama one and neither are the other three: Shravana has no vargottama pada at all, which it shares with 17 other nakshatras.

Two grahas carry this pada: the Moon, which lords Shravana, and Mars, which lords the Aries navamsa. Between Capricorn 10°00′ – 13°20′ and the Aries D-9 that arc points to, the Moon counts Mars neutral, so neither helps nor obstructs the other across pada 1. Reading Shravana pada 1 in a particular chart means reading both the Moon and Mars.

Where the Moon Stands in This Pada

The Moon lords Shravana, and in the Aries navamsa the Moon is in a neutral’s sign — neither helped nor hindered. That is a statement about pada 1 specifically: the lord of a nakshatra sits in a different navamsa sign in each of its four quarters, and across Shravana the grade runs from the Moon exalted in Taurus at pada 2 down to the Moon in a neutral’s sign in Aries at pada 1 — pada 1 is the weakest of the four on this test.

Shravana pada 1 is one of 27 padas that leave the lord neither helped nor hindered. Because the Moon is both the lord of Shravana and the graha whose position defines a pada at all, the two dignity questions collapse into one here: the Moon in Aries is in a neutral’s sign, and that is the whole answer for a Shravana pada 1 birth.

Vimshottari: The Moon Balance a Pada 1 Birth Starts With

A Moon in Shravana means life begins inside a Moon mahadasha, 10 years long. The pada fixes how much of it is left: pada 1 of Shravana runs from 7 years 6 months to 10 years remaining — the fullest of the four, because the Moon has only just entered Shravana — where knowing only that the Moon was somewhere in Shravana leaves the whole 10 years open. Inside Capricorn 10°00′ – 13°20′ it takes the exact longitude to place a birth within that range, and the pada is as far as a nakshatra reading gets.

The Moon rules three of the 27 nakshatras, so Shravana shares that 10-year opening with Rohini and Hasta — and pada 1 of Shravana shares the range above with pada 1 of those two, because the balance turns on the quarter rather than on which Moon nakshatra it is. Pada 2 of Shravana carries a different one. The dasha calculator takes the Moon balance a Shravana pada 1 birth starts with and lays out what follows it: Mars for 7 years, then Rahu.

The Syllable Ju

A child born with the Moon in Shravana pada 1 is traditionally named from Ju. The other three quarters of Shravana give Je for pada 2, Jo for pada 3 and Gha for pada 4, which is why a naming list keyed to the nakshatra alone gets it wrong three times out of four — the syllable follows the pada, and the pada follows the longitude.

The Other Three Padas of Shravana

Shravana is Capricorn 10°00′ – 23°20′, ruled by the Moon, Deva gana, monkey yoni, Antya nadi, and pada 1 shares every one of those with the other three. What belongs to pada 1 alone is the arc, the navamsa and the syllable — Capricorn 10°00′ – 13°20′, Aries, Ju:

The rashi column is constant on Shravana; the navamsa column is what the pada buys you.

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