Nakshatra Cluster · Moon-ruled · Shravana

Shravana nakshatra, 10°00' to 23°20' Capricorn.

Shravana sits wholly inside Capricorn, from 10°00' to 23°20' of the sign, as the 22nd of the 27 nakshatras. The Moon rules it, Vishnu the cosmic preserver presides and the three footprints, with the ear as its second symbol, mark it. It follows Uttara Ashadha, which crosses the Sagittarius-Capricorn boundary under the Sun, and precedes Dhanishta, which carries Capricorn into Aquarius under Mars. Between the boundary-crosser and the drummer, Shravana is the listener, the ear that receives traditional wisdom and the keeper that preserves what is heard. Sources: Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra Chapter 3, Phaladeepika Chapter 7, Sarvartha Chintamani.

Range, ruler, deity and classical attributes

Range	10°00' to 23°20' Capricorn
Sequence position	22nd of 27 nakshatras
Ruling planet	Moon (10-year Vimshottari mahadasha)
Presiding deity	Vishnu (the cosmic preserver, the order-maintainer)
Symbol	three footprints (also the ear symbol)
Gana (temperamental class)	deva
Varna (functional class)	mleccha
Yoni (animal-axis)	monkey
Nadi (Ayurvedic constitution)	kapha
Macro register	listening capacity, wisdom-reception, traditional learning, dharmic-preservation

Mythology and meaning

Vishnu the presiding deity is the cosmic preserver, the maintainer of dharmic order. The three-footprints symbol commemorates Vishnu's three strides across the universe (Trivikrama). The ear-symbol reflects the listening capacity through which wisdom is received. Shravana carries the learner-and-preserver register: the chart owner receives traditional teaching with respect and preserves what is received.

The classical reading walks the presiding deity, the symbol and the ruling planet together to derive the nakshatra's full register. Shravana's register is shaped by all three: the deity sets the thematic register, the symbol provides the visual-mnemonic and behavioural anchor and the ruling planet anchors the Vimshottari major-period framework and the broader chart-side reading whenever the chart owner runs the ruler's mahadasha.

What Moon in Shravana reads as

Classical professional registers commonly associated with this nakshatra include teaching and education (especially traditional learning, languages, scripture), counselling and advisory (the listening profession), music (auditory-axis), publishing and editorial work, anything requiring sustained attention to received teaching. The professional list is illustrative rather than deterministic. The nakshatra produces structural capacity; the chart owner's specific application depends on the broader chart, the dasha sequence and the natal house position of the Moon within the chart.

The four padas and per-pada navamsa signs

Each nakshatra divides into four padas of 3°20' arc each, mapping to the four navamsa signs starting from the position of the first pada. Pada-level reading qualifies the broad nakshatra register with the navamsa sign that the chart owner's Moon (or natal point) actually occupies. The four padas of Shravana.

Pada 1. Aries / Mars: learning through direct register, pioneering-listener axis.
Pada 2. Taurus / Venus: material-axis preservation, traditional-craft listening.
Pada 3. Gemini / Mercury: intellectual-listener, communication-axis preservation.
Pada 4. Cancer / Moon: emotional-listener, nurture-axis preservation of wisdom.

The classical practice reads the pada-level register together with the natal Moon's navamsa sign for full nakshatra reading. The pada determines which navamsa sign the chart owner activates; the navamsa lord then participates in the broader chart reading as a parallel signature alongside the natal lord.

Moon rulership and the 10-year mahadasha

A native born with the natal Moon in Shravana opens life in the Moon mahadasha. The 10-year window foregrounds Moon's karaka register: Moon's natural signification activates as the broad thematic frame for the opening phase of the life.

Combined with Shravana's listener register, the opening Moon mahadasha period often produces early-life learning-supportive nurture, the patient development of traditional-wisdom capacity and the dharmic-preservation disposition for which this nakshatra is renowned.

The exact degree of the Moon within Shravana fixes how much of the opening Moon mahadasha remained at birth. Moon at 0° of the nakshatra inherits the full 10-year period from birth. Moon at the closing degree of the nakshatra inherits only the residual fraction before the next mahadasha begins. The classical computation reduces this to days from the precise degree of Moon within the nakshatra range.

Born under Shravana: what it sets in motion

The birth Moon in Shravana carries one load-bearing fact ahead of any temperament reading: it sets the Moon itself as the first mahadasha, and the Moon runs 10 years in the 120-year Vimshottari cycle. This is why the birth nakshatra is the entry point of the whole map. The order that follows is fixed, Mars for 7 years and then Rahu for 18, each picking up from where the Moon leaves off.

The elapsed fraction of the nakshatra at birth sets how much of that opening Moon period is still owed. A Moon near the start of Shravana, close to 10°00' Capricorn, inherits almost the full 10 years. A Moon three-quarters of the way through the arc, near 20° of the sign, has spent three-quarters of the period on the birth clock, so one quarter remains: one quarter of 10 years is 2.5 years, two years and six months. A Moon halfway through inherits 5 years, half the run. The exact balance reduces to days once the precise degree is known.

The Moon's own karaka register frames that opening stretch, a fitting start for a nakshatra the Moon rules. The Moon mahadasha overview sets out what the 10 years foreground once Shravana starts them running.

This span in the 2026 to 2028 sky

Shravana sits wholly inside Capricorn, and this places it squarely under the node in the second nodal chapter of the window. Rahu enters Capricorn on 27 December 2026 and holds the sign until 15 July 2028, so it crosses the whole of Shravana's 10°00' to 23°20' arc across that stretch, with Ketu opposite in Cancer. Unlike its neighbour Uttara Ashadha, which the node reaches only in its Capricorn padas, Shravana takes the Rahu overlay in full. The other slow bodies stay away: Jupiter runs through Cancer then Leo then Virgo and Saturn holds Pisces then Aries, both clear of Capricorn.

Classical practice pairs that signal with its limit. Rahu amplifies and unsettles the themes of the degrees it occupies, and the effect turns on which house Capricorn holds in a given chart, so the full-arc transit is a house-specific reading rather than a single verdict for everyone born here. The fast bodies keep their cycle alongside it: the transiting Moon, the lord of Shravana, crosses its own nakshatra for about a day every 27.3 days, and the transiting Sun passes once a year for about 13.7 days as it moves through Capricorn near the end of January. The Capricorn neighbour that shares this Rahu chapter is Uttara Ashadha, reached only in part where Shravana is reached in full.

Transit reading: when slow planets cross Shravana

Beyond the natal-Moon reading, the Shravana nakshatra carries reading-significance whenever slow planets transit through its 13°20' arc. Saturn at approximately 2.5 years per sign passes through Shravana once every 29.5 years. Jupiter at approximately 13 months per sign passes through annually within each 12-year cycle. Rahu and Ketu at approximately 18 months per sign pass through every 18 years.

Transit Jupiter through Shravana provides a benefic overlay on the nakshatra's themes for the duration of the Jupiter transit. Transit Saturn through Shravana provides a structural-pressure overlay, often producing the consolidation or restructuring of the nakshatra's themes in the chart owner's life. Transit Rahu or Ketu through Shravana provides an amplification or dissolution overlay depending on which node is transiting and which house the nakshatra occupies on the chart.

Computed windows, 2024 to 2040

Every pass of Saturn, Jupiter and Rahu through Shravana's 13°20' span in this period. Sidereal positions from the Swiss Ephemeris with the PVRN Rao True Pushya ayanamsha and the mean node, the same engine that computes every chart on this site. Separate rows are separate passes, produced by retrograde motion.

Planet	Enters	Exits
Rahu	2027-05-01	2028-01-08
Jupiter	2032-12-16	2033-02-12

Compatibility attributes and Ashtakoota implications

Shravana carries gana classification deva (the temperamental class layer, with three values: deva for divine, manushya for human, rakshasa for intense), varna classification mleccha (the functional class layer), yoni classification monkey (the animal-axis compatibility marker) and nadi classification kapha (the Ayurvedic constitutional axis). These attributes feed Ashtakoota compatibility scoring used in classical Vedic matchmaking. The cluster documents these for reference, not as a forward-call mechanism.

Where Shravana sits in the 27-step sequence

In the fixed 27-step sidereal nakshatra sequence, Shravana is the 22nd nakshatra. The Moon traverses one nakshatra in approximately 24 hours (the lunar daily motion of approximately 13°10' per day matched against the 13°20' nakshatra arc). The nakshatra boundaries are therefore time-sensitive at the daily and even hourly level: birth time accuracy is the prerequisite for accurate nakshatra identification.

Calibration status

The article documents the classical Shravana-nakshatra reading as set out in BPHS Chapter 3 (nakshatra significations), Phaladeepika Chapter 7 and Sarvartha Chintamani. The presiding-deity reading, the symbol-interpretation, the four-pada-per-navamsa framework and the gana-varna-yoni-nadi compatibility attributes are presented as the tradition's own framework. The Tempora calibrated signature library (Note 005) does not currently include nakshatra-specific event signatures. Calibrating nakshatra placements against a labelled chart-corpus is open work.

FAQ

What is the Shravana nakshatra and where does it sit on the sidereal lattice?

Shravana is the 22nd of the 27 nakshatras, occupying 10°00' to 23°20' Capricorn. The ruling planet is Moon (10-year Vimshottari mahadasha). The presiding deity is Vishnu (the cosmic preserver, the order-maintainer). The symbol is the three footprints (also the ear symbol). The macro register is listening capacity, wisdom-reception, traditional learning, dharmic-preservation. Sanskrit shravana meaning the hearer or the listening one. Sources: BPHS Chapter 3, Phaladeepika Chapter 7.

What mythology and meaning is associated with Shravana?

What does Moon in Shravana read as?

Natives born with the natal Moon in Shravana carry listening and wisdom-reception as dominant register. The chart receives teaching with respect, preserves what is heard and operates as the keeper of traditional wisdom. The Moon as the mental and emotional register absorbs the nakshatra's signature directly. Professional registers commonly associated: teaching and education (especially traditional learning, languages, scripture), counselling and advisory (the listening profession), music (auditory-axis), publishing and editorial work, anything requiring sustained attention to received teaching.

What are the four padas of Shravana?

Each nakshatra divides into four padas of 3°20' arc each, mapping to four navamsa signs. Shravana's padas. Pada 1: Aries / Mars: learning through direct register, pioneering-listener axis. Pada 2: Taurus / Venus: material-axis preservation, traditional-craft listening. Pada 3: Gemini / Mercury: intellectual-listener, communication-axis preservation. Pada 4: Cancer / Moon: emotional-listener, nurture-axis preservation of wisdom. The natal Moon's navamsa sign determines which pada the chart owner activates.

What does the Moon rulership give Shravana?

Moon rulership means a native with Moon in Shravana opens life in the Moon mahadasha (10 years). The Moon karaka register foregrounds across the opening period. Combined with Shravana's listener register, the opening Moon mahadasha period often produces early-life learning-supportive nurture, the patient development of traditional-wisdom capacity and the dharmic-preservation disposition for which this nakshatra is renowned.

How is Shravana read during transit?

Beyond the natal-Moon reading, Shravana carries significance when slow planets transit through its 13°20' arc. Saturn passes through once every 29.5 years. Jupiter passes annually within each 12-year cycle. Rahu and Ketu pass through every 18 years. Transit Jupiter provides benefic overlay. Transit Saturn provides structural-pressure overlay. Transit Rahu or Ketu provides amplification or dissolution overlay depending on which node and which house the nakshatra occupies.

How much of the Moon mahadasha remains for a Moon born in Shravana?

A Moon near the start of Shravana, close to 10°00' Capricorn, inherits almost the full 10-year Moon mahadasha. The elapsed fraction of the nakshatra at birth sets how much remains: a Moon three-quarters through the arc keeps one quarter of 10 years, which is 2.5 years or two years and six months; a Moon halfway through keeps 5 years. This is why the birth nakshatra is the entry point of the whole 120-year Vimshottari map, since it fixes both the first mahadasha lord and the balance still owed at birth.

Does any 2026 to 2028 transit cross Shravana?

Rahu enters Capricorn on 27 December 2026 and holds the sign until 15 July 2028, crossing the whole of Shravana's 10°00' to 23°20' Capricorn arc, with Ketu opposite in Cancer. Shravana takes this nodal overlay in full, where its neighbour Uttara Ashadha is reached only in its Capricorn padas. Jupiter runs through Cancer then Leo then Virgo and Saturn holds Pisces then Aries, both clear of Capricorn, and the effect of Rahu turns on which house Capricorn holds in a given chart.