Nakshatra Cluster · Moon-ruled · Shravana

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

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

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.

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.