Vedic · Nakshatra 22 of 27

Shravana

The listening star: learning by hearing, and by being taught.

Ruling planet
Moon, in the Vimshottari cycle
Span
10°00' Capricorn to 23°20' Capricorn
Deity
Vishnu, the preserver
Symbol
an ear, or three footprints
Gana
Deva
Padas
Four, of 3°20' each

What Shravana means

Shravana means hearing. This is the nakshatra of transmitted knowledge: scripture, lineage, teaching, counsel. People born under it tend to be unusually good listeners and to end up as the one others come to. The shadow is absorbing other people's opinions and mistaking them for your own.

The work: Listen properly. Then work out what you actually think.

Your birth star is where the Moon was

A nakshatra is not a sign. The sidereal zodiac is divided two ways at once: into twelve signs of 30 degrees, and into twenty-seven nakshatras of 13 degrees 20 minutes. Your birth star is the nakshatra the Moon occupied at the moment you were born, and jyotish weighs it as heavily as the sign, sometimes more.

Shravana occupies 10°00' Capricorn to 23°20' Capricorn. Because a nakshatra is narrower than a sign, finding yours needs an exact birth time: the Moon crosses one about every day, so a few hours can move you into the next.

With the Moon in Shravana

A Moon here settles by listening: to people, to teaching, to music. The risk is absorbing other people's convictions so thoroughly that your own take years to locate.

Find your birth star from your birth moment

The four padas of Shravana

Every nakshatra divides again into four quarters called padas, of 3°20' each. The pada your Moon falls in refines the reading further and decides its position in the navamsa, the divisional chart jyotish uses for marriage and for the real strength of a planet.

Pada 1
10°00' Capricorn to 13°20' Capricorn
Pada 2
13°20' Capricorn to 16°40' Capricorn
Pada 3
16°40' Capricorn to 20°00' Capricorn
Pada 4
20°00' Capricorn to 23°20' Capricorn

Why Shravana being ruled by Moon matters

Shravana is ruled by Moon. That is not decoration: the nakshatra your Moon sits in decides which planetary period, or dasha, your life opens with. The twenty-seven run three times through the same nine lords, so Moon rules Shravana and two others, and the Vimshottari system uses that to time when things happen rather than only what they mean.

The gana is Deva, which is godly: gentle, cooperative, oriented toward harmony. Classical matchmaking still uses it when comparing two charts.

Where the other mirrors say something similar

Six Mirrors reads a birth through six traditions at once, and shows you where they independently agree. The birth star is the finest grain any of them offers, which makes it one of the most useful things to check a convergence against.

Sidereal positions use the Lahiri ayanamsa. Degree spans and ruling planets are derived from the nakshatra's index rather than transcribed, and checked against the engine's own calculation.