Shravana is the ear, and its people learn by listening. Its deity is Vishnu, who took three steps to span the world, and the nakshatra stands for hearing, learning, connecting — the scholar, the counsellor, the one others confide in, the one who knows what is being said in every room. Those with the Moon here are perceptive, studious, well-connected and diplomatic, and they remember what they are told.
The Moon rules the nakshatra and Saturn the sign, so the Shravana Moon is a feeling nature under discipline — receptive but reserved, sympathetic but careful, the listener who does not repeat. The difficulty is a tendency to take in more than it can carry and to keep too much to itself. A Moon here starts life in the Moon's own mahadasha, ten years, and Mars's period follows.
The four padas of Shravana
Each nakshatra is divided into four padas of 3°20′. The pada says which sign the Moon is in when a nakshatra straddles two, and which navamsa (the ninth-harmonic sign) it falls in — the finer grain astrologers read for temperament and marriage.
| Pada | Span | Sign | Navamsa |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10°00′–13°20′ | Capricorn | Aries |
| 2 | 13°20′–16°40′ | Capricorn | Taurus |
| 3 | 16°40′–20°00′ | Capricorn | Gemini |
| 4 | 20°00′–23°20′ | Capricorn | Cancer |
Shravana in kundli matching
Three of the eight kootas of guna milan are read from the nakshatra alone. Yoni (Monkey): the instinctive match by the nakshatra's animal — Horse, Elephant, Cat and Mongoose are its friends; the Sheep is its enemy. Gana (Deva): godly — gentle, giving, at ease with others; the same or a compatible gana scores in full. Nadi (Antya): the last pulse, kapha; two Moons in the same nadi are the heaviest dosha, with the classical exemptions. Check a match to see all eight for two charts.
Born under Shravana
The Vimshottari dasha starts from the nakshatra of the natal Moon. A Moon in Shravana begins life in the Moon mahadasha of 10 years, less the part already spent by the Moon's degree within the nakshatra; the further into Shravana the Moon stood, the shorter the balance at birth. The exact balance needs the degree, which your free kundli gives.