Span: 10°00' Capricorn – 23°20' Capricorn (sidereal)
Ruling lord: Moon
Presiding deity: Vishnu
Symbol: ear / three footprints
Shakti (classical power): connect/listen
Shravana is the 22nd of the 27 nakshatras, occupying 10°00' Capricorn to 23°20' Capricorn in the sidereal zodiac. If the Moon stood in this stretch of sky at your birth, this is your Janma Nakshatra, your birth star.
The traditional reading is: listens well, learns fast, wise, values knowledge and name.
The behavioural marker most often named: hears everything carefully and becomes the person others come to for advice.
The classical anchor for this is the shakti, the power assigned to each nakshatra in the Taittiriya Brahmana. For Shravana it is connect/listen, and the deity Vishnu and symbol ear / three footprints carry the same idea in image form.
Every nakshatra is quartered. Each quarter, a pada, is 3 degrees 20 minutes wide and maps onto a navamsa sign, which shades the reading:
| Pada | Span (sidereal) | Navamsa sign |
|---|---|---|
| Pada 1 | 10°00' Capricorn – 13°20' Capricorn | Aries |
| Pada 2 | 13°20' Capricorn – 16°40' Capricorn | Taurus |
| Pada 3 | 16°40' Capricorn – 20°00' Capricorn | Gemini |
| Pada 4 | 20°00' Capricorn – 23°20' Capricorn | Cancer |
Because a pada lasts roughly six hours, you need your birth time to know which of the four is yours.
Shravana is ruled by Moon.
Because Shravana is ruled by Moon, anyone born with the Moon here begins life in the Moon period of the Vimshottari dasha cycle, which runs 10 years. That starting point shifts the timing of every period that follows, which is why two people of the same age can be in completely different chapters.
Shravana is nakshatra number 22 of 27, spanning 10°00' Capricorn to 23°20' Capricorn in the sidereal zodiac. Its ruling lord is Moon, its presiding deity is Vishnu, and its symbol is ear / three footprints.
Each nakshatra is quartered into padas of 3 degrees 20 minutes. For Shravana the four padas fall in the navamsa signs Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, in that order.
Moon rules Shravana. In the Vimshottari dasha system the Moon period lasts 10 years.
Not sure whether Shravana is yours? It takes your date, place and ideally time of birth.
Find my nakshatraThe span and the pada boundaries are arithmetic and exact. The lord, deity and symbol follow the classical sources and vary little between them. The character reading renders the shakti, deity and symbol in plain words; the classical texts themselves are terse here, and anything longer is later compilation.
Recorded source for this entry: BPHS; shakti to connect/listen; deity Vishnu, symbol ear / three footprints, lord Moon