The Listener — knowledge through hearing, connection, tradition
- Ruling planet
- Moon
- Deity
- Vishnu (the preserver)
- Symbol
- Ear / Three footprints
- Gana
- Deva
- Nature
- Chara (movable)
- Degrees
- 10°00′ Capricorn – 23°19′ Capricorn
- Falls in
- Capricorn
What this star is for
The star of listening, learning, and connection — the power of hearing, knowledge through attentive study, tradition, reputation. Moon-ruled + Vishnu → wisdom, scholarship, linking people/ideas through what is heard. "The one who listens."
Where it tends to work
Learning/teaching, counseling, media/audio, tradition-keeping, connection/networking through listening, scholarship, astrology/wisdom-transmission.
The four padas
Each nakshatra divides into four padas of 3°20′, and each pada lands in a different navamsa sign. Two people born a day apart can share Shravana and still run visibly different lives, because the pada changes which sign the ninth harmonic puts them in — which is why an app that stops at the sign is stopping too early.
| Pada | Range | Navamsa |
|---|---|---|
| Pada 1 | 10°–13°20′ | Aries (Mars) |
| Pada 2 | 13°20′–16°40′ | Taurus (Venus) |
| Pada 3 | 16°40′–20° | Gemini (Mercury) |
| Pada 4 | 20°–23°20′ | Cancer (Moon) |
Why the nakshatra is the clock
The Moon's nakshatra at birth decides which planetary period a life starts in and the whole sequence that follows — the Vimshottari dasha. That is the single most practical thing in this system and it costs nothing to check: the app computes your dashas from exactly this, on your device, and shows you the dates.
Shravana is ruled by Moon, so a Moon here begins life in a Moon period, at whatever point of it the Moon's exact degree had already run through.