Nakshatra 22 of 27 · 10°00′ Capricorn – 23°20′ Capricorn

Shravana Nakshatra

Shravana is the listener — the mansion of the sacred ear. Vishnu crossed the universe in three steps, and Shravana hears all three. Its people learn by listening the way others learn by burning their hands: testimony, lineage, story, and rumor all arrive here first and get sorted honestly.

The mind it makes

Receptive and connective — it absorbs whole traditions by ear and hears what was almost said. A Moon here filters every other placement in the chart through that temperament — in Jyotish the Moon is the mind, and the nakshatra is its native dialect.

The gift

True listening: the counselor's, journalist's, or disciple's ear that makes people more truthful around it.

The shadow — read without fear

The open channel that never closes — gossip in, anxiety absorbed, opinions outsourced to the last voice heard. As with every mansion, the shadow is the gift over-applied: name it, date its seasons through the dasha timeline, and it becomes workable material rather than a verdict.

In love

Feels loved when heard; gives attention as the highest currency and notices instantly when it's counterfeit.

At work

Teaching, media, translation, counseling, oral tradition of every modern kind — the professions of the ear.

The four padas

Each nakshatra divides into four padas of 3°20′ — quarter-steps that fine-tune the mansion and set the navamsa (D9) sign of anything placed there.

Your dasha, wound from here

If your Moon occupies Shravana, your Vimshottari sequence opens with a Moon mahadasha of 10 years — entered partway through, according to how far the Moon had traveled through the mansion at your birth. The whole 120-year clock of your life is wound from this single placement, which is why Jyotish begins with the birth star rather than the Sun sign.

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