Shravana (श्रवण) is the 22th of the 27 nakshatras, spanning 280°00' to 293°20' of the nirayana zodiac. It is ruled by Moon, its deity is Vishnu and its symbol is three footprints; an ear. Shravana nakshatra lies entirely in Makar rashi (Capricorn), so every Moon in Shravana is a Makar Moon. Children born with the Moon here are traditionally named with the syllables Ju, Je, Jo, Gha.
Shravana means 'hearing'. Vishnu is its deity, and its symbol is the ear. It is the nakshatra of learning by listening, and of tradition passed down. Chandra rules it. It is associated with scholarship, counsel and a good name.
Tradition sums Shravana up as “the one that listens”. A person whose Moon is here begins life in the Moon mahadasha, and the nakshatra's Deva gana is read as the gentle, giving temperament the texts call divine. Its symbol, three footprints; an ear, and its deity, Vishnu, are the images the texts use to describe it. Read these as the nakshatra's character rather than a portrait of a person: the rest of the chart, the Moon's strength and the running dasha shape how it shows.
Each nakshatra is split into four padas of 3°20'. The pada a birth falls in decides the navamsa and, in the naming tradition, the first syllable of the child's name. For Shravana those syllables are Ju, Je, Jo, Gha.
The baby name letters calculator marks the syllable for a chosen pada, and the rashi by name calculator works the other way, from a name to its rashi.
Guna Milan reads three of this nakshatra's classifications directly. Its gana is Deva, compared with the partner's for temperament. Its nadi is Antya (kapha): partners who share a nadi score zero on the largest koota, worth 8 of the 36 points. Its yoni animal is the monkey, compared for instinctive compatibility. The South Indian nakshatra porutham reads the two birth stars in its own ten tests, and kundli milan gives the full 36-point match.
Only if the Moon was in Shravana when you were born. The Moon crosses a nakshatra in about a day, so a birth date narrows it to two candidates at best and the birth time settles it. Shravana nakshatra lies entirely in Makar rashi (Capricorn), so every Moon in Shravana is a Makar Moon. Find your birth nakshatra, check your Moon sign, or make the full kundli.
Short answers about Shravana: its lord, rashi, name letters, symbol and gana.
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Find my nakshatraMoon is the lord of Shravana nakshatra. The nakshatra lord decides which Vimshottari mahadasha a person is born into, so someone with the Moon in Shravana begins life in the Moon mahadasha. How far the Moon had already travelled through the nakshatra sets how much of that first period is left.
Shravana nakshatra lies entirely in Makar rashi (Capricorn), so every Moon in Shravana is a Makar Moon. A nakshatra is 13°20' wide and a rashi 30°, so most nakshatras cross a sign boundary and the pada decides which Moon sign applies. The pada is fixed by the birth time, which is why two people with the same nakshatra can have different rashis.
The name letters for Shravana nakshatra are Ju, Je, Jo and Gha, one for each pada in order. Traditional namkaran gives the child a name beginning with the syllable of the pada the Moon occupied at birth, so the pada is needed as well as the nakshatra.
The symbol of Shravana nakshatra is three footprints; an ear and its presiding deity is Vishnu. Tradition sums the nakshatra up as "the one that listens", and the symbol and deity are the starting point for reading its nature. Its yoni animal, the monkey, is a separate classification used in marriage matching.
Shravana is Deva gana and Antya (kapha) nadi, and its yoni animal is the monkey. All three are used in Guna Milan, the 36-point marriage match. Nadi carries the most weight at 8 points, and partners who share a nadi score zero on it; gana carries 6 points and yoni 4.
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