Shravana

What it gives

Learning capacity, memory, and credibility built through study.

What it costs

Gossip, and reputation guarded more carefully than earned.

Work it suits

Teaching, audio and music, law, scholarship, media.

The four padas

Each pada is 3°20' wide and maps onto a navamsa sign. Same nakshatra, four different methods of pursuing it.

1. Pada 1 — Aquarius navamsa

   Pada 1 falls in Aquarius navamsa, which colours the nakshatra with Aquarius concerns — the same essence, pursued through a aquarius method.

2. Pada 2 — Pisces navamsa

   Pada 2 falls in Pisces navamsa, which colours the nakshatra with Pisces concerns — the same essence, pursued through a pisces method.

3. Pada 3 — Aries navamsa

   Pada 3 falls in Aries navamsa, which colours the nakshatra with Aries concerns — the same essence, pursued through a aries method.

4. Pada 4 — Taurus navamsa

   Pada 4 falls in Taurus navamsa, which colours the nakshatra with Taurus concerns — the same essence, pursued through a taurus method.

Why Moon matters in this chart

If your Moon is in Shravana, Moon is the lord of your first Vimshottari mahadasha. How much of that period you were born into depends on how far the Moon had already travelled through the nakshatra. The condition of Moon in your chart therefore colours the whole early part of your life — which is a far more specific statement than anything a sun sign can offer.