Shravana — an ear (also three footprints), ruled by Moon
Shravana means "hearing." Its symbol is an ear, its deity is Vishnu the preserver, and its whole tradition honors knowledge received by listening, the way the Vedas themselves were carried for centuries. You learn through attention: to people, lectures, patterns, the thing said under the thing said. The Moon as lord makes the listening warm rather than clinical. In a noisy era, your quiet receptivity is close to a superpower, and connection is what it preserves.
Shravana spans Capricorn 10°00′ – 23°20′. Its presiding deity is Vishnu; its symbol is an ear (also three footprints); its gana (temperament class) is deva. The Vimshottari lord is Moon — anyone born with the Moon here starts life in a Moon mahadasha.
World-class attention. You absorb, remember, and transmit knowledge faithfully, and people feel unusually understood within minutes of talking to you. Teaching, connecting, and preserving what matters all flow from that single deep skill. It compounds across a lifetime.
Ears collect everything: gossip, other people's burdens, opinions that drown out your own voice. You may listen your way out of ever being heard, and take slights in through the same open channel. Speaking is also a form of preservation.
Teaching and academia, counseling, journalism and podcasting, translation, archives and libraries, medicine's listening specialties, any role where trust plus accuracy is the product. You transmit as well as you receive; make sure the job includes both.
You love by understanding, which partners experience as a rare luxury. The balance to strike is being known in return; ask to be listened to, in words, out loud.
The classical naming syllables for Shravana's four padas are Khi, Khu, Khe, Kho — one per quarter. Tradition starts a child's name with the syllable of their Moon's pada.
When did someone last hear you the way you hear everyone?