Shravana - ruled by Chandra

10Makara00- 23Makara19

Michel Foucault (social historian)

Alexandra David-Néel (Himalayan explorer)

Caroline Bouvier Kennedy (attorney,   historian, philanthropist)

Henry Ford (industrialist, philanthropist)

USA-Gov-AK Sarah Palin

Angela Merkel Chancellor of Germany

Radix Moon in Shravana = "Hearing"- exceptionally attentive to public opinion 

(Chandra-Shani-Vishnu)

Shravana = a nakshatra of skillful listening.

Shravana is very closely related to Dhanishtha, the other nakshatra of hearing the beat.

Shravana has somewhat less of Dhanishtha's inclination to acquire wealth via elite association, but Shravana natives are careful with their finances and generally find their way into the capitalized ranks by means of managing the social reputation.

Excellent for pollsters, political campaign managers, advertising marketers, social historians.

Shravana natives are excellent listeners who are attentive to public opinion and wish to maintain their social reputation at all costs. 

• As a corollary, the native is emotionally inclined to tell people what the they want to hear.

•  Sravana Chandra tends to pander to the public's need to hear platitudes, pious niceties and simple solutions to complex problems.

• In additional to skillful listening  one tends to be a moralistic speaker

Extraordinary "ear" for music, drum-beat,  rhythms, speech prosody, "what people are saying".

They are allied with conventional standards for excellence and will not tolerate any challenge to what they hear as the rules for proper behavior in their subculture. 

Shravana's rhythmic intelligence can concentrate on a pattern and "pay attention" to nuanced variation. 

Gifted in delivering speeches and sermons with a rhythmic, melodically structured cadence. Sensitive "ear" for writing. A writer with Shravana Chandra knows to read one's written work aloud to ensure a readable rhythm. 

A shrewd and discriminating observer (David-Néel).

There is a certain negativity associated with this nakshatra which is the obvious downside of tale-telling, dishonesty or open contempt for those who might tarnish or challenge one's public reputation. 

If Chandra receives aggressive drishti in the nativity, the native might pursue his nay-sayers aggressively, seeking to discredit those who might criticize one (Sarah Palin).

The upside can be a professionally respected version of  tale-telling, such as journalism or scholarly historian.  Shravana can produce exquisitely attentive historians (Michel Foucault) and industrialists who listen to the people and deliver what the people request (Henry Ford).

Shravana can be arrogant or uncharitable even (or especially) to close friends or family, should one's reputation come into danger from insinuation of untruthfulness or by unflattering association. 

The upside is focused attention to religious teachings and tolerating only the purest spoken word in their homes.

Parents disallow vulgarity to flow from the mouths of their children; will not abide for ill words to be spoken by them in the public assembly. 

Shravana will travel extensively to listen at the feet of the guru; but one will also ensure that his pious visits are publicly announced and established in the public mind.

Intellectually, the power of the ear is a huge asset; one listens attentively to the teacher and reads with close attention to detail.

Shravana produces scholars of the highest order who pass long the lineage high values of their culture. 

Marvelous historians, sociologists, and curators of traditional knowledge.

Natural ability at public-relations, opinion-polls, political campaign managers, and holders of public office. 

• Deep emotional need to know one is held in good repute.

Spiritual director of this section of the path:

• Vishnu

• Hari

Trauma profile:

Anxious need to have one's performance recognized, a fear of not being noticed.

Trauma of having been unheard, disregarded, not recognized, not listened to.

As a child, one was ignored in conversation or talked about "in the third person" as if one does not exist.

(As an adult, one fears slander, and vigorously defends one's reputation.)

Navamsha Moon in Shravana (intimate relationships).

In order to mirror one's own subconscious emotional patterns, one attracts a core partner who expresses Shravana behavior.

Under emotional stress in relationships, Shravana navamsha Chandra can evoke the native's inner fear of not being heard. 

Reactions to this fear include compulsive making of announcements, story-telling and general noise, in order to attract attention. 

Navamsha Moon in Shravana = Luciano Pavarotti