• Chandra in Rohini - has a profound and self-defining core need for emotional security, which expresses via physical attractiveness (Shukra) and wanting to appear as a provider of wealth and sensual luxury (Shukra)

• Chandra in Hasta - has a profound and self-defining core need for emotional security, which expresses via technical excellence (Budha) and wanting to appear as a provider of artisanal skill and craft (Budha)

• Chandra in Shravana has a profound and self-defining core need for emotional security, which expresses via steady reliability (Shani)

  Needs to appear as a provider of conventional conformity to public standards (Shani)

  • in particular, Shravana is emotionally aligned with 'law and order' practices

  • its greatest feeling of emotional security occurs when imposing petty or parochial laws.

  Excellent placement for regulators, inspectors, examiners, property-assessors, and civil-court judges.

  • USA Pres-16 Abraham Lincoln was a consummate "listener" known for his exceptional quietness and attentiveness yet also his ability to speak the mind of the people when the time for public debate was at hand.

  • Lincoln was a horseback circuit-riding lawyer for years before embarking upon his campaign for the USA presidency during the Civil War. His "lawyering" duties included judge, jury, assessor, regulator, examiner and more in the rural areas of Illinois. He was especially knowledgeable in property matters (Chandra = settlement, property, boundaries.)

Radix Moon in Shravana = "Hearing"

= exceptionally attentive to the 'drum beat' of social approval and public opinion

• Chandra-Shani-Vishnu

• Chandra in a Chandra-ruled nakshatra has an identical, perfect relationship

Shravana = skillful, absorptive listening.

Shravana is very closely related to its Twin Partner Dhanishtha, which is the other Nakshatra of hearing the beat.

• Shravana = usually knows a class of social ranked, high-position people

• yet less of the Dhanishtha inclination to acquire wealth via elite association.

Shravana natives are careful with their finances and generally find their way into the capitalized ranks by carefully managing their 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.

• Shravana 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".

• industrialist Henry Ford famously planted spies in the restrooms of his automobile factories so that he could "listen" to what the workers were saying

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.

Superb placement for diplomacy

• USA Pres-3, Thomas Jefferson

• UK-PM 1997-2007 Tony Blair

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.

• Excellent placement for television announcers and newscasters, ceremonial "presenter" personalities, pulp novelists, sensationalistic journalists

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.

• All the Chandra-ruled lunar Nakshatra suffer from psychological defensiveness which is out of proportion to the scope of the factual threat.

• Ironically these folk who are quite pure of heart can develop a reputation for falseness and pretense, as a result of putting up a defensive shield which they try to use as a 'decoy' to deflect predatory interests.

• The honest truth may seem like an inadequate defense to Rohini, who may erect a protective facade of perfect contentment (Chandra) in order to mask the human weaknesses of one's self or one's immediate family.

One notable feature of Shravana which is must stronger compared to Rohini or Hasta is Shravana's staunch and unyielding defense of one's public reputation. It will be almost impossible to publicly discredit a Shravana. There will always be enough people who want to hear what the Shravana is promoting, whether it is true or not, and those people will band together in defense of the Shravana native.

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).

he 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.

• Gives attention to religious teachings. Tolerates only the purest spoken word in the home.

Shravana parents disallow vulgarityto flow from the mouths of their children; will not abide ill words to be spoken in the public assembly.

for example,

the veracity of the French author Alexandra David-Néel's popular Himalayan adventure tales was called into question by those knowledgeable of the region, its terrain, and its customs. Her books which were promoted as autobiography seemed to contain substantial amounts of delightfully embroidered fiction, tales obtained from other travelers, and clever reworkings of some scholarly accounts in other languages.

• Typical of Shravana, Alexandra David-Néel vigorously defended her reputation as a first-hand observer of the mysterious lands and peoples of remote Gobi and Tibet. Modern scholarship would indicate that she, like some other adventuring women of her generation, claimed to have done things which were really quite preposterous. Nevertheless as a true Shravana she catered to "what they want to hear." She gave people stories that they wanted to read, information that they wanted to know, visions of distant lands that they wanted to imagine.

• The political personality Sarah Palin was elected to the governorship of the state of Alaska as a 'rogue' candidate with no job experience is also a typical Shravana. The ability to repeat a number of simple slogans regarding family and customary faith principles (while looking good on television) is her great strength. She lacks understanding of of world politics, but this is not a problem for her public presentation as a familiar, maternal, church-going figure. Ms. Palin provides a politically sensitive response to the confusions of one sector of the USA electorate: the least well educated, least traveled and least economically secure segment. So far she has enjoyed remarkably high success by telling the the people what they want to hear.

The down side of a too-narrow Shravana listening strategy is however that a simple, ethnically familiar story (or any too-narrow pitch) which appeals to only one section of the electorate will certainly not convince the full majority, and a too-narrow Sravana cannot rise past parochial bounds.

• Angela Merkel of Germany has a Shravana Moon, but she has demonstrated a much broader listening scope than the quit governor Ms. Palin. Angela Merkel also entered her high political job with scarce experience; however she seems to listen to intelligent political advisers and offers herself as a sounding post for many in the world policy arena. In 2010 however she made a classic Shravana folk statement, highly responsive to Germany's frustrated working classes, that 'immigration has failed' [subtext: ethnic German values would resurge].

• Caroline Bouvier Kennedy faced similar accountability issues when in 2008 she proposed, on the basis of never having held a single political office, to become the governor of New York State in the USA. Presuming the dominant value of popular acclaim [Shravana] and national reputation , Ms. Kennedy was surprised to learn that no political party would support her. "Family reputation" is the self-defining core raised in a political family, she completely understood the task of governing the huge, diverse, conflict-and-corruption ridden state of New York. She gracefully withdrew.

• industrialist, journalist, philanthropist Andrew Carnegie wrote several books that declared his flag-waving ideological support for the "American Way" = labor unions, democratic elections, and free-market capitalism. However he also violently broke labor strikes, poured millions into election-thwarting special interest lobbies, and indulged in extensive insider stock trading. Much of Carnegie's journalistic writing was pious platitude, meant to insure positive image and "public relations" not connected to his material actions.

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.

industrialist, journalist, philanthropist Andrew Carnegie was such a remarkably accurate listener that as a telegraph-office boy, he was able to decode incoming messages aurally, without waiting to write the value of each code into a paper letter. His success in industry was due at least partly to his ability to hear and delivery accurate instructions.

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 instincts = professions of public-relations, "spin doctors", opinion-polls, political campaign managers, and holders of public office.

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.)

In my files from 1962: this case of female Shravana Chandra stress reaction during Sade Saati.

The 30-something Shravana Chandra female was enjoying her life in a small town, where in addition to being a busy at-home mother she volunteered in church activities. She supported her husband's career by cooking dinner for his business associates and regularly she praised his good character to whoever would listen. She often told friends how happy she was in her marriage.

• Her husband complained of her emotional distancing. As he felt increasingly "unheard", his alcoholism progressed.

• He said that she was too busy with activities; she seemed more concerned with the outer social presentation of the marriage and less aware of the inner emotions between the partners.

• He asked her to stop over-doing the social achievements and pay more attention to him.

• He mentioned that a business friend and his wife had entered marriage counseling in their church, and asked her to enter that conversation with him. However she felt that any notice of irregularity in their marriage would be counterproductive to their happiness because it would harm their reputation.

• Essentially, she had no idea what he was asking for. After a few repeat requests her husband stopped asking. His drinking worsened and he lost a job promotion.

• She continued to build up a good reputation for their family via steady pursuit of visible achievement. She spoke with praise and admiration for everyone in their community, esp her husband.

The onset of Sade Sati produced a completely unexpected divorce announcement by her husband. He had begun a compensating relationship. In the conservative 1960's American Midwest he felt that he needed to marry this new woman who was actually listening to him and sympathizing with him. The Shravana native, in a state of traumatic shock, was so concerned with avoiding public embarrassment that:

• She walked away from her home and children, leaving them with the ex-husband and his new girlfriend.

• She rode the bus to a city 500 miles away.

• Thinking of church membership as a prime marker of social decency, she joined a mainstream congregation of worship. She got a modest but respectable job, and rented an apartment in a middle-class neighborhood.

• She never told co-workers or neighbors about her divorce or the busy, loving life with children she left behind.

• Fellow churchgoers heard that she had been tragically widowed.

• Only after the end of Sade Saati did she permit her children to visit her,

  • and even on those visits they did not go out to restaurants or walk in the town, due to her fear that people might talk.

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.