Jupiter Transit in Shravana

Shravana lies in the middle of Capricorn, from the tenth to the twenty-third degree. Vishnu is its deity and the Moon its lord, and its symbols are an ear and three footprints. Jupiter counts the Moon a friend. A debilitated Jupiter in Shravana at least sits under a lord it trusts.

Debilitation weakens Jupiter's confidence in Capricorn, and Saturn's sign asks the guru to work for a wage. Shravana turns that weakness into listening. The stay, about four to five months and often split by the retrograde, is a time of learning by ear, and teachers appear in ordinary dress: an elder, a text read aloud, a rule of the trade.

Wealth comes through employment and steady, recorded work. Children are guided toward a trade, and faith shows as obedience to a lineage. Phaladeepika's rules for cancelling debilitation turn on the dispositor, so Saturn's condition in the birth chart decides how much Jupiter can give.

Sagittarius, Virgo, Cancer, Taurus and Pisces Moons and lagnas have Jupiter in the second, fifth, seventh, ninth and eleventh. Capricorn Moons hold it weak in the first and gain by patience. Aquarius, Libra, Leo and Gemini Moons, with the twelfth, fourth, sixth and eighth, should take advice before they take a loan.

The question of the stay is whether a person can be taught by someone of lower station, and Shravana's answer is to listen.

Honour Vishnu by reading or hearing scripture, above all the Vishnu Sahasranama on Thursday. Add japa of Om Brihaspataye Namah and Parashara's dana of yellow cloth, turmeric or gram. Serve an old teacher with your time, and listen closely, which is the main discipline of the nakshatra.