The North Node

The North Node represents a significant lunar astrological placement, which helps us understand our place in life more clearly.

What is the North Node?

The North and South Nodes, known in mythology as Rahu and Ketu, actually indicate specific points in the lunar cycle. Called Lunar Nodes, these points mark the location where the Moon’s orbital path intersects with the ecliptic plane, Earth’s solar orbit.

Accordingly, the North Node marks the ascending lunar node, while the South Node indicates the descending lunar node.

How to Interpret Your North Node

In Astrology, the North Node represents the energy that you grow into. After much practice, this area of life becomes your greatest strength. This is your specific area of mastery and also indicates your life’s path.

The natal Node placements highlight your personal “toolbox” and always act as a straight arrow when you feel lost directionally. Consequently, the North Node is an important area of your chart.

What About the South Node?

Since the Ascending Node indicates the area of life where we grow, the Descending (or South) Node indicates our innate talents, comfort zone, and prevalent areas of our personality. So, the South Node shows energies you have already mastered, with some astrological texts stating that this placement indicates the Rising Sign of your last life.

The South Node indicates the energy towards which you are most inclined. This area of mastery acts as a gift or tool to help you grow into your North Node energy. The South Node portrays natural skills and interests, along with energies recurrent during childhood.

Since the South Node indicates inherent tendencies, it also shows our overused energies. Also, consider its relativity to the rest of your chart. One may over-identify with the energy of their South Node, particularly during youth.

Working With Your Node Energy

Growth into balanced Node energy allows for large-scale balance. One may encounter obstacles when avoiding the energy of their North Node, which explains why some astrologers believe the Nodes to represent malefic, rather than constructive, energies. This also affects our physical body, so it helps to use an anatomical reference.

When working with these energies, it helps to remember that the influence of the North Node (Dasha) lasts for eighteen years. The influence of the South Node lasts for seven. Tracking this along with the transits allows for the precise calculation of energy. Also, work with crystals relating to your Node placements.

By balancing the energy of the Nodes in our charts, we can find more ease, direction, and understanding in our lives. 

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