The Lunar Nodes in Astrology: Part 2
Potentially, you can find your North Star
Hello reader! Every Wednesday, I post the companion analysis from this week’s episode of Maria Luz’s Conscious Curiosities podcast.
In the last installment, we discussed what the lunar nodes, or the North and South Nodes of the Moon, in your chart can offer in terms of your growth in this life, and evolution of your soul. There are many ways to begin analyzing your own chart, but many people find this a good zoomed out setting from which to frame the Big Three and placement of other planets. (In your birth chart, the North Node glyph looks like a pair of headphones and the South Node, a horseshoe.)
I mentioned that I would use my own nodal placements as an example, so here we go. Of course, I am greatly distilling the last 54 years! My North Node is in Pisces in the Fourth House, my South Node is in Virgo in the Tenth House.
For most of my life, I had an uncomfortable relationship to home and family. I found myself easily moving up the career ladder and assuming leadership roles in various organizations. These highlight the adeptness with Tenth House themes and a lack of comfortable experience with Fourth House themes.
And what approach did I take most naturally to my career? A very Virgoan approach, which lines up with my South Node sign. Meaning, I worked extremely diligently, beginning in detail oriented, support work, then progressing to more of an analyst role, then mentoring, then managing, and finally leading large organizations.
A series of personal experiences led me to examine my beliefs about family in a Piscean, or spiritual, manner. Through spiritual experiences and the abilities I found myself cultivating, I met people who I now consider family and have met ancestors and souls in my soul family through my exploration of home and foundation. I have also found value in my more intuitive and imaginative (also Piscean) side and rely on that for my career now.
(Of course, all this aligns with the Pluto paradigm because my Pluto is in Virgo in the Eleventh House, but this explanation requires a much longer analysis using the Jeffrey Wolf Green method in its entirety.)
Fifth House/Leo North Node.
It may come naturally to be part of a group, to feel the group’s sense of purpose. You may have an inherent belief that if you belong to the group and align with its culture, you will be happy. In some ways, a group allows you to hide out and not have to express yourself or examine what actually would make you happy.
But your soul will challenge you to express what it is you, personally, want. What is it you want to create from your heart, and how do you experience wonder and joy?
Exploration through a child’s perspective or through creative self-expression will yield growth. The expression is the point, not how it lands. Become your own leader in life.
Sixth House/Virgo North Node.
There is an opportunity to grow by getting into the grind. Of the day to day tasks. Of taking care of your health in the most repetitive but effective ways. Of service to others. Of seeking the most efficient way to deal with all things. Of cultivating discernment with people and personal responsibility.
However, you may find yourself more drawn to the opposite experiences. The ambiguously defined, imaginative, timeless, spaceless things. And drawn into these spaces, you may feel confused and inadequate and in need of constant saving. Can you take your spiritual or imaginative adroitness and make it of use on this plane by finding the spiritual in the everyday?
When you utilize your capacity for compassion in focused acts of service to others, you rise out of confused victimhood.
Seventh House/Libra North Node.
Compromise in relationship, understanding that the person on the other side has an equal right to live out their life’s desire is what you are being asked to gain experience with. You are quick, but that is not always helpful. You may struggle with tact or waiting for others to catch onto what you are saying.
You may know yourself well and have an internal drive that others admire, but do you often find yourself alone at the finish line? Slow down and think about what others on your team need. How can you all win? How can you pace yourself in life and think big picture?
Being selfless so that others can have their needs met will allow you to impress yourself in a different way.
Eighth House/Scorpio North Node.
You are drawn to setting up a secure and comfortable place from which to do life. You have an aversion to the messy psychological underpinnings of life, and that is what your soul wants you to gain experience with.
You dispute the saying that “No man is an island”, believing you can furnish your island with everything that brings you comfort and believe that will make you happy forever. No need to change it or to accept others’ ideas.
But of course, life happens! Can you hold space for loss and death? Can you participate in your own and others’ transformations which come through the most difficult human experiences? You will be confronted with situations in which you face the complexities of attachment and detachment (think of the myth of Demeter, Hades, and Persephone, related to the Eighth House via Pluto).
If you engage with your North Node, you will find deep healing for yourself and perhaps a gift to healing others. You will avoid the Second House trap of being materially wealthy but emotionally bankrupt.
Ninth House/Sagittarius North Node.
You always want more information. Your curiosity can arm you with many facts from which to explore your immediate world, but you find you aren’t comfortable forming your own life philosophy. Pay attention if your fact filled world is too comfortable and stretch yourself to expand your perception of the world and of knowledge.
Beware of getting caught in the role of passing information between people, simply because you have access to it. Instead, what feels like the right thing to do with the information?
It is not just about the facts, it is about wisdom gained through expanding your horizons in this life. Become fascinated by the way other cultures and places look at life, going by feel instead of the guidebook.
Tenth House/Capricorn North Node.
You can establish a safe and secure home base and like to stay there. You make home and family a space where others feel comfortable too. The decor in your house may be comprised of family photos and framed sayings like “Home is where the heart is”. Safety and the love of close family equals happiness to you.
Now it is time to create a secure space for people in a more visible manner or public space. It is time to use discipline and time to master some area of life.
It is time to appreciate your home base as a foundation rather than the ultimate destination. Setting goals and measuring your success will be important. Perhaps ultimately, as a leader driving the group’s goals.
Eleventh House/Aquarius North Node.
You may be adept at romance, children, creativity. After all, these areas of life can provide a constant stream of joy and source of flattery. In fact, you get so much external validation from playing the roles that are expected of you, that becomes the status quo.
There is another side to life, though. It is to think about the future and align with like-minded adults to collaborate on projects which serve the collective in a meaningful way. In order to do this, you need to really see individuals for who they are, not just the role they play.
Be willing to be the follower once in a while and let others take center stage. Be the one cheering them on because you are so confident, you don’t need to gain external validation.
Twelfth House/Pisces North Node.
You tend to fixate on order and clockwork efficiency wherever you go, and you feel anxious when things are not as expected or planned. To you, this is reassuring and a natural way to organize your days.
Practicality is a strength on which others may rely, and you aren’t afraid of tedious work as long as perfection is the goal. For this reason, you risk feeling like a martyr or leaning toward masochism.
Can you dissolve this reliance on predictability just a bit, and venture into what cannot be seen or proven? Forgiveness of self and others for their human mistakes, being open to mystery or seeking you own brand of spirituality will offer you growth.
You will find wholeness once you venture outside of the mundane.
Because I skimmed the surface on what people have written entire books on, please don’t let this be your final stop when it comes to the placement of your lunar nodes. Remember, it is the entire axis we need to work on, not the extreme expression of just one side. As we see from politics, it is dangerous to inhabit the extremes, and only harms the collective.
I have only recently been able to hold both of my nodal placements in my heart. I think the part of me who spent all of that time and effort in the Tenth House, where I was visible and receiving accolades for my work. I have come to understand that I am not meant to recreate that as the person I have transformed into, and am now shrinking my sphere of influence - this time as a healer - while creating a family that consists of ‘only’ myself and my dog. I say only, because that may be the visible family. I feel quite supported by a larger invisible family of souls and unrelated humans!
I suppose we could get our side of the street cleaned up and then just remain on that little patch, but then we would be missing the opportunity of service to others. This service and connection components seem to be keys to expand love, as well as to experience the truth of what it means to be the unique human we happen to be.
You are now empowered to be consciously curious about the lunar nodes!
Books I recommend on the lunar nodes:
Karmic Astrology: The Moon’s Nodes and Reincarnation, by Martin Schulman
North Node Astrology, by Elizabeth Spring
Astrology for the Soul, by Jan Spiller
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