A huge influencer who we learned so much from, Spiller passed away July 2016. The ultimate book on the North and South Nodes is Astrology for the Soul by Jan Spiller. If you combine your natural skills, you can be unstoppable. This can be a powerful but polarizing pairing-you’ve both mastered what the other one has come here to learn. (For example, your South Node is Virgo and their North Node is Virgo). And if you date, marry or join forces with someone 9-10 years older or younger than you, there’s a good chance they’ll have the opposite nodes. If you have a child around the age of 18-19 or 36-37, you’ll share the same nodes. Vedic astrology calls the nodes the head (Rahu/North Node) and tail (Ketu/South Node) of the dragon and take a harsher view of the south node’s karma. This system calls the North Node your tikkun (“correction”) and view it as the karmic adjustment your soul must make. Kabbalah’s astrology focuses primarily on the lunar nodes. The lunar nodes help us answer questions like: What am I supposed to do with my life? Why am I here and what’s my mission? What was I in a past life? Read more about Virgo and Pisces North Nodes Do other types of astrology work with the nodes? Scroll to the bottom of this article for a table or use the North and South Nodes calculator below: One of our favorite books on this topic (and actually, one of the few written) is Jan Spiller’s Astrology for the Soul. Maybe you’ve taken this path enough times in past lives, and you’re ready for something new.

Yet, sometimes, the easy way doesn’t feel spiritually satisfying. We often think that just because we’re good at something-or it comes easily to us-that it’s what we should “do” with our lives. However, you will often return to your South Node as that “ace in the hole”-kind of like returning home to your roots, even after you’ve made your way in the world. The sooner you align yourself with this path, the more purpose-driven your life becomes.

It’s like the activation of your life’s mission. Once you do, you’ll be amazed by how fulfilled you feel. North Node activities require you to stretch out of your comfort zone. You’ll have to lighten up your baggage and enlist a proverbial Sherpa to get you there. It illuminates the terrain that’s calling your name, but climbing to the peak of this mountain is like trekking up Mt. The north node is the exact opposite zodiac sign of the south node. The South Node: Reveals past lives, natural abilities The South Node reveals the challenges and gifts we bring in from previous lifetimes.

The North Node represents our karmic paths and the lessons we came here to learn-or the language we are learning to speak. So what exactly is the difference between the North and South Nodes? People born within your same lunar node group are like your “soul squad.” You incarnated with to learn the same lessons. The nodes change signs every 18 months, approximately. How do astrologers interpret the North and South Nodes?Īstrologers use the lunar nodes to determine where your destiny lies (North Node) and what you were in past lifetimes (South Node). They fall in the same signs that the eclipses are in when you’re born. (We say “apparent” because in reality, the earth is revolving around the Sun…but from our vantage point on the planet, it appears that the Sun is moving.) The nodes take into account the Sun, the moon and the Earth. To get a little geekier: The lunar nodes are determined by the points where the moon’s orbit crosses the “ecliptic”-the apparent path the Sun makes around the earth. They aren’t planets, but rather mathematical points on the chart that fall in two opposite zodiac signs. For example, if your North Node is in Capricorn, your South node Will be in its opposite sign of Cancer, and so on.

The lunar nodes are directly opposite each other in the chart. In astrology, your life purpose is encoded in the North and South Nodes of the moon. What do the North and South Nodes mean in astrology? What’s your life purpose? In your birth chart, the lunar nodes-known as the North and South Nodes-hold the keys to your destiny and ultimate life lessons.

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