How to Find + Use the Lunar Nodes in Astrology to Make Your Life Right 🐉🌙

OKAY, SO... the astrology of the Lunar Nodes is HYPER-WOO*.

(*First of all… it involves a dragon. 💁🏻‍♀️)

In the natal chart, the Lunar Nodes describe our ultimate purpose project: the South Node reveals conditions of our past-life karma, and the North Node reveals our present-life dharma. 

Technically, the Lunar Nodes symbolize where the Moon crosses the path of the Sun on your chart. The zodiac signs they fall across show where eclipses were sparking during your birth year.

AND, if you read my previous post (A User’s Guide to Eclipses, you’re welcome 😌✨), you’re well aware: eclipses can be karmic plot twists in the “meta-narrative.”

When the Lunar Nodes are involved, those plot twists can actually furrow us directly into our the fulfillment of our soul’s most desired destiny. 🤩

Astrologers peek at the Lunar Nodes in your natal chart for clues about your “purpose project”…

…how the Lunar Nodes interrelate with the rest of your chart hints at the themes, experiences, events, and key players that will contribute or play a role in the unfolding and development of your soul’s core evolutionary urge.

The Lunar Nodes are not bodies in space (like Mars or the Moon), but astronomical points. They also come in a pair, the North and South Node, lying across each other in opposite signs / houses of your natal chart. Together, they are known as the Karmic Axis (one of four major axes, including the Ascension Axis, which I talked about in my post about he Destiny Point ✨).

The South Node describes the karma you smuggled into this life with, including past-life perfected abilities, as well as the type of experiences you will default to in your early 20s (and try balancing out with your North Node for your entire life)…

…whereas the North Node describes the present dharma, or destined purpose, you are currently exploring and honing. Our North Node is our evolutionary learning curve, what we’re leaning into, weighted by the entrained skills and experiences of our South Node.

“The north node is the the thing a person desires. It’s the glass of water. The south node tells us why the person is thirsty.”

— Ada Pembroke, “A Guide to Past Life Astrology Readings”

Typically, we lapse into and feel most comfortable with our South Node conditions, and uncomfortable, even avoidant, of our North Node conditions. This is how it feels throughout our lives, no matter where we’re at on our chronological journey through the Nodal Cycle (I’mma say more about this in a sec…).

“The NN [North Node] represents the ways our interactions with the world must shift. It’s about the struggle of the past to become the future, the active spirit reforming and remolding matter, and the adjustments that need to be made–emotional, psychological, intellectual, and yes, physical– in order for this to occur. No wonder we resist our North Nodes.”

— The Inner Wheel, “The Story of the Nodes, Part Three”

In super traditional astrology, like Vedic astrology (I’ve included links to more in the Resources section at the bottom ✨), the Lunar Nodes are analogized by a dragon: the South Node symbolizes the belly of the dragon, while the North Node represents the head of the dragon. 🐲🐉

And basically, our “purpose project”, the “goal” of the Karmic Axis, is about keeping the dragon fed and sleepy… which means figuring out how to edge away from the dragon’s belly (which feels safe and easer to manage), and move towards the dragon’s head. 🥝🍜🧇

AND BTW, you don’t have to trust and believe in reincarnation to delineate the Lunar Nodes in your chart…

…looking them up can be a fun way for answering questions about destiny and purpose, and for inventorying how your past pursuits can serve your potential.

“Some people are uncomfortable with the idea of reincarnation. One can understand the Moon’s south node in a variety of other ways. It can be your DNA. It can be ‘how God made you’. It can be your ancestral past. Or, if you are open to the idea of past lives, it can be your karma in the Buddhist, Hindu or probably Druid sense. ”

— Steven Forrest, Yesterday’s Sky

also, the lunar nodes get transited… by planets, as well as by the nodes themselves… according to a specific schedule, and at predictable ages… 😳⏱

We toggle between the themes and experiences described by our North and South Node throughout life, often coinciding with the transiting Nodes (orbiting in the sky right now), as they connect with the Nodes in our chart (never moving).

This is part of your Nodal Cycle ✨, the astrological timing of your “purposeful moments,” when your purpose project becomes activated, inventoried, and delineated in real-time.

“As they describe the interaction of the Sun and the Moon, they are the core and the crossroads of our being.  And as they rip through time and space via transit, they cut a swathe between who we have been and who we are becoming.”

— The Inner Wheel, “The Crucible and the Wheel: The Transiting Nodes Part Two”

Sometimes these mega-transits along your Nodal Cycle coincide with a sudden crossroads (a choice must be made), or a eureka-moment (I remember my original true desire, the vision I forgot to believe in), or a sudden cathartic purging, detoxing, or letting go moment (I can’t believe how much time has passed, gonna listen to Whitney and cry all night…)

Karmic detoxes and dharmic kickstarts abound!

Basically, you can consider Nodal Cycle transits as astro-triggered spiritual chiropractory: timed intervals when circumstances will collude, and you receive a wake-up call that you forget you’d requested. 🤔

AND MOST IMPORTANT, these Nodal transits can be timed and forecasted! 🤩

in this post, i’ll show you how to find + delineate your Lunar Nodes, as well as calendar when the lunar nodes in your chart will get tripped… particularly by the transiting Lunar Nodes themselves. 😳😱✨ 

Based on your age and the condition of the Lunar Nodes in your chart (in comparison to where the transiting Lunar Nodes are influencing them), you can guess-timate the mood, impact, and ensuing consequences of your Nodal transits, and maybe use the intel to (re-)align with your purpose project. 🧘🏻‍♀️🌖✨

I mean—you still might feel like the ground has dropped out from under you, or as though the sun has risen from the west, or that the sand is leaking out of the foundations of your life…

…but thank god we have astrology to help us make sense of it all, and guide us through it! 🥰🙌🏻

NOTE > For this tutorial, particularly the bottom two sections involving your Nodal Cycle, you might want some practice interpreting a transit chart, which I explain in this post. ✨

DON’T WORRY THO, I’ll show you where to get a free birth chart (Astro-Seek.com), and provide straight-forward step-by-steps for identifying where your Lunar Nodes are situated. ✅

But if you really want to time and forecast for your Nodal Cycle, you’ll have to pull up a transit chart, which I will also show you how to do! ☺️

TO START OFF, I’ll show you how to do an in-depth delineation of the North and South Nodes… basically, we’re going to use all the knowledge we have about signs, houses, and the energies / archetypes symbolized by the planets to really filet out the Lunar Nodes of your natal chart. 💪🏻

SO, if you were hoping for a DIY astrology tutorial to help you werk the basics and see what comes up, you’ve found it! ✨

And once it’s done, you’ll feel like you’re carrying around a classified Illuminati-status secret… one that you couldn’t really explain to anyone else (who doesn’t already know or care about astrology, anyway 😜), but may validate some vague pressure you’ve always felt about what you should be doing…

…as well as help clarify any vague apprehension or stress you might have about the role you must take on, and the energy, situations, and experiences you must embrace in order to get yourself there, to detox your karma, jumpstart your dharma, and otherwise fulfill your purpose project*!

(*As well as satisfy the hungry dragon in your stars! 🐲🌟)

HOW TO FIND + INTERPRET YOUR LUNAR NODES 🐉🌟 >

NOTE: Your chart won’t look like this, I just made this chart look cool on Canva. 😌👍🏻

These are the basic step-by-steps for scoring a free copy of your birth chart, then interpreting the placement of your Lunar Nodes.

As I mentioned in the intro, this is the simple, straightforward way of identifying your North and South Node.

In the rest of this section, I provide a deep dive for seeing how the whole natal chart functions around the Karmic Axis (a.k.a. the Nodal Axis, same thing), as more intensive prep-work for the last section about the Nodal Cycle, which looks at transits that will occur to your Lunar Nodes, coinciding with synchronous experiences that will toggle you to and fro along your karmic path.

You’ll basically want a full, in-depth understanding of your North and South Node placements in order to get the most insight out of those maj’ transit moments that are coming along. ⏱

HINT > You’ll want a third place to “delineate” or break down each Node placement, so you can see all its bits at a glance, and try to make your own “whole.” Use scratch paper, an astrological grimoire, or any place where you can store your little doodle-notes, to be returned to when you’re ready for a Nodal review. 🙌🏻✨

1. FIRST, GET YOUR NATAL CHART. You’ll need birth date: the time, date, and location you were born. This post shows you how through Astro-Seek and Astro Dienst, which is cool if you want to store your birth data, and be able to recast different versions of your chart. ALTERNATIVE > hit up the AstroTwins’ Node calculator, or this one at Cafe Astrology. ✨

2. NEXT, DELINEATE EACH NODAL PLACEMENT. Start with either the South Node or North Node. Break each down by its zodiac sign (quality, virtue, essence ✨) and house (arena, context, field of experience ✨), and any other planets or points sharing the same space, because they become complicit in your purpose project. REMEMBER, they’re a pair, the North and South, so researching one Node requires research into its opposite.

3. AFTER THAT, LOOK UP THEIR ASPECTS. Aspects describe how the rest of your chart serves or challenges your purpose project, and the type of aspect (square, trine, quincunx, etc.) indicates the energy of that process. Which planets are aspecting your Nodes? Pay special attention to conjunctions and squares. Read more about aspects here.

4. NOW, PEEK AT THE DISPOSITORS, OR RULERS, OF BOTH NODES. The ruler is the planet that rules the zodiac sign that your Node is in, which you might have to Google to find out. Where’s the ruler at on your chart? Does it aspect your Nodes? How about to other planets’ aspect(s) to it?

5. FINALLY, TAKE NOTE OF ANY PLANETARY TRANSITS TO YOUR LUNAR NODES. These coincide with omens and synchronicities related to you (such as the one I’ve provided in this post about tracking your current transits 😌).
   

BELOW, in the following steps, I’ll show you how to fully parse out how Lunar Nodes interact with the rest of your natal chart, based on surface-level knowledge of Karmic and Evolutionary astrology. 🌀🧬

NOTE > These might be a bit heady (😵‍💫), and you don’t actually need to do any of them to gain a working understanding of your Lunar Nodes (the above steps will get you there 👍🏻).

But if you’re working towards an in-depth understanding of how the Karmic Axis operates in your chart, OR if you're craving a form of metaphysical insight about your true purpose or destiny in this life (and what karma might need to be addressed), these steps will give you the full scoop! 🐉🍦

IF YOU JUST WANT MORE ABOUT THE LUNAR NODES AS PLACEMENTS (low key version 👌🏻)… check out this Astro Twins article, as well as this one from MindBodyGreen, and compare to this one by Well + Good.

For a bit more depth, also check out this Cafe Astrology article, which includes a calculator for finding your North and South Nodes (no charts required 😜). ✅

FIRST, COMPARE THE NODES TO YOUR SUN + MOON 🌻🌙🐉 >

Some astrologers examine the South Node in relationship with the Moon, and the North Node with the Sun. This gives them clues about the chart holder’s ability to intuit their own karmic journey, and how they might process transit experiences to either Node.

Typically, our Moon represents our primal comfort zone. Your Moon always references your past, and most primordial experiences (such as those when you were an infant… how did the world feel? how responsive was your mother / surroundings to your needs?).

Whereas it takes some time (well into our 30s 😳) before we really begin to embody our Sun. Our Sun reveals not our personality (don’t believe the hype), but the conditions for which we consolidate our inner and outer experience. The Sun is like a Polaroid picture: as the image develops, we become more cognizant of the information that’s been captured.

“The dynamic tension between the past and the future is experienced through the natal position of the Moon. The transition, or shift, within the Soul’s self-image and emotional security patterns/needs are reflected in the South and North Nodes of the moon. In this context, the Soul’s transition from the evolutionary past to the future is symbolized in the nodal axis of the Moon. Again, the nodal axis reflects how this evolution (i.e., the primary intentions for the current life) will take place on an emotional and conscious basis. ”

— Lewellyn Journal, “Evolutionary Astrology: How Our Nodal Axis Defines the Soul's Path”

IN A NUTSHELL, when it comes to interpreting our Karmic Axis, the Moon represents gut feeling and genetic memory, while the Sun is the archetype we are ever becoming. 👐🏻✨

AND WE CAN USE THIS INFO, to help us grasp how we might consciously and unconsciously interpret experiences touching our Lunar Nodes.

SO THEN…. how do we examine the relationship between our Sun and Moon? 🤔

Easy: by looking up your birthday moon phase. 🌙🎈

Remember that Moon phases aren’t just about the Moon, but actually describe the relationship between the Sun and Moon.

You’re probably already aware of your Moon sign, but when you were born, the Moon was also either waxing or waning through that sign. Whether it was waxing (growing) or waning (shrinking) depended on how it was angled towards the Sun*.

(*Astrology is basically geometry. 💁🏻‍♀️)

Your birthday moon phase describes how dilated your inner eye may be to your subconscious experiences. It’s the “summary” for how your Sun consolidates (or makes meaning out of) your conscious experience, and how your Moon metabolizes your experiences. 

“The phasal stage of the Sun and Moon needs to be noted here, as well as sign and house placement. A first quarter Moon will react differently to the Nodal urging than a third quarter Moon, who has been around the block a bit and already knows the landscape. A full Moon may have more of a tug between Nodes, and may have particular difficulty moving forward, as the lunar draw is contrary to the Sun’s actions. A balsamic Moon is finishing up its journey, and may end up with a ‘last chance’ mentality as far as the nodes are concerned, going to any lengths to make sure its path to consciousness is developed and its lessons are learned.”

— The Inner Wheel, “The Hungry Moon: The Nodes, Part One” 

🌟 This calculator can help you find out your birthday Moon phase, and I say more about how Moon phases in my post about the Moon in your natal chart 🌙, as well as in my post about the Progressed Moon (tho neither of those posts have anything to do with the Lunar Nodes). ✨

ALSO, PRO TIP > For a wider scope of how you will internalize your Nodal transits, take note of any planets aspecting your Moon in your chart… just your Moon:

“Any planet contacting the Moon natally will colour the Nodal experience, particularly conjunctions, which will make their presence felt. They will give us an indication of what type of energy and experience has influenced spiritual development in the past and will influence it in this lifetime. The outer planets can be a particularly strong influence, but any planet can show us the theme of the developing awareness.

Uranus/Moon will cause radical change and sudden loss leading us to higher Mind. With Jupiter/Moon, the Nodes will be prompted by the Moon’s inbuilt tendency to go beyond boundaries. Mars/Moon’s awareness may be stimulated by sexual issues, or by experiences regarding desire.

The planet will play an important role in Nodal development, and the house it rules can define the types of crises that will nudge the Moon forward in its understanding. Anything that affects the planet will also affect the Moon. Transits or progressions of that planet will raise the awareness of that planet’s role in developing the Nodal themes.”

— The Inner Wheel, “The Hungry Moon: The Nodes, Part One”

I KNOW, DUDE… this first step might seem like a lot (😵‍💫😖), and if it’s too much, skip ahead to the next step…

….but just remember that fully delineating your Sun and Moon primes you for better understanding all of your transit experiences! 💫

THEY’RE CLUTCH, DUDE, THE SUN AND MOON ARE CLUTCH!!!

Anyway….

NEXT, COMPARE OTHER PLANETS’ ASPECTS TO YOUR NODES >

Aspects from other planets give more clues about the archetypes, contexts, and themes that might help or hinder your purpose project (and be recurrent throughout your life, particularly if that planet aspecting the Nodes is getting transited!).

For this, you might want to click the gray tab labelled “Aspects Tables” above the image of your natal chart in the Astro-Seek software. ✨

This table grids out all the aspects, so you don’t have to try parsing out the lines you see on the chart itself (thank god).

With the aspects table in view, look for the columns with the symbol for your North Node. 

HINT > Printing the chart and aspect table out onto paper might be easier to work with, so you can highlight and circle up all the planets (if any) that are thrown’ vibes on your karma-dharma. 

HINTS ABOUT ASPECTS… 

🌟 CONJUNCTIONS ☌ > Conjunctions are when a planet is side-by-side one of your Nodes. Conjunctions blend. When a planet conjuncts your South Node, it suggests that your soul charted to fully realize that planet while building your karma (before toggling towards your North Node). You’ll be able to live into that planet, then draw on the instinct and energy it represents when you’re living into your North Node. Typically, we skew towards our South Node role and qualities in our 20s and early 30s, unless a planet happens to conjunct our North Node (or it’s otherwise “weighted” in some way, such as with a slow-moving Outer Planet transit). Any planet conjunct your North Node is meant to be a bit spooky or challenging, but also the “goal” of your purpose project (symbolized by your North Node). If you’re analyzing your Lunar Nodes from a reincarnation perspective, then any planet conjunct the North or South Node indicate some kind of past-life issue demanding to be werked out in this life.

🌟 TRINES + SEXTILES △✳ > By default, any planets that trine your North Node (▵) are also sextiling your South Node (✳)*. Trines and sextiles are considered harmonious: trines bring gentle, appreciative vibes, while sextiles bring fluid, catch-and-release vibes. Both are progressive, as in, they’re pushing some development along, but at a lazy pace… that planet and your Node are listening to Incubus while drifting down a river. The planet’s influence may be gentle, but that gentleness can make it difficult to toggle towards your North Node.

(*This is also a geometry thing. 🤓)

“People never get into trouble in a vacuum. There is always a person or a situation that supports them getting into trouble. These “supports” are represented by planets trine or sextile the south node.”

— Ada Pembroke, “A Guide to Past Life Astrology Readings”

🌟 SQUARES 🔳 > Any planets squaring your North Node are also squaring your South Node. Squares bring contest and contention: planets squaring the Nodal axis represent the energy (planet), theme (sign), and context (house) that get underfoot as you try to get involved with your purpose project. Sometimes the planet represents an archetype, or type of person, who will knock you off your karmic grind (Saturn square the Lunar Nodes could symbolize an authority figure you have a fraught relationship with), or sometimes the planet represents a sabotaging habit or type of situation that tends to trip you up (Neptune square the Lunar Nodes could symbolize drugs, daydreaming, or media addiction… 🙋🏻‍♀️). The zodiac sign and house where the squaring planet is placed will give you clues*.

*HINT > If you have a planet squaring your Lunar Nodes, peek at the sign and house opposite that planet for hints about what qualities and experiences you might reach towards to resolve or recalibrate the tension created by the square!

“When a planet is square the Nodes, it necessarily creates a T-square, which creates a bridge between the past (South Node) and the future (North Node), and can be seen as our present. A square represents a conflictual energy, a challenge and a tension, but of course it also represents enhanced opportunity to achieve growth, as nothing ever happens through a quiet walk in the park. …

My understanding of a planet square the Nodes is that, the lessons served in this life will be represented by the planet T-square. The planet represents both a difficulty and a leverage. Through the planet square the Nodes, we find information about: What kind of people and situations will help you achieve the most growth, The kind of people you have Karma with, What needs to be transformed and worked on to achieve growth, What pushes you towards growth and holds you back from it by a constant movement of balance.”

— Look Up the Stars, “Planets Square the Lunar Nodes”

🌟 OPPOSITIONS ☍ > Oppositions tie into the description of the conjunctions. A planet conjunct your South Node is opposite your North Node, and vice versa. Depending at where you’re at along your Nodal Cycle, a planet could be read as conjunct or opposing what you’re currently working on, whether it’s building karma or developing your purpose. In past life astrology readings, a planet conjunct your North Node (opposite your South Node) symbolizes a past-life struggle you’ll be forced to use and embrace (if not master) in this life.

“Planets opposite the nodes represent an impossible problem like this. No matter how hard you tried, you couldn’t solve the problem, and the solution to the problem has come with you into this lifetime as your deepest longing. 

In John Lennon’s chart, the sun is opposite his south node. (I have this placement in my chart, as well.) In a past life, he was denied the opportunity to shine. With the sun opposite the south node in Libra in the the 6th house, he may have consistently chosen to put service before self, the needs of his community before his own needs. He was never given the chance to look after himself or be benignly selfish.”

— Ada Pembroke, “A Guide to Past Life Astrology Readings”

OKAY, let me guide you through how you might synthesize or combine all the factors of the planets aspecting your Karmic Axis….

WHAT ARCHETYPES DOES THAT PLANET REPRESENT? > Venus often symbolizes women, pleasure, and art (🌸). Mercury can represent siblings, childhood friends, or younger people (such as students), and sometimes media (🧚🏻). Mars can represent aggressors, libido, or violence (🔥). Jupiter might symbolize a teacher, benefactor, and sometimes higher education (🕊). Saturn can symbolize a type of bureaucrat, authority figure, and sometimes karma… a situation that undermines our purpose project until we’ve mastered it (🪐).

When one of the heavies are involved—Uranus, Neptune, Pluto—your purpose project might be entwined with zeitgeist-level issues: social upheaval (Uranus ⚡️), spiritual crisis (Neptune 🧜🏻‍♀️), or intergenerational trauma (Pluto 💀).

With the Outer Planets, it’s always a condition affecting us intimately, to our core, but which has no specific cause we can pinpoint (or blame). With Neptune, for instance, our karmic journey could be as equally inspired by spiritual epiphany as it is complicated by… other altered states of consciousness (🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️).

NEXT, CONSIDER THE ZODIAC SIGN OF THE PLANET ASPECTING YOUR KARMIC AXIS > You can use the themes traditionally associated with the zodiac signs (Libra = “partnership”, “collaboration”, Gemini = “connection”, “primary or immediate relationships”), but I think it might serve your intuition better by referring to the sign’s element and mode instead. 💁🏻‍♀️☺️

Each sign represents one of the four elements (🔥💧🌿🪶), and one of three qualities that element might express itself. Cardinal is the most assertive quality of that element, Fixed is the most stable, and Mutable is the most changeable.

Considering the elements and modes of the signs can help you figure out how that archetype might show up, whether it’s aggressive (🔥), intuitive (💧), nurturing (🌿), or ideational (🪶), and the modality (cardinal, fixed, mutable) can describe the intensity of its impact, whether the circumstances are opaque and cloying (cardinal), or diffused and fleeting (mutable).

AFTER THAT, CONSIDER THE NATURE OF THE ASPECT > Once you’ve unpacked what the planets represent, and the quality of their impact, use the aspect to determine how that archetype influences your purpose project. Is the aspect considered easy, or challenging? A gentle touch (sextile), or a recurring impediment (opposition)?

NOTE > It might be wise to consider all aspects (even challenging ones) as helpful in some way. Some people show up to disturb or nudge us towards our destiny….

…if not to detract us, so that we gain valuable information as we reroute ourselves. 💡

FINALLY, NOTE THE HOUSE PLACEMENT OF THE ASPECTING PLANET(S) > These will provide context clues. Where does this influence tend to manifest? What activities, circumstances, and types of experiences are attributed to this house? Based on the aspect, are these useful or undermining circumstances?

NOW THAT YOU HAVE ALL THIS INTEL… later on, when I dig into the section about the Nodal Cycle (🌀), you can look back at the timeframes when you were having a Nodal moment, and be able to recall if there were any significant influences coming into your life that might fit the description of these planets! 🤯🤩🥰

🌟 For more ideas of what the planets aspecting your Lunar Nodes could represent, check out this Astrology.com database, and compare to these descriptions, as well to these summaries from Well + Good. ✨

🌟 Check out this Well + Good article for more about the energies and archetypes represented by the zodiac signs, and compare to this one from the Astro Twins, and this other one from CafeAstrology. ✨

🌟 For more about aspects, check out this Cafe Astrology article all about aspects, and compare to this one from Dark Star Astrology... for more about techniques you can use for evaluating aspects, check out this article from Alice Sparkly Kat. ✨

🌟 For context clues, check out this article on the astrological houses, compare with this one from Cafe Astrology, and this one from the Astro Twins. ✨

AFTER THAT, THE NEXT PLANETS TO CHECK UP ON ARE YOUR “NODAL BENDERS” >

Nodal benders bring drama to your purpose project. Nodal benders are planets that are 90° degrees from either your North or South Node: South Node benders are planets 90° from your South Node that you are in the process of releasing, while North Node benders are planets 90° from your North Node that you are in the process of building.

“All nodal benders are about change. If Mercury is your south nodal bender, the security that you might derive from labor is something that you are always releasing. If Mercury is your north nodal bender, you might be building security through changing your relationship with labor.”

— Alice Sparkly Kat, “Nodal Benders”

The simplest way to figure out if any of your planets are bending either Node is by noting the degree° number of each node (it’ll be the same number, but in opposite signs 💁🏻‍♀️), then peeking at the same degree° number three zodiac signs away from the Node (which, because of geometry, will be 90° away from the node).

HINT > Move counter clockwise from the Node. If the Node is in your First House, then you’d spot the Nodal bender in your Third House (depending on the width of the houses on your chart).

NOTE > You might not have any nodal benders! This is just a special glimpse at what might be throwing static on your purpose project, and can be helpful insight into some self-defeating behaviors that you didn't realize are getting underfoot, or potentially mega-useful behaviors you can tap into.

If you peek at the example chart I’m using, you’ll notice that there are no Nodal Benders… however, the Mercury placement (ruler of the South Node) isn’t too far off from the North Node’s “bend zone”.

How might we interpret that?? Basically, the role they occupied while living their South Node karma actually becomes part-in-parcel to the process of building up their North Node dharma (well well well).

FINALLY, LOOK FOR THE RULERS (A.K.A. DISPOSITORS) OF YOUR NORTH + SOUTH NODES > 

The planetary ruler of our South Node describes the role we took on when creating (or re-living) our karma. The role and conditions described by the South Node ruler once felt… inevitable, something expected, or that we simply defaulted into.

Meanwhile, the ruler of our North Node reveals the role we’re evolving into: the conditions we’re reaching towards and trying to integrate into our current paradigm. We’re learning to take on the role represented by the North Node ruler.

“A lot of nodal interpretation is going on these days that takes just house and sign into consideration. But without the nodal rulers, without the the node of new moon detail, we really won’t have a clue about where we’ve come from or where we’re going. It’s like being told that Hamlet is about a guy in Denmark who hates his uncle. 

The nodal rulers are the ones who carry the detail and the deeper meaning of the story the Nodes are trying to tell, and give us a more accurate interpretation of just what it is we’re here to do.”

— The Inner Wheel, “There Once Lived… The Nodes, Part 4”

To find clues about the roles involved with your purpose project, let’s find the planetary rulers of each one. Start with the South Node. What’s the sign? Which planet “rules” that sign? (This article summarizes the ruler of each zodiac sign. ✨)

Now, where is that planet on your natal chart? Which archetypes are attributed to that planet? One of these archetypes can signify the role you default to in your early life, particularly through your 20s and early 30s. This will also be the role you slip into as you move further along your Nodal Cycle through middle age. This is the role you are most comfortable being in.

NEXT, what is the zodiac sign that the South Node’s ruler is in? The sign illuminates the “cause” or “mission” for fulfilling that role. What themes and motifs are attributed to this sign? Use the intel you gathered about elements + modes from the last section to guide your interpretation.

FOR EXAMPLE, if your South Node is in Gemini (as it it in this example chart), you would peek at where Mercury is hanging out: in this case, Mercury is in Aquarius, sign of the collective, where mavericks, rebels, and revolutionaries are born, conceived once they’ve brought their genius, insight, or special gift to the group (think… Prometheus, Elon Musk, or Moana 🌺). 

Mercury is also in the chart holder’s Ninth House of Faith, Higher Callings, + Distant Voyages, where astrologers look for hints regarding how we target our goals and go the distance, and also gives clues about our personal philosophy and religious perspective. ♒️🏹

In a past life (“past life” or early life), the chart holder had the role as an apprentice, oriented towards a group goal (serving a group or collective), guided by faith (ninth house) that the effort and commitment would funnel them towards their higher calling. What was the “calling” exactly? We could look for the ruler of this house: Uranus, which is hangin’ out in their Fifth House of Love, Creativity, + Personel Fruition. ✨✨✨

(NOTE > You can basically play “ring around the rosie ‘round a natal chart”, looking for secret motivations for each planet by peeking at the ruler of its sign. Dawn Bodrogi says more in this article about dispositors. ✨)

As they’ve chugged along through life, the chart holder might’ve struggled with graduating to the next level (a.k.a. the role embodied by the North Node ruler), staying the perpetual student, pursuing abstract ideals, serving (if not in pursuit of) a group bonded to bringing about the same or similar ideals.

Because Mercury is… mercurial, or changeable by nature, it hints that their purpose project might have been undermined by their adaptability, of constantly remixing circumstances… perhaps for excitement (Uranus’s influence), or perhaps necessarily, due to ever-shifting perspectives, beliefs, and / or learning situations.

LAST, on your chart, which house does the South Node ruler occupy? This will tell you the activities and experiences you were immersed in while occupying the role of your South Node. Unless referring to a book or material written explicitly for delineating the Nodes (I recommend some under Resources at the bottom ✨), you might have to read a couple articles about the astrology houses (here’s the Astro Twins’ summaries, to be compared with the descriptions on Cafe Astrology ✨), until you’re able to build an intuitive picture of how the archetype (your South Node ruler) functioned in this house. 

“Ultimately, our relationship with our South Nodes will begin to feel incomplete. We will sense that we are hollow in that area, that there is some degree of emptiness and lack of fulfilment, even if we can’t point out what it is. This is, ultimately, what drives us to our North Nodes.

But what takes us there? The incidents, experiences and house orientation relative to our South Nodes. ”

— The Inner Wheel, “There Once lived… Story of the Nodes, Pt. 4”

SPECIAL NOTE ‼️ > If you’re reading this after your first Saturn Return (which happen at ages 27-30), all this might click right away (are you having an a-ha moment…?) 👍🏻…

…but if you’re still young and fresh, this info might be a bit perplexing. 😣

That’s because you need time to live into your South Node (a.k.a. to build up or relive your karma), which is sooo unconscious, it’s like tuning into bio processes you do automatically, like shitting or blowing your nose.

TL, DR > Have you ever met with a professional about an issue that was frustrating you, like digestive woes or social anxiety, and felt disappointed when their advice was some dorky exercise… something so simple, it seemed to trivialize your problem? 🤨

Like—you’re anxious, and they coach you on pranayama breathing? Or, you’re super gassy after every meal (😵‍💫), and they instruct you to count to 50 while chewing your food, before swallowing? 

AND… when you followed their advice, you noticed that you actually really did stop feeling farty or filled with bees, because the technique (though dorky and simple) disrupted a behavior so unconscious and compulsive, you didn’t realize you were doing it (or that it was getting in your way)? 😳😅

BASICALLY, the “simple technique” is a metaphor for the planetary ruler of your North Node: the role you’re developing for breaking your entrained, almost parasympathetic South Node conditioning. 👐🏻✨

“The ruler of the North Node can be a kind of guiding star, as long as we keep our eyes open and don’t get led into a ditch along the way.”

— The Inner Wheel, “And they Lived… The Nodes, Part 5”

OKAY, now, let’s delineate the ruler of your North Node! What’s the sign? Which planet “rules” that sign? Where is that planet on your natal chart, and which archetypes are attributed to that planet?

FOR THIS CHART, the North Node ruler is Jupiter, which is in dreamy-sleepy mystical Pisces (♓️), as well as right smack dab on the cusp between their Tenth House of Status, Reputation, and Ultimate Potential (where astrologers look for information about our career and public profile), and Eleventh House of Fellowship, Expanded Networks, and Higher Vision (where astrologers look for info about our friendships and how we extend ourselves into the world).

For the chart-holder, the karma lies in their perpetual learning and apprenticeship, in amassing knowledge that will help get them where they want to go, while the dharma is in achieving special recognition and privilege, particularly within an audience or community. With Pisces as the theme, it would be an authoritative role based on a spiritual connection, and that “audience” might even be described as a congregation, or a network of people affiliated to the same cause or spiritual outlook.

If not recognition, privilege, and authority with an audience, then perhaps the purpose project is ambitious, lofty enough to believe their dharma is meant to bring about some kind of Utopia, or Heaven on Earth. 🕊🌎

Basically, the purpose project for this chart would involve balancing the tension between their role as a lifelong learner, and their role as a benevolent mentor… in transitioning in their chosen field from sparkling-synaptic, hyper-learner Mercury (I’m your best buddy, ya, I could help you with that, we’re on the same team) into sagacious spiritual teacher and king-of-heaven Jupiter (I’m here to inspire and guide you towards your own self-realization, I believe in you, and your hopes and dreams are not so dissimilar from mine).

REMEMBER THO, these are the roles described by the North and South Node…

…but the purpose project itself is described by the actual Nodal placements: the South Node is in Gemini (♊️) and their Twelfth House (Subconscious, Spiritual Life, and Self-Undoing 💠) and the North Node in Sagittarius (♐️) and their Sixth House (Self-Regulation, Personal Flow, and Daily Ritual 🌿). 

WHEN THE CHART HOLDER EXPERIENCES ONE OF THEIR NODAL TRANSITS… the on-the-ground werk will be about re-assessing how the micro (sixth house 🌿) fits into the macro (twelfth house 💠). The chart holder will be faced with challenges and realizations concerning how their daily rituals and routines (including daily service and work) contribute to or support their ultimate dream…

…and also, whether their hopes and dreams can be grounded in their mundane, work-a-day existence. ✨

Like—when their Nodes get tripped (🌀), will this person feel like they’re embodying the role of a mystically-influential benefactor… or still in learning mode, serving some other mentor-master, playing little cousin or kid brother to somebody else’s big to-do?

…are they assembling all the pieces of info gathered in their lifelong study into a whole, into a map they can navigate?

…is that map comprehensive enough for their audience, students, or congregation to navigate, as well? 🤔

COUPLED WITH THAT, are their daily habits assisting them in rising to the helm of personal destiny? Does their process, and the way they regulate their life, contribute to the wide-scope, “meta” canvas for which they see their ultimate destiny splaying across…? 🤔🤔

OR, are they overshadowed by self-perpetuated issues and delays couched in their Twelfth House-comfort zone… where it is easier to simply dream, milling away in their day to day. and leaving it up to god? 🤔🤔🤔

OF COURSE, we must factor in other placements that might be helping or hindering their purpose project, such as that inspired but dissociative Neptune I see caressing their North Node. 🧜🏻‍♀️🐉

REMEMBER FROM THE EARLIER SECTION that planets conjunct the North Node operate as “built-in” incentives. The attributions of any planet conjunct the North Node are ones our soul has a non-negotiable contract with learning to utilize and master.

With Neptune conjunct the North Node, the chart holder will be gifted with many “dates with destiny”…

…but might also hide from, evade, or delay those dates. 😓

They might crave and instinctually seek the divine, while also recoiling from it, fleeing instead into low-vibe avenues of “shamanic” journeying and dissociative forms of inspiration-gathering (Neptune in Sagittarius)….

…especially when the South Node is placed in the Twelfth House, the house governing our unconsciousness, and nighttime dreaming, a.k.a. the “haunted house” of our psyche. 😬

“While Neptunian energy can manifest in wonderful ways, it is also important to mention its negative side. The lower octave of Neptune includes illusions, escapism, addictions, fraud. If a person lives the negative manifestation of Neptune, they can have a blurry vision of reality. It is important to watch out for being fooled by others and falling prey to manipulation.”

— Advanced Astrology, “Neptune Conjunct North Node: Natal, Transit, Synastry”

BASICALLY, in my personal evaluation of this chart, with Neptune conjunct the North Node in Sagittarius (🧜🏻‍♀️🐉♐️), I get vibes like that scene from The Doors when Jim Morrison is in the desert…

…but, like, the chart-holder struggles with actually leaving the desert….

…the visionary landscape devolving into a kind of personal purgatory. 😱😓

SO, the chart holder’s purpose project will be all about balancing these Sixth-Twelfth House themes…

(…can the dream find a point of entry into the chart holder’s mundane reality… can they receive divine inspo with lucidity, and transmit it empathically? can they do it without being manipulated by their daily circumstances, or by those they perceive as masters of their fate?)…

…and be acted out in the chart holder’s efforts to rise from an idealistic learner into faith-driven teacher. 👐🏻✨

REMEMBER, the Lunar Nodes lie opposite each other, and our purpose project is about leaning away from one towards the other. Whereas the theme and context represented by the South Node (by sign and house) tends to feel easy (👌🏻), the themes and context represented by the North Node can feel unwieldy, and a little spooky (👻).

The South Node is where we feel prodigal, while the North Node represents what we’re training for. 💪🏻

But these can still very SUPER abstract (😵‍💫), which is why analyzing the rulers of your North and South Nodes can help contextualize where + how these struggles might manifest in your actual life.

OKAY, NOW THAT YOU HAVE FULLY DELINEATED YOUR LUNAR NODES, I’ll give you an explainer on tracking transits to them!

Below that, just before the Resources section, I’ll explain the Nodal Cycle, or when the Lunar Nodes orbiting in the sky right now transit upon your personal Karmic Axis, detonating crises and epiphanies regarding your purpose project! 🤩🙌🏻✨

HOW TO TRACK TRANSITS TO YOUR LUNAR NODES >

Though the Lunar Nodes in your chart never change their placement, they do get transited… at least once a month by the Moon and once a year by the Sun (a.k.a. the luminaries 💡)…

They’ll also get transited (inevitably) by Jupiter (our sugar daddy-mentor 🕊🍬) and Saturn (our autocratic, karmic taskmaster 🪐🧑🏻‍⚖️), as well as (potentially) one of the heavies (Uranus, Neptune, Pluto)…

Transits to your Nodes can trigger major surges to the development of your purpose project, depending on the nature of the transiting planet. These planets will stimulate certain interactions and experiences that pull your personal karma / dharma into focus, typically by real-life people who happen to show up as archetypes and avatars of those planets (particularly transits from fast-orbiting “inner” or personal planets, the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, and Mars). 

When your Lunar Nodes gets transited by the Social Planets (Jupiter, Saturn 🕊🪐), special circumstances get issued to your karmic path, while transits from the Meta Planets (Uranus, Neptune, Pluto ⚡️🧜🏻‍♀️💀), can bring along “destiny muses” with messages or inspo to help you remember the potential you’re trying to realize in this life*.

(*Because… this is the only one you get, with these factors, this configuration of planets, and this ego structure you’ve invested into. 😳🫢)

AND YOU’LL NEED TO UNDERSTAND THIS… because transiting planets are the “celestial seasoning” (😜) that describe what’s happening coinciding with your mega-Nodal transits!

NOW, let me show you how to start tracking transits to your North and South Nodes, and how to notice the kinds of key events and people who serve up some big evolutionary leaps! 🤩🥰

I’m going to provide quick-’n-easy step-by-steps for grabbing a free transit chart, plus hints for breaking it down into something you can make sense of, but you want want to review my post about tracking your astrology transits for the full scratch on delineating transits. 💫

After this, we’ll dig into everything you need to know about the Nodal Cycle, or when the transiting Lunar Nodes will move upon your own, so that you can prime and prep your life for existential diversions into your purpose project!

HOW TO GET A TRANSIT CHART >

1. Visit the Astro-Seek transit chart calculator ✨

2. Enter your birth data in the top half (birth date, time, + place)

3. In the bottom half, input the date when and location where you want to look up the transits. You can use today’s date, just to peek at whether either of your Lunar Nodes are being transited right now, or plug in a future date when you know they’ll be getting transited by the transiting Nodes (as per your Nodal Cycle, which we’ll dig into in the next section, squee!)
   
   

OKAY, once the chart is displayed… get oriented. 

If you’re using the Astro-Seek calculator, note that the inside wheel is your chart, while the outside wheel shows where all the currently transiting planets.

Your planets will be in blue, while the transiting planets are in orange.

If you click the gray tab just above the charts labelled “Aspects Grid”, you’ll see all the aspects between transiting planets and your own spelled out for you (your planets will be blue and in the left-hand column, the transiting planets will be in orange and in horizontal column at the top). 

IF YOU OBSERVE A TRANSITING PLANET (ORANGE) COMING WITHIN 4-ISH DEGREES° OF EITHER NODE…

1. First, note which Node is getting. Is this a past life memento moment, or a dharmic surge forward? Reminder: astrological houses describe fields of experience, whereas the zodiac signs describe the themes of those experiences. Planets in that house describe how you psychologize those experiences and their themes. Transiting planets show up as actual people or events that influence how you process the energies and themes of those signs / houses, for the duration of the transit. ✨

2. Second, note the energy and themes of the transiting planet. Is it a faster or slowing moving planet? For example, the Sun will each Node once a year (six month apart from each other), while the Moon will hit each Node every month (two-ish weeks apart from each other). Both these transits last only a day or so, but drip feed special messages and omens. Same deal with Mercury, Venus, and Mars. Jupiter and Saturn will transit either Node once every 12 and 27 years respectively, and are more KARMIC, as in, true miracles and shoulder checks. Last (and this may not even happen in your lifetime), Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto transits to the Nodes CHANGE the Nodes, and will might likely be felt where the Node’s ruler is hangin’ on your chart. (More on that in a sec…) ✨

3. Third, what is the aspect or relationship of the transiting planet on your Node? Aspects from transiting planets describe the type of action that the transiting planet is performing on the natal planet. Is it soft, or challenging? ✨

4. Fourth, note transits to the rulers (“dispositors”) of your Nodes, because the signs / houses give you clues as to the events, players, and types of situations that might play out. This is when your role will be addressed, the role you’ve taken on in either building your karma (south node) or pursuing your dharma (north node). Remember from the previous section that there is a dynamic interplay between your Lunar Node placements (which describe the themes and experiences wrapped up in your purpose project), and the roles you take on in order to realize those conditions (described by the rulers of the North and South Nodes). ✨
   

HINT 1 > Scroll down to see the Astro-Seek auto-generated robo-summaries of how the transiting planets are impacting your own chart, but note that the robo-summaries don’t account for rulers, or how all the transits are interacting together (you’ll have to use your big magnificent brain to synthesize all the information on the chart yourself 😘).

HINT 2 > With transit moments, the dispositor of the sign where a natal planet is being transited can reveal the circumstances that might indirectly express or get impacted by the transit. This adds an extra layer to interpretation and can get confusing (😵‍💫), so do this one last and separate from your analysis of transits to the Lunar Nodes proper. ✌🏻

“All of this activity, all of this new energy, has to have a focus, a pulling point. If the aspects are ‘squeezing’ the planet, the energy of that developing planet has to go somewhere. It has to spill out, play out someplace. This is where the dispositor of a planet kicks in. The dispositor of a planet will receive that planet’s newly forming energy and test it out, use it within the house it finds itself in. The planet has an indirect, but important, influence on the dispositor’s house.”

— The Inner Wheel, “Understanding Dispositors: The Hungry Moon"

I know we just spent a lot of time on this in the first section, but if you’re still not sure about rulers / dispositors, or haven’t used them much in delineating a transit chart, visit this article to learn more about the concept. ✅

ALSO, just to emphasize the nature of the aspect (conjunction? square?) will tell you whether the transiting planet is there to school you, add a loving touch, or drench the Node in its influence.

“Aspects to a planet describe the kind and type of activities that will cause that planet to develop. If our ultimate goal is to better ourselves, to raise our consciousness to a higher form of expression, then the aspects will show us how to do that. (The lights behave differently in aspect from the planets, but we will get to that another day.) They put pressure on the planet to evolve. The aspects are continually ‘teaching’ the planet, whether drumming in lessons or offering information. The types of aspect will show the ease or difficulty in processing the new expression. Our inclination (via the Moon) is to cling to the old, the familiar. Our aspects push us, gently or forcefully, to new and often uncomfortable places. This is how we learn, how we change.”

— The Inner Wheel, “Understanding Dispositors: The Hungry Moon"

SO, if aspects describe the type of action that a transiting planet is performing on one of the planets in your natal chart, the house where the dispositor of the natal planet is hanging out will give you insight into the type of circumstances and context where the change will materialize. 

“When considering dispositors, it’s best to first focus on each planet separately, all of the aspects to that planet, and ask how that planet is developing; the dispositor will show you were the developing energy of the planet will spill. If a number of planets have the same dispositor, or the dispositors of a number of planets fall into one house, the emphasis should be noted. It will give more information to the meanings of the planets in those houses.”

— The Inner Wheel, “Understanding Dispositors: The Hungry Moon"

ALSO, also… keep an eye on when any of your progressed planets move upon the North or South Node, or their rulers. These won’t manifest as events so much as affect you on an intuitive level: a changing of your inner temperature regarding the core themes and issues revolving around your purpose project.

WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENS WHEN PLANETS TRANSIT MY NORTH - SOUTH NODE? >

Idk. It depends on the conditions of both in your chart. 🤷🏻‍♀️

BUT… I say, starting tracking and documenting your transits as soon as possible, so you have something to review! 💻📝

In terms of either your North or South Node, peek at the location of the dispositor of the sign for clues, then try to document the events, people and circumstances that are happening in your life coinciding with that transit.

FOR ME, when I first started journaling my day-to-day alongside noting the Sun and Moon’s transits to my chart, I noticed that, every month, whenever the Moon was in Aries (and grazing my North Node), I’d cross paths with the same pair of people. 👯‍♀️

Over a few months (and many synchronistic encounters with them), these people became my closest, most enmeshed friendships. After doing synastry of all our charts between each other, I really can’t describe the connection as anything less than karmic, and soul-purposeful*. 🥰🌀

(*And, BECAUSE they’re karmic connections, a bit trying and fraught.)

Remember that the North Node is considered to have an inherent relationship with our Sun, with the South Node having a similar relationship to our Moon. The conditions of both in your chart hints at how you might internalize or process transits to your Lunar Nodes (which is why we analyzed them in Step One of the previous section ☺️).

Thus, you might “use” or perceive transits to either Node differently, depending on which is getting transited. With the North Node (dragon’s head 🐲), these transits might feel like insights and mini-awakenings, whereas transits to the South Node (dragon’s tail 🐉) could register as disappointment, dissatisfaction, or possibly not register at all, depending on how entrenched you are in your South Node conditions.

ALSO, which planets are transiting the Nodes will impact the kind of experience. Slower moving planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto) will have a drawn out effect, while the swifter moving planets (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars) might coincide with quick, insightful interactions.

And remember, the Sun will transit either your North or South Node once every six months, whereas the Moon will transit them every couple weeks. The Sun creates and integrates the new experiences that will alter the ingrained consciousness, and its sign and house position describes the type of energy that we will use in this life to process and create experience. 

“For this reason, the Sun’s energy is an important mediating factor between the South and North Nodes. When experiences created by the Sun (through the rest of the chart) will serve to alter and balance the energies of the South and North Nodes. The new awareness is then absorbed by the Moon and further develops the lunar consciousness. In this way both the Sun’s expression and the Moon conscious awareness develop throughout our lives. 

When the Sun touches the nodes in any form, it is a direct line to nodal growth. When the Moon affects the nodes, patterns of the past rise up in full colour, and we must attain growth by sorting out our gifts from our bad habits. Aspects to the nodes from any of the planets will facilitate growth experiences, but none so potent as Sun and Moon.”

— The Inner Wheel, “Which Way Forward? The Nodes, Part Two”

Can I feel transits to my Nodes the same as I do to other planets, or the angles of my chart? >

According to Rudhyar (who I’m about to quote), you might not FEEL transits to the Lunar Nodes unless you have a planet nearby one of them, particularly if that planet is your Sun or Moon.

According to Rudhyar in The Astrology of Transformation ✨> 

“In the great majority of cases, planetary nodes are of no real meaning in the lives of human beings. They acquire at least potential meaning when a person, as a participant in a sociocultural whole, can be considered a mouthpiece or channel for the operation of collective forces. If the person has reached the stage of individual development at which he or she is actually conscious of what happens which he or she is actually conscious of what happens through his or her being, then the transpersonal level has been reached; bit if there is no consciousness of being an agent of some superficial and super cultural Power but only a kind of unconscious mediumship, the person still operates at the sociocultural level.”

Rudhyar's beef, or what he wanted to clarify for astrology students: the Nodes aren't entities, or bodies, so they can't represent any "energy" in our chart. 🤷🏻‍♀️

THUS, transits to our Nodes might trigger metaphysical experiences (✨), or basically, experiences that can only be interpreted from a "meta," transpersonal, or socio-collective level.  

HINT > This applies to other "points" in your chart, such as Black Moon Lilith (the "apogee" of your Moon), the Vertex (calculated through the positions of your Moon, Sun, and Asc), and midpoints (calculated "middle" between two other planets in your chart, i.e. the Soli-Lunar Midpoint).

BASICALLY, these points in our chart do not correspond with instincts or energies we notice in ourselves, but manifest in our awareness through our interactions with the world. 🌎🌟

“Do not count on each of these nodal transits always to correlate with something big. Often they seem to pass pretty much unnoticed. It feels forced for me to pretend to read each one as karmically important. Probably they all have some evolutionary meaning at a deep level. In my experience, the transiting nodes will be spectacularly relevant and illuminating sometimes, and other times they are duds, except perhaps in the context of adding dimensionality to other major events.

Remember our key “weeding” principle: the more slowly something moves, the more important it is. The nodal axis only takes that critical 2.5 degree orb (one twelfth of a sign). That is not a huge amount of time. ”

— Steven Forrest, Yesterday’s Sky

IF ANY (OR ALL) OF THIS IS CONFUSING, you might want to review my post about reading transit charts for a more in-depth tutorial! ✌🏻

And don’t worry, Google, YouTubers, and Tumblr witches can help you explore the themes, energies, activities, events, and types of disposition for each of these factors in your Nodal cycle transit chart. 💫

AND NOW, we’re gonna transiting into talking about the Nodal Cycle, a.k.a. when the Lunar Nodes will transit the Nodes in your chart. 🌀🐉

These transits happen at specific chronological ages, and you don’t necessarily need to be able to read an astrology chart to figure out the type of help or challenges you might face. 😜

BUT… now that you know how to read the transits, you’ll be able to key into the nuances that might be coalescing around those metaphysical events guiding you along your purpose project….

…so, way to go, you’re welcome, my pleasure. ☺️

WHAT IS THE NODAL CYCLE IN ASTROLOGY? 🌀🐉 >

This chart is having a “Reverse Nodal Return” moment… coinciding with an eclipse!! 🤭🤩

The Lunar Nodes are always transiting us. Wherever they are, that’s where eclipses are sparking. The zodiac signs of the transiting Nodes reveal the themes we are collectively processing, though in different ways, depending on where (+ what) those transiting Nodes are affecting our birth charts.

BUT… we all have a personal Nodal Cycle, happening at the same chronological ages for everyone.

Basically, every 9 years, you experience a Nodal moment! 🥳

Our Nodal experiences register in very particular ways, depending on the conditions of the Nodes in our chart (which you are now an expert on 😌), and also based on where other planets are transiting us at the same time (which you are also now an expert!).

So, the experiences may be very particular, but they will happen at these scheduled times, each one nudging us further along our purpose project. 👐🏻✨

Along your Nodal Cycle, you will experience three types of Nodal moments…

🌟 NODAL SQUARES > Every 4 or 9 years, the transiting Nodes will square the Nodes in your chart. This means that that the transiting Nodes’ axis will form a 90° angle to the Nodes’ axis in your natal chart. These events usually coincide with tension or contests between what we feel we want to do, and what the Lunar Nodes in our chart signify that our soul prefers to do. ✨

🌟 NODAL RETURNS > Every 18 years, the transiting Lunar Nodes will “return” to the same sign and degree° of the Lunar Nodes in your chart. When they return, the transiting North Node will conjunct (pull side-by-side) the North Node in your chart. You experience your first Nodal Return at age 18, and them every 18 years after that. ✨

🌟 REVERSE NODAL RETURNS > Every 9 years, the transiting Nodes will cross your Nodes, but flip-flopped, with the transiting North Node conjunct your South Node, and the transiting South Node conjunct your North Node. When this happens, it’s like having an upside down perspective on our purpose project: instead of the agitation of a square, we feel scattered, or that the “goal” is drifting just out of reach. ✨ 

Start counting from your birth year, and you’ll predict which ages you experienced a Nodal Moment. Each one lasts for about 18 months, or the length of time it takes for the Nodes to transit through a zodiac sign, becoming most discernible (in terms of “woo”) within 5 or so degrees of your Nodes themselves, as well as acute if crossing any of your other planets.

“When the transiting nodes meet the natal nodes, sometimes it can manifest in experiences or feelings that feel ‘fated’ in some way. These transits propel you towards the teachings of your North Node and challenge you to recognise the qualities and limitations of the South Node. Often they can be characterised by meeting people that can change your life (or having a life changing experience). Dreams, synchronicity and intuitive knowing can also play a prominent part in receiving the message of the transit. ”

— Leah White Horse, “Nodes Transiting Nodes”

Your Nodal Cycle basically represents the full-circle moments of your ultimate life project, where you come online or remember the feeling or vigor of having a purpose, and what stepping into it might entail.

Until age 18-19 (a.k.a. your first Nodal Return ✨), you might slosh around between qualities and experiences symbolized by both your South and North Node. 

After that, and unless there’s a planet conjunct your North Node (or the North Node is otherwise “weighted” by a slow-transiting Outer Planet), you’ll pursue the role and qualities represented by your South Node. Your 20s and early 30s are when you’re building (or re-living) your karma, until your second Nodal Return, around age 36, when you’ll make an about-face turn towards your North Node.

Once you’re careening into your 40s, the role, themes, and context symbolized by the North Node will become clearer, and perhaps more accessible. By your mid-40s, you’ll experience another “Nodal flop” or Reverse Nodal Return, where you’re forced into a reprisal.

ALSO, remember from the previous section: every juncture of your Nodal Cycle coincides with other maj’ transits (like your first Saturn Return or Pluto Square), as well as a unique configuration of other coinciding transits.

Even without knowing astrology or when the transits were happening, as your Nodal transits were happening, you probably got your principles or expectations or future plans shoulder-checked in some way, or maybe nudged off course from what was making sense.

IN THE NEXT AND FINAL SECTION (phew 😮‍💨), I’ll explain what specific ages you’ll experience a transit along your Nodal Cycle, and how you might use it as background information for interpreting what’s going down in your weird life!

HOW TO CALENDAR + INTERPRET TRANSITS IN YOUR NODAL CYCLE 🐉💫 >

Each and every transit moment involving the Lunar Nodes will stimulate awareness, progress, and a bit of re-integration regarding your purpose project.

NOTE > These describe aspects from just the transiting Lunar Nodes, in the sky right now, not aspects from other transiting planets to the Lunar Nodes, such as from the Moon (occurring about once a month) or the Sun (occurring once a year).

THERE ARE THREE TYPES OF NODAL TRANSITS IN A NODAL CYCLE > Nodal Squares (every 4 - 9 years, counting from age 4), Nodal Returns (every 18 years, counting from age 18), and Reverse / Inverse Nodal Returns (also every 9 years, counting from age 9).

NODAL SQUARES: AGES 4, 14, 23, 32, 42, 51, 60, 70…

When the transiting Nodes “cross” or form a 90° angle to themselves in your chart. “Squares” in astrology represent crisis points, agitations, where we tustle with the themes and element of the Nodes.

Your first Nodal transit is a Nodal Square (age four). It might be the first time you become aware of purpose, or of having a personal purpose (motives, desire) separate from the purposes of other people around you, or from the overarching purpose of the household or organizations you’re part of.

As you enter your teens, you might experience Nodal Squares as a sort of maturation phase, where you feel and realize that you’re leaving childhood. Your “childish ways” are confronted by people and circumstances, and you’re forced to start thinking of yourself as an adult.

(TL, DR; > I pulled up a transit chart for my Nodal Square around age 14, and realized it was around the time that I lost the ability to “pretend play” with my Grand Champion plastic horses, and started going with my boy-crazy cousin Becky to trashy high school parties. 😭😞)

Squares are also catalysts periods, where our comfort zone is violated, our entitlements revoked, where we might develop tingling-awareness of limitations to our autonomy in the world. This is a time of negotiation and recalibrating our expectations, and learning new basics.

“These times can bring tension. You may become aware that you need to do things you don’t really yet understand how to do, or you might feel circumstance nudging you toward a need to compromise in how, why, and when you do certain things. You might find yourself on any and every timeline but the one that works for you.

This can be challenging as you find yourself needing to branch out and learn new ways of doing things. It can also be uncomfortable as you realize you can’t just go through the motions of doing new things, but you need to actually learn them — it’s time to pay attention and learn some things that take you out of your comfort zone.”

— TD Jacobs, “Nodal Squares, Returns, and Reverses”

BASICALLY, at your Nodal Squares, you’re triggered by circumstances (and relationships) into adjusting your purpose and aims, or at least confronted with the expectation that you must declare some kind of purpose, and forced to acknowledge any critical missing pieces you might need to gather in order to fulfill it.

When hit by a Nodal Square in your late 20s, the “rules of the world” as you’ve learned them (a.k.a. your conditioning) are challenged at a gut-level. You realize at this time is that the direction you’ve been heading (or the “destiny” you’ve been hoping for, even if only in a vague way) has suddenly become irrelevant to emergent, more pressing circumstances being presented, and are literally leading you away from the paradigm you’ve trained in, or the plans you’ve laid.

IF YOU’RE HAVING A NODAL SQUARE MOMENT > Review your Nodes (“past life specialities” + “future life skill-building” ✨), then take a look at where on your natal chart “the world’s Nodes” are currently transiting (Taurus - Scorpio until July, 2023 ♉️♏️). The signs / houses where the Nodes are currently transiting give you clues as to the types of traits or virtues needed, and the areas of life where brewing problems might work against your aims.

If you know you’re being squared right now (because you’re at one of those ages 😳), your Nodes are probably in Leo-Aquarius ♌️♒️, and you can read about that here. 💫

If you’re looking for insight into how you might need to adjust your role, or what kind of role you might need to take on, check the sign and house where the ruler (dispositor) of your South Node is hanging out, as this highlights the qualities and activities where you naturally shine.

Compare those qualities / activities to the sign / house of your North Node, and see what you can envision. 👐🏻✨

NODAL RETURNS: ages 18, 38, 57, 75…

Every 18 (ish) years, the transiting North North “returns” to your natal North Node, simultaneous to the transiting South Node passing over your natal South Node.

COINCIDENTALLY, opportunities, “meta omens,” and destiny muses will emerge on the scene, nudging you towards your North Node, while incompatible habits, traits, and relationships start naturally begin falling away, if not tripping you up. You’re presented an obvious crossroads, a demarcation in your personal history, “before” and now “after.”

“The first 18.6 year cycle of life, (we will call it 19 for convenience) from birth, is associated with the North Node. The North Node is created when the Moon crosses the ecliptic of the Sun (the apparent path of the Sun around the Earth) from South (of the ecliptic) to the North. We are launched in a northerly direction. The Moon, representing the culmination of the past, is breaking into new territory. It travels north of the ecliptic for half its daily journey, plunging Southward at the halfway point.”

— The Inner Wheel, “The Crucible and the Wheel, Part 3 > The First Nodal Return”

Your first Nodal Return (age 19) is considered “the most confusing” 😫, because you become aware in a palpable way of your potential, or maybe realize limitations to your potential. You might feel challenges to your destiny, even if not quite defined, discovering unexpected possibilities as well as constraints, maybe in the form of family history or circumstance.

Your second Nodal Return (age 37) is “usually the most fraught” 😬, as it coincides with your Pluto Square (ages 36-38ish), or basically when “life” serves up situations that force you to detox on personality strategies that suddenly no longer serve your needs and goals.

Your Second Nodal Return is also when the North Node condenses from inspiration into a project. Our first Nodal Return cycle (age 19) is about (re-)learning our South Node, and by our Second Nodal Return (age 37), we’re ready to punch it to the next level. ✊🏻

Often, Second Nodal Returns are scary. We feel over-large and wrong-fit for what we’re angling towards, at what feels like intense velocity, even though we want it (mebbe… yes… mebbe 🥺). We’re letting ourselves down, and everyone else. We might become desperate for a life reboot, personality detox, and a makeover. We scatter our time and energy on macguffin. Every familiar turn leads us to a dead-end.

Astrologer extraordinaire Dawn Bodrogi mentions as a passive observation (“confirmed” through the grapevine 😋) that psychosis tends to settle in around the Second Nodal Return, and I feel like my (strawng Plutonian 💀) family can corroborate that age 37 has often been the “starting line” for mental breakdowns, jail time, children conceived from extramarital affairs, and OD’ing… (can’t waaait 😬)…

“The second Nodal return can be a dangerous threshold. Many, many people have crises then—serious, destabilizing crises that force them to pull strength up from some unknown quarter of themselves. This is where life can take a turnabout, for better or worse. An uncle of mine developed schizophrenia at age 37—my mother only recently told me something interesting that my uncle’s psychiatrist revealed to her. He told her that age 37 was a kind of turning point in the psyche; if you make it past 37, you’re unlikely to develop this kind of serious mental trauma. He had noticed, merely from his own observation of his patients, that age 37 was a particularly intense crisis hour for the consciousness. ”

— The Inner Wheel, “And They Lived… Story of the Nodes, Pt. 5”

Basically, at your Nodal Returns, you’re confronted by habits, goals, duties, and relationships you’ve outgrown, and nudged back onto your purpose project, but not without first feeling sucker-punched by everything you’ve ever believed up to that point.

REVERSE (a.k.a. INVERSE) NODAL RETURN: ages 9, 27, 46, 65, 83…

When the transiting North Node crosses your SOUTH Node, simultaneous to the transiting South Node crossing your NORTH Node.

Instead of feeling encouraged and spurned towards a particular direction (your North Node), you’re presented with opportunities for closure. Old fixations, palliatives, traits, and motives, some of which might have been taken on to serve your purpose project (at the time), now appear outmoded. It might feel as though all your foundations are losing sand, or as though your life is a shaken up snow globe.

Basically, during Reversed or Inverted Nodal Returns, you become aware of how much your life might be in a rut (if not a straight up ditch)…

…while you’re simultaneously offered new motivations as to where you might retarget your efforts… 🎯

…but not before you’re forced to take a final walk-through the situations set by your South Node placement.

At these junctures, you’re in deep inventorying mode, reviewing all the abilities and qualities engendered by your South Node. Many of these might be core traits you know you can rely on, while also noticing how flimsy or immature they might be for the new terrain your North Node is beckoning you towards.

From this inventorying, you’ll finally see the “gaps” between your South and North Node, and be motivated to start patching them up, and turning to face the dragon’s head. 🐲

“At the time of these Nodal ‘flops’ we may discover new opportunities for integration and growth. The challenge is to remain in the strength of the South Node without letting it drown the newly emerging sensibility. (Aspects between the Nodal rulers will be of tremendous help at these times, even the more difficult aspects.) At these times of integration of the Nodes, it is not uncommon to find partners and others who can help us along the way—this is true of the returns and the squares as well, but partnering is often more prominent at the opposition. Given that we are attempting to integrate the Sun and the Moon within the Nodal pattern, this is not a surprise. Any transiting opposition is likely to draw someone into our lives who will illustrate that opposition for us, and the Nodes are, in a sense, the opposition to beat all oppositions.”

— The Inner Wheel, “The Crucible and The Wheel: The Transiting Nodes, Pt 2”

At this time, you’re basically tasked with pedaling your South and North Nodes in tandem.

This doesn’t suggest an outright rejection of all the effort and attention you’re put into this half of your South Node. You’ll simply be able to (through circumstances, events, and relationships) pull your South Node conditions into full perspective with your North Node, so that you feel the distance between where you’re coming from and where you’re going….

…and because your situation is feeling so boring, expired, or like something you’ve outgrown…

…you’re motivated to start making the stretch.

“Does that mean we should dismiss the South Node and completely focus on the North Node? No, not at all. Your South Node is, in fact, a gift – something that is waiting to be birthed and brought to completion. But to do that, to get to your South Node, you’ll need new directions with the North Node as your compass…

The North Node is where we are headed. The South Node is what we need to distance ourselves from. The solution to a South Node problem is always the North Node. The paradox is that once you solve the South Node problem through the North Node, the outcome is not the North Node, but the South Node. The South Node is the ripening karma, for good and for bad.”

— AstroButterfly, “North Node In Gemini 2020-2022 – How It Will Affect You”

SO, remember that neither the South (karma 🐉) or North (purpose 🐲) Node is best, and you’ll need the experiences and inherit qualities of your South Node in order to move towards your North Node.

“To put it in plain terms, the tail end of the dragon excretes what it has already digested, fertilising the land for new growth. But if you don’t feed the Dragon at the head/mouth/North Node, then the resulting feeling is often experienced as a curious kind of emptiness – a sense that something is missing. The South Node is where the seeds of potential lie, the North Node needs to be actively activated and fed!”

— Leah White Horse, “Nodes Transiting Nodes”

AND THANK GOD FOR THAT EMPTINESS…. because you’ll be hungry for whatever tasks and spooky scenarios you’ll have to face in moving to the other end of the dragon.

ACK! I’m doing my Nodal Return / Square / Opposition right now! What do I do? >

THINGS… ARE… HAPPENING! 🙀🎉

🌟 First, write down everything…

Ya, I know, this is always my first suggestion, but if I’ve at all impressed you with my astrology tutelage (😌), it’s directly due to the fact that I am a compulsive notetaker… I’m basically the main character from “Pi” (…Darren Aronofsky’s first film, the black ‘n white one, about the super-math genius who’s trying to crack the stock market with the Hebrew alphabet…?)…

….but about astrology. 🌟🥰

SO, vlog, blog, or Voice Memo all your sparkly-trippy Nodal moments. Mystic urges journalling by hand (with a metal writing pen, ooh la la) in order to trigger a “more receptive dimension of your psyche”, which is basically automatic writing. ✨

Some ideas for what to write down…

✨ Daily doings. You can be like Emily Dickinson or Jane Austen and literally handwrite everything, or just clip your current work, school, club, etc., schedules into your diary, or drop screenshots into a folder, and label or tag it with the current maj’ transits that might be in play.

✨ Note other transits tripping other parts of your chart. If you’re using a software like Astro-Seek, you can plug in the dates of your Nodal transits, and see the chart. You needn’t do a full chart analysis, just jot down any other planet-play as it happens in the same sign / house as the Nodes, or on the “rulers” of the sign occupied by your Nodes.

✨ Write the name, appearance, and interaction of significant-seeming people passing in / out of your life, new and familiar, as they might become your Destiny Muses. 🧚🏻‍♀️✨

Along with that, use what you learned in the earlier section about the Lunar Nodes in your chart to answer some of these questions in a diary…

✨ What’s your true project, the true place you’re starting from, your true karma-inventory and true potential (not what you hope is there)?

✨ What was part of the plan, before there was a plan? What were your childhood or adolescent expectations, if any? Do they seem simple and naive, or not as ambitious as they might’ve been? Where does it feel like you’re supposed to be right now, compared to who or what?

✨ Are you realizing where your priorities, rhythm, or relationships for one project do not coalesce with the other projects, players, and vibes on the scene? How do you integrate or blend competing projects? How do you make a “soul” project commensurate with a “must-do” project?

🌟 Speaking of which, make special note of any interesting new characters that’ve come on the scene…

I first learned about “destiny muses” from Mystic Medusa, but she deleted the post (😧).

I recently emailed her asking her permission to write my own version, but to summarize real fast: Destiny Muses are people who show up out of the blue, and somehow compel or beguile us towards our true purpose (north node), if not remind us of where we’ve already been (south node).

Sometimes they deliver messages, or model the qualities that we recognize would bring us closer to fulfilling our dharma. Other times, they can make us cringe, and make us feel guilty or queasy about where they’ve found us along our karmic-dharmic journey.

“You cannot go a day without meeting a ghost from your future or getting a clear hit on your life path. At the same time, you encounter people who are flamboyantly serving as role models or cautionary tales…”

…and more about Nodal Opposition transits from Mystic! 🤩✨

Whichever the case, they can stick in our minds lonnng after they’ve taken leave, becoming a human reference point to this time of our lives.

🌟 Also, check up on your Progressed Moon… 🌙⏰

Another item to peek at in your chart is your Progressed Moon: the most astute astro-indicator of how you might be internalizing your Nodal transit experiences (and pretty much every kind of transit). 🌙⏰💫

Progressions move extra super slow, so we don’t need to check up on them very often. Big transit moments such as those along our Nodal Cycle are when I’ll check up on my progressions, especially if I’m reeling, frustrated, or otherwise unable to make sense about what’s going on.

🌟 tune into music or read books or otherwise obtain content produced by people from your “soul pod”…

…this is another concept I learned via Mystic Medusa (…am I obsessed? 😳🤔). Your “soul pod” consists of all the people who share your South Node placement (by zodiac sign and degree°).

To find your soul pod, hit up AstroTheme, and scroll down the sidebar on the left-hand side until you reach "Astro Search Tools”, then click “By Astrological Positions”. Plug in the coordinates for your North Node (which, obviously, is opposite your South Node), and indicate how precise or wide of a distance you’re interested in (Mystic suggests a 4° orb).

Then, run it, and see who comes up! 🤩

🌟 And if you’re ready to make some big changes…

Then you probably need a more meaningful self-inquiry, so read this: How Do You Take Personal Inventory in Recovery? 🕊✨

REMEMBER, FRIEND… your life is in a weird place, and there aren’t many culture tropes to inform and support where you’re at. 😓

You’re basically going through a “reboot” that you will have to remake the conditions and circumstances of all by yourself, and according to the elements and omens made available to you at this time.

And ya, it might be shredding through hella groundwork you’ve already laid, or some of your best intentions… 😓

You might realize that you’ll have to annoy some people, or break a couple sacred vows…

But you might also remember a promise you once made to yourself. 💗

When it comes to our Nodal Cycle, Marcus Aurelius had the best insight: The obstacle is the way.

Or, basically, the only way out is through. ✌🏻

WHERE CAN I LEARN MORE ABOUT THE LUNAR NODES? 🤓🌟 >

🌟 Btw, Vedic Astrology, the OG hindu-based classical system of astrology for which modern Western astrology owes a great debt (🙏🏻), deals primarily with issues around karma and dharma. If that appeals, check out this article. (Note: this is a TOTALLY different system using all the same astronomy, but super fun to explore!)

🌟 HOW ARE THE LUNAR NODES INTERPRETED IN VEDIC ASTROLOGY? 🤔 > “In India, the nodes are considered as significant as the seven visible planets and are envisioned as the head and torso of a demon. The story goes that, desiring immortality, the feuding gods and demons made a pact to combine their power to churn the primordial ocean and extract the life-giving nectar, amrita, from its depths. When the amrita finally emerged, the gods and demons lined up to receive the elixir from the supreme god Vishnu, who appeared to them as a beautiful maiden, Mohini. She began dispensing the nectar of immortality, intending to serve it only to the gods.”

🌟 WHAT IS THE “DRACONIC” HOROSCOPE, OR WHAT IS DRACONIC ASTROLOGY? 🐉 > Basically, an astrology system that looks at your horoscope (aka natal chart) based on the Lunar Nodes, combined of the astrological work of Edgar Cacye > “As time passed, we learned that what Cayce was given in his trance state when doing astrology was the Nodal system, not the Tropical system. And we have to assume that this is the system that came through him because it describes the state of the soul’s evolvement at this point in time (or in this incarnation).” > “When we begin discussions of the soul dimension, we must refer back to the Lunar Nodal Axis. We have seen how there is an association between the ideas of karma and past-lives that is connected to the Lunar Nodal Axis. The Nodal Horoscope is based on the Lunar Nodal Axis so the entire horoscope reflects the state of the soul just as a Tropical horoscope reflects the state of your physical interaction with the environment.”

🌟ALSO, MUST READ: MYSTIC MEDUSA’S ARTICLE:"Karmic Astrology – How To Find Your Soul Pod" > "When you first think of Karmic Astrology, you think soul-mate and time-crossed relationships. But what about your Soul Pod? What do I mean by that? Quite simply, people with whom you share a South Node placement. These are the folk you share a karmic affinity with – regardless of their era or the timbre of the times they lived through. You could have known them in another lifetime or more weirdly, been them."

🌟 PLUS, MYSTIC’S THOUGHTS ABOUT THE SOUTH NODE, PAST LIVES, AND GENETIC MEMORY > “Astrologically, look to your South Node for a sense of previous existences. People with the same Nodes as you are your Soul Pod, for sure. Certain astrological themes recur in families. Runs of Scorpios. Whole clans where everyone has Venus square Saturn. Big-time Jupiter-Pluto Vibe in your dynasties such as the Kennedy family. Whole bloodlines where everyone has Mercury Rising, whatever.”

🌟 IF YOU WANT TO LEARN ABOUT YOUR LUNAR NODES IN THEIR SIGNS / HOUSES > Check out this Astro Twins article, as well as this one from MindBodyGreen, and compare to this one by Well + Good. For a bit more depth, also check out this Cafe Astrology article, which includes a calculator for finding your North and South Nodes (no charts required 😜). ✅

🌟 FYI: THERE’S A LINK BETWEEN OUR NODAL RETURNS AND CLOSE-COINCIDING SATURN RETURNS 😳🙀 > “Events at the Saturn return and events at the Nodal return are two entirely different things, and hold different lessons for us. Saturn is about grabbing hold of life in a mature way. The Nodal crisis is about needing to alter the very fundamentals of the way we create our life through our conscious awareness.” (Review here!)

🌟 CRAVING SOME PERSONAL STORIES ABOUT NODAL RETURNS? > Leah White Horse on Nodes Transiting Nodes with full descriptions (Returns, Squares, Oppositions) and personal life experience. 😳🤗

🌟 ALSO, SECOND NODAL RETURN (age 37) REAL LIFE STORIES! 🤩✨

🌟 SUN AND MOON TRANSITS TO YOUR NODES ARE ALSO PRETTY SPECIAL 🌻🌙 > “When the Sun touches the nodes in any form, it is a direct line to nodal growth. When the Moon affects the nodes, patterns of the past rise up in full colour, and we must attain growth by sorting out our gifts from our bad habits. Aspects to the nodes from any of the planets will facilitate growth experiences, but none so potent as Sun and Moon.”

🌟 WHAT KIND OF ASTROLOGY FOCUSES ON THE LUNAR NODES? > There are two schools of Western astrology that deal with them: Karmic Astrology and Evolutionary Astrology. Both camps focus on the Nodes, plus other specific planets and placements traditionally associated with past and future lives. I plan on posting explainers on both (remember to subscribe!), but click the links for articles that can show you more.

🌟 Btw, the Lunar Nodes (of the world 🌎💫) are transiting Taurus - Scorpio until July 12th, 2023, read the Astro Twins’ take on it: A Return to Senses with the Taurus-Scorpio Node Cycle. ♉️♏️

🌟 …but what about when the Lunar Nodes were transiting Gemini - Sagittarius (2020 - 2022)? 🤔

🌟 Also, you might need and love the “Project Mayhem” allegory for the Gemini 2021 Eclipse from Aeolian Heart Astrology, which might apply to any transits to your Gemini-Sagittarius Nodes. ✌🏻🤣✨

🌟 RECOMMENDED READING ON THE LUNAR NODES > Jeffrey Wolf Green’s Evolutionary Astrology (which hones in on natal Pluto as the “agent provocateur” of realizing your destiny), and Martin Schulman’s Karmic Astrology Vol. 1: The Moon’s Nodes and Reincarnation, and finally, Steven Forrest’s Yesterday's Sky, as well as The Book of the Moon, particularly the last chapter, titled “Nodal Phase”, which describes how to compare your Moon to the South Node of your chart for deeper clues to your karmic history leading up to this life (and includes other book rec’s for astrology, karma, + the Nodal Cycle). 🤩🥰💗💗💗✨

I know, dude… this was a lot. 🥵

BUT… you did it, and you’re now an expert on the Karmic Axis of your chart! 🙌🏻

…which also means you are totally primed for my upcoming tutorial about all the mega-axes of the astrology chart: the Karmic Axis, Ascension Axis, Magnetic Axis, and Gravity Axis. ✨✨✨

These are the “fate lines” of your chart, the ley lines facilitating the people and experiences meant to evolve your little star-baby soul through this incarnation…. any planets you have nearby one of the axes, any transits that move upon them, and even other people’s planets that land along them, indicate a special skill, a pivotal turning point, or fated interaction. 🌀

AND YOU HAVE TO KNOW ABOUT THEM.

I won’t stop until you do. 🤺

Everything is about to get better.

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