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☊︎ North Node
The path being learned.
Not a body but a point: where the Moon’s path crosses the ecliptic heading north. Read as the direction of growth.
Right now
North Node stands at 29° Aquarius. Drag it on the live clock to travel through time.
Current aspects
| Venus trine North Node | orb 2.7° |
| Moon trine North Node | orb 5.4° |
| Uranus square North Node | orb 6.6° |
The trine lets Venus and the North Node cooperate by nature: the power of attraction and the direction of growth accept each other, which is a talent and a temptation to coast.
In the traditional scheme the North Node carries growth and the work of this life. It points ahead wherever there is the path being learned; what it offers is a pull toward the unfamiliar, what it looks for is a step forward, and its failure mode is avoidance.
The North Node spends about eighteen months in each sign, a full circuit in eighteen and a half years. The nodes always regress, moving backward through the zodiac, so no retrograde badge is shown for them.
Read well, the North Node shows as the nerve to grow past what is comfortable. Read badly, it slides toward avoiding the very thing that would help.
North Node in each sign
- ♈︎ Aries
- ♉︎ Taurus
- ♊︎ Gemini
- ♋︎ Cancer
- ♌︎ Leo
- ♍︎ Virgo
- ♎︎ Libra
- ♏︎ Scorpio
- ♐︎ Sagittarius
- ♑︎ Capricorn
- ♒︎ Aquarius
- ♓︎ Pisces
All planets & points.