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☊︎ North Node in ♋︎ Cancer
The North Node in Cancer places the direction of growth in a feeling, instinctive, tidal key. Being cardinal, it wants to start things and set them moving.
Cancer is the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon. Its keynote is protection, memory, the tides of feeling. Placed here, North Node (the path being learned) takes on that colouring, so read the two together on the Cancer arc of the wheel.
Here growth and the work of this life runs deep and receptive and initiating: the North Node points ahead, but in the Cancer manner rather than any other.
At its best that shows up as the nerve to grow past what is comfortable, expressed the Cancer way. Under pressure it can tip into avoiding the very thing that would help.
When North Node is in Cancer
North Node next enters Cancer around 27 June 2037, staying until about 15 January 2039.
It returns to Cancer around 6 February 2056 (through about 26 August 2057).
It returns to Cancer around 18 September 2074 (through about 6 April 2076).
Dates computed from the ephemeris (UTC), not copied from a table.
North Node’s aspects today
| Venus trine North Node | orb 2.6° |
| Moon trine North Node | orb 4.3° |
| Uranus square North Node | orb 6.6° |
North Node through the other signs
- ♈︎ Aries
- ♉︎ Taurus
- ♊︎ Gemini
- ♌︎ Leo
- ♍︎ Virgo
- ♎︎ Libra
- ♏︎ Scorpio
- ♐︎ Sagittarius
- ♑︎ Capricorn
- ♒︎ Aquarius
- ♓︎ Pisces
Tradition and interpretation, not prediction. See North Node or the sign of Cancer.