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☋︎ South Node in ♋︎ Cancer
The South Node in Cancer places the familiar past 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, South Node (the familiar past) takes on that colouring, so read the two together on the Cancer arc of the wheel.
Here inherited ease and old habit runs deep and receptive and initiating: the South Node looks back, but in the Cancer manner rather than any other.
At its best that shows up as a deep well of instinct to draw on, expressed the Cancer way. Under pressure it can tip into clinging to what is safe and known.
When South Node is in Cancer
South Node next enters Cancer around 7 March 2028, staying until about 24 September 2029.
It returns to Cancer around 17 October 2046 (through about 6 May 2048).
It returns to Cancer around 29 May 2065 (through about 16 December 2066).
Dates computed from the ephemeris (UTC), not copied from a table.
South Node’s aspects today
| Venus sextile South Node | orb 2.6° |
| Moon sextile South Node | orb 4.3° |
| Uranus square South Node | orb 6.6° |
South Node through the other signs
- ♈︎ Aries
- ♉︎ Taurus
- ♊︎ Gemini
- ♌︎ Leo
- ♍︎ Virgo
- ♎︎ Libra
- ♏︎ Scorpio
- ♐︎ Sagittarius
- ♑︎ Capricorn
- ♒︎ Aquarius
- ♓︎ Pisces
Tradition and interpretation, not prediction. See South Node or the sign of Cancer.