Taking the past (south node) and integrating it to resolve our relationship with it, and moving towards our experiences (north node).
The Lunar Nodes are mathematical points where the orbit of the Moon crosses the ecliptic (the imaginary passage of travel that the Sun takes as observed from here on Earth).
This is the shifting intersection between our obit here on Earth with the orbit of the moon. The lunar nodes also determine any eclipses when certain new moons or full moons align within its proximity.
In astrological symbolism the nodes represent the cause and effect in relationships, the karmic lessons from our past (south node) and the journey that the soul or higher Self wants to achieve (north node) – these create a sensation akin to tug-o-war or a magnetic pull. They are important to look at in most charts because they involve energy, motivation, potential and response.
The Nodes take approximately 1.5 years to travel through a sign, so it is always a noticeable shift when they ingress into new signs. It should be noted that the North Node and South Node and always exactly opposite each other, that is to say, they are always in polarity.
The signs that they occupy are known as polarities, as the signs involved share a common theme but are expressed in opposite ways.
An example of this it that the signs that this article will cover are about the Gemini-Sagittarius polarity: these two signs are about exploration of information and travel, but they differ because Gemini relates to short term travel and specific nitty gritty details in information, whereas Sagittarius favours long distance travel and the bigger picture in their information.
For those who aren’t familiar with the lunar nodes in astrology, it should also be noted that the nodes travel in Retrogradation motion, meaning they always travel backwards unlike the planets that will mostly travel in direct/forward motion. This is symbolic for travelling within ourselves to figure out issues, whereas the planets will represent physical action being taken, as they move forward in direct motion.
The ingress of the nodes from the Cancer-Capricorn polarity to the Gemini-Sagittarius polarity will occur on 5th May 2020. This will feel like a weight being lifted, as there has been so much happening in Capricorn (a lot of challenging planets, and the south node, which has been loving deemed as the toilet bowl of the chart by astrologer Lee Lehman, as it looks like one), so this is a time for some relief in the corresponding part of our birth chart.
From here on out we have 20 months to delve into topics connected with information and knowledge (Gemini) and combine that with new insights involving wisdom and truth (Sagittarius).
The North Node relates to Life purpose, so whilst it is in Gemini there will be a focus on objectivity and curiosity, whilst slowly releasing any of the Sagittarius inflation of dogma, religious zealotism and Self-righteousness. This is a time to embrace a growth mindset as opposed to a fixed mindset. This calls for everyone to observe the world with a fresh and young-minded approach – again, curiosity and being in awe of the wonders around us sparking new ideas will help connect us and see how our differences are what connect us.
There is a potential for the integration for these polarity signs; a balance of these signs being conceptually linked to each other – we cannot understand one without the other, just as we cannot understand light without darkness. The polarity signs share a symbiotic relationship as they are complimentary to each other.
From a spiritual perspective, the lunar nodes relate to the collective pot or cauldron of human experience on the planet living through various minds and time. This is where the soul strives to advance itself through physical experiences in our human journey, in our chosen body and Life path.
The North Node relates to carrying forward the experiences of embodied physical Life and integrating that within the broader soul experience, as a whole entity goes through realization and experience. Those with the Nodes falling in any of the polaritive signs belong to a particular collective class of people who have a group soul lesson; they share the same/similar lessons that they need to overcome. They are here to resolve the energy patterns found in the collective that relates back to the signs that their nodes fall in; to complete a shared karma that are associated with the respective signs.
The South node is the shadow side, so being in Sagittarius we want think about our personal beliefs, our paradigms – where have these become distorted? Where have we been asked to clean up our perception and initial thoughts (Gemini north node)?
We are asked to go back to the perceptual drawing board as this is a clean slate for us to ask ourselves “What am I looking at?”
Gemini is perception whereas Sagittarius is perspective.
Globally we are at a juncture in regards to data, what to belief (e.g. fake news, media hyping up the negative events) because currently Neptune in Pisces is giving a global fog; no one knows what to believe in factually anymore. Last year (2019), there was an important transit consisting of Jupiter in Sagittarius square Neptune in Pisces. This brought about heightened and emphasized mass confusion and the issue of what to believe.
Conclusions, beliefs and truths are the domain of Sagittarius. We are currently existing in an information soup - as a collective we are all on our phones or computers, so it is easy to fall into the self-inflicted trap of not knowing who we are, fake news, not knowing what to believe, cognitive laziness, and intellectual fallacy. Gemini is the data, and Sagittarius is the beliefs that can be created out of that data. Our attempt to come away with truth is based upon what is available to us and our perceiving minds.
The transiting North Node in Gemini is a collective invitation to take back control of the data we emit into our perceived awareness; it is taking back the power of what we believe instead of allowing ourselves to be forced what to believe. The transiting South Node in Sagittarius represents the allowing of us to step back and observe the (forced) opinions of world views. In this current time we are living through, this can be seen by social media / algorithmic censorship – the control of what comes up in our feed. This is not the idea of advertisements showing more content based upon what keywords we use regularly, but rather a shutdown of certain streams of data.
This is nefarious because of the lack of certain or all data in the internet pool to offer a different perspective for the viewer.
The other unique ideas we are looking at are the shadow side of political correctness as well as the shadow side of “woke culture” and how this can easily become its own tyranny. This political correctness module of thinking can prop up a certain world view or paradigm by preventing people saying things that can contest the prevailing paradigm, as this makes these people uncomfortable.
This is the idea of people feeling intimidated by the consequences of putting forward opinions or data which don’t conform to certain consensus or prevailing beliefs or paradigms. This notion is causing people to Self-censor on certain topics. I like to think that generally people do have their hearts in the right place, but it is just that in this age of social media it is easy to get carried away with being a “keyboard warrior”.
The Gemini North Node is looking for a fresh perceptual lens to observe our opinions as well as the opinions of others, and to examine the prevailing ideas and paradigms of conceptual beliefs. The other issue is that people use slogans of supposedly progressive paradigms and world views, yet their actions severely contradict the slogans that are being used. We can investigate this further by looking at Mercury (the ruler of Gemini, therefore the temporary ruler of the North Node) and his cycles. Throughout the entire of 2020, the times when Mercury goes Rx (retrograde, which is 3 to 4 times a year), they are all in water signs (water relates to emotions, spirituality, the psyche).
Mercury Rx in the element of Water works by opening up our sensitivity and sussing out the truth by deeper processes of intuition. Mercury usually has trouble operating in water signs, as it rules logic and the methodology of the mind, but it makes up for this by deepening the feeling perception; to allow the processing faculty (Mercury) to be informed by deeper processes by intuitive calculation data in order to perceive more truth – using the emotional body.
We are able to figure out a deeper meaning beneath the superficiality of words.
The Gemini North Node wants us to go back to our natural, child-like curiosity, particularly in our immediate environment and to render that perception into communication and language. We need to wipe the perceptual slate clean so that we can examine what we are observing on the sole basis of “what is it” without any complications (as the polarity, Sagittarius, is a philosophical thinker; it has a tendency to over-complicate things).
A question to ask and work through with this nodal transit is “Where have we all become trapped by prevailing paradigms, opinions, and narratives?”
The Gemini North Node points the way forward to the willingness to examine the facts and to come to our own conclusions, particularly where prevailing paradigms and opinions shun, shut off, or prevent the admission of certain facts into our perception, perceptual framework or cognitive framework.
This is a clean slate to observe and examine the world and our Self – sharing data and having dialogues as a way to having an assumed global paradigm.
As Mercury will temporarily rule the North Node – we need to pull away from any preconceived plans, especially during this weird time we are all experiencing globally, as things won’t be going “back to normal”, but rather we need to psychologically adjust to a new way of Life collectively.
Our foundations in how we have always socialized and foundations in government have been crumbling with the Nodes going through Cancer-Capricorn as this polarity are cardinal signs, meaning they activate the change.
As the nodes move through the mutable polarity (Gemini-Sagittarius), we will expect to find ourselves digesting this new world we are living in, as the need to embrace change of direction is crucial, but we need to exert utmost focus to avoid distraction (mutable signs are known to have trouble staying focused as there is an energy exchange in ideas flinging about everywhere).
We must value curiosity, and to question dogmatic viewpoints (Sagittarius), as well as being able to sit still to listen and integrate new perspectives.
During the times when Mercury travels Rx (retrograde) are the times we need to be willing to question ourselves in the ways we emotionally communicate to one other, but these will vary throughout the year as the sign it is in when Rx will alter the communication responsiveness. An important period is on 13th to 14th May (depending on your time zone), which is 1 week after the North Node enters Gemini. This is an important date as Venus will station (stop moving) to turn Rx whilst in the sign of Gemini as well, so this enhances our major lesson of trying to find new ways to communicate our emotional needs in our relationships.
If you wish to find out how the nodes will affect you personally, took to what houses in your birth chart contain Gemini and Sagittarius. If you want further clarification, feel free to contact me to discuss booking a reading.
6/4/2020
The Lunar Nodes are mathematical points where the orbit of the Moon crosses the ecliptic (the imaginary passage of travel that the Sun takes as observed from here on Earth).
This is the shifting intersection between our obit here on Earth with the orbit of the moon. The lunar nodes also determine any eclipses when certain new moons or full moons align within its proximity.
In astrological symbolism the nodes represent the cause and effect in relationships, the karmic lessons from our past (south node) and the journey that the soul or higher Self wants to achieve (north node) – these create a sensation akin to tug-o-war or a magnetic pull. They are important to look at in most charts because they involve energy, motivation, potential and response.
The Nodes take approximately 1.5 years to travel through a sign, so it is always a noticeable shift when they ingress into new signs. It should be noted that the North Node and South Node and always exactly opposite each other, that is to say, they are always in polarity.
The signs that they occupy are known as polarities, as the signs involved share a common theme but are expressed in opposite ways.
An example of this it that the signs that this article will cover are about the Gemini-Sagittarius polarity: these two signs are about exploration of information and travel, but they differ because Gemini relates to short term travel and specific nitty gritty details in information, whereas Sagittarius favours long distance travel and the bigger picture in their information.
For those who aren’t familiar with the lunar nodes in astrology, it should also be noted that the nodes travel in Retrogradation motion, meaning they always travel backwards unlike the planets that will mostly travel in direct/forward motion. This is symbolic for travelling within ourselves to figure out issues, whereas the planets will represent physical action being taken, as they move forward in direct motion.
The ingress of the nodes from the Cancer-Capricorn polarity to the Gemini-Sagittarius polarity will occur on 5th May 2020. This will feel like a weight being lifted, as there has been so much happening in Capricorn (a lot of challenging planets, and the south node, which has been loving deemed as the toilet bowl of the chart by astrologer Lee Lehman, as it looks like one), so this is a time for some relief in the corresponding part of our birth chart.
From here on out we have 20 months to delve into topics connected with information and knowledge (Gemini) and combine that with new insights involving wisdom and truth (Sagittarius).
The North Node relates to Life purpose, so whilst it is in Gemini there will be a focus on objectivity and curiosity, whilst slowly releasing any of the Sagittarius inflation of dogma, religious zealotism and Self-righteousness. This is a time to embrace a growth mindset as opposed to a fixed mindset. This calls for everyone to observe the world with a fresh and young-minded approach – again, curiosity and being in awe of the wonders around us sparking new ideas will help connect us and see how our differences are what connect us.
There is a potential for the integration for these polarity signs; a balance of these signs being conceptually linked to each other – we cannot understand one without the other, just as we cannot understand light without darkness. The polarity signs share a symbiotic relationship as they are complimentary to each other.
From a spiritual perspective, the lunar nodes relate to the collective pot or cauldron of human experience on the planet living through various minds and time. This is where the soul strives to advance itself through physical experiences in our human journey, in our chosen body and Life path.
The North Node relates to carrying forward the experiences of embodied physical Life and integrating that within the broader soul experience, as a whole entity goes through realization and experience. Those with the Nodes falling in any of the polaritive signs belong to a particular collective class of people who have a group soul lesson; they share the same/similar lessons that they need to overcome. They are here to resolve the energy patterns found in the collective that relates back to the signs that their nodes fall in; to complete a shared karma that are associated with the respective signs.
The South node is the shadow side, so being in Sagittarius we want think about our personal beliefs, our paradigms – where have these become distorted? Where have we been asked to clean up our perception and initial thoughts (Gemini north node)?
We are asked to go back to the perceptual drawing board as this is a clean slate for us to ask ourselves “What am I looking at?”
Gemini is perception whereas Sagittarius is perspective.
Globally we are at a juncture in regards to data, what to belief (e.g. fake news, media hyping up the negative events) because currently Neptune in Pisces is giving a global fog; no one knows what to believe in factually anymore. Last year (2019), there was an important transit consisting of Jupiter in Sagittarius square Neptune in Pisces. This brought about heightened and emphasized mass confusion and the issue of what to believe.
Conclusions, beliefs and truths are the domain of Sagittarius. We are currently existing in an information soup - as a collective we are all on our phones or computers, so it is easy to fall into the self-inflicted trap of not knowing who we are, fake news, not knowing what to believe, cognitive laziness, and intellectual fallacy. Gemini is the data, and Sagittarius is the beliefs that can be created out of that data. Our attempt to come away with truth is based upon what is available to us and our perceiving minds.
The transiting North Node in Gemini is a collective invitation to take back control of the data we emit into our perceived awareness; it is taking back the power of what we believe instead of allowing ourselves to be forced what to believe. The transiting South Node in Sagittarius represents the allowing of us to step back and observe the (forced) opinions of world views. In this current time we are living through, this can be seen by social media / algorithmic censorship – the control of what comes up in our feed. This is not the idea of advertisements showing more content based upon what keywords we use regularly, but rather a shutdown of certain streams of data.
This is nefarious because of the lack of certain or all data in the internet pool to offer a different perspective for the viewer.
The other unique ideas we are looking at are the shadow side of political correctness as well as the shadow side of “woke culture” and how this can easily become its own tyranny. This political correctness module of thinking can prop up a certain world view or paradigm by preventing people saying things that can contest the prevailing paradigm, as this makes these people uncomfortable.
This is the idea of people feeling intimidated by the consequences of putting forward opinions or data which don’t conform to certain consensus or prevailing beliefs or paradigms. This notion is causing people to Self-censor on certain topics. I like to think that generally people do have their hearts in the right place, but it is just that in this age of social media it is easy to get carried away with being a “keyboard warrior”.
The Gemini North Node is looking for a fresh perceptual lens to observe our opinions as well as the opinions of others, and to examine the prevailing ideas and paradigms of conceptual beliefs. The other issue is that people use slogans of supposedly progressive paradigms and world views, yet their actions severely contradict the slogans that are being used. We can investigate this further by looking at Mercury (the ruler of Gemini, therefore the temporary ruler of the North Node) and his cycles. Throughout the entire of 2020, the times when Mercury goes Rx (retrograde, which is 3 to 4 times a year), they are all in water signs (water relates to emotions, spirituality, the psyche).
Mercury Rx in the element of Water works by opening up our sensitivity and sussing out the truth by deeper processes of intuition. Mercury usually has trouble operating in water signs, as it rules logic and the methodology of the mind, but it makes up for this by deepening the feeling perception; to allow the processing faculty (Mercury) to be informed by deeper processes by intuitive calculation data in order to perceive more truth – using the emotional body.
We are able to figure out a deeper meaning beneath the superficiality of words.
The Gemini North Node wants us to go back to our natural, child-like curiosity, particularly in our immediate environment and to render that perception into communication and language. We need to wipe the perceptual slate clean so that we can examine what we are observing on the sole basis of “what is it” without any complications (as the polarity, Sagittarius, is a philosophical thinker; it has a tendency to over-complicate things).
A question to ask and work through with this nodal transit is “Where have we all become trapped by prevailing paradigms, opinions, and narratives?”
The Gemini North Node points the way forward to the willingness to examine the facts and to come to our own conclusions, particularly where prevailing paradigms and opinions shun, shut off, or prevent the admission of certain facts into our perception, perceptual framework or cognitive framework.
This is a clean slate to observe and examine the world and our Self – sharing data and having dialogues as a way to having an assumed global paradigm.
As Mercury will temporarily rule the North Node – we need to pull away from any preconceived plans, especially during this weird time we are all experiencing globally, as things won’t be going “back to normal”, but rather we need to psychologically adjust to a new way of Life collectively.
Our foundations in how we have always socialized and foundations in government have been crumbling with the Nodes going through Cancer-Capricorn as this polarity are cardinal signs, meaning they activate the change.
As the nodes move through the mutable polarity (Gemini-Sagittarius), we will expect to find ourselves digesting this new world we are living in, as the need to embrace change of direction is crucial, but we need to exert utmost focus to avoid distraction (mutable signs are known to have trouble staying focused as there is an energy exchange in ideas flinging about everywhere).
We must value curiosity, and to question dogmatic viewpoints (Sagittarius), as well as being able to sit still to listen and integrate new perspectives.
During the times when Mercury travels Rx (retrograde) are the times we need to be willing to question ourselves in the ways we emotionally communicate to one other, but these will vary throughout the year as the sign it is in when Rx will alter the communication responsiveness. An important period is on 13th to 14th May (depending on your time zone), which is 1 week after the North Node enters Gemini. This is an important date as Venus will station (stop moving) to turn Rx whilst in the sign of Gemini as well, so this enhances our major lesson of trying to find new ways to communicate our emotional needs in our relationships.
If you wish to find out how the nodes will affect you personally, took to what houses in your birth chart contain Gemini and Sagittarius. If you want further clarification, feel free to contact me to discuss booking a reading.
6/4/2020