Astrology
- Are Your Planets Lobbying For Their Own Agendas--or Are You Listening To Your North Node?
"Planets Lobbying for their Own Agendas" In the February issue of Mountain Astrologer, Laurence Hillman did a great job of explaining the Nodes, especially in saying that they operate on a soul level rather than a personality...
- A Question Of Priorities: How Do I "read" The North And South Nodes?
A Question of Priorities: How do I ?read? the North and South Nodes? Pulling It All Together Astrologically? When you care enough to go deeper into understanding the North and South Nodes in your birth chart, it can get very confusing indeed!...
- Squares To The Nodes: The "skipped Step"
Squares to the Nodes?Your Karmic ?Skipped Step? How do you get to your North Node? How do you know how best to prioritize things? What has been left unresolved karmically from past lives? At this point, you understand the idea of the...
- South Node; Don't Repeat What Doesn't Work
The South NodeFrom the point of view of evolutionary astrology, the sign of your South Node describes your default pattern in life. It describes a way of being in the world which doesn't work well for you anymore. It represents something you are...
- North Node; Your Soul Messenger
"Know Thyself" An ancient Greek maxim, inscribed at the Temple at Delphi As an evolutionary astrologer, I believe that the North Node is the single most important point in the chart; it describes what your Soul yearns to learn and experience in this...
Astrology
And how does one understand the North Node, and South Node; Life Direction and Soul Purpose
Understanding Your North Node, South Node:
Life Direction and Soul Purpose
It has got to sound outrageous that anyone can help another person discover their soul purpose and life direction! And especially from information gained through an astrology chart?but that is exactly what I do as an astrologer. I specialize in helping you understand the complex ?soul directive? that is contained in your particular North and South Nodes.
It?s more complex than it appears at first. The sign of your North Node describes the experiences and lessons your Soul wants to move towards in this life, whereas the South Node sign describes what your Soul has already brought into this life and what it wants to move away from. It?s your default pattern when all the chips are down.
Besides the signs of your Nodes, the ?houses? of your chart in which they are placed are crucial because they tell much more of the story---they describe in more detail the area or part of your life that needs emphasis, and needs de-emphasis.
And then it?s necessary to bring in the other ?players?; the Sun, Moon, Saturn, Rising Sign, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, to see how they fit into the puzzle. The first four mentioned are probably the most crucial pieces of the story, but the art of astrology is to know how to take the exquisite mandala of the chart apart and then put it back together?to synthesize and prioritize what is truly meaningful and what is not. It?s not hard to read about your Nodes by sign and house on this blog, but quite honestly, you?re probably not going to get the whole picture unless you have the ability to be objective in weighing the relative value of each piece.
Another important consideration is this: the South Node reflects not only past life karma and traits, but also the patterns you are still getting stuck in! These are what the Jungian writer, Jim Hollis calls ?the swamplands of the Soul.? The same issues keep coming around in more and more sophisticated ways, but we?re still dealing with the same South Node problems. It?s good to know what to call it; to name it.
To go deeper, you also need to consider the rulers of the Nodes, and the aspects to the Nodes. Many people have what is called a ?skipped step? or a piece of unfinished business that is reflected by a square aspect to the Nodes. A trine aspect represents people and situations that enabled you to live out your ?default pattern.?
And finally we look to planets that aspect the Nodes. These tell us how this energy is ?echoed? in the chart and in your life, and gives us hints as to how to draw out more information and elaborate upon what the Soul is up against, and what the Soul is yearning for this time around. Look to other posts on this site to explain more.
Yes, it?s complicated, and simply a theory. But I wouldn?t want to not know how this plays out in my life?I take my own intuitive wisdom as first priority, but this certainly has helped me know things about myself that I wouldn?t have considered. I?m sure a couple of years of good therapy would have brought up the same things, but then again, I like the easiness of knowing. The hard part is what to do with it all, and how to live it out. Elizabeth Spring (C)http://www.elizabethspring.com/ Contact for a reading at: [email protected]
Life Direction and Soul Purpose
It has got to sound outrageous that anyone can help another person discover their soul purpose and life direction! And especially from information gained through an astrology chart?but that is exactly what I do as an astrologer. I specialize in helping you understand the complex ?soul directive? that is contained in your particular North and South Nodes.
It?s more complex than it appears at first. The sign of your North Node describes the experiences and lessons your Soul wants to move towards in this life, whereas the South Node sign describes what your Soul has already brought into this life and what it wants to move away from. It?s your default pattern when all the chips are down.
Besides the signs of your Nodes, the ?houses? of your chart in which they are placed are crucial because they tell much more of the story---they describe in more detail the area or part of your life that needs emphasis, and needs de-emphasis.
And then it?s necessary to bring in the other ?players?; the Sun, Moon, Saturn, Rising Sign, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, to see how they fit into the puzzle. The first four mentioned are probably the most crucial pieces of the story, but the art of astrology is to know how to take the exquisite mandala of the chart apart and then put it back together?to synthesize and prioritize what is truly meaningful and what is not. It?s not hard to read about your Nodes by sign and house on this blog, but quite honestly, you?re probably not going to get the whole picture unless you have the ability to be objective in weighing the relative value of each piece.
Another important consideration is this: the South Node reflects not only past life karma and traits, but also the patterns you are still getting stuck in! These are what the Jungian writer, Jim Hollis calls ?the swamplands of the Soul.? The same issues keep coming around in more and more sophisticated ways, but we?re still dealing with the same South Node problems. It?s good to know what to call it; to name it.
To go deeper, you also need to consider the rulers of the Nodes, and the aspects to the Nodes. Many people have what is called a ?skipped step? or a piece of unfinished business that is reflected by a square aspect to the Nodes. A trine aspect represents people and situations that enabled you to live out your ?default pattern.?
And finally we look to planets that aspect the Nodes. These tell us how this energy is ?echoed? in the chart and in your life, and gives us hints as to how to draw out more information and elaborate upon what the Soul is up against, and what the Soul is yearning for this time around. Look to other posts on this site to explain more.
Yes, it?s complicated, and simply a theory. But I wouldn?t want to not know how this plays out in my life?I take my own intuitive wisdom as first priority, but this certainly has helped me know things about myself that I wouldn?t have considered. I?m sure a couple of years of good therapy would have brought up the same things, but then again, I like the easiness of knowing. The hard part is what to do with it all, and how to live it out. Elizabeth Spring (C)http://www.elizabethspring.com/ Contact for a reading at: [email protected]
- Are Your Planets Lobbying For Their Own Agendas--or Are You Listening To Your North Node?
"Planets Lobbying for their Own Agendas" In the February issue of Mountain Astrologer, Laurence Hillman did a great job of explaining the Nodes, especially in saying that they operate on a soul level rather than a personality...
- A Question Of Priorities: How Do I "read" The North And South Nodes?
A Question of Priorities: How do I ?read? the North and South Nodes? Pulling It All Together Astrologically? When you care enough to go deeper into understanding the North and South Nodes in your birth chart, it can get very confusing indeed!...
- Squares To The Nodes: The "skipped Step"
Squares to the Nodes?Your Karmic ?Skipped Step? How do you get to your North Node? How do you know how best to prioritize things? What has been left unresolved karmically from past lives? At this point, you understand the idea of the...
- South Node; Don't Repeat What Doesn't Work
The South NodeFrom the point of view of evolutionary astrology, the sign of your South Node describes your default pattern in life. It describes a way of being in the world which doesn't work well for you anymore. It represents something you are...
- North Node; Your Soul Messenger
"Know Thyself" An ancient Greek maxim, inscribed at the Temple at Delphi As an evolutionary astrologer, I believe that the North Node is the single most important point in the chart; it describes what your Soul yearns to learn and experience in this...