Astrology
Soul Purpose: Courage, survival, entrepreneurial pioneering in any field. Dependence on your own skills and abilities, rather than enmeshment with others.
Shadow: Compromising behavior and fearing to share your deepest feelings, ideas, and talents. ?Going along with things? leads you into the shadows.
*** Psychological ground-breakers Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung both had the Aries North Node. Each of these men embodied the Aries pioneering spirit that broke new ground in the world of psychology. With South Nodes in Libra, they were called to break away from the limitations of partnerships and relationships?even with each other?and to reach for the self-directed, independent qualities of Aries.
Jung?s North Node was in the 2nd house of self-worth, suggesting how important it was for him to produce a body of work that would prove himself to himself. With his South Node in the 8th house of other people?s values, he needed to let go of the approval of others, and acquire the self-confidence one gets by defining oneself in one?s own terms. Jung?s break with Freud at his Uranus Opposition (around age forty) was extremely traumatic for Jung and precipitated his short but intense psychological breakdown. In later years, Jung?s independence and disregard for other?s opinions, allowed him to have intimate relationships with many people, and to explore the taboo subjects of alchemy and astrology.
Freud?s North Node Aries was in the 6th house, suggesting that he was called to be both devoted to his work and to the needs of his physical body. Whether he was a hypochondriac or in as much physical pain as he said he was, was not as important as the need he had to attend to his body as well as his Work. Many people would say Freud had psychosomatic illnesses and a cocaine addiction, yet despite this, few people would discount the great work that he pioneered in his life. It?s worthwhile to remember that we should never be too judgmental about another person?s success or lack of success in reaching their North Node aspirations. We all fail and succeed in varying degrees.
© Elizabeth Spring http://www.elizabethspring.com/
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- 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...
- South Node Seventh House House
South Node Seventh House (Libra), North Node First House (Aries) The house description of the Nodes always tells us in what area of our life things are happening, and where attention is needed to be paid. In this aspect, with the South Node in the Libra...
- South Node First House, North Node Seventh House
First House South Node, Seventh House North Node The first house is all about YOU?your personality, your way of seeing the world, the way the world sees you, and the nuts and bolts and nuances of how you would describe yourself, and how others would...
- Moon's Node Reversal
At the time when the moon?s nodes are reversed, issues around life direction and soul purpose are up for examination and decision-making. It?s a time that holds great potential for crisis and transformation, and no matter what we do externally, on an...
- 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...
Astrology
North Node in Aries, Libra South Node
Aries North Node, Libra South Node
Your Aries North Node Soul wants to find its courage. It wants to be excited, to explore, and even to be stressed out--- if that?s what it will take to bring forth the independent and courageous side of you! Courage is the high road for Aries, and it?s what we do each time we step up the plate and ?show up? whether we feel like it or not. Courage is what we need to have to survive and to be a pioneer. You are the natural survivor, pioneer, entrepreneur and sacred warrior of the zodiac.
Is it that fools rush in where angels fear to tread? Or simply that your enthusiasm and fresh attitude of ?why not?? motivates the rest of us? You may not feel like the fearless one-- for courage is often stressed into a person by acts of bravery, but remember that courage is something you learn as you allow yourself to feel the fear and do it anyway. Your Soul may have chosen to be born into situations that have motivated you to develop the spiritual muscle of bravery. You are here to walk your talk and to learn to ?step up to the plate.?
As you exercise your independent nature, rather than re-enacting old tendencies of enmeshment or co-dependence, you inspire us to want to be with you, and to hear your stories, your truth. Don?t be too cautious. Earlier in this life, or in former lives, you may have heeded too closely to rules of justice, reason, and skillfully ?getting along? and in the process compromised parts of yourself in a deadening attempt to please and accommodate. Now you are called to let conventional roles and habits give way to a more exciting, truthful, and passionate nature. As you dare to follow through on what truly excites your curiosities, you leave behind your South Node traces of dependency and--dare we call it ?normalcy?? In this life, you don?t want linger too long in any social group, for your Soul needs some alone time as well as a good dose of adventure and risk taking. Inter-dependence rather than co-dependence seems to be called for now.
For you there is a yearning for the adrenaline rush of new beginnings, and you excel at seeing fresh possibilities and new ideas. Give yourself permission not to have to follow through on every last detail. And, if you try to be overly accommodating and to try to make peace at any cost, you may lose your focus or energy. Like in the old fairytale about the Emperor who rode through the streets naked and didn?t know it, you are meant to be the one to tell the Emperor he has no clothes on! And there?s no social niceties with that one. Aries North Node understands the paradoxical nature of people and life, and has a keen intelligence and humor that often surprises people. When you dare to act and speak outside the norm, you can delve surprisingly deep. And as a ?slayer of dragons and a rescuer of maidens? (or lads) you are best when you are not only a thinker, but a doer as well?.maybe even a sacred warrior.
Somewhere in the midst of your life journey, usually after your first Saturn Return (at approximately age 29) you are able to turn on your path to redeem the gold in the shadow of your Libra South Node. Redeeming the gold in the shadow of the South Node is about reclaiming your natural gifts. But these natural abilities are also your familiar path of least resistance and are best redeemed only after you have done the work of the North Node---after you have survived the slings and arrows of this new call to a courageous life. Then you can be the tactful mediator and peacemaker. Aries and Libra are ruled by Mars and Venus, respectively, and there?s nothing juicier than to allow the masculine and feminine aspects of your nature to stimulate and balance each other.
Soul Purpose: Courage, survival, entrepreneurial pioneering in any field. Dependence on your own skills and abilities, rather than enmeshment with others.
Shadow: Compromising behavior and fearing to share your deepest feelings, ideas, and talents. ?Going along with things? leads you into the shadows.
*** Psychological ground-breakers Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung both had the Aries North Node. Each of these men embodied the Aries pioneering spirit that broke new ground in the world of psychology. With South Nodes in Libra, they were called to break away from the limitations of partnerships and relationships?even with each other?and to reach for the self-directed, independent qualities of Aries.
Jung?s North Node was in the 2nd house of self-worth, suggesting how important it was for him to produce a body of work that would prove himself to himself. With his South Node in the 8th house of other people?s values, he needed to let go of the approval of others, and acquire the self-confidence one gets by defining oneself in one?s own terms. Jung?s break with Freud at his Uranus Opposition (around age forty) was extremely traumatic for Jung and precipitated his short but intense psychological breakdown. In later years, Jung?s independence and disregard for other?s opinions, allowed him to have intimate relationships with many people, and to explore the taboo subjects of alchemy and astrology.
Freud?s North Node Aries was in the 6th house, suggesting that he was called to be both devoted to his work and to the needs of his physical body. Whether he was a hypochondriac or in as much physical pain as he said he was, was not as important as the need he had to attend to his body as well as his Work. Many people would say Freud had psychosomatic illnesses and a cocaine addiction, yet despite this, few people would discount the great work that he pioneered in his life. It?s worthwhile to remember that we should never be too judgmental about another person?s success or lack of success in reaching their North Node aspirations. We all fail and succeed in varying degrees.
© Elizabeth Spring http://www.elizabethspring.com/
*********************************************************
- 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...
- South Node Seventh House House
South Node Seventh House (Libra), North Node First House (Aries) The house description of the Nodes always tells us in what area of our life things are happening, and where attention is needed to be paid. In this aspect, with the South Node in the Libra...
- South Node First House, North Node Seventh House
First House South Node, Seventh House North Node The first house is all about YOU?your personality, your way of seeing the world, the way the world sees you, and the nuts and bolts and nuances of how you would describe yourself, and how others would...
- Moon's Node Reversal
At the time when the moon?s nodes are reversed, issues around life direction and soul purpose are up for examination and decision-making. It?s a time that holds great potential for crisis and transformation, and no matter what we do externally, on an...
- 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...