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True node gemini meaning7/13/2023 ![]() ![]() They represent a high-strung polarity that we’re learning to better balance, a polarity that is always in flux, wobbling and swinging like a pendulum. Throughout life, we tend to ricochet between the north and south node. It’s worth mentioning, too, that it’s not exactly that the nodes “determine” the eclipses – it’s more that the eclipses are what determine the signs the nodes are in. For example, if the north and south node in your birth chart are in Taurus and Scorpio, the eclipses were in Scorpio and Taurus during the 18-month period during which you were born. The nodes are not actual bodies but points in the moon’s orbit, and the signs the nodes are “in” indicate what signs the eclipses will be in for an approximately 18-month period. The north node (represented by a horseshoe-like symbol: ☊) and south node (represented by an upside down horseshoe-like symbol: ☋) are always exactly opposite each other by sign, degree, and house. There is truth in both of these perspectives, and in many others. These two stir things up in our lives and move ‘em around. In the Vedic tradition, the north and south node are called Rahu and Ketu, respectively, and they represent the severed head (Rahu) and tail (Ketu) of a dragon that gorges itself silly and essentially shits the bed just because it didn’t want to get up. ![]() In much of modern Western astrology, it’s said that we start off in the south node and move toward the north node like the south node is where we’ve been in a past life (whether you want to view that as an actual past life, childhood, or natural instincts is up to you) and the north node is the destiny we’re growing into. Throughout time and in different traditions, they have been seen as fateful, destiny-rich points in life and/or in the natal chart, though in different ways. The lunar nodes are a lesson in the philosophy that all polar opposites are still two ends of the same pole-different, but revolving around the same themes two halves a whole. *To find out what sign your nodes are in, scroll to the table at the end. ![]()
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