Question: Should I approach the Nodes from a spiritual or higher dimension perspective or take a practical basis? Those little ‘headphone icons’ in the chart are thought to symbolize a gateway into higher consciousness, which goes beyond the practical level. The Nodes can be read like the Sun and the Moon and they give us some idea of their symbolism and center around the union of opposites. The Nodes are sometimes called the ‘axis of destiny’ because they are beyond our beginnings, and show the polarities that we must meet en route in order to arise as individuals. Some astrologers believe that we have an automatic mastery of the South Node and need no more development. But, since everything needs balance, those gifts can be used through the vehicle of the North Node (a more earthy approach). The South Node of the chart, over the years, has suffered greatly from negative interpretations and for which few, if any, positive interpretations can be found. It has been called a point of addiction, to be avoided at all costs. To be operating through the South Node was considered to be a weakness. Planets on the South Node were further “bad news” and had something to do with challenging karmic connections. Steven Forrest (evolutionary astrologer) says that we need to read the past of the South Node more negatively on a spiritual level (and dramatically) because we were not as evolved. But who knows if we are inventing something more colorful and exciting, or extraordinarily eventful when, in fact, our past life might have been quite ordinary. In taking a higher dimension approach to the Nodes, we may well find out that some astrologers believe that since the North Node is a point and not a planetary body, it is our soul’s choice whether or not to activate its energy. It is like an arrow pointing in the right direction so that we can open up a new experience. All in all, the South Node position is where issues have revolved around and are deep down in our souls. I believe we all have an inkling of what those drawbacks might have been given our present life. With the South Node, it is not so much the dharma of the past life that is so important, it is the choices and determinations that we made in our past that are significant, for it is these that have created our patterns. All of us have particular themes and patterns in our lives, and they may have been repeated over and over and over again. Our patterns may be centuries old, and we have grown comfortable with them; they are etched deeply upon our being and so we act them out unconsciously. The South Node can show the way we responded to situations. I suppose we can get stuck in a time warp, and find it hard to fully release those energies, so we must look towards the North Node, for this point suggests how we can redirect our life path. Liz Greene says that she has not found the nodal axis inherently malefic, any more than eclipses are. Astrologers like Greene (a Virgo) prefer the practical approach and the Nodes are viewed as points of manifestation: It seems to reflect a point of manifestation, where what we are inside is distilled and incarnated outside us and comes to meet us like a “fate.” Because the nodal axis is the point of intersection between the orbits of the Sun and Moon, it is a kind of gateway into incarnation, a point of meeting between the solar principle of consciousness and meaning and the lunar principle of embodiment. I have not found that there is any difference between the North and South Nodes in terms of their effects by transit or progression; they move as an axis, and anything aspecting one end will automatically aspect the other. I would say the same about the natal nodal placements. You must work with a pair of houses, and the issues of both those houses—where they oppose and where they complement—will always be activated together. Sometimes one seems more troublesome than the other, but the trick with any polarity is to achieve a workable balance. If one end receives too much emphasis then the other will inevitably act up. We need to think in terms of a polarity here, rather than in terms of the North Node being “better” or “worse” than the South Node. I have acquired a new fascination for physics and parallel lives, and I really liked Melanie Reinhart’s interpretation of the Nodes. The meaning of the Nodes are essentially the same, and this is just a different style of interpreting them in the horoscope. Thinking again of what the Nodes consist of, although they represent the interrelationship between the Sun, Moon and Earth, they are also not these bodies, but are rather like gaps, holes, points in space which I think of as windows into another kind of space/time. In physics, there is this idea of ‘wormholes,’ which in my rudimentary understanding would seem to represent the interface, entry or exchange point between parallel universes. Perhaps Nodes are like wormholes of the chart, leading us into incarnation, and also leading us beyond the forms that we identify ourselves with. The choice to interpret the Nodes practically or higher dimensionally is really down to your choice of style, and what you prefer. …
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