The Transiting North Nodeby Emily Chaya Baumbach
August 27, 2001
For many years I've been watching the North Node as it dances forward, then backwards, swirling around the solar system ballroom and occasionally picking up a planetary partner. What happens when it does a dancing duet?
You probably already know that the North Node indicates an area of growth. Whichever planet it's aspecting from time to time, it will highlight our collective attitudes toward the future. For instance, in early 2002 transiting Uranus will trine the transiting North Node. Uranus is the future, the North Node is the future, and a trine is easy. Also, around the same time pleasure-loving Venus is trine the North Node, and action-loving Mars sextiles the North Node. I imagine that February 2002 will be a great month to get going on our favorite personal projects.
So, what mood is the world in when the transiting North Node dances with the transiting planets?
North Node with Sun:
. Positive aspects: Self-expression is important for a few days. Everybody's busy writing, playing music, thinking about their personal goals.
. Negative aspects: Ego drives are strong, with a "me first" mentality. (In my personal opinion, opposition to NN should be considered not as negative aspect but as conjunction to SN)
North Node with Moon:
. Positive aspects: Planning for future homes and remodeling your current home. News about fertility clinics and fertilization, conception, diets and dairy products, breast health. Looking at where you're going to live when you're an elder.
. Negative aspects: A fleeting moment of ennui, processing old grief, worry about the future, etc.
North Node with Mercury:
. Positive aspects: A lot of energy goes into communications, travel, traffic, cars, telephones, email, snail mail. Everybody's calling up everybody else to chat. A great week for getting yourself organized and making plans.
. Negative aspects: People feel mentally overwhelmed with too much email, information, news, voicemails, mail.
North Node with Venus:
. Positive aspects: People feel like shopping and eating, renting videos and hanging out with their friends doing nothing. Everyone's sensitive to the way their home looks: colors on the wall, furniture placement, wanting nice new things. Lots of new friendships start under North Node with Venus.
. Negative aspects: It's hard to feel pleasure. A potentially frustrating time. Or, people feel like everybody else is wasting their time.
North Node with Mars:
. Positive aspects: A highly active time when everyone is putting their focus on their ambitious goals. People are in the mood for hard work and getting ahead in life. A great month for goal-setting.
. Negative aspects: War (real or symbolic) gets in the way of getting anything done.
North Node with Jupiter:
. Positive aspects: Expansion is on everyone's mind. Big ideas are bubbling and bubbling for all kinds of new work projects, travel to foreign countries, business expansion and financial prosperity. Spiritual teachers and mentors have an effect on the public more than normally.
. Negative aspects: Overspending, overexpanding, overdoing it. Not feeling like working. The energy is pompous and flaccid, like over-expanded bread dough. When Jupiter conjuncts the South Node (opposes the North Node) people from the past tend to show up to offer support.
North Node with Saturn:
. Positive aspects: Nose to the grindstone, shoulder to the wheel. People are in the mood to plan for old age, putting money into their retirement accounts and long-term savings. Fathers and authority figures are highlighted. It's a great time for long-range planning and hard work.
. Negative aspects: The world feels dragged down and heavy. Not a light-hearted aspect. People are reminded of old past karmas, and are made to pay them off.
North Node with Uranus:
. Positive aspects: Fresh new ideas are popping, and the world shimmers with vibrant growth. Everyone's in the mood for revolution and utopia. People are more likely to take big risks and try out new methods.
. Negative aspects: Too much chaos keeps things from running smoothly. This can cause a feeling of inner earthquake in everyone, which can be a bit upsetting.
North Node with Neptune:
. Positive aspects: The world gets really spiritual around this time, hungry for direct experience of the Tao. Everyone gets to look at invisible worlds and deeper more transcendent parts of their being. It's a wonderful time to meditate, go on retreat, spend time at the ocean and hang out with your own inner silence.
. Negative aspects: Nothing seems real, and nobody makes any progress in matters of this world. People come down with immune system illnesses (common cold, flu, infections) and allergies. No one knows what they want to do with their life for a short time. Confusion reigns, martyrdom is rampant.
North Node with Pluto:
. Positive aspects: A deepening of experience occurs during these transits. People are ready to dig down beneath surface "reality." Everyone wants to be told the truth, and everyone lives the truth. The public starts paying attention to vast social issues (crime, poverty, hunger, political injustice) and then takes steps to heal them.
. Negative aspects: Crime, poverty, hunger and political injustice are closer to everyone's doorstep than ever. People get to look at their own Shadow: the part of them they're not proud of, the subpersonalities they project out onto others. Good versus Bad is an issue, and it seems as if the ghosts are all coming out of the closet. Scandals are a possibility, as well as destruction of form through fire, flooding, explosions, warfare, and so forth.
And of course, the South Node is the opposite of the North Node, representing the past. Every time something opposes the North Node, it's also conjuncting the South Node. Planets conjuncting the South Node stir up the karmic soup pot, and lots of old karmic relationships show up. Plus, we get to sift through all of our memories of the past. The two Nodes working together, then, teach us how to proceed toward our future: not by running away from the past, but by learning from the past and inviting it to the next dance party.
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