posted December 05, 2006 01:17 PM            

By sign, our nodes mean that we're too comfortable nurturing people, and our goal is this lifetime is to stand up and be an adult. When we do so, we're supposed to be excellent managers of people since we've spent so much time nurturing people. See Jan Spiller's book Astrology For The Soul.

posted December 05, 2006 01:21 PM            

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posted December 05, 2006 01:50 PM              

First off, it's good to note that the sign is the *way* of operating, and the house is the *field* of operation. Confusing I know because in your case you are probably Libra rising like myself, so the sign on every house cusp is opposite the house's natural ruler (unless there are interceptions).

Anyways, what's happening is that your NN ruler is conjunct the SN. This would generally indicate that your NN lessons are lessons you have already begun working on in PL. In general, planets angular to the nodal axis, natally or in synastry, dominate the chart. They are amplified and become central evolutionary focus.

Hope this helps.

posted December 05, 2006 02:27 PM              

As Chrissy mentions, with North node (future goals) focused in the 4th house (home), there is a focus on creating a "home" in your life. You might find that you somehow start out in life with some sort of career (10th house), but as time goes on, you want to do things from a "home base". You might be a natural for some type of home-based business.

Nodally,

posted December 05, 2006 08:59 PM              

can u give an example of the difference between sign and house....how one is the way of operating and the other the field???

posted December 05, 2006 10:12 PM            

I like to think of it as:
Planet -- What
Sign -- How
House -- Where

Or, condensed from Howard Sasportas' "The Twelve Houses", "Planets represent particular psychological drives, urges and motivations. Like verbs, they depict a certain action which is going on. The signs represent twelve qualities of being or attitudes towards life. The drive of a planet is expressed thru the sign in which the planet is placed. Houses show the specific areas of everyday life or fields of experience in which all this action is occuring. Serving as the lens to focus and personalize the planetary blueprint onto the landscape of actual life, the houses bring the chart down to earth."

Zala

posted December 06, 2006 11:30 AM              

Understanding the inter-relation between sign, planet, and house is the heart of interpretive astrology and is a kind of "astro-sentence". To learn more about how to use the power of the "astro-sentence" to simplify chart interpretation, see Step 5 in the link below.

Astro-sentencing,

Tim