It would be an ominous sign to say the least. Maybe you even perceive divine intelligence in these luminaries: you pray to them and leave offerings. Now imagine you rely on these lights for body-warmth, sight, agriculture, and all manner of day-time activity. In the sudden dark, a primal panic or disorientation sets in. While it’s hard to recreate this fear in the modern day, when so much of our light is artificial, imagine moving through a train station or office building, when all the lights shut off without warning. The lights we live by are temporarily extinguished. When a New or Full Moon occurs in proximity to one of the lunar nodes: eclipses happen. While many modern and evolutionary astrologers tend to read soul journeys into the lunar nodes, these points were traditionally viewed as danger zones. The South Node, or tail of the dragon, denotes a dwindling, by contrast. The North Node represents the head of the dragon - a point of increase, according to Hellenistic and medieval astrologers. In many cultures, the nodes of the Moon have been depicted as dragons. What are the nodes of the Moon?Īstronomically speaking, the nodes of the Moon are the two points in space where the Moon’s orbit around Earth intersects with the ecliptic (that is, the path the Sun traces in the sky from the perspective of us earthlings.) The North and South Nodes are always opposite each other in a chart (i.e.
Work with our new meditations and rituals for the North and South Nodesįrequently Asked Questions 1. Discover how the nodes’ travels through Gemini and Sagittarius are impacting you in the Current Sky.ģ. Learn about your natal North and South Nodes and how they interact with other planets in your chartĢ. Work with the Nodes in 3 ways on the CHANI app: 1. For this reason, the ancients saw the nodes of the Moon as danger zones. When a New or Full Moon occurs near the North or South Node (every 6 months), the luminaries are temporarily snuffed out. The South Node is one mechanism through which your body, mind and heart self-purify.Īt these Points, eclipses happen. Like a bout of food poisoning that cleans you out, this process is necessary, though rarely pleasant. The South Node is the tail of the dragon: a point of surrender.
No matter how much you strive and seek and sweat, this hunger is bottomless.
In your birth chart, the North Node, or head of the dragon, indicates an area of life where you are insatiable. These much storied points in space have been mythologized as the head and tail of a voracious dragon. We are thrilled to unlock the next feature on the CHANI app: the nodes of the Moon.
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