North & South Node are important parts of every natal chart. Do you know where yours are?
I have already written an article about the meaning of both lunar Nodes; the South and the North Node. Now we will take a look into the houses where your lunar nodes are.
So, what is my destiny?
Firstly, take a look at your natal chart. Secondly, find your natal North Node’s house (South Node is opposite to North Node). Afterward, read the explanation from Bernice Grebner and Martin Schulman. To me, their descriptions are the most accurate.
NODES BY HOUSE
Natal North Node in 1st House / South Node in 7th House
When the North Node is in the second house, there’s a hang-up about security. According to what stage of the balancing act the person is in, he or she can exhibit wild extravagance or greed and parsimony. In either case, there’s an emphasis on possessions as status symbols. The actual possessions may take various forms – from ultra-expensive to the recycled bargain. In any case, they’re only a symptom of the cause, which in reality is a perverted or underdeveloped spirit of enterprise.
Sometimes possessions are used to assuage feelings of inadequacy caused by a constitutional weakness; other times, they’re a means of providing some measure of present security to compensate for a childhood lack. There’s a strong tendency to trust luck or be attracted to get-rich-quick schemes. Often, you gain possessions only to be lost again through extravagance or blind generosity. Sometimes there’s a tendency to gamble, with disgrace or disaster ensuing.
When the Node takes an avaricious form of expression, chances are that some important form of security was withheld in childhood. Clients with this placing invariably complain of some traumatic lack of privacy. Having to share a room with several siblings, having to conform to stifling regulations while in boarding school, being a parent who listened in on ‘phone conversations, opening mail, reading diaries, etc. – are some of the most common experiences. As a result, these people have come to feel that they have nothing to call their own truth. Thus, even if they should acquire great wealth, they’re afraid to give even a little for fear that others will demand more and more until, once again, everything they have is gone. This last form of expression may also result from a surfeit of negative eighth-house South Node experiences in the adult years.
North Node in the second house wants assurance that his or her financial needs will always be met. He or she may dream of great wealth, but more commonly, just wants enough to provide the basic necessities plus an allowance for indulgence in one major luxury – expensive beauty treatments, antiques, books, or whatever. (This luxury in itself doesn’t seem to have any bearing on the nodal sign; it’s more often connected with a rising or otherwise predominant planet.)
Peace and harmony are also important components of the dream. In contrast, this person is often subject to feelings of strangeness or bouts of moodiness that hinder harmony and the successful attainment of dreams. It’s interesting to note that there’s often marked psychic ability that’s repressed or totally denied. When this is channeled, moods often improve. In extreme cases, there’s the compulsiveness that can lead to underhanded methods of obtaining goals. Again, this sabotages the need for harmony.
Natal North Node in 2nd House / South Node in 8th House
If the North Node is in the second house or Taurus, the person’s greatest growth, evolution, and fulfillment come through appreciation and enjoyment of earthly pleasures. In past lives, the person has been preoccupied with the profundity of life, mysticism, spiritual development, and helping others find their values and self-worth. It is not time to expand the practical side of being and cherish God’s creation to the fullest. The person should focus on wealth, comforts, the arts, etc. You favor any kind of collection. The person must let go of patterns of detachment and indifference and engage fully and passionately in life. Enjoyment of the physical universe is his path to happiness, spiritual integration, and higher realms of awareness.
The person should concern himself with personal security. He needs to take jobs that are steady and stable, and that allows him to cultivate a conservative, systematic manner. Endeavors involving agriculture, gardening, or archaeology will bring satisfaction and delight. The person should surround himself with beauty and take his appearance very seriously. He must honor the qualities of patience, consistency, firmness, and determination. Above all, he must learn to acknowledge and value his own personal needs and desires. He should seek out the real and tangible and remain somewhat skeptical of that which he cannot see, smell, hear, touch, or taste.
Self-identity is extremely important during this lifetime, and the person is developing loyalty, balance, and equanimity. Sex may be enjoyed for the sensuality and sheer pleasure of the experience, but not as a means of gaining power, indulging in passion, or losing his identity to another. Unless other aspects of the birth chart indicate otherwise, the person may have little desire for the occult or mystical side of life. He is not much concerned with psychological transformation and spiritual methods of evolutionary growth.
Natal North Node in 3rd House / South Node in 9th House
In the third house, there’s a hang-up about relationships. This generally stems from repressed or misdirected concentration on one area to the detriment of the other. Problems can range from fanaticism to cynicism. There’s often a sense of not belonging, which may lead to anything from unhealthy rivalries to bigotry to involvement in cults to extreme misanthropism. In extreme cases, there can be a turning against your own culture and absorption into a completely alien one.
North Node in the third house dreams of mental vitality and respect in some traditional fields. He or she wants to be thought of as someone worth talking to. This is a person of changing interests and philosophy who’s often been strongly influenced – consciously or unconsciously – by early religious, educational, or cultural dogma. These ingrained beliefs can lead to a wasting of mental ability or less traditional but nonetheless valuable talents.
Natal North Node in 4th House / South Node in 10th House
With the North Node in the fourth, there should be a development of domestic life. He needs to learn the art of going into seclusion. He must be alone with himself at times to develop his own depth of soul, to dig deep and get to the very roots. Possibly, he would have to learn the role of nurturing, helping another grow, as in helping to sustain life. This person would need to establish a home, care for it and learn what it takes to do this. There may be a problem in connection with a parent, or an imbalance in his love for them – loving one more than the other – or it could cause the loss of one parent at an early age.
South Node in the tenth is the extrovert. With this position, there is a great ability to deal with the public as the person easily understands its needs. This is similar to the Moon in the tenth but coupled with the innate genius in public affairs. He does not take time to relate on a personal basis because of an inner need for public acclaim. It also can bring disappointment and dissatisfaction with regard to his vocation, bringing in many changes. (If South Node is in Aquarius in the tenth, he can be a leader of unpopular causes.)
The South Node here gives a tendency to resist control by others. At its best, the power and success attained in the world must be used to assist others. When the person is able to do this, then destiny for this person will be met. At its worst, when used for vain self-glory, he fails. Here the uppermost thought should be control of selfish desires for ambition and power.
Natal North Node in 5th House / South Node in 11th House
A person having North Node in the 5th needs to learn to use his heart and become attached in a very personal way. He needs to love deeply and intensely on a one-to-one basis. There is also a deficiency or delay concerning children in his life. The children can be physical, mental, or spiritual offspring. He should develop a great desire to be creative in some endeavor.
This person cannot seem to hold onto love until later in life because he simply does not know how. He seems able to succeed in this more successfully when he meets someone with South Node in the fifth. Aspects of the Node are very important in determining whether he has the strength to acquire this new growth. As an example, bad aspects of the Moon or Neptune could cause emotional problems by loss of touch with reality in this regard. North Node here needs to learn to consider self in love. He may not be able to express his love fully.
South Node in the eleventh is unattached love. It is too detached and selfless. Friendships, social affairs, reforming drives, and advanced ideas in human relationships are part of the perfected South Node in the eleventh. This person is friendly and open and instinctively knows society’s needs. Friends can turn into lovers, and he truly needs an intense love affair to fulfill his soul’s destiny.
People with the South Node in the eleventh house suffer real discomfort in close relationships between members of the opposite sex. They have very utopian ideals where human needs are concerned. This varies with signs and aspects, but these ideals must be used as a basis of leadership in social and/or political causes where he can teach others humanitarian ideals. Here, we find many government officials or those dealing with public welfare.
Natal North Node in 6th House / South Node in 12th House
With North Node in the sixth, he needs to work and be of service to others. He must learn to do for others with no regard for himself. He needs to lose the self-interest toward which he tends to gravitate. This also includes learning
discrimination, attention to detail, and discipline from too much daydreaming. He also must concentrate on health matters for the protection of his physical body. He needs to bring compassion down to the practical level.
South Node in the twelfth is sensitivity. Here is the person with a talent for working with the sick or mentally insecure. It gives a drive to seek seclusion and an inclination to meditate. With bad aspects, it could cause alienation from society. This position seems to be karmic, and there is a very definite secret, sacrificial service of some kind involved, depending upon sign and aspects. The person with the South Node in the twelfth house may have a martyr complex. It must be used at its highest in sacrificial service and delving into the secrets of the subconscious, bringing them to the light of the conscious mind. This position gives many nurses and doctors.
Natal North Node in 7th House / South Node in 1st House
In the seventh house, there can be hang-ups about harmony or cooperation. Depending on the phase of nodal balance, the person can be far too easily influenced or far too convinced that his or her way is the only way. The underlying cause of this is a lack of firm partnership goals. This person is torn between involvement at any cost and preservation of his or her highly comfortable image of self as a good or beautiful person.
Less frequently, there’s an inability for the small talk and role-playing that’s necessary to attract others. This seems to be a problem connected to the overcompensation phase of nodal balance.
North Node in the seventh house dreams of gaining much through marriage and/or other relationships. He or she truly believes that teaming up with others will improve his or her lot in life. This person hopes to gain respect vicariously through marriage or some other type of affiliation. He or she feels that success and happiness come when she or he finds his or her ‘other half’ – someone who embodies those qualities that he or she feels is lacking in his or her own make-up. This person has a great deal of sensitivity. He or she also has a great deal of psychic ability; unfortunately, both are liable to be repressed. Aggressive pursuit of an alter ego tends to drive the dream further and further out of reach until the person is forced to look within for the repressed or lacking qualities.
Natal North Node in 8th House / South Node in 2nd House
The North Node in the eighth house forces the person to learn to accept another’s financial help. Sometime in his life, he will have to learn to accept the humility of taking from others. He also needs to learn the depth of experience in sex, its proper and beautiful purpose, and the regeneration and rejuvenation it brings to human beings. North Node badly aspected could cause either a breakdown or disturbing emotions when there is an imbalance in any of the eighth house activities.
South Node in the second is determination. This position gives the person dissatisfaction with money earned or with working conditions. It may give many changes in jobs, or more than one job at a time. The person is always seeking the ideal way of adding to his own resources. This also can lead to financial difficulties.
South Node here gives us one who enjoys the physical pleasures but who needs to learn balance and control of appetites and senses by creating beauty for the world. Second house South Node can give the inability to earn completely one’s own way. One will receive satisfaction and success in this area, usually with delay. It can give the person stubborn pride but great loyalty to a cause or a person.
Natal North Node in 9th House / South Node in 3rd House
Many times, when the North Node position in the ninth doesn’t develop properly, this gives the person a tendency to defy the law in some way or gives the inclination to find ways of working deviously within the law. This can also indicate a disregard for religion. The person may have a difficult time being ethical. He needs to develop an interest in psychology, religion, and abstract philosophy. He must become more objective in his thinking and studying, expanding mentally and spiritually. The person with North Node in the ninth has to try to absorb and assimilate what is beyond his mental reach. He needs to become more objective in his interpretations within his immediate world.
South Node in the third is subjectivity. The person has the ability to express himself very well. Usually, this person has interests in mental pursuits. This gives a strong psychic tie to brothers and sisters and could bring the loss of one through death or separation. It can give writing ability with favorable aspects to Mercury, Venus, or Neptune.
There is a strong urge to share knowledge with others. South Node here denotes a duty to care for brothers and sisters who may continually drain the individual. There is also much involvement in activities for the community. It is most difficult for the person with South Node in this position to finish his formal education. The person would rather read and study on his own or he goes back to school in an on-again, off-again way. This is an influence that causes impatience. One can have many small accidents when Node has bad aspects. Involvement with neighbors is a continual problem.
Natal North Node in 10th House / South Node in 4th House
A vocation should be followed, sometimes to the point of sacrificing home and domestic life. This means working for or with the public in some way. Through very sustained effort and great exertion, success in public life will be attained, but it requires personal sacrifice. The area of sacrifice can be ascertained by the aspects of this nodal position. When this Node is balanced finally with the South Node in the fourth, then the fulfillment of the great-person status will be obtained, and not before. This position, when followed, will give the urge to be a protector of great masses of people, to be a leader among them.
Naturally, the influence of all of these nodal positions in the houses depends upon the signs involved. If the sign were Leo in the tenth, it would deal with children or some creative project, and the theatre may possibly bring fame. One cannot read simply North Node in the tenth but always must interpret the signs and aspects. If the aspects are trines and sextiles, the arrival at the North Node will come more easily; but if aspects are squares and oppositions, the arrival at the North Node may take more time and trouble.
South Node in the fourth is the introvert. This position of the South Node gives a seeking after perfection, especially in domestic matters, and gives a great depth of soul. It can cause many changes of residence for the individual. There is great dissatisfaction in this area, with a constant desire for a Shangri-la. The person wants to live a quiet, retired life in seclusion and peace. There exists shyness about him, and he would like to retreat from the public. He probably will adopt a parental role by trying to hold people too closely. He is usually very talented at repairing things around the home. If a woman, she is usually a good cook.
Natal North Node in 11th House / South Node in 5th House
Much depends upon whether the sign involved with this North Node is masculine or feminine to denote the type of friends most favorable to the development of this house. This seems to be very important. People who have the same nodal axis – fifth and eleventh – by house and/or sign seem to understand each other better since they have the same direction to their destiny.
Someone who has North Node in the eleventh will receive great help from someone with South Node in the eleventh. This person needs to learn the art of friendship and become involved in some type of social endeavor or reform action. Here they must become an Aquarian in the highest sense of the word: a true humanitarian. With this position, there must be acquired the ability of true detachment and independence in loving, for one cannot be dependent and be a true humanitarian. With the development of this North Node position comes a true strength and understanding of the human condition.
South Node in the fifth means self-loving and over-attachment. With South Node here, there is an almost constant interest in love, the giving and receiving, and its pleasures. This gives innate knowledge in the rearing of children, although not always an immediate success. This nodal position can bring loss of children with aspects to it showing the degree of the loss. It bestows many loves – loves that are always changing – and gives knowledge of love beyond the ordinary. The lovers usually turn into friends.
Personal affections prove dissatisfying because of a certain idealism. There is a constant search for love, romance, and pleasure. This position delays a permanent love relationship. You might receive love only after you give enough of it to others. [If, for example, South Node is in Libra in the fifth, others in his life leave the person because he expects too much. South Node in Aries indicates the person’s own egotism destroys love through impatience. Meanwhile, South Node in Taurus demands that the person spends their own money on children, love, and pleasures. South Node in Scorpio demands the partner’s funds be spent on children, love, and pleasures. This position gives individual creativity leading to genius when well-aspected.
Natal North Node in 12th House / South Node in 6th House
North Node in the twelfth house takes self-sacrifice. It is helping those less fortunate, those handicapped or afflicted. And it does so in a quiet, unassuming way. The person must learn compassion, learn to accept others as they are and to help them in spite of any differences. This is the position of karma and seems to call for some kind of payment. Many times this position produces doctors and nurses and would seem to be an excellent way to fulfill this twelfth house Node.
Since this is the house of the subconscious mind, the person needs to develop and release these vast resources, bringing them to the threshold of the conscious mind by expanding his ability to meditate. In its lighter vein, this is the sign of the poet, indicating another means of liberating the storehouse of the subconscious mind and its vast inspirations. The degree of success would depend upon its connection with Mercury, Jupiter, and the third and ninth houses.
South Node in the sixth is the critic or the worker. Here the South Node gives an instinctive knowledge of health matters and a drive to learn more concerning this. It gives a desire to serve others and a constant changing of working conditions. There is great attention to detail with the ability to weed out.
This individual knows how to work, and much more so when his South Node favorably aspects Mars. South Node here denotes mysterious illnesses, those difficult to diagnose. Neptune in the sixth also indicates mysterious illnesses. If there is a conjunction of Neptune and South Node in the sixth, or Neptune is in the first house, these compounds accent the problem; this person can become a hypochondriac and is always running to the doctor. Many doctors and nurses have South Node in the sixth. The tendency to be critical and to take everything apart is strong with South Node in this location and can be, to some extent, severe.
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