The way ahead is changing…
Your path has shifted…and what will be released within yourself, and
what will be revealed to you has moved to a different realm of understanding
and unfoldment for the next 18 months or so…What has happened?
The Nodes of the Moon are two opposite points in space, the North
Node and the South Node. These two points represent the intersection of two circles,
the orbital path of the Moon around the Earth, and the Earth’s orbital path
around the Sun. It is these two points of intersection, (where the Sun, Earth
and Moon line up in the same plane every six months), that creates the experience
of the Solar and Lunar Eclipses. Whereas the planets move around the Zodiac in
forward motion from Aries to Taurus ending up at Pisces before beginning
again in Aries, the nodes move in retrograde or backwards motion, from Aries
back to Pisces to Aquarius and so on.
You could say that the Lunar Nodes provide the Karmic pointing
of “The Way”, the karmic path for any individual’s chart. They show you where you are “coming from”
or what you are drawing upon from your past, indicated by the South Node or
point of Karma…and the North Node
indicates what you should be working towards and building into your life, or your
Dharma.
If you allow yourself to be overly influenced by your past so that you
fall under too much influence from the South Node, you may fail to work towards
your Dharma, (you fall back into your familiar but less developed patterns). By
working with the lessons brought to you by the North Node or your Dharma, you
can draw upon and use the best parts of your past (Karma) while creating better
a better future for yourself. You actually bequeath to yourself a better Karma
by remaining focused upon your Dharma.
In the present matter of the continuous cycling of the transiting North
and South Nodes, you receive guidance from the universe about what you need to
understand in order to benefit the most from your Karmic reaping and Dharmic
renewing year after year.
So, what does the shift from a Sagittarius North Node to Scorpio mean for
you?
The past 18 months of Sagittarius asked you to stay focused upon your Principles,
Beliefs and Truths…to consider more deeply how you know what you know. The
gift of Gemini (Karma) during such a time would foster that flexible,
multi-faceted way of examining your perceptions so that you could work towards
a more unified, inclusive and comprehensive vision of your world. This gift from your past would help to create a
bridge of understanding between you and any other.
However, if you became too enamored by the past then you would have played
the “devil’s advocate” just to stir things up, to be contrary just
for amusement’s sake. Rather than pursuing understanding, you or they would end
up creating more divisiveness and contention than was already
present…Arguments, debates and shrillness would have had their way. Appeals
to reason and reasonableness would have gone a begging. Does that sound
familiar?
The next 18 months of Scorpio will reveal another opportunity and
challenge for you as you seek to draw upon your Karma from the Taurus South
Node while building anew through your path ahead in the Scorpio North Node. The
Scorpio North Node asks you to focus upon the need for emotional rebirth that
you can and should experience as the fruit of overcoming your separation from
one another. How do you do this?
You move into deeper unions through being both
true to yourself while you make necessary sacrifices for one another. To do so,
you must let go of the lesser “things” in your life, the things that
may keep you separate from one another. However, you must always honor the
greater values that can and should hold you together, the ones that brought you
together, and the ones that hold you to one another…because these are the fundamental values that you share. It is by joining with one another in your union that you can expand, transform and grow…together.
The Taurus South Node is there to remind you about the beauty of lasting
value, of having and holding “something” that is, at least for you,
eternal or of ever-lasting value…of what you wish to hold to and never let
go. However, if you hold too much to your own particular form of value, if you
give into your fears of loss and hold to selfish possessiveness, you become
bound to and blinded by your own things, and you fail to combine, share and
grow through one another.
By doing this, your potential for growth beyond your
more limited form of life is not possible. For it is only when two or three or
more are joined together, when joined in common cause or purpose, only then do
you experience the magic of Union with the beloved…of being more than a one
and of becoming much more than you could ever have been by yourself.
You are moving into a deeper time, some would say it is the deepest time…
It is time to work with the Dharma of Scorpio…it is time to grow
together…
It is time to reap the best of the Karma of Taurus…it is time to honor the
spirit behind the form…
It is time to understand…it is your time to grow…together!