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Post by Lunaria on May 13, 2004 18:44:05 GMT -5
Getting to Node You
Astrology's hidden grip in relationships!
by Noel Tyl
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When two people get together, two horoscopes meet. One person's needs and behavioral resources interact with another person's needs and behaviors. Specifically, one person's idealism, say (the conjunction of Mercury and Venus, or Mercury strongly focused in Pisces), may be beautifully trine the other person's Moon in Cancer, the reigning need for emotional and family security. That would be a 'comfortable' blend, a harmonious bond, through the trine aspect that links similar 'colours' of being (within the same element family).
One person's Saturn - the awareness of strategy, control, and ambition - may oppose or square another person's Mars - energy and drive - suggesting a fight for leadership, a struggle for dominance; conservatism and caution in one person working to subdue spontaneity and volatility in the other. Who makes the decisions? Resolution of anything is difficult.
When one person's Sun or Moon makes any aspect with the Sun or Moon in someone else's horoscope, it is a highly reliable indication of harmony. The two find it easy to be together. Marriage is an extreme development out of this basic harmony, of course, but togetherness must begin somewhere and Sun-Moon ties are very natural, easily taken for granted, and always strongly appreciated. Doing business with someone with whom you make such contact is always the best business deal you can make.
Just as you would think, when your Mars and someone else's Venus, or your Venus and someone else's Mars whistle to each other through aspect relationships, the tune is not just 'Dixie', it's visceral awareness - if age and sociology support potential - and if Pluto is in the mix, the waters run deep and powerfully, and everything else can be put aside for the moment, or a lifetime!
Uranus contacts are intense excitement at best and nervous agitation at worst, and the manifestation of the tie depends upon which planet, say, in your chart is getting the 'charge' from the other person's Uranus. It's like a 'jump start' from someone else's battery to yours.
Neptune contacts are misty, cloudy, perhaps even untrustworthy, so doing business with someone whose Neptune is on your Sun or Midheaven or Mercury presents a long list of cautions!
Jupiter is an uplifting bond between horoscopes, a broad accent of enthusiasm one to another, for one another.
When George Bush was heading down the home stretch to election late in 1988, he announced his choice for Vice President: James Danforth Quayle. The nation asked aloud, "Who is this guy Quayle? Where's he coming from?" Many would say that that question was never answered throughout the Bush presidency. Boyish-appearing Quayle was somehow not congruent with Bush's image of experience, poise, and know-how.
The real question should not have been not 'Who's Quayle?' but 'What brings Quayle together with Bush'? That's the question astrology can answer very easily. Would you believe there are 8 different ties between Quayle's horoscope (born February 4, 1947, at 04:30 PM, CST in Indianapolis, IN) and Bush's (June 12, 1924, 11:38 AM, EDT in Milton, MA)?
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Post by Lunaria on May 13, 2004 18:44:47 GMT -5
Bush's Moon in Libra is close trine with Quayle's Sun in Aquarius. This is a beautiful, comfortable, no-waves-at-all relationship between the cores of their horoscopes. They genuinely like each other. Bush's Neptune squares Quayle's Sun: Quayle will blindly follow with all of Bush's ideas, and Bush will overlook any shortcomings on Quayle's part.
As the synastric profile builds, we begin to see that the relationship founded by Moon-Sun contact supports trade-offs at less imposingly fundamental levels of life. That's the way it is getting together with someone else: we like someone fundamentally, and this good feeling colors all other measurements of compatibility and resource exchange. In this case, this was achieved by the nebulous, vague, and gossamer Neptune between them.
Bush's Saturn opposed Quayle's Midheaven. This means that the President's ambition and achievement gave Quayle's entire career strong direction. Bush's Mars is square Quayle's Jupiter: a great bond of energy, enthusiasm, and a "we can stand it alone, partner" kind of specialness between them.
Among the other ties between their horoscopes, there was a very, very telling one: the link between Bush's Lunar Nodal Axis at 26 Leo-Aquarius ('Getting to Node You', indeed!) trine Quayle's Midheaven and conjunct/opposed his Mercury - how he needs to think - AND Quayle's Nodal Axis (8 Gemini) squares Bush's Ascendant exactly, and both those measurements tie in with the United States' Ascendant at 7 Gemini!
THIS is a powerful cluster of ties, for sure. Whenever there is a tight relationship, usually conjunction/opposition or square between one person's Lunar Nodal Axis and another person's planet, Ascendant, or Midheaven, there is a dimension to the relationship tie that goes very, very deep. The relationship can even be strange, as we will see in some other cases. The relationship can drain someone's resources, even possess someone; and here, there certainly is clear memory of how the 'Quayle issue' drained off much stature, energy, time, and verbiage from the Bush camp.
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Post by Lunaria on May 13, 2004 18:45:33 GMT -5
The Lunar Nodal Axis
The Lunar Nodal Axis is defined by two points where the Moon's path in orbit around the Earth intersects the plane of orbit of the Earth around the Sun. These points are symbolically a synthesis of the Sun's apparent motion and the Moon's actual motion, tieing together Sun and Moon symbolisms, accentuating relationship, leader and follower, male and female, light and reflection. These dichotomies are certainly the concepts that are extoled in successful relationships of any kind, verging on the poetical when love is involved.
When the Nodal Axis in one person's horoscope is configured with a planet or angular point in another person's horoscope, the tie is very, very strong, especially in terms of the planet or personal point (Ascendant or Midheaven) configurated. When the Sun or Moon is involved, there seems to be a core recognition, a sense of belonging to one another, if you will. Even under the worst of circumstances, the relationship bond is hard to break. When Mercury is involved, the relationship bond is powerfully focused in the mind, in the thinking process, in communication. This Mercurial dimension is the bond between Bush and Quayle.
With Venus, romanticism; with Mars, aggression or defensiveness, and strong sexuality; with Jupiter, enthusiasm, understanding; with Saturn, control, manipulation; Uranus, intense, electrifying magnetism; with Neptune, deception, mistrust, or fantasy and aesthetics; with Pluto, empowerment. The Midheaven involvement links one person to the other in terms of career, even personal destiny; with the Ascendant, how one is presented to the world.
When the Nodal Axis sets up such a bond between two people - or two nations, as we will see later - can we say that such a bond was bound to happen? That it may come close to being destined? I think so. Nodal contacts carry something primal and inscrutable with them. They are definitely astrology's hidden grip in relationships.
Let's look at one of history's most famous improbable relationships: Adolph Hitler, born April 20, 1889 at 6:30 PM in Baruau, Austria and Eva Braun, born February 6, 1912 at perhaps 3:25 AM, MET in Munich, Germany. Hitler was Chancellor of Germany, Der Fuehrer (The Leader); Braun was an uneducated and, some say, a distant cousin of Hitler, 23 years his junior. They were tied together from remote levels of the social spectrum, in strange ways, and finally married the day before committing suicide together deep underground in a besieged Berlin bunker, (April 29, 1945). Eva Braun's Nodal Axis at 25 Aries-Libra was exactly conjunct Hitler's Mercury at 25 Aries, which was positioned in conjunction with his horizon axis, on the cusp of his 7th House, the house of relationships and marriage!
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Post by Lunaria on May 13, 2004 18:46:14 GMT -5
My goodness, what a bond! Additionally, Braun's Sun in Aquarius was square Hitler's exact Venus-Mars conjunction in Taurus, and many psychohistorical analysts have ascribed deep sexual problems to Hitler, and here we see Braun's involvement with them. Hitler's Saturn, square to his Venus-Mars conjunction, opposed Braun's Sun: they seem tied in a sado-masochistic drama. Her Uranus - the electric shock - was square to Hitler's Sun, exactly. And even further, we can see Braun's Venus conjunct Hitler's Moon and Jupiter, a tie of beauty and appreciation; her Mars conjunct his Pluto, a tie to his power. This pair came together in ways and purposes we simply can not understand. The bond was overwhelmingly, inexorably confirmed by the nodal contact with Hitler's mind, his Mercury.
Who captured whom, in this case? Did the nodal opening in Braun's psyche invite leadership from Hitler's mind? Astrology cannot say for sure, but very often it is in this direction, i.e., toward the nodal part of the relationship that the influence flows. Were they brought together purposefully though inscrutably from their extraneous orbits by the fateful crossings of some unknown psychological astronomy? I think we can be sure about that. Was their case exceptional? Here we can say no! Nodal contacts are fulfilled frequently; not necessarily blazingly on the pages of history or in suicide pacts halfway to some netherworld, but in everyday life, in relationships in public business and private bond, when obsession or inscrutability or essentialness marks the tie.
A fascinating example of the touch of fate, if you will, is in the coming together of Sirhan Sirhan (March 19, 1944) and Robert Kennedy (November 20, 1925), on Kennedy's death day June 6, 1968. The assassin's Nodal Axis was at 5 Leo-Aquarius exactly square the candidate's strident and critical Mars in Scorpio! Here, however, it is hard to say that Kennedy's aggressive political nature (Mars) flowed into Sirhan's being (through the nodal opening, if you will), when it was Sirhan who pulled the trigger. But we could say that it was Kennedy's aggressive politics that did flow into Sirhan's awareness, obsessingly, before the assassination; indeed, the politics conditioned and framed Kennedy as target for Sirhan's anger with the world.
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Post by Lunaria on May 13, 2004 18:47:08 GMT -5
Another example is the tremendous bond chronicled between actor Spencer Tracy (April 5, 1900) and Katherine Hepburn (November 8, 1909), an unrequited love that became historic in its fervor, importance, endurance, and frustration: would you believe that Tracy's Jupiter at 10 Sagittarius was conjunct Hepburn's Nodal Axis at 8 Gemini-Sagittarius. This is the same bond (Jupiter-Node) that Benito Mussolini (July 29, 1883) had with Hitler, bringing him together with the German leader in whole-hearted admiration and endorsement, in political and philosophical emulation!
Dean Martin's (June 17, 1917) Nodal Axis at 11 Capricorn-Cancer was not only square Jerry Lewis's Mercury (March 16, 1926) but also conjunct his Pluto as well at 12 Cancer! This was a powerful bond indeed, and the square aspect (90 degrees) added tension to the bond for sure.
Richard Rodgers (June 28, 1902), the Broadway musical composer, had his Lunar Nodal Axis at 1 Scorpio tightly conjunct (receiving) lyricist Oscar Hammerstein's Saturn at 0 Scorpio (July 12, 1895). This tells us for sure that, in their collaboration, the words came first before the music ! Additionally, Hammerstein's Nodal Axis at 15 Pisces-Virgo was square to Rodger's Mars at 14 Gemini! Again, quite a creatively tense and powerful bond - with one nodal contact balancing the other, i.e., Saturn and Mars - that helped this team create the historic musicals: Oklahoma, Carousel, South Pacific, and The King and I.
A lovely example is seen between Princess Grace (November 12, 1929) and Prince Rainier of Monaco (October 31, 1923). This was the fairy-tale love bond, wasn't it: European prince and Philadelphia beauty off in their private kingdom? This was love felt and espied across a crowded room, this was 'getting to node you' in classic romantic fashion: Princess Grace had her Nodal Axis in 11 Taurus-Scorpio 34 precisely conjunct Prince Rainier's Venus and Jupiter [BOTH] at 11 Taurus 34 and 11 Scorpio 02, respectively! Additionally, her Jupiter at 14 Gemini was square his Nodal Axis at 16 Virgo-Pisces!
John F. Kennedy (May 29, 1917) had his Nodal Axis at 12 Capricorn-Cancer and Jackie (July 28, 1929) had her Uranus at 11 Aries, square his axis. THAT's electricity, magnetism, and the bond that kept the two together through so much philandering.
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Post by Lunaria on May 13, 2004 18:48:00 GMT -5
Bill Clinton (August 19, 1946) has his Sun at 26 Leo, mighty proud and powerful, and Hillary (October 26, 1947) has her Nodal Axis at 24 Taurus-Scorpio, tightly square his Sun. That's his hook up to the synthesis of her strengths as well as the bond of tolerance for her in the midst of the stress from all his mis-adventures. We could surmise that his charismatic way to success 'fronts' for her deepest professional dreams for herself! Interestingly, Clinton's Nodal Axis is conjunct Saddam Hussein's Nodal Axis. We don't know what that means in astrology - when there is the conjoining of Nodal Axes - but it is something to watch.
We can appreciate that one person's network of nodal contacts will also be involved with the other person's nodal contacts because of the conjunction of the axes.
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