Post by Lunaria on May 13, 2004 18:57:58 GMT -5
Who Relates to Your Node?
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One of the questions most asked in social gatherings is designed to seek out one's birthday. Why do people do this, even people without any astrological knowledge at all? Even people who debunk astrology ask! Everyone knows that birthdates are important dates to remember and celebrate. We ingratiate ourselves with others by giving recognition to birthdays. If there is one song every person knows, it is not the national anthem; it's Happy Birthday!
I think we feel we get closer to someone by remarking on one's birthday. NOT knowing astrology, we exhibit some primal awareness that the day one was born was special, and therefore the person is given special attention in the moment of conversation, is allowed to talk about him or herself freely, can tell stories, i.e., shares personal data. This brings people closer together. Knowing astrology, of course, even just the simple fact that the birthday is a reference to where the Sun is on the day of birth, makes the conversation ever so much more meaningful and entertaining.
The primal significance of the question takes on sophisticated ramifications and potential. In our personal life and business affairs, we seek kindred spirits, people who will feel like 'family' and cooperate with us. Every one of us, sometime in life, has searched for the 'soul mate', the significant other who is presumably destined to be our fulfillment, as night is fulfilled by day (an interesting reference to the symbolic significance of the nodes, dealing with the Moon and Sun!).
Every one of us has had strong personal ties to people with whom we are not involved romantically, but with whom we deal professionally, successfully - or, indeed, not successfully, but compulsively. We hear stories all the time of people in relationships of many different kinds who stay in those relationships against all odds, under all kinds of stress, for no apparent reason. In these cases, very, very often the Nodal Axis contact between the horoscopes involved is at work. It is astrology's hidden grip within relationships.
One of the most welcome nodal contacts is usually between your Nodal Axis and someone's else's Sun, and you can determine this so easily, without computers and extensive calculations. Let's use our head:
First of all, you need to know your node position (or anyone else's) right out of the Ephemeris; no corrections are necessary since the node moves so slowly (backwards about 3', 1/20th of a degree per day). The 'South Node' is directly opposite, the exact same number but in the opposite Sign, and is not listed.
As we have seen, the North and South Nodes create the axis across the apparent path of the Sun where the Moon crosses in its orbit around the Earth. For our discussion here, there is no difference to be made between north and south.
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One of the questions most asked in social gatherings is designed to seek out one's birthday. Why do people do this, even people without any astrological knowledge at all? Even people who debunk astrology ask! Everyone knows that birthdates are important dates to remember and celebrate. We ingratiate ourselves with others by giving recognition to birthdays. If there is one song every person knows, it is not the national anthem; it's Happy Birthday!
I think we feel we get closer to someone by remarking on one's birthday. NOT knowing astrology, we exhibit some primal awareness that the day one was born was special, and therefore the person is given special attention in the moment of conversation, is allowed to talk about him or herself freely, can tell stories, i.e., shares personal data. This brings people closer together. Knowing astrology, of course, even just the simple fact that the birthday is a reference to where the Sun is on the day of birth, makes the conversation ever so much more meaningful and entertaining.
The primal significance of the question takes on sophisticated ramifications and potential. In our personal life and business affairs, we seek kindred spirits, people who will feel like 'family' and cooperate with us. Every one of us, sometime in life, has searched for the 'soul mate', the significant other who is presumably destined to be our fulfillment, as night is fulfilled by day (an interesting reference to the symbolic significance of the nodes, dealing with the Moon and Sun!).
Every one of us has had strong personal ties to people with whom we are not involved romantically, but with whom we deal professionally, successfully - or, indeed, not successfully, but compulsively. We hear stories all the time of people in relationships of many different kinds who stay in those relationships against all odds, under all kinds of stress, for no apparent reason. In these cases, very, very often the Nodal Axis contact between the horoscopes involved is at work. It is astrology's hidden grip within relationships.
One of the most welcome nodal contacts is usually between your Nodal Axis and someone's else's Sun, and you can determine this so easily, without computers and extensive calculations. Let's use our head:
First of all, you need to know your node position (or anyone else's) right out of the Ephemeris; no corrections are necessary since the node moves so slowly (backwards about 3', 1/20th of a degree per day). The 'South Node' is directly opposite, the exact same number but in the opposite Sign, and is not listed.
As we have seen, the North and South Nodes create the axis across the apparent path of the Sun where the Moon crosses in its orbit around the Earth. For our discussion here, there is no difference to be made between north and south.