Horoscopes are relational maps. They enable awareness of our unfolding relationships to outer space from our varying times and positions on Earth. They give us vocabularies and timespace for developing our relationships with intentionality, accountability and reciprocity within the vast and complex community of our solar system. In doing so, horoscopes tell us about the stellar energies present and available to work with at any given point in spacetime. They remind us that we are in material-spiritual community with not just our human and unhuman kin on Earth but also in a larger community with our galactic relatives that demands response-ability.
Relationships need stories to grow, be challenged, and survive. So horoscopes are often read as layered and polyvocal stories. The horoscopes this month are told as your Lunar Nodes story. In other words, they are organised by your Lunar Nodes signs: the South Node and the North Node.
The Lunar Nodes reside where the lunar orbit cuts our Earth’s movement around the Sun, thus signaling a unique Earth-Moon-Sun relation. Since the lunar orbit intersects with the Earth’s orbit around the Sun at two distinct points, we have two lunar nodes, the South and North which are directly opposite to each other. In Hellenic astrology, the Lunar Nodes are represented by the Dragon, the North Node representing its head and the South Node its tail. Symbolically, the South Node is represented by
and the North Node is represented by
To find your Lunar Node signs, you need to look at your birth chart or your natal chart. Generating your birth/natal chart online will require you to input your date of birth, place of birth and time of birth. Since these are sensitive data, I highly recommend that you use only trusted web sources or other online cloaking technologies to protect your privacy.
A typical Hellenic natal chart may look like this:
The 12 zodiac constellations (Aries, Taurus, Gemini…etc.) typically go around in a circle and are represented by Graeco-Egyptian symbols in a Hellenic natal chart. These symbols look like this:
Aries: ♈︎ , Taurus: ♉︎ , Gemini: ♊︎ , Cancer: ♋︎ , Leo: ♌︎ , Virgo: ♍︎ , Libra: ♎︎ , Scorpio: ♏︎ , Sagittarius: ♐︎ , Capricorn: ♑︎ , Aquarius: ♒︎ , Pisces: ♓︎
Having got hold of your natal chart, you now need to note the zodiac constellation in which the South Node symbol appears. The North Node symbol will lie in the sign directly opposite. Together these will represent your Lunar Node signs.
North Node in Taurus, South Node in Scorpio
Where is your unsettling path? What is this unarticulated longing you feel? The more you move out of your settled comfort zone, the better the answers shall be. Travel and explore the new but earth yourself. Even a mighty ship needs an anchor. Frameworks, not wild gesticulation. You understand the importance of solid ground, you will be made to.
North Node in Gemini, South Node in Sagittarius
Resilience lies in transformation and nobody knows it as well as you. Your unsettling role is to provide a new way of relating to the idea of strength. Who is strong, who is weak? What parameters do we use to define them? Your strength is not of the mountains, immovable, but of water, transmutable.
North Node in Cancer, South Node in Capricorn
Leadership. You know that we don’t need better representation in shitty tower structures, more inclusion on the broken table. We need to disintegrate that table, annihilate the towers. Your unsettling role calls you to lead, from a place of vulnerability. In an unsettling world, a leader is not someone that gathers a herd. A leader is someone so connected to their intuition that they are able to take the first step into unknown terrain. The scarred elephant mother who travels across deserts to lead her relatives to the water.
North Node in Leo, South Node in Aquarius
The settler is not evil. The settler is just scared. This world needs comfort, and deliverance from the fear of lack. You are called upon to unsettle with your generosity, kindness. With food, warmth, shelter, parties. Good cheer. Your task is indispensable for it is about fire that will sustain unsettling communities through harsh and erratic days and nights. And in doing this, you shall heal your own fear of lack.
North Node in Virgo, South Node in Pisces
Unsettling practices of thinking, practices of growth. Unsettling progress as virtue. Discerning which current to move with, which to move against. Remember the truth will come from the land. The land you know best. And lands are connected. Your unsettling task is chipping away at empires of intellect to utter easy, heartfelt, unpretentious poetry that is the land speaking through us.
North Node in Libra, South Node in Aries
Unsettling ideas of desire, relationships of desire that have ossified into the commodity form, but even before that, the resource form. Objectification. Fetish. Ossification of relations into subjects and objects is the settler way. Then building upon that, creation of conquests– wins and losses. As an unsettler, you are called upon to disintegrate frozen objects and subjects, to unclasp processes of objectification to reveal myriad underlying relations. Learn from the Indigene (the not-settler) to create good relations.
North Node in Scorpio, South Node in Taurus
The world will be upside down before you know it. This should not be scary, but a comforting thought, because you hate how the world is now. But it could be so much worse, you worry. Instead of the worry though, start dreaming about how it could be different. Your thoughts are magic. Your unsettling begins with learning to transmute your own energies. Be mindful of what you are manifesting for you hold great magic. Sudden downfalls, sudden crashes lead to sudden epiphanies. They are a gift from the Earth. Your unsettling gift shall be an intuitive respectful love (not fear!) of the life-death cycle.
North Node in Sagittarius, South Node in Gemini
You are here to unsettle ways of adventuring, ways of fighting, ways of asserting yourself. You are here to bring attention to limits. And the usefulness of limitations. Of boundaries. You shall unsettle yourself through communication, better ways of it. You shall move from a fear of lack of information to perceiving the limitations of a data deluge. In your personal life: You shall learn discernment. Discerning useful information from the irrelevant. For whom, for what, for when? Building focus towards the right information is your unsettling task. Listen to the whispering forests.
North Node in Capricorn, South Node in Cancer
Your unsettling earthy fire brings you into a new relationship with work, play, and rest. The incessant shall stop. The incessant, like the high of methamphetamine, must stop. The high tide must be followed by the low. Such is the way of our revolution. Productivity and progress are settler engineering products. Can you restore your landscape beyond the spectrum of rest, work, play? Can you chip away at the givens? Can you rest without guilt? Instead of always trying, can you give yourself permission to just be? Sometimes things need to fall apart for the truly new to fathom. It is the nature of long, slow, steady galactic revolutions.
North Node in Aquarius, South Node in Leo
Your unsettling calls you to transcend the binary of the powerful and the powerless, the victor and victim, the oppressor and oppressed. Outside of these binaries, you must find a third way (says the wise Walnut tree in a comforting voice), a new way of telling your story, first to yourself, then to others. And in the process you shall contribute to an emerging unsettling vocabulary that addresses magic, responsibility, and justice.
North Node in Pisces, South Node in Virgo
Most work of the revolution occurs in the mundane. Think of the Earth and Moon revolving around each other and the Sun every single day. The task is tedious, routine, but also exactly what the revolution constitutes. Your unsettling path uncovers this nature of revolutions by developing wisdom to distinguish a real revolution from incessant loops of addiction. Yours is a journey of escape, but not escapist. It is about providing new openings: Where all people (and even you before!) see is a wall, you intuit with your psychic abilities, pores and pathways to get out of established mental loops (which then manage as real world reproductions). You unsettle by sensing that which is not spoken. Communication beyond the linguistic or the semiotic.
North Node in Aries, South Node in Libra
Connecting to Earth mother fires brings you an appreciation of the change of seasons. Of cycles of regularity and irregularity. How even the erratic functions in its own order which while might not always be legible to the regular order, is still some kind of order. This brings you the much needed lesson of patience, an appreciation of slowness. Of changing relationship to speed. And insights about non-linear pathways. Your unsettling helps you find value in the irregular, the weird, the non-linear. Courage to speak your unique individuality without being individualistic. And your curious courage in this life shall become the unending river from which your unsettling descendants shall drink, restoring the balance between fires above and below. Within and without.