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 be challenged, grow, learn, 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
Are you letting peer pressure direct your next step? A need to create, be known and seen? How does the unspeakable figure in the decisions you make? Do you talk to the unspeakable? Do you have a good relationship with your unspeakable? Have you figured out your responsibility to this relationship? Does the external keep extinguishing the possibility of this relationship? If so, how do you create a different opening to take responsibility for your relationship with the unspeakable?
North Node in Gemini, South Node in Sagittarius
If a sword points at you, would you see it as a threat or an opportunity to unravel and redo yourself? A serious opportunity or a playful opportunity? It is good to acquire clarity on these matters. It is also good to stretch your legs. The boundary between yourself and others is not an individual decision but a communal act. But remember to not give your power away just because others are involved. Just because you are surrounded by magickal creatures does not mean that you are unmagickal.
North Node in Cancer, South Node in Capricorn
It’s all well and good to talk about loving relationships, but then there’s power struggles which seem to jar the idea of love–filial, friendly, or romantic. How to know if this boat shall float on this water? Perhaps it is not about knowing beforehand, but jumping in with some faith to watch it all unfold. Let love guide you though instead of fear in this unfolding. Your vocabulary of love needs to be unsettled to account for relations of power. Power not as a dirty word, but as responsible magick!
North Node in Leo, South Node in Aquarius
What is being offered, what is being ignored? Do the things you choose to receive help you or is it habit? Boredom may lie on the surface but underlying may be grief. Do not fear the heavy for it paves way to the lighter. If you find your creative blocked, ask if taking too much responsibility for others has shrunk your capacity to be responsible for yourself? Has assuming excessive responsibility for certain needs of yours twisted and locked up other needs of yours in the closet of luxury? Your emotions are messengers with clues.
North Node in Virgo, South Node in Pisces
How do you bind your possibility? How do you limit your creativity? How did your parents shun their possibilities and creativities? Being a magician is a very earthly pursuit, it demands not just connection with magick but their careful and respectful design in the concrete. You must engage all your world’s aspects: body, emotion, logic, and spirit, or there will always be something amiss, something irresponsible afoot. Justice lies in the right proportions.
North Node in Libra, South Node in Aries
There are times when responsibility versus creativity, work versus play becomes a battle between logic and emotions. At such times, your task shall be to unsettle this opposition. Ask yourself, how do your emotions feed into your logical clarity, how does overthinking heavy your emotions? Some answers will appear, from the most unexpected places. Which is why you must steer away sometimes from the trodden path, get lost, stop and smell roses, notice the smaller things which seem insignificant. Anything of value won’t come from well-established machinations of cause and effect. So you must stop and consider what you didn’t before.
North Node in Scorpio, South Node in Taurus
Three skilled queens approach you. The queen of boundaries and ethics, the queen of abundance and greenery, and the queen of great depths and generosity. But what if these were not three different people but the same Earth whose child you are? Humans may deceive you with their confused talk and actions, but Earth is the great practical loving generous mother for all seasons life and death. Trust her, listen, observe, and learn with her, the seamlessness of work and play.
North Node in Sagittarius, South Node in Gemini
Learning new skills matters. But if the energy surrounding your creativity becomes burdensome instead of hugged by wonder and curiosity, is it even worth it anymore? Settler culture teaches us to devalue our curiosity if it does not lead to establishment of relations of conquest and control. The implicit messaging seems to be about curiosity as an instrument to fulfill the presumed responsibility of war, conquest, and control. But what if your curiosity had inherent value, and responsibility were the responsibility to create relations of consideration and understanding? How would your life look different then? How would it be more playful?
North Node in Capricorn, South Node in Cancer
You have the responsibility to transition, from your old self to new, from your old relations to new, from your old worlds to new. But what if this responsibility were not a chore but an opportunity for playful (not overwhelming) creativity? Little steps matter. Little doodles matter. You are more creative than you think. What if you were a playful creature unsocialised in the ways of the art market and design education? What if you were a wild? What would you create if responsibility in a radically changing Earth were a worldbuilding rpg, and not a sack of heavy logs?
North Node in Aquarius, South Node in Leo
Creativity is not a solitary pursuit; when engaged in compartmentalisation from your communities of care, it is often irresponsible. What are you making and for whom? When in doubt about how you spread your energies and commitment, ask this question and things will become immediately clear. Even when the choice may be hard, the answer is really simple. Who you eat with matters, because they shall be people that will feed you. If you do not want to be fed garbage, do not eat with garbage. It is time to streamline your priorities, pay attention to where you invest your material-spiritual-energetic-emotional resources.
North Node in Pisces, South Node in Virgo
Fight, defence, power struggles. Have you gotten so lost in the details of the everyday that you are losing sight of why you are here? Existential questions are not a depressive distraction, they matter. You may have entered a time of drastic change in how you view your own responsibility in this life, without you noticing. It is time to notice. The meaning of your life is not limited to your lifetimespace. It spans generations of humans, unhumans, earth and star life. The scale of your existence is huge. What are your duties in this intergenerational magickal timespace? It is time to shift your perspective and appreciate your magickal scales.
North Node in Aries, South Node in Libra
Hiddenness is okay, but suddenness is also sometimes necessary. Do not discard epiphanies, especially if they shake your world, but epiphanies are oft like the phases of the moon. They take their own sweet time. Your struggle with the boundaries between work and play in structuring a responsible life of creativity is a struggle based upon settler modalities of the value of productivity, the valuelessness of unproductivity and linear time, causation and effect. Epiphanies on the other hand have strange non-linear movements. It is not about what you know in your head, but what filters and is remembered by your bones. A dance of wonderment and uncertain movement rather than an engine of certainty and progress. Do not however confuse conviction with certainty or uncertainty with dishonesty.