Astrology will tell you what your problem is

The following is the continuation of an interview with me on the subject of astrology from a reader that had questions about my method of interpreting astrological charts.

I left off describing how astrology can tell you what your problem is by knowing about the North Node of the Moon. In this segment, I discuss actual client examples of how this astrological position manifests.  

(Interview continues below)

Can you show us how this North Node astrology works with actual clients?

A person’s problems tend to be related to the South Node position. Even when that’s not the only problem, it’s inescapably related to that. You can almost look at the chart and see how everything goes back to that problem. All solutions go to the North Node. That’s how powerful the North Node is.

For example, upon doing charts for three people, I found that they all had South Node in the 6th house, regardless of the sign that was in. The house placement is the most important thing, the sign is more general. Work is the key word for that issue. Virgo vs Pisces issues. There’s an overbalance of Virgo, which can look like this:

1. The Woman Who Couldn’t Let Go

A woman who couldn’t sell her business for 4 years, because she just couldn’t let go of it. Letting go is the key phrase of what the North Node in the opposite house (for her the 12th) indicates. In her case, her father had a huge impact on her, basically pushing her in the same line of work, which was not suitable for her, but she followed it for many, many years, developing her own practice and her own philosophy into it. She’s highly competent, but was having a lot of problems managing the business, because she’s an INFJ. Meanwhile, she was very identified with her profession, which is another aspect of that position. The basic problem is about being in the wrong line of work for who you are and/or doing way too much: over organizing, overmanaging, becoming overly competent and wanting to maintain control over every aspect of the business. She also had the South Node in Taurus, which further aggravates that position in the regard I just mentioned. Taurus also has a problem letting go. That, in combination, is, I think, why she couldn’t let go of this practice, even when, as she put it herself, it was “killing her soul”. She also could not sell the business to just anyone. She said there were only a handful of people that knew about this unique philosophy. She found one guy that she approved of to take over the business, but he wasn’t motivated, and that was the problem. She couldn’t let go of the need to control what the business would become. She didn’t want it to turn into McDonalds. 

She had an ayahuasca experience at some point that changed her life and since that time she started discovering things like being an INFJ, how the cosmos works through a downloading effect of all this cosmic information, feeling this oneness with everything. So that’s the North Node in the 12th house, that’s the opposite side of it and a good example of what a person with that aspect looks like. When the North Node manifests, it’s usually through a loss of control, something accidental that takes one out of that highly controlled and competent perspective. She’s never forgotten that experience and felt like it flipped her life around. Psychologically speaking, she wasn’t ready to let go of that identification of herself with her profession and what her life was going to look like after it. She was scared to follow in that direction, the more New Age stuff, like the Artist’s Way, creating a new business that is not her daddy’s line, doing something even esoteric maybe, that she really wanted to do, but was difficult for her. I started questioning why she was doing certain things in the process of selling her business (i.e. insisting on selling it to this particular guy and not considering other options, not willing to lower the price, etc). She was holding on, unable to put it out in the universe so that the right person could come and actually buy the business and allow her the freedom to explore the new direction that she wanted to go in, which was not traditional.     

2. The Project Manager  

There was also this guy who was a project manager. He was burned out, had an existential crisis and would do a lot of physical exercise, but that didn’t help him. There is often this tendency of using exclusively physiological, scientific methods and a difficulty getting out of that mindset. 

Once he started abstract expressionist paintings, which he shared with me, I realized that was the expression of the 12th house energy, which means allowing a universal, free flow expression, that he had never done before. He was also an INFJ. The answer for them is to be more experimental and go into the unknown to experience the oceanic oneness of life, which is the opposite attitude of treating everything as discrete, which is what Virgo does.

Virgo is highly skilled and competent at one thing that they do very well. Virgo is the specialist. Whereas Pisces lets everything in without discrimination.

Obviously, one shouldn’t go too far in that direction either, but for these people that’s impossible. It’s almost like you need to overdo the North Node perspective to even begin to engrain it as anything resembling a habit. It feels like going against your deepest instinct, which is why the North Node is so important. It’s not gonna come to you naturally. The South Node feels right, that’s why you keep overdoing it. Sort of like the Dominant Function in MBTI, whereas the North Node is like the Inferior Function. Going outside of your natural orientation. It’s going to feel alien. I could maybe say the North Node manifests similarly to the Inferior Function, in that it’s something that you have no experience of. Try to describe a color to a blind person. There’s no reference for it. Any experience of the North Node is almost like a drug experience, something accidental that gives you a taste of the other side of reality and you didn’t even know how hungry you were for it.

3. “Hatchet Man”

A third example is an ISTP guy who consulted with me. I nicknamed him “The Hatchet Man”. He basically wanted a chart interpretation, which I did offer, and then he wanted to consult with me on 6th house South Node issues. He used to have this work position where he was, in his words, very mean to people, very good at letting people go in the way of a specialized machine that does this one thing very well, but there’s a problem with that. He went through a transformation and felt a feeling of oneness and connection with his coworkers in his new job where he’s instructing people and working as part of a team. He described feeling this great empathy for everyone and it was very important to him. This manifestation can also be exacerbated by the expression of an inferior Fe function in the case of an ISTP. Where before he was in a position where he was firing people, now he had this role where he was uplifting people in the way of a good shepherd, which felt very important to him.

It’s a dramatic shift that provides a transformation of perspective. I think that’s what the North Node feels like, coming outside of your world through something that you have never experienced before and that you might not even be able to recognize at first. You realize that you can be gifted at it even though seemingly you have no previous experience with it. However, you do, because of the principle of Polarity or Oppositeness. Like when a magnetic pole builds so much on one end and then suddenly flips and reorients instantaneously on the opposite end. That perspective will feel very refreshing, scary, alien in certain cases. You could think that’s something you have no interest or facility with, but in reality you do. You might even feel opposed to it, because you’re too identified with the South Node. 

All that being said, the South Node is still the fundamental point of orientation. It’s not like I’m asking you to shatter your ego. You will come back to it once you balance out the other side and that’s the main task of a lifetime. The balancing act is reflected in that. That’s how important the North Node is.   

The needs you have at the South Node will not change. The principle, however, is that in order to obtain what you want, you must leave it. Go directly away from it. That’s what it will feel like. Due to the principle of the law that for every action, there’s an equal and opposite reaction, you will arrive there by going away from it. It’s almost like when you’re in love with someone who doesn’t reciprocate it. If you’re still holding on to them, say, after a breakup, it’s not until you completely let go, forget about them and move on that they might reappear in your life all of a sudden, months or years down the road. But by that point, you would have transformed and you can tell them to go fuck themselves.

Tune in next time for the conclusion of this interview…

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