North node

Definition

The north node of the Moon is one of the two points where the Moon's orbit crosses the plane of the ecliptic. It is not a body but a geometric intersection, and it moves backward through the zodiac at roughly one and a half degrees a month. Modern astrology reads the north node as the symbolic direction the soul is reaching toward in this life, the territory that asks for development, not the territory that comes pre-built.

In context

If natal North Node sits in your sixth house, the soul direction described by the placement involves daily craft, service, and embodied work, the territory the chart is asked to grow into rather than retreat from. The north node is always exactly opposite its sibling, the south node, so reading one without the other misses half the picture: the pair is read as a single axis of inherited skill and forward growth across the natal chart.

To go deeper

The north node belongs with the lunar node family:

• South node: the opposing point, inherited skill.
• Lunar nodes: the axis as a single unit.
• Eclipse: events that fire on the node axis.