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What are the lunar nodes?

The two points where the Moon’s path crosses the Sun’s, always exactly opposite each other. They are not bodies; nothing is there. The tradition reads the North Node as the direction of growth and the South as what comes easily and is worth leaving. Eclipses happen when a New or Full Moon lands near them.

Where astrologers disagree

The Moon’s path wobbles, so there is a mean node (averaged) and a true node (exact). They differ by up to two degrees. This chart uses the mean node, which is the older convention.

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Your own chart is calculated from your birth details, and this definition is written out again there with your numbers in it rather than in the abstract. The chart, the glossary and thirty days of dated timeline are free, and nothing here is charged per question.

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The points

The four angles and the nodes: places in the sky rather than bodies in it.

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