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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.

In the reference library: The lunar nodes: eclipses, mean vs true node, and the history

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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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