The Lunar Nodes

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Wendell C. Perry, author of Behind the Horoscope and the new Lunar Nodes.

When I told a friend that I was working on a book on the lunar nodes she immediately launched into a tale about the horrible thing that had happened to her during her recent nodal return. I listened to her story with interest but then I had to admit that, in examining transiting aspects by the nodes to the natal horoscope, I had them found far less reliable as predictors of change than planetary transits. My friend was surprised by this, so I asked if she could remember what happened to her during previous aspects to her chart by the nodes of the moon. She admitted that she couldn’t recall any significant events.

There’s a reason why nodal aspects to the natal chart, as well as planetary aspects to the nodes of the Moon, are inconsistent as predictors. In a horoscope, the Sun, Moon, and planets all represent a particular real life function. The Sun is where we shine, the Moon where we feel, Mercury where we think, and so on. The lunar nodes do not represent such worldly functions. The nodes are a gateway, a gateway to those levels of our consciousness that reach out to the greater consciousness that pervades the universe. Aspects involving the lunar nodes intersect with concepts that come out of this mysterious space, like fate, karma and the influence of past lives.

There are times when changes occurring in this higher realm of our consciousness are strongly connected to things happening in that level that deals with living in the real world. This was obviously the case with my friend and her nodal return. But there are other times when the changes that coincide with aspects involving the nodes of the Moon don’t touch on such mundane matters. It is possible that people with a highly developed sensitivity to spiritual matters might be aware of these changes, but for the rest of us they pass unnoticed.

Even though aspects involving the nodes are unreliable as predictors, they still bring us an important message. They show us that the part of our consciousness that deals with the immediacies of living in the real world is actually only a small piece of something much vaster. As we go about the prosaic routines of our daily lives we might forget about that vastness, but it’s always there. And it is in that that vastness the true key to our happiness in this world lies.

Our thanks to Wendell for his guest post! For more from Wendell C. Perry, read his article “The Lunar Nodes through the Houses.”