The Nodal Conscious Shift (Transit)

As I write this, the South Node in Scorpio is at 15 degrees, and that is where it sits for all of us here on Earth. How do you interpret this? Well if you remember the previous blog spot, the first step to decoding this rests in the nature of your Moon. It is the Moon that understand these shifts of conscious awareness, and responds according. That means tuning in to your emotional body. This varies from person to person and is a whole other topic. However the bottom line is, first know yourself, and know how you presently engage with the world around you.

The transiting Nodal Axis represents the shift of the collective. And we must first look onto the South Node first to see what part of our collective evolution is going to be highlighted to move forward from. In order to move forward we must find our resolve to take the first steps. Scorpio is in the realm of our emotional attachments, and one of the things that Scorpio struggles with in terms of archetypical evolution is Trust. This is a big hurdle, probably one of the biggest because it can become iron clad and difficult to shift. But it’s not just trust, but also psychological fears, traumas, pathological behaviour, emotional insecurities, and so on. This is the deep seated resistance because it has manifested from a need to survive, and a belief that anything out of its control will create chaos and death. We don’t need to discuss the collective’s history (both past and present) with these themes, we are all very familiar with them and we know that emotional extremities can cause emotional and physical chaos. It is the underlying dark story of humankind. We can all agree that there is a lot of healing to be done in order for all of us to find empowerment past this darkness. It’s not just courage, it is the taking back of one’s own personal and collective power. This is the present landscape of the Ukrainian War and the threat of a Nuclear catastrophe, the suppression of Iranian women, the cry for economic reform and the ongoing cycles of predators being held to the light, forced to admit their manipulations and sexual abuse regardless of their privileged position. This is the shift that is trying to occur, and it is rocking the boat by unearthing all of the exterior influences which keeps this karmic train going. But underneath it all, there is a point of resolution, which we will talk about in a moment.

So if we have understood the collective resistance to power, trust and fear. It is important to note that definition is important here, resistance for the Scorpio archetype is fixed, it means holding on, hence the term that comes up again again - emotional attachment. To move past the fear, and towards a solution means you are empowering yourself by removing the emotional attachment you have to what is causing you and others pain.

We as Souls are experiencing this energy in our own personal lives, and in varying degree. For some, it’s a nagging worry that if they say yes to a strange request, they are opening themselves up for exploitation, betrayal or catastrophe. For others, they have this intense insecurity that if they seize the power to do what is best for them, they will pay for it in one way or another. They have an emotiona attachment to the belief of not being good enough, and of course good things happen only to good people. So if they try, and because they are inherently sinful, they will fail. And the list goes on, and it's all reflected in the individual’s chart using Evolutionary Astrology for they highlight the pathways towards a solution, and it is walking these pathways that you will grow as a Soul.

At some point the need to stop, breathe and collect ourselves becomes a method to regroup from this intensity. Just like one prepares for a long hike, to ensure they have the right resources for their own individual limitations. This is the North Node in Taurus telling us we need to find an independent centre. A form of providing for ourselves what we need in order to steady ourselves. Taurus doesn’t care about what is in the mind, the what ifs or could be, Taurus only cares about the practical reality of right now, and how it can form a grounded position, the best position it has the resources to find. In the collective we can see how this is playing out, although the theme of security and self sufficiency are the loudest trumpets.

But in a personal conscious shift, the way Taurus calls for reflection and for healing is to go through the physical body. And it will be your body that will respond to the way you emotionally are “triggered” by the collective fear that is around us, in the airwaves and on the street. Your body will force you to slow down and find your position. When you are losing your balance, you need to reclaim it. What do you need? Love? Nurture? Freedom? But these needs will require an empowered position, and that means to really commit (Scorpio keywords here). Because if you shut down every new thing in your life because you are just reacting to this imbalance, your body will react back so that you can sit in reality once again, only this time the needs become more basic. What do you need? Stillness, Food, Affection, Rest. Until you can be stable enough to move forward.

Look at where the transiting North Node in Taurus sits in your chart, and this is where the body will respond. As an example, I have this North Node Taurus currently in my 3rd house, in opposition to my natal Uranus in Scorpio. The South Node Scorpio therefore is in a balsamic conjunction to my natal Uranus in the 9th house. (the Uranus/Uranus opposition has been a very amazing and terrifying experience which I will write about soon). The Moon in Pisces is the go-between to this, the narrative that tells this story as it engages with it.

We all have fears, insecurities and psychological challenges. For this current signature that I am living, giving a voice (3H) to these is crucial, to question them (3H) and to work through them by grounding (NN Taurus) them. If they are insecurities, ask the right questions and release the emotional attachment (SN Scorpio) to the belief (9H) that it must be wrong, that my emotional attachment to my fears says differently (Uranus/SN balsamic conjunction). But what is truly right? The belief inside you that the sky is purple, or by looking up at the sky and recognising that is truly is blue? This is the work of the 3rd and 9th house respectively, to ask questions, gather the information, and to define ones authentic truth. It is not easy, because fear is powerful, but not so more powerful than love. And how it is working inside you, will be your own unique journey until mid July 2023.

If you can find your peace, then you are contributing peace to the World. And if you can empower yourself, and live the best life that you can so you can overcome your psychological barriers, then you are contributing positive empowerment to the world.

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Why I do this.

When I ask myself, what do I do that makes me truly happy? What are the actions that I conduct in my life that bring me immense joy? This is good spiritual practise because it allows you to understand one of the functions of your Ego. It is important to know how it operates; let’s try it. First I realise, what makes me unhappy, what brings me negative emotion, what feels incredibly sad and stifling. The realisation comes, well, I do not like feeling disconnected or isolated. I do not like watching time tick by without engaging with the world in anyway. In my deepest discontent, I can admit that my unhappiest of moments are when the day has ended and I conclude that I have not learnt anything new at all. That the day has passed me by without any discovery or wonder. Those days are the hardest.

When I first discovered Astrology, and began to get immersed in the co-relation of the Moon and the Ego, it made perfect sense this perception of how I come to this conclusion of polarity. I have a Yin Moon, in the sign of Pisces, a perception that looks within and beyond. In order to define what happiness is to me, I start by confronting what I experience as difficult, sad and frustrating (Moon in the First House). If you look at the position of the Moon, and all of what is making aspects to it, where it is located in the chart, you will know the qualities of how you perceive happiness, you will understand on a esoteric level, why you think what you think, and how in the end it is just one part of who you are. You are what you think, is the cry of the modern intellectual, but if you are telling yourself what you ought to be feeling, you disconnect from the authenticity of your emotional body, which is where the truth of happiness really lies.

I have held workshops where I very strongly believe and therefore teach, that the main source of happiness, that is the expansion of the heart to its full capacity of joyful feeling, comes by examining the Sun. Not as a signifier of what you think happiness is, or how you reflect on the meaning of such happiness in relation to your identity (Moon), It actually is the feeling itself. The one true constant word that is always in synergy with happiness is actually an action, a drive. Can you guess what it is? It is Creativity. When we engage with our outside world in the way we are destined to engage with it, our hearts expand and we fill ourselves with the sheer magic of it. Wether it is solving a complex equation or problem, discovering something for the first time, or teaching someone who has never read a word to read, all of these are founded on one principle: Creativity. Therefore the question becomes, what sort of life do I need to create? What is its expression? It’s colour, shape and sound? You can think abut it all you want, but you only realise it when you create it, a destiny that I assure you will express itself to you in one way or another. You will be driven to it, for the Universe also needs to create through you. If you chose to refer to your energetic map, i.e the birth chart found through Astrology, you will soon understand that this creative expression will be signified by the Sun and the sign and house it was in when you were born. Let me illustrate, I know a a woman who absolutely loves to communicate, she is highly articulate with a great sense of presence and humour. When she can’t work out a problem, she researches and then applies her knowledge or finds someone who does know (Scorpio). She is highly creative when she is able to diversify her creative will (Third House/Gemini), and she is a master delegator due to her perceptive way of being able to understand and support people to do what she envisions (Sun in Scorpio trine Moon in Pisces). This is but one way to understand that what I have mentioned, is an accurate reading of a very real evolutionary cycle that this Soul is in the process of completing. The details on why it has evolved to this present state is why Evolutionary Astrology is so important. It’s not about completion, there is always more to aspire to, for happiness is never a destination but rather an expansion, felt most strongly in the heart. This woman, feels immense joy when she is able to share the abundance she is able to manifest, to her friends, to her co-workers, to anyone that allows her to express herself through conversation, connection and understanding.

I also have the Sun in the third house, and to be able to find a vocation where I could speak and be heard, where I could teach and be taught, where I could have a grounded stage for my spirituality. All of this were but abstractions in my mind and heart prior to coming across Evolutionary Astrology . And so when I asked the world for an answer to who I am destined to be, to give me a definition that I could understand (Gemini/Third House), the cosmos revealed to me Evolutionary Astrology, where meditation, connection, teaching and learning become one. I knew then that within the great volumes of knowledge, within the countless of connections, within my deep contemplations of it all, I would be eternally joyful. And so I have been practising this modality for spiritual and relationship counselling, for personal development, for inner knowing, full time for three years. After a study of nearly 30 years of Western Astrology, which is more than half my lifetime.

So, why do I do this? Because it gives me the opportunity to share the abundance of the knowledge bank that I have kept up to date all these years, and continue to do so due to a relentless thirst to understand the world that I Yet Do Not Know. Because together, we can understand each other, for when I am teaching you, I am learning myself, and because I feel grounded and devoted to the sacredness of the reading, regardless of the doubts and hesitations I may feel in my own personal life. In essence Astrology is, the study of the human psyche, the Soul and its eternal journey to feel joy, to feel wonder, to be an active co-creator of All That There Is. To me, there is no happier place to be than to be with you, and sharing the cosmic threads that you don’t even know you follow, so that your Ego doesn’t overthink them, or doubt them. So that you can follow them in confidence, knowing you desired to have this human experience, with all of its challenges and liberations, so that your heart could expand, and that your creativity could shine forth. For your happiness is also my happiness, that is how I connect, that is how I can create immense joy.