North Node in Virgo or the Sixth House

 

Like an intricate tapestry, the North Node in Virgo weaves experience into a finely crafted reality that is beautiful to the eye, nourishing to the body, and stimulating to the mind. After years drifting through nebulous otherworlds, in the realm of the earth is where they now want to be. North Node Virgos are ready to leave the currents of the Pisces South Node, with its chaos and vague unnamed fears, and exchange the jumble for crystalline form and clarity with a calmer existence grounded in practicality. Where once actions seemed futile, the North Virgos know now their efforts can be of great consequence. It is finally working out.

The mechanics of living. One might call the Virgo North Node the cosmic repairman, attuned to malfunctions and possessed of a great ability to fix what is broken. All moving parts are oiled and turning perfectly, much like the movements of the planets and the stars. While the "whatever" Pisces SN would let divinity or others take care of things, North Node Virgos have no resistance to hands on help with the proper functioning of body, mind, machine, and the mundane dimension as a whole. They are at the service of humanity and have the skills to make the world a better place.

Intelligence and awareness. With their uncanny perceptions and analytical minds, Virgo North Nodes are among the most intelligent of all people. They seem to have unique sensors that receive clues most others miss. They are quick to interpret sensory input and often translate with lightning speed and accuracy. More than intellectual understanding, these node-holders react almost like alert animals or visiting creatures from outer space getting the lay of the land. They can explain the world with facts, figures, graphs, lists, and analytical reports, if need be, since they see the fragmentation and finest details of the whole.
They used to absorb the emotions and tragedy surrounding them, but now they can mentally sort it all out and do something to help. They notice everything.

The helping hand. There are none like Virgo NNs who aid their fellow humans through life's constant breakdowns, mishaps, and tribulations. They do it without hesitation, regret, or even praise. The Virgo North Node is not only always available for service, but these beings find honest purpose in being useful to others and often do it gladly for little in return.

Food, health, and healing herbs. Virgo Norths are the earth's alchemists who turn ordinary growing life into healing potions. They know that ills come with cures and the planet provides the antidotes when people search and use them in the right ways. Like the digestive system, which is a Virgo domain, the NNs breaks matter into its essential components each going to the correct place for health and well-being. Proper intake is a road to mental acuity and fitness. Healthy nursing of ills reinforces the act.
The memory of Pisces SN and the suffering of worldly woes turns into the recognition of earth as an ally or instructor. They understand its gifts well and know how to use them. A reverence for earth's productivity is their invaluable tool.

Criticism and discrimination. The Pisces SN used to take it all in without judgement or concern. The NN Virgo picks and chooses what goes in, what stays out, what is assimilated, what is eliminated, what is useful, and what combines to make a perfect life. The marvels of solid matter are new to seafaring SN Pisces and even more alluring than the illusions they know so well. Why escape what is abundant and life-enhancing? 

While at risk for being viewed as nitpicking, the Virgo North sees great benefit in the act of somatic health replacing emotional malaise, however much criticism is applied.

The artisan and craftsman. The Virgo North Node holds manual dexterity and creation of objects in high admiration and often learns the techniques for such accomplishments. They might not have the results plastered on cathedral walls in homage to great divine power, as the SN Pisces devotee might prefer, but the results are often beautiful, finely skilled, and most of all, useful. After the dissolution of the Pisces South Node, they find solace in organizing and piecing things together in logical mosaic order. The products are often excellent, but it the process itself that seems to please them the most.

Ritual and labor. Like Zen Buddhist masters, the Virgo North Node engages knowingly in the repetitive rituals of work and other substantial endeavors. No job is too small or insignificant. They all contribute to the desired order coming from previously known disarray. Maintenance once seemed unnecessary or useless, but now these node-holders welcome the rituals of cleaning, maintaining, and organizing. The formless spirituality of the Pisces South Node becomes the spiritual soap of immaculate order and its resulting space, health, freedom, and peace.

 

Distillation, purity and clarity. At the Pisces South, the elements were undifferentiated as contemplation of the whole was the aim. The Virgo North prefers to purify substance and remove the unwanted factors detrimental to well being. They intend to concentrate life's essentials and place them in the most beneficial untainted sequence possible. The shine of clean spaces and surfaces are like windows into clear thought and crisp analysis. Fresh, natural, and wholesome, the virtues of a good life are theirs to have.

From the knowledge of human transgression and imperfection, the Virgo North Nodes are ready to put their lives back together with care and good intentions, attention to improvement, embrace of humility, successful effort toward a flourishing society, and to contribute to the making of a better world.

American Melodrama

Americans hang together. With the Moon and her south node in Aquarius, it's a guarantee. But it comes at a high price. Very high. The price is high melodrama. Sometimes an excruciatingly elevated output of melodrama. Shrieks. tears, and other cries are often included, along with horrific frights.

At the North Node in Leo, drama is the only option. So Americans are doing what they do. Of course, Mars in Leo triggered a lot of it. Still. It's in the germ plasm.

Showing off, and in my opinion, being ridiculous.

South Node in Pisces or the Twelfth House

The  South Node in Pisces depicts a dependence on chaos, confusion, dissipation, delusion, deception, and an overall aversion to reality. What was once a combination of inspired dreams, sublime beauty, and idealism has turned into escapism, victimization, self-undoing, and an addiction to suffering. This native is now ready to abandon the fog of Pisces in exchange for the distillation, clarity, purity, and perfection of the North Node in Virgo.

Chaos and confusion. While the Pisces South Node used to be comfortable with the flow of life as is, adopting a "whatever" view of events, they now feel disorientated bobbling about the waves and currents. They seek ballast, grounding, and firm footing to offset the turbulent swirl they are so accustomed to. They have always surrendered to circumstance, sacrificing ego and control, trusting that the currents would land them wherever safely. What was once natural movement is now irrational and random motion requiring their intervention. Letting go becomes hanging on and directing. The comforts of chaos seek the predictable alignments of order.

Illusion, delusion, and escape. The unreal world of Pisces used to be blessed escape for the SN Piscean. Fantasy made much more sense and was supremely desirable to the reality others inhabited. Whether the illusions reflected a beautiful scenario or sent them into completely delusional states made little difference. It was all preferable to solid, unmoving, unglittering phenomena. These node-holders were able to create great things out of their visions, but now their palette has emptied and a more organized and real sequence beckons. Escape has been mastered.

Dissolution and dissipation. As the cosmic solvent, Pisces liquefies, vaporizes, and disperses solid matter. The Pisces SN is used to things falling apart. Ambitions are often unclear anyway so they easily let it all go. Destructive living habits were not problematic in their alternate dream world, but now inhabiting the earth realm and its held together reality seems like a logical next step. Where worldly pursuits once seemed neither here nor there, they now have allure and validity.

Paranoia and other ailments of the psyche. The infinite imagination of Pisces SN that trusted and surrendered to the universe now feels uncomfortable and questions the guidance they once reveled in safely. Mistrust has moved in, motivations can be suspect, and even clear analysis of the world around them becomes inviting. The nebulous realm of psyche and all its confusions longs for rock solid somatic endeavors and ritual to ground the emotions and create physical well being.

Compassion, self-sacrifice, martyrdom. While once willingly immersed in human suffering and its universal inevitably, the sacrificial service that came naturally now seems ineffective. The tragic stories laced into their consciousness have become burdensome and the act of self immolation becomes useless in alleviating others' sorrows. They now see that they and others can solve these dilemmas with real specific actions attentive to details in each life rather than a blind  belief in a savior or rescuer to deliver them from reality.

Drugs, alcohol, retreat. In the escape from painful reality Piscean South Nodes know the depths of substance abuse, either from their own experience or that of others. They are familiar with the urge to spend life in jails, health facilities, other areas of confinement, or even in monastic retreats to avoid the tediums of daily life. They used to see these escapes as meaningful distortions in the otherworlds they inhabited or effective crutches in their perceived crippled states. They often spent life helping other people in these settings sometimes delaying the time to help themselves. The dissipation of Pisces is now turning toward health rituals and body maintenance. The otherworlds  are now imbued with the suffering previously attributed to reality.

Saint, sinner, and duality. The truth of good and evil co-existing in human behavior was formerly understood and accepted by those with the Pisces SN. They were well aware of the struggle between saintliness and and the degradations of sin. The highest and the lowest aspects of human life were recognized and tolerated naturally. But now these extremes seem like an exaggeration and an unnecessary approach to a longed for normal back and forth and up and down. The turbulent emotional ride on the Piscean current is done. The wisdom has been gained, the compassion has been spent, and the knowledge of life's vicissitudes is complete. A more earth bound and calmer life is ready to manifest with ego and will poised to be developed in creating a good working life for themselves as productive participants in society, not as its saviors or its chaotic upenders.

Sorrow, despair, and emotional excess.  SN Pisceans are more attuned to suffering than all others. Their sorrow is ancient, their despair based on long experience. They once were skilled at enduring these pains and helping others through their own. Now these feelings have become excessive and futile. They don't provide relief, rescue, and visionary escape as before. This node is ready to trade in despair for mental acuity and intelligent analysis. Sorrow and disillusionment become part of the emotional whole rather than the mainstay.

Self undoing and ego.  Where surrender to forces around them and the role of victim once satisfied their longings, the Pisces South now is prepared to recognize they have a say in the sequence of events they encounter. They are no longer nebulous nothings pushed around by circumstance. They begin to see that ego is a fine instrument to use as guidance through their once scattered lives. They are ready to put themselves back together, in the order they choose, and proceed willfully and consciously through the prevailing unknown. The Virgo North Node with its crystalline logical perfection can now be the sanctuary for the formerly dissolute, disordered Pisces South Node.

The South Node in Pisces has mastered amorphous spirituality, self-sacrifice, and emotional depth, and is free to move on to mental order, practical spirituality, and an embrace of the physical in pursuit of perfection at the North Node in Virgo.

Speech, Survival, Freedom

With the Moon in Gemini crossing United States Uranus and Mars, and President Trump's Sun, Uranus, and North Node in the 10th house, the revolutionary leader launched a defense of the American people's right to express themselves freely. According to law, this right is not given to the people by others, it is inherited by every citizen at birth. 

At birth, the human voice is perhaps the most important conscious tool of survival. It communicates essential needs and conditions long before words are formed. Sounds from the throat provide grounding in the alien environment. That knowledge is remembered. Even everyday conversation reinforces the basic will to live and thrive.

There are many authoritarian regimes around the world that restrict open expression, even punish it by imprisonment, and sometimes death. People from such places flock to the United States for this freedom among many others. The utterances from the public square in the US are wild, unpredictable, sometimes shocking, obscene, frightening, and sometimes poetic and inspiring, or even honest. It is a free-for-all.

People occasionally take their gifts for granted and forget to re-vitalize and appreciate what by fortune came their way. Pluto in Capricorn is reflecting a reminder to the populace that freedom of speech is best appreciated and protected.

The Pluto return in Capricorn is making some unusually long stops at USA Mercury, the governor of speech in the cosmos. 

When an outer planet going direct reverses course, long stationary periods occur where people gather information and motivation in order to make progress when the planet goes direct again. Sometimes repeated stations occur when the issues are especially important. This is what has happened to United States Mercury.  

The first stop at the country's 24 degree Mercury in Cancer came in February 2020 with a five month long station. Everyone noticed that free speech was under attack from the tech giants in cahoots with the establishment government. While some continued to ignore the incident, now that Pluto is preparing to make another  station, the situation is asking for more attention.

In August, a four month station begins, where the actions initiated today should gather force. This four month station takes the nation to December, just months before the first Pluto return to the 27 degree natal Pluto in Capricorn. National media outlets are declining in influence and the tech monopolies will do well to follow.  People will do well to look at their consumption of these products.

With the country's North Node in self expressive Leo, inhibiting paralyzing restrictions are not really well met deep in the psyche of the body politic. Freedom of speech parallels freedom of thought. Of course, groupthink is tempting in the human urge to belong, but Americans seem to have an instinct for individuality. 

Speaking freely is the American birthright. A more responsible honest expression will surely satisfy natal Pluto in Capricorn. Correct?