Nodes Change Signs

On July 17, the nodes of the Moon are changing signs. The lunar nodes, also known as the dragon’s tail and the dragon’s head, asks us to purge and release on the one end while leaning into karmic purpose on the other, evaluating where we’ve been, maybe in past lives and the value of the lessons we’ve learned, while also letting go of what no longer serves us in order to move into the newness of what this life time has to offer.

The nodes are always retrograde, moving backwards, and changing signs each year. By moving backwards through the psychospiritual wheel of the zodiac, in some ways, the axis on which the nodes operate is simpler, more basic, and more fundamental. The nodes teach us the profound wisdom of getting down to the basics.

The nodal shift gives us an opportunity to re-orient to the dragon’s tail or where we’ve been. For the past year with South Node in Scorpio, you’ve been releasing deeply embedded beliefs, psychological imprints, and compulsive or obsessive tendencies, maybe your tendency to bear down and burrow deep. We also have an opportunity to focus our gaze toward where we’re going. With the North Node in Taurus, you’ve leaned into karmic purpose by attending to the present and the material, coming back to the surface and grounding in the present moment.

Reorienting to what’s mine and what’s ours has set the stage for the next year, where we’ll have the opportunity to re-evaluate ourselves as individuals in the context of our relationships, as the North Node shifts into Aries and the South Node into Libra.

Maybe it’s time to release people-pleasing tendencies that no longer serve us and lean into the animated and dynamic life force produced by leaning into our individual desire.

The New Moon in Cancer joins in, squaring the transiting nodes. Cancer mediates the tension between self and other by asking us to attune to the feeling sense of the other, while also centering and taking seriously our own emotional landscape. Cancer teaches that when we express what we truly feel and what we truly want, we draw others toward us who are willing to meet our needs, and willing to withstand and stay connected to us in the fire that is our truest desires.

Read below for how the transits of the lunar nodes will affect your sign (for the most accuracy, read for your Rising/Ascendant sign, but Sun and Moon signs also work)

Aries

This past year has had you purging your ideas of codependency and the need to depend on others emotionally. Instead, you’ve embraced growth that comes from independence and self-sufficiency. Over the next year, this new orientation to independence sets the stage for a reorienting of your idea of self in the context of your relationships. Maybe you have to release attachment to your ideals about partnership and lean into your own personal efforts to create a self. Maybe a tendency to always seek consensus in your relationships may need to be examined or shed for a more “looking out for self” approach.

This New Moon is about your home and private life. Set an intention about how your home or private spaces create a container for your desires for partnership: what do you need, and how can another meet you there?

Taurus

This past year has had you purging your tendency to get immersed or consumed in your intimate relationships or shared investments. Instead, you’ve embraced growth from investing and pouring into yourself. Over the next year, a new orientation to self sets the stage for more attention to the quiet spaces of retreat, isolation, or spiritual rejuvenation, allowing you to orient to your own transpersonal purpose, or seeking out a spiritual path. Maybe you have to release attachment to busy-ness as a metric of social worth.

This New Moon is about your communicative projects and new learnings and local environments. Set an intention about how your communicative projects are effused with expressive meaning and psychic download that comes from wisdom gleaned in retreat.

Gemini

This past year has had you shedding the heaviness of the day-to-day and embracing growth with a less dogmatic approach to the big matters of life. Paradoxically, you’ve become more practical about your transpersonal matters. Over the next year, a new spiritual or transpersonal path sets the stage for finding who else shares your ideas. You may have to release attachment to a socially acceptable and curated image and lean more into what really inspires your heart and your vision to draw out who’s really there for you.

This New Moon is about how you draw material resources to you. Set an intention around how pursuing and attracting what materially validates you animates a different set of values and aspirations: what community shows up for you when you’re working toward your dreams?

Cancer

This past year has had you shedding the ways in which you might overindulge in pleasure, nonlucrative past times, or even romances, or being defined by creative output (like relationship to children) and instead embracing growth from setting goals for yourself in a more practical manner. Over the next year, this new orientation to your beliefs about the world activates some dynamic energy in your career or public profile. You may have to release attachment to the self-effacing tendencies learned from your family of origin in order to find ambition on the career front.

This New Moon is about how you step out in the world. Set an intention around how you show up for those around you, allowing your new career path, rooted in your foundation, to animate your aesthetic sensibilities: how does your presentation of self announce your life purpose to the world?

Leo

The past year has had you purging your deep attachment to familiar places of emotional tumult, and instead becoming more secure and practical on the career front. Over the next year, this new orientation to what you’re meant to do in the world sets the stage for reorienting to what your higher philosophies should be. Maybe it’s time to start thinking bigger and more expansively, more globally about what you believe in, instead of picking up whatever is conveniently around you.

This New Moon is about your spiritual beliefs or transpersonal impact. Set the intention to take the time to sit with yourself, using the wisdom gleaned from looking inward in order to find your new belief system.

Virgo

This past year has had you purging your attachments to colloquiality or information overload from overstimulation (i.e. content-fatigue). Instead, you’ve embraced growth through exposure to new philosophies, beliefs, or foreign experiences, the bigger, more encompassing ideas. Over the next year, this new orientation to your bigger philosophies sets the stage for reorienting your desire for village as a space where you want to start receiving as much, if not more, than you give. Maybe you have to shed your ideas about the right way to make a living in order to move into a more selfish or self-oriented approach to what others can do for you.

This New Moon is about your social collectives and ideas. Set an intention around your social groups, ideologies, and goals, allowing your desires for others to show up for you to guide where you find community.

Libra

The past year has had you purging your hyper-independence, stemming from lack of trust, and instead embracing growth that comes from sharing your resources with others and allowing others to share with you. Over the next year, a new orientation to shared resources sets the stage for reorienting toward relationships and what you can do with and for others. Maybe you have to release attachment to self -ishness as the primary site of self-creation and lean more toward a relational way of being. Maybe your tendency to avoid conflict, to mediate or keep a calm or rational disposition may need to be examined or shed for a more energetic “jumping in” to working with others.

This New Moon is about your career and public mission. Set an intention about how your public mission in the world may draw dynamic and passionate collaborators to you to support you: on your path, what can you do with and for others and not just by yourself and for yourself?

Scorpio

This past year has had you examining your sense of identity in exchange for finding stability and support in your partnership. Over the next year, a new orientation to partnership sets the stage for reorienting to your day-to-day responsibilities and obligations. Maybe you need more time in your day to attend to your own needs, rituals, or health routines, shedding or maybe even exposing the ways your needs are attuned or not attuned to.

This New Moon is about what you believe about your place in the world. Set an intention around better appreciating the right and wrong ways you want to live your life, allowing the mundane details to animate the larger picture: does your higher self get to show up to work every day?

Sagittarius

This past year has had you grappling with how you might lose your sense of self or even reality under dynamic known or even unknown forces. Instead, you’ve needed to embrace a simpler and rooted approach that allows you to stay tethered to the day-to-day. Over the next year, this new orientation to your daily work sets the stage for a reorientation to your creative and passion projects. Maybe you need to shed your attachment to the collective or group interest or keeping the peace in a group over your own need to individuate and create expressively.

This New Moon is in your house of sharing. Set a new intention to create a village of care around you that can recognize you for your authentic self and the unique gifts you have to contribute.

Capricorn

This past year may have had you grappling with how you throw yourself into the group, collective or communal interest, and instead embrace growth in your own need for recognition and material pleasure. Over the next year, this new orientation toward your own material pleasure may set the stage for a new orientation toward what you need from your intimate, private life. Maybe you have to shed ideas about what your life should mean to the world in order to center your need for a more fulfilling private life.

This New Moon is about your intimate relationships. Set an intention around relationships and partnerships as the space of purpose, belonging, and foundation of home: how can recognition come from the people closest to you?

Aquarius

This past year, you may have had to shed attachment and commitment to a career or public mission and embrace stability that comes from a more balanced and comfortable home life. Over the next year, this new orientation to home can set the stage for a new approach to your local community or learning interests. Maybe you might have to shed your relationship to faraway or exotic places in order to appreciate the resources that are right around you.

This New Moon is about your daily life and work routines. Set an intention around your day-to-day life that’s infused with meaning and with conversation about what really inspires you: how can what you do become a reflection of what you believe?

Pisces

This past year, you may have had to shed attachment to a religion or higher belief or philosophy and instead, learn to embrace the divine in the simplicity of the everyday. This new orientation to the mundane sets the stage over the next year for a new orientation toward what it is that you want and need to sustain yourself materially. Maybe you might have to shed attachment to giving to those around you instead of focusing on how to meet your own needs.

This New Moon is about the ways you self-actualize. Set an intention around animating your creative and passionate sensibilities, allowing the foundation of your needs and new sense self-worth to lead the way. Maybe knowing what you want is the first step to figuring out who you are.