Astro-Synthesis Blend – 2024
The South Node carries the impression left on the soul from past lives, which you could call the soul’s base. The South Node’s qualities are in-built.
The North Node’s qualities must be consciously developed, and are progressively elaborated during the course of life. The Nodes of the Moon can highlight personal karmic imbalance. Thus, consciously working on these “life lessons” can bring us to increased happiness and fulfillment. If we over-emphasize and fall back on the qualities of our South Node, at the expense of developing our North Node, we may have a difficult time feeling personally successful.
Susceptibility to codependent relationships due to a fear of being one one’s own and independent action; indecisiveness; tendency for having problems in one-to-one relationships; distrusts own instincts; has a need to develop the capacity for self-love, trust of own instincts, and to move forward without unreasonable fear.
Potentials to Cultivate (Aries north node):
Stepping out as a leader; prioritizing own goals; becoming comfortable with being alone; learning to take calculated risks; standing up for oneself and one’s beliefs; expressing justifiable anger in a frank and positive manner.
Potentials to Release (Libra south node):
Propensity for seeking shelter in unhealthy relationships; permanently assuming the support, rather than the lead role; tendency to avoid challenges by choosing the familiar, yet compromised path; habitually assuming the thankless role of peacekeeper; passive-aggression; codependent enabling.
Tendency to define self-worth and personal values through the lens and purview of relationship partner; sacrifices satiation of one’s own genuine needs in favor of the needs, or demands, of others; tendency toward enmeshment in intense, perplexing life situations that block the potential for personal comfort and peace; needs to muster the strength and determination to switch gears to organismic valuing of experiences, independent actions, building self-worth through one’s own achievements, and to be able to allow oneself to fully experience life’s more serene moments without an unconscious impulse to create crises to avoid the risks of self-inquiry.
Potentials to Cultivate (Taurus north node):
Simplicity; speaking one’s truth; grounding oneself through the performance of daily tasks and routines; living in the moment; pure soul-to-soul connection; being self- supportive.
Potentials to Release (Scorpio south node):
Seductive, manipulative strategies; rootless lifestyle; using sex as an instrument of manipulation; being overly secretive; being limited by superstitious nature; openness to reliance on other people’s money and resources.
Tendency to hold beliefs and opinions unsupported by facts; dogmatic and self- righteousness; insensitive to others’ feelings; tactless regarding interpersonal relations; hurriedness fueled by uncontrolled expenditure of nervous energy; falls apart under the weight of imagined pressures; fear that one’s freedom of operations will be reduced by pausing for the purpose of patient consideration; resistance to listening to the viewpoint of others; places small value on communication and exchange, and objective consideration of both sides of an issue.
Potentials to Cultivate (Gemini north node):
Community activism; being in the now; relaxed exploration; hobbies; focusing on one task or challenge at a time; active listening skills and receptiveness to dialogue; strength though unified action with others.
Potentials to Release (Sagittarius south node):
Ungrounded wanderlust; fixation on the future; self-righteous zealotry; boorish and opinionated behavior; taking on more than one can effectively manage; fact-free opining; overly theoretical; arrogance; greed; lasciviousness;
Tendency to feel the need to take charge; tendency to over-manage one’s life and those within family group; rigidly fearful of dependency on others; takes responsibilities too seriously; perfectionistic; overachiever; prone to abandonment of real self and living in accordance with social conditioning; submissive to conditions of worth set by others rather than organismic valuing of experiences.
Potentials to Cultivate (Cancer north node): Productive emotional sensitivity; compassion; participation in family experiencing; compassion; the feminine or yin aspect of being; domestic arts, maternal energy, nurturing, self-care, connecting from the heart, being more inclusive than exclusive
Potentials to Release (Capricorn south node): Elitist attitude; materialistic; defining oneself by outer world achievements and status within the societal hierarchy; coolness and detachment; thinking dominates feeling; workaholism; competitive to the point of ruthlessness; Imbalance between Yang masculine energy, and Yin feminine energy, with the former dominating.
Tendency to rely on undependable people; impersonal or distant persona; rigidly operates from a platform of reason and intellect, which is detached from the influence of feelings; rationalizes one’s feelings; difficulty acknowledging another person’s individuated uniqueness; self-conscious – dislikes being the center of attention; reluctant to take any risks; does not want to depend on, or ask for help from, peers and community due to fear of loss of independent individuality; pattern of sacrificing one’s inner needs in favor of becoming involved with other’s problems.
Potentials to Cultivate (Leo north node): Self-expression; leading by example; represent experience in one’s consciousness via the filter of organismic valuing; attuning to fulfillment of one’s foundational desires and sensuality; being more affectionate and otherwise more emotionally generous.
Potentials to Release (Aquarius south node): Penchant for reflexive people-pleasing; motivated by the need-to-be-liked that is fueled by deficient sense of self-worth; camouflaging oneself a group structure; emotional detachment; thinking dominates feeling; repressing feelings; self-denial of material and sensual pleasures; rootless, nomadic impulse.
Tendency to a haphazard and unorganized pattern of existence; negligent regarding the practicalities and tedious requirements of living everyday life in an organized and manner; difficulty formulating clear objectives; places groundless faith in an idealistic strategy, while willfully ignoring any of its impracticalities; prone to acting out of compassion for others, without adequate consideration, and, so has a pattern of being used by undeserving others.
Potentials to Cultivate (Virgo north node): Basing approach to problem-solving upon facts and realities; leadership and taking personal responsibility; functionally structured life-strategies; grounding practices; attentiveness to all the fine details before decision-making; disciplined refinement of skills; setting clear boundaries and protecting oneself from exploitation.
Potentials to Release (Pisces south node): Denial; deception; emotional manipulation; self-pity and reflexive victim mentality; self-serving excuses and rationalizations; passivity; Pollyanna mentality; scattered consciousness; nomadic life pattern; inattention to details; tendency to being easily seduced or deceived; susceptibility to bullying and thus enmeshed in abusive relationships; unproductive daydreaming and unrealistic fantasizing.
Tendency to dogged self-reliance that undermines close relations with others; insensitive to the needs of others; tactless and uncooperative; lacks the instincts for empathy; excessively competitive with a self-centered focus; passes up opportunities for personal growth because too focused on personal advancement; averse to criticism – takes things personally; rash, impatient, and impulsive.
Potentials to Cultivate (Libra north node): Value of partnership, cooperation, win-win compromise, emotional commitment, generosity of soul, patience, and making personal sacrifices for the collective good.
Potentials to Release (Aries south node): Self-centeredness; aggressiveness and combativeness; obsessive self-reliance; acting without consideration of the consequences for others; hair-trigger temper; impatience.
Tendency to being overly self-reliant; unwilling to change; holds on to possessions and habits that no longer serve any useful function; insecure and fearful of potential crises; strives to achieve success through force of will that overrides intuition and other aspects of organismic valuing; resistant to loosening tenacious grasp on things and people and open up to the soul’s requirements for transformation and regeneration; experiences difficulties in partnerships because of obliviousness to the others’ ideas and worth, instead expects partner to adopt his ideas and values; resists change and input from others; attached to doing things his own way.
Potentials to Cultivate (Scorpio north node): Spirituality and connection to the One (God; Universal Consciousness, etc.) and the higher worlds; accepting financial help from others when that is both ethical and essential; building investment income; releasing pent-up energy from the 2nd chakra.
Potentials to Release (Taurus south node): Attachment to expensive non-essentials; earthly cravings with related overindulgence; sheltering in a comfort zone, rather than exploring the less familiar; working harder but not smarter; reflexively making sacrifices at the expense of one’s own well-being; always giving selflessly but not receiving reciprocally; restricting one’s Throat chakra and not speaking one’s truth.
Tendency to being overwhelmed by information overload; prone to mental over-stimulation that interferes with calm, calibrated decision-making; dominated by logic and detail-orientation that ignores intuition, and limits the scope of one’s perspective; difficulty committing to any one option.
Potentials to Cultivate (Sagittarius north node): Focusing on the forest rather than just a few isolated trees; curiosity; higher understanding; broadening one’s horizons through travel; multicultural friendships; being honest with oneself; exploring outside one’s established comfort zone; independent action; calculated risk-taking.
Potentials to Release (Gemini south node): Focus on gossip; limiting oneself to the familiar; frank dishonesty or distortion of the truth; alternating sides regarding an issue in accordance with which side is personally advantageous; desire to be a big fish in a small pond; codependence potential; scattering one’s energy simultaneously in multiple directions.
Tendency to over-attached to the past; clings to the comforts of childhood to the detriment of the need to establish a mature direction in one’s life; dependency on others; avoidance of accepting personal responsibility for the failed-state trajectory and outcomes in one’s life; fear of rejection that results in many missed opportunities; repression of potential due to fixation on one’s emotional problems; resistant to letting go of dependencies and creating a life that incorporates a sense of responsibility to both ourselves and others; difficulty achieving balance between sensitivity and responsibility.68
Potentials to Cultivate (Capricorn north node): Leadership; professional and business acumen; displaying initiative; wisely supporting, rather than unwise enabling of others; calm, informed envisioning; masculine energy and relationship with father or other guiding father figures.
Potentials to Release (Cancer south node): Non-reciprocal caregiving; codependent relationships; shyness and timidity; fear of abandonment; fixation on need for self-soothing; excessive feminine energy and attachment to nurturing mother or mother-type nurturing; issues with the father.
Tendency to become over-focus on the drama of romance and personal relationships; willful and laser-focused on personal achievements and gain; desires attention; wants to establish oneself as being unique and special rather than simply a coequal member of a group structure; expects partners to follow his guidelines and operate within his established framework; has difficulty being impartial; can be insensitive to other’s needs.
Potentials to Cultivate (Aquarius north node): Collaborative spirit; humanitarian instincts; sense of purpose; pursuit of sustainable living; interest in cutting-edge ideas; focusing on others; objective and rational assessments and reactions.
Potentials to Release (Leo south node): Penchant for attention-seeking; desire for inter-personal drama; disproportionately emotional reactions; self-centeredness; prioritizing self-gratification; baseless sense of entitlement; materialism; focusing primarily on the external; vanity; resistance to expanding one’s horizons; avoiding group interactions.
Tendency to persistent worrying; plagued by feelings of guilt about not meeting expectations; over-analyzes one’s behavior and the motives and behaviors of others; lacks faith in the spiritual, inner, foundation of existence; difficult with self-love and compassion for others; obsessed with rules, fine details, and fear of failure – of not getting things 100% perfect.
Potentials to Cultivate (Pisces north node): Creativity; artistic talents; potential to be a healer; imagination; intuition; psychic abilities, surrender to the potential for divine guidance; ability to process emotions without addictive substances or other escape mechanisms; recovery from addiction.
Potentials to Release (Virgo south node): Perfectionism; paralytic analytical mode; escaping stress through negative vices and addictive substance abuse; obsessive worry; determination to be fully self-dependent, even when that is clearly the hard, and less successful, way; controlling; micromanaging; skeptical; dismissive of intuition and divine guidance being primary resources for valuing experiences; proneness to making insensitive, cutting remarks to others; gossiping.