North Node in your chart - sign & house meanings
In this blog post, I share how to locate your North Node, the meaning of your North Node through signs and house placement, and I invite you to reflect on how it manifests in your life.
North Node meaning in your natal chart
In astrological terms, the North Node (also known as Rahu) is linked to the qualities and traits that you are encouraged to develop in this lifetime for your personal and spiritual growth.
While your South Node represents traits and behaviors that may be familiar and comfortable to you, your soul wants and needs to move beyond your South Node and towards your North Node.
The lesson of your North Node is to learn to embody the traits of your North Node sign in particular.
How to find the North Node in your natal chart
How to find your North Node sign and house placement is easy when you pull up your chart at astro.com (it’s free!).
But before you generate your chart, make sure to select the Whole Sign House system to ease your interpretation.
In the quick video below, I show you how to locate both your South and North Node in your chart by going through the following steps on astro.com:
How to interpret your North Node
Astrology's richness lies in its complexity, and the North Node is no exception. The zodiac sign in which the North Node resides offers insights into the traits you need to develop in this lifetime.
However, these are traits that you’re likely to feel a strong dislike towards (at first) when you learn what your North Node sign is, and there’s a reason for that.
You’re not likely to connect with your North Node sign, your soul’s mission, at first, because it is literally foreign territory for you.
If these traists were already familiar to you, there wouldn’t be any growth.
So when you learn what your North Node sign is in, I encourage you to read up on that sign as much as you can and continue to reflect on it as you navigate different situations in your life.
To interpret your North Node placement, follow these steps:
first, seek to understand the nature of the sign
then, identify the house where your North Node is located
finally, reflect on how the themes of your North Node sign have manifested for you in the sphere of life where your North Node is located
North Node through the signs
The nature of your North Node sign is more important to understand than the house placement as the South Node-North Node axis is about developing new traits and ways of being in life that your soul wants to master in this lifetime.
Reflection questions:
How do you feel about the traits associated with your North Node?
To what extent do you or have you behaved in the way indicated by your North Node sign? How did that feel/has that felt?
North Node in Aries
You are meant to learn about your needs, advocating for yourself, trusting your impulses, and being a self-starter. With your South Node in Libra, a key shift for you involves setting boundaries, not giving beyond what feels comfortable and finding fulfilment in carving out your individual journey.
North Node in Taurus
You are meant to learn about your values, patience, your resources, and exploring the (simple) pleasures of life. With your South Node in Scorpio, the key is to learn to ground yourself, focus on your self-worth, and detach from others’ affairs or various crises.
North Node in Gemini
You are meant to learn about being open-minded, curious and multifaceted, having lots of exchanges. With your South Node in Sagittarius, the key for you is to release your fixation on an absolute Truth, to be curious and open to learning from others to find genuine connection with people.
North Node in Cancer
You are meant to learn about the value of feelings, intuition, nurturing, family life, emotional safety. With your South Node in Capricorn, the key for you is to let go of being responsible for others, to celebrate your contributions and nurture others in a supportive way.
North Node in Leo
You are meant to learn about your creative self, how to lead your life from the heart, your individuality, and being center-stage. With your South Node in Aquarius, the key for you is to become your own best friend, be self-driven and pursue your individual happiness independent of group belongings.
North Node in Virgo
You are meant to learn about being of service, embracing order and details, and taking care of your body and health. With your South Node in Pisces, the key for you is to stop looking for a saviour, take charge of your life through careful planning, and to organize your life in a way that honors you.
North Node in Libra
You are meant to learn about taking others into account, seeking to understand others, and living in harmony with others. With your South Node in Aries, the key for you is to embrace cooperation, interdependence and considering others' needs as you go through life.
North Node in Scorpio
You are meant to learn about letting go of the familiar, allowing personal transformation and not shutting yourself off from others. With your South Node in Taurus, the key for you is to embrace change, consider others' input and partner up with worthy people for you to feel genuine self-worth.
North Node in Sagittarius
You are meant to learn about connecting with your personal truth while trusting it and being guided by it. With your South Node in Leo, the key for you is to trust your own truth, even if it’s not the universal truth, so you can attract the right people to you.
North Node in Capricorn
You are meant to learn about gaining public recognition, working towards your own goals, and self-discipline. With your South Node in Cancer, the key for you to truly feel safe is to embrace personal responsibility, taking charge, and pursuing goals that deeply resonate with you.
North Node in Aquarius
You are meant to learn about being a part of a collective, contributing to the collective, and being self-assured. With your South Node in Leo, the key for you is to risk disapproval, embrace unorthodox ideas and apply yourself to humanitarian causes to feel a deeper sense of meaning in life.
North Node in Pisces
You are meant to learn about being non-judgmental, surrendering anxiety to the universe, your spirituality. With your South Node in Virgo, the key for you is to release your grip on control, trust the unfolding of the universe, and accept that perfect order resides within surrendering to a higher power.
North Node through the houses
While the nature of the sign of your North Node holds greater significance for your soul's evolution, the house placement can provide additional insight into where in your life you are likely to experience the themes of your comfort zone most intensely.
A single house may encompass multiple spheres of life, so trust your intuition to identify which option is particularly relevant in your case. Not all of them need apply to you!
Reflection question: How do the themes of your North Node sign manifest in this area of your life?
North Node in 1st house
Your soul’s growth may be related to leadership, self-development, independence, your body and appearance.
North Node in 2nd house
Your soul’s growth may be related to material wealth, your values, self-confidence, sense of security.
North Node in 3rd house
Your soul’s growth may be related to your thought processes, learning and sharing information, your siblings, local community.
North Node in 4th house
Your soul’s growth may be related to your family, physical home, ancestors, motherhood.
North Node in 5th house
Your soul’s growth may be related to your creativity, self-expression, children, hobbies, dating.
North Node in 6th house
Your soul’s growth may be related to your daily routines, health, therapy, work environment, colleagues.
North Node in 7th house
Your soul’s growth may be related to partnerships (romantic or business), work with clients.
North Node in 8th house
Your soul’s growth may be related to transformations, intimacy, relying on others, joint resources, the occult, psychology.
North Node in 9th house
Your soul’s growth may be related to travels, higher education, spirituality, international affairs, law, justice.
North Node in 10th house
Your soul’s growth may be related to your career, social status, public role, being recognized.
North Node in 11th house
Your soul’s growth may be related to your group belongings, friendships, your network, your hopes and dreams.
North Node in 12th house
Your soul’s growth may be related to the subconscious, spirituality, solitude, hidden work, things you do when you’re alone.
If you’re looking for deeper and more personalized insight into your soul’s purpose, book a reading with me.