Our Lunar Nodes in an astrological chart are the two points that contain valuable, insightful and powerful information about our karmic past and destined future. They are calculated using the time, day and place that you were born into. The Nodes symbolize your unique life stream that your soul is here to integrate and experience and can bring enlightenment and information about your desires, challenges and your process of transformation.
The Lunar Nodes aren’t planets per se, but rather cosmological mathematical points that are in direct opposition to one another in a birth chart. From an astrological perspective it is thought that your life purpose is encoded between them – within the fine line and relationship between North Node and South Node. Our South Node represents our old patterns of living, behaving and thinking. These are themes that have accumulated over lifetimes that must now be acknowledged and released. The North Node represent our soul’s spiritual potential and the future themes in this lifetime. The encompassment of the North Node elements will bring the individual soul greater satisfaction, depth and a feeling of wholeness as they move through their beautiful incarnation. Both Lunar Nodes are almost always in a retrograde position.
North Node Cancer/South Node Capricorn
There are twelve signs of the zodiac and there are also twelve nodal positions. Each pair of nodes represent two opposing signs of the zodiac. Because they are opposites they create a energetic tension of the dualistic battle the resides within the North Node Capricorn/Cancer soul.
Sometimes the soul is unaware of the battle taking place within them with respect to their past lifetime and this one. Until they encounter a soulmate or experience a spiritual awakening and are confronted with this expression. The North and South Nodes can produce a person who tried to remain in the energy of the South Node as it is familiar and they have mastery over their endeavors there. Often times the individual is not aware of the internal war taking place on the inside. This is something that could go on for years, even decades until a crisis or bottoming out in a cycle brings to their own awareness why things keep happening in destructive patterns or the same people and situations keep showing up over and over again that they begin to change and move into their North Node or destiny.
Our North Node in Cancer-Sweet Crabs
People with their North Node in Cancer have a destiny to create happiness in their home life and in their personal connections. Since the moon is the ruler over Cancer, those with the North Node in this sign can have very fluctuating Moods and emotions that those close to them may not understand. They are tidal. Like the ocean. North Node in Cancer symbolizes the emotional reactions, attitudes and vibrations that you will adopt, incorporate and express throughout your life stream.
Your Water Element
Cancerian North Node natives love being near the water, mainly beaches and tide pools. Swimming in the ocean can bring them into their natural element and give them a feeling of wholeness. You will be nurtured by the ocean. The sounds and scents of the breeze. Digging their feet into the sand. If you aren’t able to live there try and visit as often as you can. Being close to the ocean will reset your chakra’s and swimming in the water will cleanse and revitalize your aura.
What You Are Freeing In This Lifetime-Your Capricorn Ties
Superiority, identities based upon your achievements and possessions hierarchy, being aloof, workaholism, being being a loner, being cutthroat, ruthlessness, opposition, being heavy-handed, drive for materialism and status, being overly masculine Alpha, being cold and unapproachable, being stern. The need to be in control and to control others, materialism to the point that things matter more than people.
Working yourself into the ground until there is nothing left just to prove a point, holding everything in and internalizing things, being dependent on others is a fear, but only when we release some of our need to be in control will we achieve our goals in our professional lives. You may need to work on allowing yourself to be vulnerable, exposing some of our insecurities and personal needs without fear, and making time for our home and family life.
What You are Bringing to the Table in this Lifetime
You are the epitome of being grounded. You can hear the grass grow. Your word is as good as gold. Both Capricorn and Cancer are very traditional signs, you bring this forward along with all of the traditions that you love. Your level-headed ways are a beautiful compliment to the new water element you are embracing. Understanding the follow of a dollar. Supporting our elderly, children and animals. South Node Capricorn’s are known for their love and animals as they can experience unconditional love through this beings.
What You Are Embracing in This Lifetime
Accepting emotional sensitivity and your depth, family comfort, compassion, unconditional love, Divine feminine energy, domestic arts (I love this), pure maternal energy, nurturing, self-care, self-love, heart centered living, finding a home by the ocean. Self-Acceptance, feeling it all, accepting others limitations, being in child-like wonderment, being amazed.
Your Family Ties
North Node Cancerian’s have a strong connection to their earthly families. They can either have a very close knit family or they can come from a childhood that may take them a lifetime to recover from. Either way they can nourish and flourish within a family system and are often very powerful matriarchs that keep families together and plan reunion’s and holidays. Keep in mind here that a family does not need to be blood. It could be a large friend group or network. The generational karma that North Node Cancers have inherited is very powerful so they might need to be aware of both the fluid and challenging energies they have received from their ancestors. Many times North Node Cancers are tasked with clearing generational trauma and dysfunction through their powerful nurturing and healing modalities.
Your Soul Colors and Elements
Silver, Light Blue, Lavender and even hints of Warm Yellows will begin to appeal to you as you move into your North Node in Cancer. Envision the colors of the beach and the ocean environments. Shimmering fabrics and colors. Colors that lift your mood. Things that remind you of your seafaring roots. All natural fabrics and things that have been handmade or handed down through the family line also can help you express this energy.
Your Soul’s Work in Cancer In the North Node
In this incarnation you may freely open your heart and let yourself feel all of it. Ditch your shell and allow yourself to be nurtured and loved. Cancerians are quite traditional and love their homes and family, their roots. They master’s in the kitchen and love to have people over. Entertain, create and be a host. Cancer soul’s are traditional and have old-fashioned values. They value the natural over the aquired. At some point in their life Cancer North Node may be called to be a nurturing mother to themselves. When she loves she loves deeply, nothing is held back-it is all encompassing. This North Node is the embodiment of loving fully.
With a Cancer soul mission, lightness and sincerely opening your heart is the key to happiness and fulfillemt in life and love. The more you explore your creative and playful side things will begin to flow and feel effortless. It’s okay to nourish your relationships-friendship-romantic and business. People will love it and so will you.
How to Balance your Nodal Energies
Embrace the nurturing soul within you. Loving unconditionally and with the boundaries you brought in from your past life in Capricorn. Do this In your personal life and in business and watch your life flourish. This will become second nature to you and will act as an anchor for all that you encounter. Stop the inner critic. Chase that voice away. As soon as those thoughts come in start to self-care and self-love. Smash them!
To balance your nodal energy move into things such as decorating, landscaping, genealogy, working with children and animals and spending time with elders. As you release your control issues and move into your emotional body you will find yourself connecting with others more and more and enjoying the experience of living and feeling. It’s important that the carrier of the North Node in Cancer placement avoid any reflexive tendencies to withdraw into isolation, don’t crawl back into your shell. You are here to nurture your soul group and even those you meet along the way. You may take comfort in being part of a family. A family being those that love and respect you, not just your blood relations. Trust the life process and your instincts. Let go of perceived outcomes. You may never attain the station in life to which you think you are entitled, but in your home and family, you will find far great happiness than you could ever have imagined. This nodal placement in Cancer expresses itself in the are of life which reflects an empty heart waiting for the nourishment called love.
Your Karma
Themes surrounding pride and superiority. These two behaviors are connected to fear, which is something you are releasing in this lifetime. Asking yourself why you are prideful and what you are afraid of. Why you cannot reach out and connect emotionally. Feeling superior is really only another way to protect yourself from getting hurt and from being emotionally connected to another. Isn’t it? In this lifetime you will begin to develop empathy and understand that everyone has feelings and needs and being open and receptive also has value. Most people are not out to get you. Your gifts lie on discerning who can be a supportive ally through the development of your empathic nature.
Final Thoughts
The journey from a Capricorn South Node to a Cancer North Node is challenging and it will ask you to work in the area of releasing the ego as much as you can, handing things over the Universe or if its easier, King Neptune, but so does everything else that holds so much potential. It is well worth the effort as a lot of the Capricornian fears will be distilled and vanquished the more you embrace your Cancer Node energy. It is a vicarious process. The South Node in Capricorn in a way is losing its level of status and prestige that it brought into the world. It still needs and desires the same importance that it once had and will try and fiercely hold on to this aspect and to maintain it, but it will just keep slipping away. Once the surrender occurs the integration and merging will begin within the soul. They will find that one of the most profound vibrations and spiritual rewards in this lifetime will be found in the deep exploration of the nourishment and care of others and of themselves.
