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i'm looking for information about the true/mean nodes in a chart, though i haven't found much. all i can get is that it seems associated with karma and life purpose in both Vedic and traditional astrology. do any of you guys know of a site with good information on what exactly it deals with, and how it manifests in different signs?

http://www.astrologycom.com/nodes.html there's a pretty decent explanation of them.

i remember the bob marks page! he seems to have some kind of grudge against us Cancers, though. =/


searching for "north node" seems to yield a lot more results. i assume it's the same as the true node?

This is interesting - one of the sites mentioned past lives in relation to south node, but a book I read some of once said that past lives can also be explained in terms of north node.

I.e. the Taurus north node, according to Imaginary Quicksilver's link, means that a person has to learn to rely on others less, whereas this book said that a Taurus north node meant that in a past life, a person was in a co-dependent relationship, living through and helping and relying on another person (examples were as the assistant to a leader, a queen to a king) and that in this life, they needed to learn to be independent and live for themselves. Either interpretation yeilds roughly the same message.

I've also heard that true node and north node are the same thing. It's also interesting you should say about people having trouble with their opposites - my north node is in Taurus, and my south node is in Scorpio, and Scorpio is the sign I have the most difficulty with.