lunar nodes (Ra Uru Hu)

Ra's Words of Wisdom
Nodes Paint the Neighborhood of Your Experience
Ok, so look, let's take a look at ... how to look at the Nodes. I think this is something that really needs reinforcing to really understand how to use them. I've tried a number of ways over the years to create a metaphor for this. My most recent metaphor is that this is a neighborhood because it's very physical. It's like the background in a scene in a film and the background tells you everything, actually. The background frames what to expect. There are certain backgrounds that you immediately think, aha, something is going to happen here that's not good. There are other backgrounds that tell you right away that this is interesting; this looks very kind of intellectual, nouveau riche, “this or that,” blah, blah, blah.
In other words, when you're looking at the Nodes, they are painting the environment in the background of your experience. It is that set, it's a set. It's even better to understand it as a set and even more than that to understand that set is not just the physical buildings but the people who live there. You want to make a movie and you want to show a street where your character is going to go down that street to somebody's house. Now, it's not enough that you simply have the street there and you have some parked cars. What you're going to stick into that background is people, but they're just decoration. But they're decoration that adds to the quality of the environment.
For example, if the decoration looks like a gang of young hoodlums who are out to find a victim, you're going to feel very different about that environment no matter what the neighborhood looks like. In other words, what the Nodes really bring you; because again this is a much larger, and when I say larger it is a transpersonal imprint. It is coming from beyond what is the solar cell structure. So what we have is an environment that is more than just the physical environment. It's the people who give the environment its quality.
Also, just to complete that analogy for a moment, we move from the South Node to the North Node. This is a timing that's based on the Uranian cycle of 84 years. The halfway point in the Uranian cycle, and it depends because it's a different kind of orbit, your Uranian opposition is any time between the age of 38 and 44, approximately. This basically cuts the life in half in terms of the Uranian life.
So, what we're looking at is, I don't want you to see the South Node and the North Node as really being different from each other. After all, look at the gates. If you look at the gate and you look at their chops, you'll see they are exact mirrors of each other. They're so deeply related to each other that it's something to really understand about the Nodes. After all, the Nodes are in opposition and if you look at an opposition within the context of the hexagrams, you'll see that you're dealing with mirrors. So you're dealing with the same structure mirrored. Now, in this process you have what I like to call a long street that divides between north/south or east/west and it changes its name. Many big cities have these kinds of streets where at the south end it has one name and the north end of the street has another name, and that's basically what you're looking at with the Nodes.
But you're also looking at something else. It is only on the surface that the Magnetic Monopole holds us together in the illusion of our separateness.
But in fact, we are a binary. Our Design and our Personality are very different. Our Design return begins 88° of Sun before the Personality return begins. They're very different from each other.
The Personality environment, the environment that the Personality is attuned to is very different from the environment for the unconscious.
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The Nodes

In the mystical sense we all have a lunar body, for our geometry is conditioned by the nodes of the moon. The nodes are not physical bodies but points in space. The nodal orbits arise from the intersection of the Moon's orbit with the plane of the ecliptic (the path of the Sun and planets as they appear to revolve around the earth). The north or ascending node shows where the Moon crosses the Sun's path from south to north. The south or descending node conversely is formed when the Moon travels from a northerly to southerly celestial latitude. The lunar nodes do not operate in the same way as the planets, by influencing the solar neutrino stream. The nodes are windows into interstellar space, showing us our alignment and trajectory within the cosmos itself. Since the Big Bang, every one of us has been following a geometric line through space. By looking through the window of the lunar nodes, it is possible to see the themes of our current line of geometry. In human terms, this is what we call our destiny.

You will notice that there are in fact two nodes, the south node and the north node. In traditional vedic astrology, the south node governs where we have come from, in other words the past, whilst the north node governs where we are going, the future. 

In Human Design, we turn to the revolution of the planet Uranus to fully understand how the nodes work. As we have seen, Uranus has an orbit around the sun of approximately 84 years, giving us our average modern lifespan. However, it is the midpoint of this cycle that is important when looking at the nodes. The midpoint of our life cycle, the Uranus Opposition, falls between the ages of 38 and 44. This is the fulcrum of the 2 geometries of our life. From birth until approximately 42 (it varies from person to person), we are governed by our south node theme, and from 42 until our death, we are governed by our north node theme.

In Design Analysis the Nodes of the Moon divide the life into these two basic dynamics. As a metaphor, it is the breath of life. The ‘prana in’ is the developmental stage; the breathing in of life experience, and the ‘prana out’ is the process of our maturation and the eventual stage of our true flowering. It is only really after our Uranus Opposition that we can really begin to make our full contribution to the world. The midpoint of the uranian cycle (between 38 and 44) is like the still-point between breaths. It is a time of great change in our lives; the so-called midlife crisis.