The Nodes - Shadow Work

Falling into Darkness

As promised, this is the other half of the piece I wrote on the nodes and people who remember their past lives. I gave the example of the Dalai Lama in as many incarnations as I could find birthdays for him. We watched as the force of this world and the weight of so many lives became increasingly intense in his chart. While we didn’t have the first incarnations, the early incarnations did not have nodal conjunctions. As he continued to come back here, there was an increasing pull from past lives seen in the planetary conjunctions to his nodes. He is an enlightened being who has chosen to come back here. I’m sure he is not the only such being, so we can’t discount the nodes as indicators of people who are aware of past lives and a chosen karmic pull.

The nodes function in the chart as black holes to other lifetimes. What do I mean by that? Think about the structure of a galaxy at its center, a black hole that all stars are slowly being sucked into. The intense gravitational pull orders the galaxy and keeps all the star systems rotating around it in a structure known as a galaxy. The nodes are similar. They are the issue at the heart of why we came back here or at least the issue that will be pivotal and at the center of our unconscious. The nodes’ pull organizes the unconscious toward a resolution.

The planetary placements in their houses and signs describe the personality, timing, and character development in this lifetime. However, they do not describe the purpose; only the nodes can do that. So when the planets are on the nodes, the unconscious push and the personality merge. This can be utilized for immense good, such as in the case of the Dalai Lama and many others, or it can become a raging, disturbed compulsion that eclipses the personality. In the case of those who choose to do the greatest of evil, murder, the unconscious pull is disturbed, chaotic, and overwhelming. The nodal conjunction for them is not an awareness of past lives but rather a dark, incompleted compulsion gnawing at different aspects of their personality