Opposition sq the nodes

[Heidi]

Hello,

I'm not sure if this topic has been covered before since it must present itself in charts often. However, it's hard to break down how the question may have been asked to make it searchable.. If anyone can remember a past topic, please let me know..

I am curious as to how to interpret skipped steps when there is an opposition square the nodes. For example, if Jupiter is sq the nodes, and Venus is sq the nodes, thus creating an opposition. I'm feeling that the skipped steps created by Jupiter and Venus would be resolved (partially) through the evolutionary intent of the opposition. However, I'm not sure how the resolution node would work in this scenario since one planet's resolution would be through the north node, and the other planet the south node. Where would the resolution come together in order to direct the client in one direction? And if, for example, one of the squaring planets was Pluto, the PPP would be conjunct the opposing planet, which would have a different resolution node, so where would be the resolution in this case?

Thanks and blessings,
Heidi

[Heidi]

I would like to add that I did find this topic:

https://forum.schoolofevolutionaryastrology.com/index.php/topic,490.0.html

From my understanding of what was written in this topic, if there is a grand cross then both of the nodes are the resolution nodes. Yes?

What comes up for me when I do readings most often is that clients want a clear direction of how to get out of the loop they are in, especially if they are caught up in loops that involve skipped steps. I can tell them what their chart says and they say, "Sure, but what do I do about it?" If there are skipped steps then both of the nodes have been worked on, but neither have been fully resolved. If there is clearly one resolution node, then focusing on this node as the bottom line is a way out of the loop. Focusing on both of the nodes feels a bit like staying in the loop. Of course, the client's orientation to the nodal archetypes need to be acted upon in a new way. Is this the only answer? I am trying to figure out the most clear and direct way to help a client with this kind of configuration.

Blessings,
Heidi

[Rad]

Hi Heidi,

Here is an example of the question you are asking about that I gave to another a while back.

"You are now asking about another condition that can be found in birth charts. In the condition you are now asking about this would mean that the planet that is squaring the S.Node is also in opposition to Pluto, and Pluto is then squaring the N.Node. This also means that the planet that is opposed to Pluto is also within the range of being conjunct Pluto's polarity point. All of that symbolism then means that all of those archetypes have been activated prior to the current life. And all of those archetypes are in a skipped step situation. So let's make a simple example to illustrate this, and the resolution of it. Let's say Pluto in in the 4th, that Mercury is in the 10th and that this Mercury is squaring a 7th House S.Node, and Pluto is squaring a 1st House N.Node.

The core intention of the 4th House Pluto is to develop a state of inner security. With the N.Node in the 1st this would of course mean that the Soul has been desiring a state of almost total freedom and independence in order to actualize or act upon any experience that it feels drawn to do. And in so doing developing this state of inner security. Yet that Pluto is opposed the 10th House Mercury, which is square the 7th House S.Node. This would correlate to the Soul 'thinking' that in order to feel emotionally secure that it needed to be in relationship to others in general, and an intimate other specifically. The reasons that the Soul would think that can be many including not feeling that it was nurtured or loved in the ways that it felt it needed to be by the parents of origin: 4th/10th House.

So, in essence, the Soul is now conflicted within itself. This conflict would then manifest as cycles in which the Soul would desire to loose itself in the context of relationship: Mercury applying to the S.Node in the 7th, in opposition to Pluto. By doing this the Soul is then defeating it's core intention of learning an almost absolute state of inner emotional security. And the Soul, within itself, would know that because, after all, it's is it's own intention to do so. Thus, this sets in motion the next cycle in which the Soul then tries to throw off, oppose, all relationships in order to be free, independent, in charge of it's own life: Pluto in the 4th squaring the 1st House N.Node. Yet in reacting in this way it then has lead to the inner feeling of being totally alone and insecure. This would then lead the Soul to then go back to the other cycle of immersion in relationship in order to feel secure, and not alone. So back and forth the Soul goes within these two cycles without the archetypes of these dynamics being sufficiently developed: skipped steps.

With Pluto apply to the N.Node in the 1st, and the Mercury applying to the S.Node in the 7th the resolution becomes this: The Soul must keep learning how to be secure within itself by actualizing a life that is determined from within itself: it's own relationship to itself. Thus a life in which it can follow it's own inner directions CONSISTENTLY wherever they may lead. And, at the same time, engage in relationships with others in general, and an intimate other specifically, in which the very nature of those others is also one of self independence, and inner security. Others, by their very nature, help enforce the core lessons to this Soul: a state of inner security and independence in order to develop that inner security. Thus, the very nature of how others 'think' about relationships will be the same: the very nature of their psychological orientation to relationships will be the same.

In this way the 'skipped steps' symbolized with Mercury applying to the S.Node, and Pluto apply to the N.Node will be resolved."

The thread in question can be found at: https://forum.schoolofevolutionaryastrology.com/index.php/topic,369.0.html

God Bless, Rad

[Heidi]

Thanks! I appreciate you taking the time to fish out this thread, Rad; it has helped a great deal!