Transit Lab: Mercury on South Node, Moon on North Node
And also that amazing Uranus squaring Saturn…
It’s more stuff about horses, surprise: The friend I rode with had a painting in her bedroom of two horses, commissioned by her dad to represent her parents’ relationship. This huge painting was in effect lording over her bed, and she said at times she’s had bad dreams about it. Basically, it wasn’t working out to have it there anymore.
I helped her wrap it and move it to another room, and then clear the space for her to inhabit the space in ways that work for her. We burned rubbing alcohol with epsom salts all around the apartment, and set the intention for what energy doesn’t need to be there to go away. As I was telling her about the importance of the objects we have and their effect on us, I was guided to a couple of places that had stuff that seemed like they needed to go. First a particular book on a shelf, given to her by someone she was involved with a few years ago and lived with. It wasn’t the book, but the hand-written card tucked inside from when he gave it to her that was drawing me. Old energy had to go! Another thing were two particular books that were on the table next to her bed, perhaps two vibes that might not fit well with restful sleeping.
She’s in a huge transition in her life, committing to take better care of herself and really bring herself and her gifts out. It involves changing her habits, patterns, the people she spends time with, what she spends her time doing, and basically everything about her life. This is fully inspiring to me, and our time together is a gift. The transit lab part of this is that with Mercury on the South Node, there’s information from the karmic past or people I knew in the past that I would expect to come to me. It’s been in the form of this friend, who can see through some of my distracting behavior into the real heart of who I know I am, as I can see her. Each of us is offering very positive reflections of the other’s potentials.
Also regarding the past, I released a frankly gigantic karmic grudge I learned I had against someone I know. Mercury on the SN tells you what’s going on, and the Moon on the NN in opposition indicates a tension, which is the challenge to choose compassion and let go the meaning the information you’ve gotten seems to have, if you can choose the Moon’s heart energy over Mercury’s head energy (and all of us should be encouraged to stretch into our North Nodes, since it’s what we haven’t done as much of in the karmic past and can really use learning now). The invitation is to open your heart in a way that you might not be likely to do because of your habits and assumptions. In my case, accepting the reality of my feelings right now (North Node in Capricorn/4th house) was a better option than clinging to what I used to feel and the memory of it and what it means about me (South Node in Cancer/10th house).
When you have transits to the South Node, you can expect something from the past, often the karmic past, to visit you and show you something about yourself, your patterns and habits. It could also be skills and understandings from other times that you suddenly have access to. For me, the psychic ability to pick out apparently from thin air the stuff in my friend’s apartment that are energetically crowding her space is one.
Most of us are not conscious of a multi-level reality in which this life echoes and repeats our past lives, but I see this happen to me and others just about every day. The lives we’re living now recreate the themes from our pasts - we’re redoing things so that we can learn more about the experiences.
When Venus was there (in Cancer in my 10th house) a few months ago, a man approached me after a meeting I went to and asked me if I believed in past lives. I said I did, and he asked me a few questions about time and place. He told me he saw me in the 19th century in a blue Civil War uniform, and he proceeded to tell me a bunch of stuff that seemed totally irrelevant to anything for anyone at any time, all the while looking me straight in the eye. I excused myself a few minutes later, after running a background script in my mind recognizing that he was recognizing me from a past life - Venus indicates relationships and people, and coming to the South Node there’s a likelihood that you’ll meet someone from your past. I don’t know what he was accomplishing, but apparently simply letting me know he knew me was important for him. As a contrast, a couple of years ago when Venus was on my North Node in Capricorn in the 4th house, a friend gave me a copy of an accounting program, as I was beginning the self-employed thing.
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July 29, 2007 By Tom Jacobs