All the planets have nodes except the Sun and the Earth, but the Moon's Nodes are by far the most significant, in terms of human destiny.

The North and South Nodes are an axis, always in perfect opposition to each other, so the signs are affected in pairs (Aries/Libra Pisces/Virgo Aquarius/Leo etc). The North Node, the Dragon's Head, is called the ascending node, because it marks the point where the Moon crosses the ecliptic from southern to northern celestial latitudes, and the South Node is called the descending node, marking the descent from northern to southern latitudes. There is a good deal we can learn from a deep consideration of this myth.

In mythology, the Dragon sought to devour the Sun, the life-force, and the Moon, the emotional being, thus explaining the eclipses. The nodes are also known as the Dragon's Head ( Caput Draconis), the North Node, and Dragon's Tail ( Cauda Draconis), the South Node, and in Indian Astrology they are called Rahu and Ketu respectively. The pathway of the Moon around the Earth is not the same as the ecliptic, so the body of the 'energy dragon' is the fourth-dimensional path of the Moon by declination, as she weaves her web around the earth. The ecliptic is the path of the Sun through the heavens as seen from the Earth and projected onto the Celestial Sphere. In astrology, the Moon's Nodes (the Dragon's Head and Tail) are not planets in the strict astronomical sense, but rather sensitive points on the ecliptic, where the pathway of the Moon crosses the course of the Sun.

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