Uranus Squaring the Nodes Highlights a Karmic Skipped Step

Hey everyone. This is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology [https://nightlightastrology.com/].

Happy Friday, everyone. Today, we're going to talk about the transiting nodes of the Moon in Pisces and Virgo moving into a square, a long standing square with Uranus in Gemini. The square is just getting started, as Uranus has just entered Gemini, and the nodes of the Moon are moving to within about five degrees of that square. This will intensify until the nodes of the Moon change signs in August. So we have several months now of working with this square, and I think it's worth talking about now.

We've already covered this once on the channel with a guest that I had on named Ari Moshe Wolf. It was a Sunday bonus episode while I was on vacation, and he covered it from an evolutionary perspective. I'm going to take a similar perspective today, put my own thoughts into it as well. But in case you wanted more, you could always go back. And I just want to start by saying that he was really the inspiration for me to do a deep dive and put my own thoughts and kind of spin on the transit.

When I first began my practice as an astrologer, for the first three or four years, I practiced exclusively evolutionary astrology, maybe with some modern psychological archetypal twist. But then I progressed in my practice and really started moving into Hellenistic, but I still consider myself, in many ways, an evolutionary astrologer at my roots, right? So the squares to the nodes are a big deal, and they can be looked at from a variety of different perspectives. So I hope that you'll find this useful today.

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Sorry for a little lengthier promo here today. I did a little longer talking about my intro that I'm used to doing, kind of laboring there maybe. But anyway, here's the Cheps. And the Cheps was a new software program I'm using. I'm an affiliate. You can find the link in the comment section or the description if you want to check out the new software. What I'm looking at today, very simply, if my Epic Pen will cooperate. And of course it does, yes, because you're such a good pen. What a good pen. Anyway, you can see the nodes of the Moon are at about five degrees. I'm looking at it over the weekend here. It doesn't really matter what day we're on. I'm on the calendar right now.

I can back this up to Friday, May 8. Here we are today, but what you're going to see is, if we progress this a little bit, we're going to see that the nodes of the Moon gradually move into the square with one another, and that square perfects. Let's go forward just a little bit longer. The square perfects between the nodes. Now I'm using the true node measurement, I believe, on this program. So we're looking at about the middle of June, that the two nodes perfectly square Uranus. So between now and then, we're in a buildup phase, and after that point, we have a little bit longer where they will still be in contact within about three degrees. The nodes will finally change signs later in July and into late July, early August. So we have a long standing square between Uranus in Gemini and the nodes of the Moon in Pisces and Virgo.

Now, because Virgo is the South Node and the North Node is in Pisces, let's start from the evolutionary perspective of the nodes, which many of you may be familiar with, and I'll give you the slightly different take from ancient astrology as well. So you can have some different ways of thinking about what the nodes mean right now. In general, the South Node of the Moon is generally thought of in ancient Indian astrology and in modern evolutionary astrology as saying something about the condition of the soul as it comes into this lifetime, in terms of its past experiences. Those experiences can be places where the soul has been in a process of enlightenment, of learning from experience, and of letting go of things that are unhealthy, of purification, of learning and growth and insight.

The types of experiences that the South Node indicates are things that may in this lifetime be ongoing, places of learning, places of wisdom, places of familiarity, but tend to be very otherworldly. The South Node is associated with Moksha in Indian astrology, which means liberation from material energy. And then the North Node, by contrast, points to the current trajectory carrying us in the direction of the North Node in this lifetime. That will be about new experiences, new insights, relatively unfamiliar terrain, and a space that carries us into more lifetimes and more learning through desire. The North Node is associated with hunger and desire and appetite for a certain kind of experience that is unfamiliar or unknown or may naturally present a counterpoint to some of the past experiences through the opposite placement of the South Node.

In modern evolutionary astrology, the North Node is thought of as the evolutionary lesson or lessons that you're here to somehow learn. I have always been a little cautious about oversimplifying the North Node because of its malefic connotations in ancient Indian astrology. Rahu, the North Node, perpetuates more incarnations through entanglements and desire. It's not just purely something that you go do and everything is better. But aside from that, the North Node of the Moon generally does have the meaning of, look, if you take the idea that the universe wants us to have experiences, that it's not illegal to be born and to have a lifetime and to have desires and to learn and grow from them, a little bit more charity toward existence, material existence and the process of evolution itself, then you can understand that desire is normal. It's a part of how we learn.

The North Node is, in a sense, taking us in a direction of what we desire so that we can learn. So if you keep it in mind and have a little bit of a soft balance between modern and ancient perspectives, I think you can still pretty much work with them in the same way. Anyway, all of that being said, the North Node and South Node are in Pisces and Virgo. One of the things it points to, for example, Virgo has its hands in the earth, and Virgo is very much about the process of learning how to be a participating, mature, adult, conscientious member of society. So if you think about the South Node in Virgo, you're thinking about the theme of initiation from youth to adult. We learn how to become responsible and mature. Our egos get a little bit humbled, and we hopefully find skills that are useful and serviceable to the rest of our species, our village, wherever we live in a society.

As we do that, the care and concern is for being meticulous, being careful, being good at things, improving upon things, improving upon ourselves. But it's all taking place in a very practical, earthly, tangible and Mercurial space: practical, organized, diligent, pure, effective, meticulous, thoughtful, good, wholesome. These are the evolutionary concerns of that South Node. But notice how a lot of that takes place within the moral, embodied human realm of experience and a concern with service and conscientiousness within that realm. The North Node in Pisces beckons the soul from an emphasis on that level of experience into faith, into the transcendent, the transcendental, the ineffable, the great mystery.

The North Node in Pisces is about intuition and flow, rather than logic and meticulous development of skills and control of those skills, or implementation and effectiveness. The North Node in Pisces is a bit more artistic and fluid and imaginative and otherworldly and highly sensitive, empathic, compassionate. But it maps out a path for us of greater meaning, of greater faith that informs the flow of material life and aims it towards something outside of material life. That's the basic juxtaposition between these two nodes. The North Node is really a pole right now that exists in the collective, traveling through all of our charts in a certain space, saying toward faith, toward something greater, pointing us towards something higher.

I can't help but notice that during the North Node's stay in Pisces, we launched and developed our meditation community here in Minneapolis, and then on to the online space. Now it's a daily space. It's 11th house North Node in Pisces, right? That's a simple example, but wherever it's been in your chart, it's pointing toward that higher Jupiter ruled faith space, you could say, or vision, just having a unified sense of meaning that calls you more like music than a rational idea. So when we have Uranus squaring the nodes from Gemini, we get something really interesting. Anytime a planet squares the nodes, the potential is there for there to be some kind of missed step. That's the way evolutionary astrologers talk about it.

Frankly, I think it's a really effective metaphor. I don't know that it's literal. I don't care if it's literal. It's just me. I don't care. But I think it's a nice metaphor. It works in terms of saying there's a T-square that gets created from the squaring planet to both of the nodes. It calls our attention to something that needs to be integrated or considered that can't be skipped over for the sake of this growth trajectory to happen. If I want to be a conscientious, contributing adult, but I have no vision of something higher guiding that conscientious, worldly involvement, then I'll just be a busybody, you know, or I'll end up having a hard time letting something bigger take the wheel and help me flow through life. I'll be trying to manage everything. So it's very basic Virgo-Pisces kinds of things.

But the square from Uranus in Gemini says, okay, here's another Mercury ruled sign. First of all, Virgo is a Mercury ruled sign, and it says something like, unless your mental paradigm changes, unless you learn, unless you think differently, unless you learn to communicate differently, unless different kinds of technological, intellectual, ideological, perceptual or cognitive frameworks are considered, your move from Virgo to Pisces will be incomplete. This probably actually is more of a lesson for the North Node in Pisces in some ways, because the South Node in Virgo doesn't necessarily struggle with Mercury things. It's Pisces that does. This is why Mercury is in its detriment and fall in Pisces.

So when you think about Uranus in Gemini, you're really thinking about what kind of logical, intellectual, cognitive, or mental levels of change or revolution or breakthrough or epiphany need to occur such that faith is informed, or so that vision is intelligent, or so that flow and intuition aren't just delusion, that they have a sense of logic and grounded intellect in and with them. This doesn't have to be something that's left out. If it's skipped, in fact, you might tend toward rose colored glasses, or visions that aren't grounded, or visions that aren't able to be clearly articulated, or visions that are dogmatic and not open to inquiry and skepticism and debate and things like that.

So the square to the nodes is going to give us five things to watch for. I want to start with just this kind of overview, and now let's get into it one at a time. And I do apologize, I lost my voice. I went to my good buddy's around this time he celebrates his birthday. We went to a hockey game, Minnesota Wild, who beat the Dallas Stars in game six last night to go on in the playoffs. I'm not the world's biggest hockey fan, but I love sporting events. We had a ton of fun, but I just totally lost my voice. So anyway, let's get into it.

Number one is the past interrupting the future. If we think about the North Node as a trajectory that's trying to move us into some new space, some new way of thinking, Uranus squaring the nodes is going to act as a kind of evolutionary force or tension that creates a growth opportunity, but it does so by disrupting our faith or our belief or our vision somehow. It's going to trigger us to think differently and disrupt some patterns that exist in the past, or bring them up in a way that temporarily disrupts or blocks the plans that we have moving forward. You could think of it like you lay out these plans, you're getting going with them, and then something comes up that disrupts your ability to just flow forward. It makes you have to rethink them, recalibrate them, revise or include something else that's coming up, saying this has to be included. It's going to disrupt your sense of the flow of planning in the future, or the vision or the beliefs that you have, but it's meant to get you to think and to better inform the trajectory of the future that you're trying to follow. That's the first one.

The second one is about mental versus intuitive qualities. Uranus in Gemini tends to electrify our minds and our thoughts through thinking and information and data and communication and ideas. That can help us produce, right now, tremendous insight if it's contributing to a faith or vision based path, or it could create fragmentation and make us feel like we have to default into trying to control everything and figure everything out, because we see the disruption of Gemini as casting doubt on something we're doing, right? So it's like, oh no, this thing comes up, and now I'm in doubt, and now I fall back into trying to control and rationally discern and analyze and perfect everything. But you can take the disruption and learn to flow with it. When you're learning to flow in life, disruptions come up. They're an opportunity to learn how to incorporate disruptions meaningfully and intelligently, a real Uranus in Gemini phrase, into a flow. So while mental and intuitive energies may feel polarized right now, they don't have to be. They can work together. You want to watch for a kind of burnout trying to mentally solve what is asking to be spiritually integrated between mind and emotion, or mind and intuition.

Number three on my list are disruptions as evolutionary course corrections. Sometimes Uranus will act as a shock or disruption that reveals old patterns that you're stuck in. The crisis arises when the Uranus square, especially around the middle of June, comes up, and a disruption or a course correction comes in, and it's very clear what we need to do to move forward, but we avoid it, or we try to brush over it or skip around it somehow. So you want to watch for disruptions providing us with meaningful opportunities to course correct and to really get something right that we've been neglecting or that we just don't want to do. That's the skip step element. If you watch around mid June, when things come up and they say you need to change this, or shift this, or do this differently, say, okay, let's do that then, because if I try to brush this under the rug, as they say, or if I try to avoid something, it will make it worse. So you want to watch for unexpected messages, ideas, encounters, events that provide you with an opportunity to really get something right and course correct a pattern from the past. Don't avoid it. Don't try to skip over it. Don't try to take some kind of easy path or make an excuse. The future requires you can't move forward fully until you've really addressed things in the past. That's often true, and it's really true when something squares the nodes.

The next one on my list is control, chaos and trust. If Virgo has a shadow, it's control. If Gemini has a shadow, it might be chaos, just like busyness, but it feels very dispersive and erratic. And if Pisces has anything to offer us in the direction of the North Node, it's conscious trust. But look at how these themes all could come together in a tense little bundle. We have control and chaos as potential mental energies conflicting with each other. There's mental chaos, lots of new ideas, lots of irons in the fire, a sense of needing to control and get everything right. And then there's this beckoning: you have to add an element of vision, of trust, of faith, of surrender, of flow. So think about these qualities as they come up: control, chaos, trust, with everything really trying to orient us toward trust. A trust that is not just foolish and blind, like rose colored, happy New Age delusions or something. No, we're talking about a trust that is rooted in intelligence and meticulousness and care and concern and a degree of control, but everything is orienting with those allies or assets in mind toward trust, toward surrender, toward faith.

Number five, liberation through deepened perspectives. Another thing that can happen is a faith path can be deepened by things like questioning or careful, rational debate. Sometimes you think you know something, or you have a lot of faith in something. Astrology is like that for me. I have a lot of faith in this language and in this practice, just knowing what it is on a heart level and not having to really question what it is any longer, though I teach it, right? But what it is to me is just real. It just is what it is. Well, there are still many opportunities that I get to deepen my perspective through new understandings, through new ways of seeing it, perceiving it, understanding it technically, philosophically, epistemologically. So Uranus squaring the nodes right now, and again, middle of June, really watch for this. We think about new perspectives, deepening perceptions, new learning that can be incorporated into a faith path rather than challenge it or erase it, and the idea that mind and faith can't go together.

I meet a lot of people, and I don't mean to pick on anybody, but there's a certain type of student who comes into our programs. It's very common. There are archetypes, you know. The student comes in and they're getting a little bit into the weeds of Hellenistic astrology, which has a philosophy that we have to learn, and there's technique. And they're like, well, I'm just intuitive. It's like, you may be very intuitive, but are you telling me that Jerry Garcia, one of the most intuitive guitar players ever, progenitor of jam band culture, how intuitive is jam band culture? He would be the first to tell you that he had a really deep relationship with music theory. He studied music. So there's a certain archetype of person who thinks having to learn and study things mentally or somewhat rationally or intellectually is completely antithetical to something more intuitive.

I have found an utter lack of patience in such students when it comes to learning things that are just more difficult for them. For some people, it's the opposite. For some people, the intellectual and mental qualities come easily. The intuitive qualities, the imaginative qualities, the free flowing, spontaneous qualities, are a lot harder. But the point is, one is not better than another. If you tend to default to one or the other, this is a great transit, Uranus squaring the nodes, especially with the North Node in Pisces, to say, I need both. I need to be well informed. I need to develop my intellect. I need to be smarter, because those things are assets to me. They're not hindrances.

It's amazing how many times you hear people degrading the mind in spiritual life, like the mind is poison. There's a lot of laziness in those kind of remarks. Because if you look at the history of Buddhism, it is filled with endless amounts of really meaningful discourse and thoughtful articulation of Buddhist principles and practices and histories and cosmologies. It is also filled with many very simple, humble practitioners whose lives were not very mental. Most religious traditions are like that. There's a place, in other words, for all of these energies. It might be the most radical idea ever to think to myself, gosh, I'm really mental, but I need to work on being more intuitive. And it could be the most radical thing for the person right next to you to say, I'm scared of my mind because I don't feel like my mental faculties are the strongest part of who I am, but lean into it.

If you lean into it with heart and with faith, you'll find that you're a lot smarter than you probably thought you were, or that you can learn more effectively than you thought you could. You'll find environments when you knock on the door and say, I'd like to learn more and be able to learn a new language, learn a new skill, learn a new craft. I'm a little scared because I tend to be a little more flowy, and I don't always have the patience for the mental stuff. If you approach it that way, you're knocking on the door, and the guides and the environments and the places and the orchestration of your fate in the direction that will help you, because of your honesty and your humility, will come. It really does. It's that simple.

And on the other hand, you do the same thing. I'm not the world's most flowy person. I need help with improv. I need help with faith and trust and flow and surrender. I tend to be very rational and controlled, and I really rely on my mind because it's familiar and I'm good at it. Okay, well, if you ask for intuition from that standpoint, it's the humility, the honesty and the sincerity of asking for it that opens the opportunities that will be perfect for you to develop it. But think about these things. Don't shy away from them. Don't create false dichotomies. The mind and the heart are one, right? We just don't always experience it like that, because it takes practice to bring them together. It takes a kind of effort, really, and a kind of surrender over and over.

I hope this has been useful for you today. After I sign off, there's an informational video about the year one program coming up. Look, if you want to come and study, Nightlight is all about both. We have a lot of emphasis on working with oracles, receiving oracles, how to be a diviner, which is the intuitive part, the relationship with spirit part. But we also place a ton of emphasis on technique, history, philosophy. I like to think I've got a Sun Moon across the third and ninth houses, and those houses are very similar to the dichotomy we're describing. So if you like to learn how to bring these parts of yourself together more in a structure, in a community, check out the year one. I'll tell you about it next. Have a great day, everybody. We'll see you again next time. Bye.