Aries North Node, Libra South Node

Your Aries N. Node Soul wants to find its courage. It wants to be excited, to explore, and even to be stressed out--- if that’s what it will take to bring forth the independent and courageous side of you! Courage is the high road for Aries, and it’s what we do each time we step up the plate and show up whether we feel like it or not. Courage is what we need to have to survive and to be a pioneer as well~and you are the natural pioneer of the zodiac.

Is it that fools rush in where angels fear to tread? Or simply that your enthusiasm and fresh attitude of “why not?” motivates the rest of us? You may not feel like the fearless fool, but remember that courage is something you learn as you allow yourself to feel the fear and do it anyway.

As you exercise your independent nature, rather than re-enacting old tendencies to enmeshment or co-dependence, you inspire us to want to be with you, and to hear your stories. As you dare to follow through on what excites your curiosities, you leave behind your South Node traces of dependency and find that place of inter-dependence rather than enacting any extreme. Yet don’t linger too long in any social group, for in this life your Soul needs some alone time, as well as a good dose of adventure. There’s a world of difference between solitude and loneliness.

There is a yearning in you for the adrenaline rush of new beginnings, and you excel at seeing fresh possibilities and new ideas. Give yourself permission not to have to follow through on every last detail. And, if you try to be overly accommodating and to try to make peace at any cost, you may lose your focus or energy. Like in the old fairytale, you are meant to be the one to tell the Emperor he has no clothes on, and there’s no social niceties on that one.

Aries North Node understands the paradoxical nature of people and life, and has a keen intelligence that often surprises people. You may not be the long-suffering research scholar, but your ability to see and act outside the box of conventionality is stimulating. As a slayer of dragons and a rescuer of maidens (or lads) you are best when you are not only a thinker, but a doer as well.

Somewhere in the midst of your life journey, usually after your first Saturn Return (at approximately age 29) you are able to turn on your path to redeem the gold in the shadow of your Libra South Node. Redeeming the gold in the shadow of the South Node is about reclaiming our natural gifts. But these natural abilities are also our familiar path of least resistance and are best redeemed only after we have done the work of the North Node---after you have survived the slings and arrows of this new call to a courageous life, then you can be the tactful mediator and peacemaker. Now you can allow yourself to be nourished by all the Venusian beauty and harmony you can bring into your life. Aries and Libra are ruled by Mars and Venus respectivly, and there’s nothing juicier than to allow the masculine and feminine aspects of your nature to stimulate and balance each other. © Elizabeth Spring http://www.elizabethspring.com/

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Thoughts on the North Node in Aries from Neith

Elizabeth asked me to add my thoughts on the North Node in Aries and just recently I’ve been discussing Libra and the expression of anger. This seems to fit nicely with the topic of the North Node in Aries as those with this Node often have difficulty asserting themselves in a calm, direct manner.

Libra is inclined towards peace at any price, often sacrificing their wants and needs in the process. And it’s been my experience this can lead to a great deal of internalized anger with the potential to shift to resentment – nasty stuff. Aries is usually comfortable with stepping up and asserting themselves and asking for what they want. My Libra self finds this directness refreshing and quite laudable, and over time I’ve learned from my many Aries friends and family members to practice this assertiveness. It works very, very well.

The key for those of us who have Libra or North Node in Aries is to remember this: When we ask for something, we will usually hear one of two answers, “yes” or “no”. If we DON’T ask, we won’t know if the answer would have been “yes”. It seems so simple but often what works is . . . and keep in mind Libra is a Cardinal sign the same as Aries. We have the same need to take action as Aries, Cancer & Capricorn even if we prefer to do so with a modicum of tact.

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