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North Node

point · cycle 6,798 days

Dignities

Rules

Hellenistic tradition

The lunar nodes (Rahu/Ketu in Vedic tradition; Caput/Cauda Draconis in medieval Western) mark eclipse points.

Modern Western reading

Modern Western astrology reads the North Node as a direction of growth in evolutionary frameworks.

This is cultural and astronomical reference, not personal prediction or advice.

Cycle periods are mean orbital values. Traditional interpretations paraphrased from primary classical and modern sources. See sources.

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