Noel Tyl

Getting to Node You:
Astrology's Hidden Grip in Relationships!
by Noel Tyl

Who Relates to Your Node?

One of the questions most asked in social gatherings is designed to seek out one's birthday. Why do people do this, even people without any astrological knowledge at all? Even people who debunk astrology ask! Everyone knows that birthdates are important dates to remember and celebrate. We ingratiate ourselves with others by giving recognition to birthdays. If there is one song every person knows, it is not the national anthem; it's Happy Birthday!

I think we feel we get closer to someone by remarking on one's birthday. NOT knowing astrology, we exhibit some primal awareness that the day one was born was special, and therefore the person is given special attention in the moment of conversation, is allowed to talk about him or herself freely, can tell stories, i.e., shares personal data. This brings people closer together. Knowing astrology, of course, even just the simple fact that the birthday is a reference to where the Sun is on the day of birth, makes the conversation ever so much more meaningful and entertaining.

The primal significance of the question takes on sophisticated ramifications and potential. In our personal life and business affairs, we seek kindred spirits, people who will feel like 'family' and cooperate with us. Every one of us, sometime in life, has searched for the 'soul mate', the significant other who is presumably destined to be our fulfillment, as night is fulfilled by day (an interesting reference to the symbolic significance of the nodes, dealing with the Moon and Sun!).

The Lunar Nodal Axis

The Lunar Nodal Axis is defined by two points where the Moon's path in orbit around the Earth intersects the plane of orbit of the Earth around the Sun. These points are symbolically a synthesis of the Sun's apparent motion and the Moon's actual motion, tieing together Sun and Moon symbolisms, accentuating relationship, leader and follower, male and female, light and reflection. These dichotomies are certainly the concepts that are extoled in successful relationships of any kind, verging on the poetical when love is involved.

When the Nodal Axis in one person's horoscope is configured with a planet or angular point in another person's horoscope, the tie is very, very strong, especially in terms of the planet or personal point (Ascendant or Midheaven) configurated. When the Sun or Moon is involved, there seems to be a core recognition, a sense of belonging to one another, if you will. Even under the worst of circumstances, the relationship bond is hard to break.

When Mercury is involved, the relationship bond is powerfully focused in the mind, in the thinking process, in communication. This Mercurial dimension is the bond between Bush and Quayle. With Venus, romanticism; with Mars, aggression or defensiveness, and strong sexuality; with Jupiter, enthusiasm, understanding; with Saturn, control, manipulation; Uranus, intense, electrifying magnetism; with Neptune, deception, mistrust, or fantasy and aesthetics; with Pluto, empowerment. The Midheaven involvement links one person to the other in terms of career, even personal destiny; with the Ascendant, how one is presented to the world.

Every one of us has had strong personal ties to people with whom we are not involved romantically, but with whom we deal professionally, successfully - or, indeed, not successfully, but compulsively. We hear stories all the time of people in relationships of many different kinds who stay in those relationships against all odds, under all kinds of stress, for no apparent reason. In these cases, very, very often the Nodal Axis contact between the horoscopes involved is at work. It is astrology's hidden grip within relationships.

One of the most welcome nodal contacts is usually between your Nodal Axis and someone's else's Sun. The North and South Nodes create the axis across the apparent path of the Sun where the Moon crosses in its orbit around the Earth. For our discussion here, there is no difference to be made between north and south. This is powerful information for business and personal relationships. A fascinating example of the touch of fate, if you will, is in the coming together of Sirhan Sirhan (March 19, 1944) and Robert Kennedy (November 20, 1925), on Kennedy's death day June 6, 1968. The assassin's Nodal Axis was at 5 Leo-Aquarius exactly square the candidate's strident and critical Mars in Scorpio! Here, however, it is hard to say that Kennedy's aggressive political nature (Mars) flowed into Sirhan's being (through the nodal opening, if you will), when it was Sirhan who pulled the trigger. But we could say that it was Kennedy's aggressive politics that did flow into Sirhan's awareness, obsessingly, before the assassination; indeed, the politics conditioned and framed Kennedy as target for Sirhan's anger with the world.

Another example is the tremendous bond chronicled between actor Spencer Tracy (April 5, 1900) and Katherine Hepburn (November 8, 1909), an unrequited love that became historic in its fervor, importance, endurance, and frustration: would you believe that Tracy's Jupiter at 10 Sagittarius was conjunct Hepburn's Nodal Axis at 8 Gemini-Sagittarius. This is the same bond (Jupiter-Node) that Benito Mussolini (July 29, 1883) had with Hitler, bringing him together with the German leader in whole-hearted admiration and endorsement, in political and philosophical emulation!

Dean Martin's (June 17, 1917) Nodal Axis at 11 Capricorn-Cancer was not only square Jerry Lewis's Mercury (March 16, 1926) but also conjunct his Pluto as well at 12 Cancer! This was a powerful bond indeed, and the square aspect (90 degrees) added tension to the bond for sure.

Richard Rodgers (June 28, 1902), the Broadway musical composer, had his Lunar Nodal Axis at 1 Scorpio tightly conjunct (receiving) lyricist Oscar Hammerstein's Saturn at 0 Scorpio (July 12, 1895). This tells us for sure that, in their collaboration, the words came first before the music ! Additionally, Hammerstein's Nodal Axis at 15 Pisces-Virgo was square to Rodger's Mars at 14 Gemini! Again, quite a creatively tense and powerful bond - with one nodal contact balancing the other, i.e., Saturn and Mars - that helped this team create the historic musicals: Oklahoma, Carousel, South Pacific, and The King and I.

A lovely example is seen between Princess Grace (November 12, 1929) and Prince Rainier of Monaco (October 31, 1923). This was the fairy-tale love bond, wasn't it: European prince and Philadelphia beauty off in their private kingdom? This was love felt and espied across a crowded room, this was 'getting to node you' in classic romantic fashion: Princess Grace had her Nodal Axis in 11 Taurus-Scorpio 34 precisely conjunct Prince Rainier's Venus and Jupiter [BOTH] at 11 Taurus 34 and 11 Scorpio 02, respectively! Additionally, her Jupiter at 14 Gemini was square his Nodal Axis at 16 Virgo-Pisces!

John F. Kennedy (May 29, 1917) had his Nodal Axis at 12 Capricorn-Cancer and Jackie (July 28, 1929) had her Uranus at 11 Aries, square his axis. THAT's electricity, magnetism, and the bond that kept the two together through so much philandering.

Bill Clinton (August 19, 1946) has his Sun at 26 Leo, mighty proud and powerful, and Hillary (October 26, 1947) has her Nodal Axis at 24 Taurus-Scorpio, tightly square his Sun. That's his hook up to the synthesis of her strengths as well as the bond of tolerance for her in the midst of the stress from all his mis-adventures. We could surmise that his charismatic way to success 'fronts' for her deepest professional dreams for herself! Interestingly, Clinton's Nodal Axis is conjunct Saddam Hussein's Nodal Axis. We don't know what that means in astrology - when there is the conjoining of Nodal Axes - but it is something to watch.

Let me use my own Nodal Axis as a closing illustration: my node is at 23 Sagittarius (born December 31, 1936). Carl Llewellyn Weschcke, President and Publisher of Llewellyn Publications, and I have known each other for 22 years. Llewellyn has published all 20 of my books, some 10 anthologies in the New Age series which I edited, and the acclaimed and well remembered Astrololgy Now magazine which I founded and edited for many years in the 1970s ... that's probably almost 2.5 million words of mine published byLewellyn. Llewellyn has been the foundation of my entire career in astrology. Carl Weschcke has often, privately and publicly, referred to our bond in a previous life, that I was 'his brother'. In short, Carl and I are very close to each other professionally; we respect and admire each other considerably. Carl Weshcke's Midheaven, the high, sharply focused, career, professional point in his horoscope is 23 Sagittarius. My node is precisely conjunct his Midheaven axis, a tremendous bond, a grand relationship graciously created by time.

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