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Traditionally, the North Node in Aries gives great physical courage and daring. It may make you rash, but fortune will favor your boldness. The corresponding Dragon’s Tail in Libra may mean protracted lawsuits are an important part of your life or that you will at some point be separated from your home.
Natives with this placement are blessed with charisma. Many famous women who embody the modern feminine spirit were born with North Node in Aries. Jennifer Aniston, Julia Roberts, Megan Fox, Celine Dion, Carla Bruni Sarkozy, Blake Lively, Lucy Lawless, Maria Sharapova, and Meryl Streep are examples. The men tend to have a playful, rebellious nature at any age and ooze sex appeal. Think Will Smith, James Dean, Sean Connery, Rafael Nadal, Hugh Jackman, Richard Gere, Daniel Craig, Bruce Springsteen, Owen Wilson, and Paul Rudd. Under the right circumstances, natives may take their rebellion a bit too far, running afoul of the law. Richard Nixon, Oscar Pistorius, Osho, Pablo Escobar, and Dominique Strauss-Kahn learned the limits of their individualism the hard way.
As you grow older, you stretch farther and farther to reach your North Node in Aries which makes you self-assertive, independent, and full of life force. In previous lifetimes you abdicated responsibility for your own life to others, letting partners make all the decisions for you. Now you are here to be an individual, and circumstances in your life will always conspire to force you into decisive action made after little or no consultation.
You still retain the past life habit of seeing both sides of every issue. When presented with a decision, you may analyze the various perspectives until you are literally sick of yourself. Exhausted from your own paralysis, you will finally resort to bold action and tap into that primal Aries energy.
Until you begin spiritual or psychological work on yourself, you may not know who you are except in reference to others. If you are unconscious, you will tend to think that what others want is what you want and will try to make yourself happy by doing what others are doing. This leads to deep depression.
You can be irrational in your relationships, which causes you problems. The issue usually stems from your attempts to be fair to everyone. Every sign except the North Node in Aries knows this is virtually impossible.
Similarly, you hesitate to take the leadership roles you know you should pursue because you are afraid of dealing with the disharmony that may result from your decisions. However, leadership roles are the best thing for you. Especially in the work arena, you should take charge whenever the opportunity presents itself. Indeed, Warren Buffet and Richard Branson share this placement with you.
In addition to fearing conflict, another problem that makes relationships difficult for you is being too rational in your approach. Using your head may land you an appropriate mate, a prestigious position, and the birth of children at convenient times, but it also leads to a life without love and passion, which isn’t much of a life at all.
In previous incarnations, you approached the world through your mind. You came into this lifetime with a well-developed intellect and are certainly capable of deep thought. However, you incarnated not necessarily to think but to act and to exert your personal force onto the world around you.
If you put too much emphasis on your South Node, you may be afraid of being alone, are overly concerned about your appearance, indecisive, or even a doormat. To activate your Aries energy, try something new. Any outdoor activity is likely to be beneficial (hunting especially), as are contact sports such as boxing, karate, football, and hockey. Traveling by yourself is also good for you. You might also like the National Guards, scouts, or any other organized regime.
As a carrier of the North Node in Aries, it is your birthright to put yourself first. “I” is your key concept. In fact, some of the greatest commentaries on self-consciousness in Western Civilization have come from individuals with the North Node in Aries placement, including Descartes, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Jung. Nothing strengthens the consciousness like reading, which can help you develop and is likely to become more important to you as you age.
Careers indicated for the North Node in Aries placement are fashion design, artistic endeavors of all kinds, editing, publicity, and sports.
Whatever your vocation, you are at your best when you stand first or stand alone. Think Neil Armstrong and Rosa Parks. Others will immediately recognize your fighting spirit. As Winston Churchill, also born with North Node in Aries, famously said, “We shall fight…whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.” It is this kind of courage and grit you have to offer. So find a cause worth fighting for and have at it. The world is in short supply of heroes these days, and you have what it takes.
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Recommended reading:
Karmic Astrology, vol. 1, Martin Schulman
Astrology for the Soul, Jan Spiller
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