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One of the mysteries of the chart can be our lunar node placement. If your experience is a bit like mine, an astrologer reading your chart may have overlooked them or downplayed the significance of aspects to the nodes.

If that is the case, it could be because Neptune plays such a big role for us Pisces. We tend to confuse others or intimidate them with our depth of understanding and feeling. But if Neptune as the co-ruler of our sign has its way with our chart and destiny, the confusion and mystery may go much deeper.

Neptune in any aspect to the nodes (30 to 180 degrees) can obscure reality. Sometimes temporarily and at random (30 and 150 degrees), sometimes permanently (0, 60, 90, 120 and 180 degrees). I know what some are saying, sextiles and trines are positive, but not for Neptune per se.

When it comes to the nodes, Neptune can obscure our path altogether or do a “now you see me, now you don’t” kind of dance. But what about other planets? What about orbs? Some astrologers consider a square, for example, to have an effect from one sign to another. That’s an orb of thirty whole degrees. Others stick to a conventional range of between two and ten degrees depending on what’s involved.

In a chart I read recently, the Sun squared the lunar nodes by eight degrees. This person had been told to ignore it, “too wide of an orb.” Yet their life experience reflected this square to a T (pun intended): “The Sun-North Node square makes you feel tense when facing growth and change. You are thoughtful and can be determined and willful. You are inhibited by circumstances beyond your control but this triggers your creativity. (Source: https://astrologify.com/sun-square-north-node/)

How often do you look at the nodes?

Has anyone had problems converting a (mostly) text PDF to Word recently?

I notice that text that looks perfectly fine and editable in the PDF gets “corrupted” in the conversion process. In Word, some letters will merge, for example like “learn” will become “leam”.

I switched back to using Omnipage but now a similar thing is happening with PDF -> Powerpoint.

As a Pisces what unique moment in your life stands out the most so far?

For me it’s when another Pisces gave me an astrology book for my birthday.

I didn’t realize it at first but this book had information that would prove critical in how I understand being me, in understanding astrology in general, manipulation and bias and how I help people understanding their own natal chart.

It was Synthesis and Counseling in Astrology by Noel Tyl. It was more than a thousand pages. I later gave it to someone else when I was moving overseas (or so I thought; it wouldn’t last long) and could not take it with me. Years later I purchased another copy but it was a different edition because the edition I got as that birthday present was out of print. In this 1,000 page book was a table of the Sun, Moon and Asc. Two pages. These two pages and their meaning had been edited out in subsequent editions.

Noel Tyl had a unique approach to astrology, identifying the Sun as what we want, the Moon what we need and the rising sign as our mask. What he advocated about the Big Three was not widely accepted. It is often ridiculed for its simplicity. What happens when I apply to myself? A lot of things fall into place and make sense. That was one special gift from one Pisces to another.

What about you?