North Node in Aquarius / 11th House · South Node in Leo / 5th House

Understanding Astrology

“The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.” — Charles Dubois

The Mandate: This soul has spent lifetimes at the center of the room, performing, ruling, romancing, and being seen. The current assignment is to step off the stage and serve the citizenry of the world.

The Inheritance (South Node in Leo / 5th): Pride. Charisma. Personal power. The ego-architecture of someone who has been adored, applauded, and obeyed across multiple lives. A reflex to gather attention as if it were oxygen.

The Directive (North Node in Aquarius / 11th): Greatest growth comes through performing altruistic acts for society, getting involved with groups and friends, and developing a sense of detachment. Care for the citizenry of the world. Let go of emotional attachments. Seek to improve the existing conditions of the common person. Locate and abolish outdated forms and structures. Implement new, innovative, efficient methods wherever possible. Do not place great attention on children, intense love affairs, and deeply personal pursuits.

Favor mind, not impulse. Cultivate the intellect and allow the rational mind to take precedence. Science and research endeavors are favored. Rules, regulations, dogma, and rhetoric are not to be greatly regarded. Learn a much more impersonal style of functioning. Be concerned with knowledge, information, and truth. Relinquish old habits of sentimental conviction and individual preference. Commitment to ideals, especially the betterment of humankind, is crucial. Perceive life from the viewpoint of society. Take life easy, not intensely. Meet with friends and groups regularly. Effortlessly discover causes and campaigns worth furthering. Freedom, liberty, and equality for all must always be supported.

Fame and recognition are psychologically unimportant. Maybe a pioneer or revolutionary, but never allow reputation to go to the head. Always favor activities that have never been done before. Do well with utopian movements, current fads, and prevailing crazes. Generally, avoid speculations, gambling, intense passions, and profound romance. The purpose is humanitarian.

The Warning: The pull will be back toward the spotlight, toward romance as drama, toward the personal at the expense of the universal. The very things that defined power in the last life will produce smallness in this one.

Hindu Astrology Layer: Rahu in the 11th house indicates great ability to fulfill major goals and desires. The soul earns plenty of wealth from “side ventures” and has powerful, influential, and worldly friends. Ketu in the 5th means the soul’s poorvapunya, past-life credit, is connected to spirituality and psychic experience. In other words, lifetimes of hard work on enlightenment and evolutionary growth, the benefits of which are now collected in this life. Ketu in the 5th does not produce many children. But those that are born will be introspective, psychic, contemplative, and decidedly spiritual.