Good Thursday morning to you. The Moon is now in Taurus, close to its own South Node. The nodes of the Moon have recently arrived on the Taurus-Scorpio axis (that happened last week), a story I’ve yet to tell properly. The North and South nodes travel together, activating an axis of the zodiac, and functioning as a kind of reference point. The nodes travel retrograde, so they’re the only points that enter a sign at the end of the sign and leave early in the sign.
Speaking in abbreviated notation, the evolutionary theme of the nodes in Taurus-Scorpio is about attachment, and its various shades of possessiveness, jealousy and compersion.
Compersion is what you get, or perhaps where you can go, when you’ve begun to address attachment honestly; it’s the feeling of love that comes through when much darker, toxic emotions are recognized for what they are.
In true cosmic harmony, an asteroid called Juno (jealousy, marriage and marriage partners, inclination to social justice) is in late Scorpio, close to the North Node. So there’s a clear signal coming through about bonding, and going deep into the emotional/sexual dimension of relating to others.
At the same time, the Moon is about to sweep past its own South Node, diving into south declination — that is to say, below the celestial equator. This is presenting a truly interesting and complex psychological situation, which you may see a match for in your life or in the world over the next 24 hours or so. While there is this pull to go deep into bonding with others, there’s something at the same time about addressing the shadow side of that, which is jealousy and attachment.