Thank you Andrew, for this very illuminating explanation!
The astrologer?s experience is a far more valuable source of information than any book.

One of the best ways to learn about the South Node is to book a cruise on a ship and then sit in the rear and take in the behaviour and turmoil of the water as the vessel lets go of the past. You will find some ramblings on my website that are unperfect by nature (I have the South node in my 3rd house), but may serve to open some insight so you may form an independent opinion on the matter. Basically it is an approach where I explore my fascinatiom with the idea of the Nodes as a Dragonship and a collective and karmic vessel propelling through the sea of souls. Link

The South node has the potential of showing a clown or humbleness. The thought struck me that it could be the 'Joker' (the Fool) in the card pack, but then the Joker may in some games be endorsed with special powers that puts it at the top of the pack in terms of hieratic order. So the Joker could be either the South node or the North node according to how you are stuck with it or how you play it.

The South node kept propping up in the 10th house in property related horary questions.At that time the prices were soaring high and some of my friends bought houses/land in spite of my warning of overheated prices.Two years on, the same projects are delayed by a year and the property prices have slumped as well.

I always see SN in a horary chart as the querent's blind spot or business partner's or an associate's bluff.

PD

Thanks again Andrew, for the vivid explanation,

Thank you pankajdubey for this excellent example!

What would you say if the SN is positioned in the first house of horary chart?

pankajubey wrote:I always see SN in a horary chart as the querent's blind spot or business partner's or an associate's bluff.

That's good, Pankajubey.
The need to look in the car mirror and keep an eye on what is moving in the blind zone.

Starlion wrote:What would you say if the SN is positioned in the first house of horary chart?

How would you interpret your particular case from what has been written?
What is the question and who is the querent?

Starlion wrote:How would you interpret your particular case from what has been written?
What is the question and who is the querent?

As I understand, the SN in the rest of the houses can be addressed as difficulties, a trap that we can catch. Such as price issues in the 10?th in a property question as the example given by pankajdubey, or it may be a career setback if it is in the same house for a work/job question. but how do you interpret it when it comes in the 1st house? There it puts the querent in a disadvantage no matter the question..
Let?s assume a relationship question, where we look at the 1st and 7th houses, or a career question. will it immediately bend the answer to high percentage of a ?no?? what do you do when the trap is in the querent own home?

Starlion wrote:

Starlion wrote:How would you interpret your particular case from what has been written?
What is the question and who is the querent?

As I understand, the SN in the rest of the houses can be addressed as difficulties, a trap that we can catch. Such as price issues in the 10?th in a property question as the example given by pankajdubey, or it may be a career setback if it is in the same house for a work/job question. but how do you interpret it when it comes in the 1st house? There it puts the querent in a disadvantage no matter the question..
Let?s assume a relationship question, where we look at the 1st and 7th houses, or a career question. will it immediately bend the answer to high percentage of a ?no?? what do you do when the trap is in the querent own home?

If you have as partial a conscience as I have, I would rather have SN in ascendant
or in all probability SN WILL be in the ascendant.

My guest today had Saturn conjunct the South Node in Virgo on the IC. The person has recently taken over Norway's leading astronomical observatory over several decades for restoration and preservation. No one else wanted it. The native has Moon's North Node in Pisces on the MC and runs a multicultural teaching center. There is the opportunity to preserve a national treasure and probably build a teaching center in its place.

So positive things that are in ruins can be picked up and restored in the place of the South Node, which reminds me of the recent conjunction of Saturn and the South Node in Virgo, where the mummy of Tutankhamun was put on public exhibition. The mummy was of such an ancient past that there was fear that but to breath on it would turn it to dust...

The North Nodes are food, proteins, nourishment, learning, while the South Nodes are waste, leftovers, carbohydrates and exhaust. The Moon's Nodes are the 'Snakes and ladders' of the zodiac. The South Node can take you for a slide, but at the North Node things add(er) up. This last thing I should probably 'add' regarding today's client was that the person had a bad back from falling and sliding down the stairs.

For example, the querent asks ?will we have a relationship?, and you see the significators of the 1?st and 7?th with good aspects to each other, but the SN is in the 1st. how do you interpret that?

Starlion wrote:For example, the querent asks ?will we have a relationship?, and you see the significators of the 1?st and 7?th with good aspects to each other, but the SN is in the 1st. how do you interpret that?

Finally ! Finally !! Really !!! OMG !!!!
I managed to fool the girl
or Did I
or
Was I ???

Keep the nodes away from 1-7 axis in a relationship question.
It could be a past life payback time- if you believe in that.

or

Infatuation for the modern mind.

pankajdubey wrote:

Starlion wrote:For example, the querent asks ?will we have a relationship?, and you see the significators of the 1?st and 7?th with good aspects to each other, but the SN is in the 1st. how do you interpret that?

Finally ! Finally !! Really !!! OMG !!!!
I managed to fool the girl
or Did I
or
Was I ???

Keep the nodes away from 1-7 axis in a relationship question.
It could be a past life payback time- if you believe in that.

or

Infatuation for the modern mind.

Thanks!!