Martin Gansten wrote: Only in Indian astrology, as far as I know. The north node generally gets a good press in the Arabic and Latin traditions.

you're right.. i have had my head in indian astro for long enough to forget this is not across the board..

therese

thanks for pointing out the reference from rhetorius... the book suffers from not having an index! the conclusion off what little you've shared it hard to get much from.. for example, i happened to skim the book - holdons translation - and saw something that would pertain to ouranos chart for queen elizabeth...

quoting from page 51 -

if the descending node happens to be in the ascendant and saturn and mars chance to be there without any aspect from the benefics, teh scheme of the nativity is entirely satisfactory, for the native will be well-known and noble and wealthy..

i read all of these brief statements from thetorius with a large degree of skepticism..

Orisis wrote:In a podcast about nodes Chris Brennan mentions Bonatti as well

Bonatti lived in 13th-century Italy, though. His sources are all Arabic, and they tend to be unanimous in saying that the north node augments and the south node diminishes.

Martin Gansten wrote:

Orisis wrote:In a podcast about nodes Chris Brennan mentions Bonatti as well

Bonatti lived in 13th-century Italy, though. His sources are all Arabic, and they tend to be unanimous in saying that the north node augments and the south node diminishes.

There is also a comment by Ben Dykes or Charles Obert in one of his books he mentions someone with snode in 9th who abandoned her religion in a 9th profection which didnt make sense because people woth sn in 9th tend to be religious But a friend reminded him that that puts nnode in 3rd and the person abandoned organized religion in favour of earth style religions like Wicca