South Node: Past Lives – Hexagon Astrology (Matthew David Savinar)

Category: South Node: Past Lives

South Node in the 6th House: Past Lives Have Been About Service, Duties to Others, the Daily Grind, Emphasis on Health/Hygiene/Care of the Body

NunsGirl — People with South Node in the 6th House are thought to have spent past lives helping others

In older astrology texts the 6th House is referred to as the “House of Servants”. Today it is more commonly associated with the workplace as well as with endeavors that may as well be work even if they are not technically “jobs”.

Health, hygiene, and the care and feeding of the body are considered 6th house practices. So too are mundane responsibilities such as paying bills, changing the oil in your car, cleaning up around the house, and doing the laundry.

The housewife who dutifully gets her kids to school, prepares the family meals, goes grocery shopping, and attends to the daily needs of the household, for instance, is spending a lot of time in 6th House activities even though she is not technically in the workplace.

Both the Good Samaritan and Florence Nightingale likely had the 6th house emphasized in their birth charts. A disproportionate number of modern day social workers, homeless shelter workers, and people who work with physically challenged populations probably do as well.

South Node in the 6th: Past Lives Spent in Crucial but Unglamorous Roles

With your South Node in the 6th House, major themes for your past lives have been duty, self-sacrifice, mundane responsibilities, subordination to the needs of others, self-improvement through work, and detailed attention to a craft. You’ve likely spent past lives in crucial but unglamorous professions such as maid, cook, butler, chambermaid, plumber, stable-hand, launderer, milkman, mechanic, or animal-trainer.

You may also have spent past lives as a nurse, nun, dietician, doula or doctor if your lives emphasized the health, hygiene, and daily nutrition aspects of the 6th House. The personal training, physical therapy, and occupational rehabilitation professions did not exist until very recently but you may have been involved in their historical equivalents. While the spiritual side of a daily yogic practice is associated with the 12th House of Mysticism, the adherence to a strict daily routine of poses performed under the supervision of an instructor would be associated with themes of the 6th House. It may sound curious at first but yoga instructors, master carpenters, and drill sergeants can all be considered 6th House jobs as the objective of each is to make sure those under their supervision learn their respective crafts the right way. That’s the spirit of the 6th House: “get ‘er done and get ‘er done right.”

Labor Unions did not exist until recently but involvement in their historical equivalents (such as guilds in the medieval days) is another possibility as the 6th House is where we find our co-workers, employees, and bosses. This is particularly the case if the 11th House or the sign Aquarius are also emphasized in your chart.

At its best, a Sixth House South Node is indicative of somebody who has, over many incarnations, mastered the craft of mastering a craft. You’re not somebody who needs to be reminded of the importance of getting to work on time or staying late. The same goes for the daily feeding and caring of your body.

Dark Side of the 6th House: Humiliating Social Roles, Workaholism, Burnout

But it’s also within the 6th house terrain of work, service to others, and the daily care and feeding of your body where you’re now most likely to “overdo it”. Examples of overdoing the 6th House include: feeling compelled to serve others, feeling excessively-responsible for others, over-scheduling yourself, becoming obsessed with daily routines, being obsessed with exercise routines, finding yourself caught in humiliating social roles, perfectionism, workaholism, eating disorders, a never-ending focus on self-improvement, holding oneself to standards so exacting that even Genghis Khan would look at your daily planner and say, “damn woman, you need to take a vacation.”

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The South Node: The Point of Karmic Blowback

The South Node is the primary astrological indicator of past lives. I call it the “Karmic Blowback Point” as it indicates where a person likely got things wrong in their past lives as well as how they’re most likely to self-destruct in this life. The North Node is the solution to all the problems and excesses of the South Node. No matter whether we’re looking at the natal chart of an individual, a composite chart of a relationship, or the chart of an event, investing time and energy in the patterns symbolized by the North Node will get the person or situation on a path that is best for all.

To illustrate: think back to the spring of 2003. At that time the South Node was in Sagittarius, the sign of optimism, faith, expansion, overseas crusades, and belief systems including religion. Not coincidentally, we were being sold on the war in Iraq – an expansive, faith-based, overseas crusade for “democracy” with major religious overtones to it.

That’s a rough video to watch. Sitting in the middle of a foreign land, trapped alone in a stalled vehicle, watching three co-workers get executed, yelling into a radio “I’m fixin’ to get killed, I need help, I have no gun, I’m by myself” pretty much summarizes the worst possible outcome of a Sagittarius South Node.

The North Node at the time was in Gemini, the sign of asking questions. Had the country as a collective entity asked more questions during that time we might not have wasted 10 years, trillions of dollars, and untold amounts of blood on two enterprises that represented all the lowest, darkest attributes of Sagittarius.

That’s an extreme example of how the Nodes works but that’s why I use it: it illustrates the importance of the North Node in a fashion that is now obvious to all regardless of political/social leanings.

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South Node Conjunct Uranus in the 10th House: Past Lives Included Rebellion Against the Establishment, Insurrection Against the King

Your South Node is placed in the 10th House, the house concerned with the government, big business, the status-quo, anything to do with your relationship to “The Establishment”. In the astrology of the medieval days, the condition of your 10th House was considered to be indicative of “your status before the king.” Today it is more commonly associated with your career as seen from the view of the public. (Your day-to-day working environment, on the other hand, is described more by the 6th House than the 10th.)

With your South Node in the 10th House, you were likely a member of “The Establishment”, an authority figure, or otherwise in a position of public acclaim and importance in your past lives.

But, and this is a crucial “but” in your chart, the planet Uranus (symbolic of shocks, rebellion) is conjunct (fused) with the South Node (past life). So it is likely you were involved in some type of rebellion (Uranus) against “The Establishment” (10th House) even if you were originally born into “The Establishment”. As your South Node/Uranus conjunction is in the sign Sagittarius, the nature of the rebellion had something to do with Sagittarian themes of religion, faith, the pursuit of truth, or belief systems and philosophies.

Uranus in the 10th: Determined Idiocy or Strategically Planned Acts of Independence?

Uranus/South Node is a very edgy energy to be bringing into this life. This aspect imbues you with a wealth of “out of left field” type creative gifts but can lead to sudden disruptions in matters associated with your 10th House of Career and Public standing. At its highest expression, this aspects indicates you have likely been a force for speaking truth to power (the function of Uranus) over matters related to the status-quo (the 10th House). Darker possibilities include participation in a futile rebellion (the Uranian shadow) against tyrants or authoritarian establishments (the 10th House shadow). If, in this life, your efforts at breaking with the status-quo ever begin to feel more like “determined idiocy” (the Uranian shadow) than strategically planned acts of independence (the healthy expression of Uranus), then you may want to reconsider how you’re making use of this energy.

The good news, given your political and socio-cultural leanings, is that with South conjunct Uranus in your chart, you’re in very good company: Filmmaker Michael Moore and musician Willie Nelson, as well as several other notable modern day “rebels”, also have this aspect in their charts. (Source)

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South Node in Sagitarrius, Pluto in the 9th House: When Faith Becomes a Matter of Life and Death

Editor’s Note: Below is an excerpt from an analysis I did for a client whose chart included South Node in Sagittarius and Pluto in the 9th. -Matt

South Node in Sagittarius: Past Lives as a Vagabond, a Gypsy, a Scholar

Your South Node is in Sagittarius, the sign of the Philosopher, the Gypsy, the Vagabond, the Scholar. Sagittarius is the sign most associated with the pursuit of broad based knowledge (“the big picture”), belief systems, the search for meaning, higher education, organized religion, foreigners and foreign adventures, crusades and quests. At its best, Sagittarius is the sign associated with the expansion of consciousness, the renewal of faith, and belief in a better tomorrow. It is represented by the Centaur, the half man/half horse who roams across broad landscapes in the pursuit of truth. At its worst Sagittarius is the sign of blind faith, dogma, nihilism, religious extremism, and a belief in Utopian spiritual/cultural schemes involving migration to foreign lands.

With your South Node in Sagittarius, “roaming” and the search for truth were major themes in your past live. The roaming may have been through different lands and cultures but just as easily could have been through the geographies of various religious or philosophical belief systems.

Pluto in the 9th House: When Faith Becomes a Matter of Life and Death

While Sagittarius is the *sign* of belief systems and the quest for truth, the 9th House is the *House* of belief systems and the quest for truth. In your chart, Pluto – the planet of extremes – is in the 9th house. This mean 9th House issues of belief systems, spirituality, and faith took on Plutonian dimensions for you in your past lives. Put simply, what you believed – or refused to believe – was a matter of life and death for either yourself or others around you.

With your South Node in Sagittarius – the sign of belief systems – and Pluto in the 9th House – the House of belief systems, it’s safe to say the theme of belief systems has been a dominant one in your past lives. In my estimation your past lives included elements of fanaticism, nihilism, or religious/moral persecution. It is possible you have been on both ends of such persecution, possibly in the same life, possibly on the delivering end in one past life while on the receiving end in a different past life.

The Gifts of Pluto in the 9th House: Be the Philosopher, not the Moralizer

The good news is that Pluto in the 9th endows you with Plutonian gifts related to preaching, philosophy, and higher education. Anything involving questions relating to the “big picture” of why we’re here, what’s true, and what should we put our faith in is favored for you. So too are long-distance travels, particularly any embarked on as part of religious, philosophical, or educational pursuits.

You have the ability to be a powerful preacher, professor, or philosopher so long as you don’t fall prey to the darker expressions of the 9th House: cynicism, zealotry, and dogmatic belief systems. The key to using this placement is to go on knowledge crusades without become a crusader, work towards being a moral authority without become a moralizer.

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