North Node in Sagittarius/South Node in Gemini - The keyword here is promise. For lifetimes this individual has enmeshed himself in dualities, resulting in indecision. He has tried to be all things to all people and as a result has made himself attuned to superficiality. Now he has strong karmic lessons to learn in areas of loyalty and allegiance. Eventually he will come to see that by playing both sides against the middle he can only hope to make himself the center of the sandwich, caught in the squeeze. Nevertheless he retains a past-life fear of committing himself fully to either side for at least on the superficial, he seed truth and right in both. He still believes that a definite commitment to one side would leave him with the feeling of missing the opportunity inherent in the other. This ability to remain uncommitted enables him constantly to adjust himself to fit the needs of the moment. Like the chameleon his colors change with his surroundings. In past incarnations he was not too discriminating, knowing that it really didn’t matter where he gave his affiliations since he never gave his complete self anyway. Now he swings like a pendulum in the breeze, open to ride if but for a brief time only on the winning wind. He purposely makes himself the pawn of others and, even if only for the moment, seems to agree with them so he can temporarily feel accepted and a part of something. Through many lives his sense of self-identity has become not merely a single division but filled with all the questions of everybody he was in contact with. Since so many people have formed the building blocks of this inner self, it is impossible for him to be anything but a hypocrite! When he speaks his facial expression as well as his body language will change from sentence to sentence, taking on the appearance of the person whose words he is now trying to pass off as his own. In fact, when he makes a definite positive statement, his eyes will always examine the recipient to see if it was received as truth. If not, then it doesn’t matter for he will now start talking incessantly, trying one collected statement after another on for size in the hope that somewhere in his collection of information a few words might be worthwhile. He loves activity, and when circumstances make him feel cooped up or bogged down he becomes highly nervous and restless. Always over-programmed, he struggles to keep up with the myriad of details and people that fill his life. He has so much to do and yet at the end of each day feels distracted from his purpose. In past incarnations he never developed a long attention span. As a result, he spends much of this life constantly changing his mind about everything. At one point, he will go through conflict over whether to live in a large city or in the country. The conflict is really between the continuation of his past-life need to be with people and his present-life desire to be away from them. Direction does not come at an early age. More often than not, it comes through the aid of parents or an older person who sets him on his course. This occurs usually after age twenty-eight. Underneath it all he is unsteady; he has been so busy seeing the shades of gray in everything that he has difficulty seeing the light of truth in himself. For this individual, life’s biggest task involves a quest for higher knowledge.

Through the Sagittarius North Node he must learn that in order for man to be capable of seeing the truth, he must first be the truth! He will go far if he teaches himself to speak from his higher mind for the esoteric meaning of all he says will ultimately show him his real identity. When he start to mesh with Transcendental Thought, he will begin to reach a spiritual union within himself. First he must work through his karma of perpetuating trivia and come to see that participating in gossip is the greatest sin against liberty. Then he must turn his back on all the past-life residue of pretend sophistication and reach for all that is real and natural. Ultimately, he comes to see that although a coin has two sides, it’s still one coin! When he develops this perspective of vision, he will be able to transform the knowledge he has acquired into Divine Wisdom.

The house position of the South Node shows the area where past incarnation personality conflicts still plague the lower mind. The house position of the North Node shows the ways in which a Higher Consciousness can be developed into a vehicle which enables him to rise above all conflict. His present-life evolution will free him from the bondage of indecision and in its place give him glimpses of Universal Truth.

from: Schulman, Martin, Karmic Astrology - Volume 1, 1975, Samuel Weiser, Inc., New York

North Node in the 8th House/South Node in the 2nd House -- Here the individual is confronted with a powerful battle inside himself on the most basic of levels. His karma is to overcome the extreme possessiveness of past incarnations. Until he deals with this, he has difficulty finding meaning in anything he cannot personally own. He is jealous of the possessions of others, desiring strongly to have all that his eyes behold. In some individuals this builds up to an insatiable lust for possession. In this respect there is such a strong determination that little can sway him from pursuing his desires. Nearly always his life is based around the sexual force, and it is nearly certain that the sense of sexual understanding is highly perverted. There is usually something animalistic about the nature. Whether open or concealed there is a lack of response to the civilizing effects of society. In his past lives the individual did not fully understand the importance of other people's values but continued to go his own way, unaware of how he affected others. His soul has built a need system so great that no matter how much he is fulfilled, his greatest needs always seem to be just beyond his reach. He is like the proverbial donkey following a carrot strapped to his head, but rarely does he understand that he is the one who put it there. Those near him would give him the Moon if it would make him happy, but they know as well as he does that it would be only a momentary toy ultimately to be discarded and replaced by another need. It seems to be the quantity of quality that he desires, which is to say that he feels he must have it all! A bundle of excess in all directions, he finds it difficult to change his ways even after the realization that he is headed down a path of disaster. He pushes each crossroad to such extreme excess that when he does discover his errors, he is so far beyond the point of departure that he finds it impossible to see his way back. And so he continues further along a path he knows is wrong because it is the only road his eyes can see. In some cases he goes to such extremes that he may run into trouble with the law, but long after he sees his error he still keeps trying to convince others that he is right. More than one with any other Nodal position this individual must learn self-control for without discipline he can too easily allow his past incarnation habits of self-indulgence to make a shambles of his current life. Some with these Nodes experience an infirmity which brings them so close to death that their eyes open to a new appreciation of life. Others go through extremely trying sexual episodes so that they may start to be more clinical about their behavior. But always the karmic lesson is the same. The individual pushes himself so hard that he ultimately destroys all ground he has gained. Through a symbolic death of excessive behavior patterns he may ultimately experience a new birth. The past life residue presents too many physical and material concerns. The main growth in the current life is based on the individual's ability to ferret from out of the depths of his being the strength for a rebirth. He often displays an interest in the occult through which he ultimately gains information needed to achieve his regenerative transformation. Whatever he chooses to do there is always chaos in it for he is an extremist. And yet the combined karmic residue of stubbornness and laziness keeps stalling his rebirth. His soul wants to transform, but he has difficulty finding enough energy to do it. The hardest thing for him is to learn how to walk with no footsteps for he so desperately wants to be impressive that he keeps making his own life heavier. Relationships are extremely important to him. From prior incarnations he has developed the habit of seeing the world as a social caste system and within this framework keeps struggling for status, always believing that some people are more privileged than others.

Through his eighth house North Node he must symbolically kill this past-life value system and go through the permanent metamorphosis which will eventually attune him to the values of others. He has much to learn from those close to him as soon as he starts to listen. Most of his sexual thoughts come from a deep-seated desire to kill the physical plane. They lead him on a path of ultimate disgust with himself as well as with the physical and material life he has led for so long. Through open or secret lust as well as jealousies in money or business affairs he keeps spiraling his life to a point of no return. Once he reaches this, he will begin to be accepted through other people's value systems in order to find his way back. But he will be confronted with test of having to give up all that he has ever thought important, almost as if he is being asked to step to the back of the line and wait his turn. Each time a new and finer value is imposed on him, he must learn how to eliminate all in himself that blocks its acceptance. He will start his new life from the bottom of the ladder, where because of the slowness of his ascent he will treasure deeply every inch of ground he gains. Truly these Nodes indicate a difficult life, but only because the ingrained attitudes of past incarnations are so fixed on having their own way. Until the transition is complete he can expect his current life to be one financial tug of war after another. He must learn the karmic lesson that possessions are for the purpose of use and that is not necessary to own more than what is ultimately useful. When he overcomes the tendency to allow his life's energies to dissipate themselves, he can become a veritable dynamo in the business world. Still he must never forget that he is the type that must burn his bridges behind him as a protection against slipping backward to levels he has struggled to pass through. He must understand the biblical story of Lot, who when he was finally redeemed from Sodom and Gomorrha was asked to leave the city, take no possessions and under no circumstances look back. The eighth house North Node can regenerate or degenerate the individual. It is up to the strength of his own faith. To reach heaven this Nodal position must walk through hell first, and there from the very bowels of the earth make the realization that God will hear his faintest cry for help as soon as he sincerely promises not to "look back."

The sign which contains the South Node shows the type of past-life value system that must be regenerated. The sign which contains the North Node shows the ways in which the rebirth will be accomplished.

from: Schulman, Martin, Karmic Astrology - Volume 1, 1975, Samuel Weiser, Inc., New York