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 5th House/South Node in the 11th House -- Here the individual is learning about the Creative Process. He spends much time in the clouds, hitching his wagon to some distant dream or pondering through his vast multitude of fantastic ideas. In past incarnations he lived for the fulfillment of wishes. Now his gossamer world of wispy dreams is so ornamented with the accumulated fragrance of promise that it takes a great deal of realistic prodding to shake him loose. From a young age he has learned to become a "people-watcher," spending most of his conscious hours pondering the possibilities of other people's actions. As a result of prior lives, he has learned to become highly imaginative and inventive: at times he is even ingenious, but he is used to spending most of his mental powers working out the intricate plots of his fantastic daydreams. He never ceases to amaze himself at the oddities he can conjure up within his own mind, but for all his ingenuity he is one of the least practical people of the zodiac. He is always deeply enmeshed in thought. What he is really doing is seeking symbols which will provide new material for future dreams. His karma is to learn the importance of dreams, inasmuch as how they explain his life. Ultimately he comes to realize that his entire existence has consisted of acting out his dreams, to the point that he has become the puppet of his own fantasies. When he does come down to earth, his first instinct is to reach for friends who in either appearance or behavior remind him of the characters of his wispy fantasyland. His mind is constantly drifting off into the distant future, and there, in the science fiction of a century as yet unlived, he indulges himself in the intriguing fascination of the remotest possibilities which would otherwise have little or no bearing on his current life. Still he like to ponder. He thinks much about the value of his work as well as of the effects of his childhood, both of which he blames for his difficulties in coping with his sex urges. The truth is that neither his work nor his parents nor even his sex urges truly bother him, but instead his frustration arises from the gap he sees between the reality of his past-life dream world and the sharp awakening circumstances through whose boundaries and limitations his current life is actually lived. He finds it difficult to understand why there is a barrier between dreams and actions and as a result he spends much effort trying to break through the walls of limitation that separate one world from the other. But all the while he is dissipating his strength, and the more he does this, the less able he is to create his own life.

He must realize that through his fifth house North Node he is now given the greatest gift that man can receive - the power to create his own destiny. By studying the process of creation, he can become aware that it is his own thoughts that have caused all the circumstances that he deems real in his life. He must then go further to understand the link between his thought and his dreams, for truly it is his life of dreams that in greater measure than he thinks is creating his life on earth. He must learn to be responsible about his dreams and careful of what he wishes for since he, more than one with any other Nodal position in the zodiac, will actually see his dreams materialize. But always the physical effect of each dream comes with a slight twist; enough to make him aware of the danger of creating selfishly. This individual will have to live his dreams long after he remembers the reasons for them. It is a strong part of his continuing karma to understand "wish power," and how better can he understand it than by living through the consequences of all his wishes. Thus, his life is both a blessing and a curse for each time he rubs Aladdin's lamp his soul will either move higher on the wings of spirit or sink miserably in the depths of his own private hell. He is learning that the dreams of his eleventh house South Node are under the rulership of Aquarius where they must be dedicated towards a service for humanity and that the more he wishes for others the more he will ultimately have for himself. But when he reverses this process his life becomes a veritable shambles. If he chooses to create, he faces the unfortunate results of misusing a sacred gift for his dreams ultimately will become so jaded as to be utterly worthless insofar as they are able to bring him happiness. Unless these Nodes fall in water and earth signs they can cause difficulty in relationships and marriage due to so much past-life residue of non-attachment. Major turning points in the current life revolve around children, through whose eyes the individual comes to understand his own sense of self-worth. He observes how children put their dreams in to action and soon comes to realize that instead of making his dreams the plans for his future he actually has been allowing them to block every present moment. Once he sees his dreams as a well with no bottom, he is able to let go of the castles in the sky and focus his attention on whatever he is creating in the present. To do this he even reaches the point of becoming aware of how he allows his great need for friendships to dissipate his creative energies. More than anything else he desires to be a doer, but it is only after he gives up every personal dream that he can become strong enough to take the building blocks of his life and put them together. He must literally take the bull by the horns instead of allowing himself to be led through the gossamer Cinderella world his soul remembers. To accomplish this he would do well to spend much of his time learning self-discipline for only through the ability to guide himself will he ultimately be able to surface from the deep waters in which for lifetimes he has submerged his hopes and his dreams. Some highly evolved souls with these Nodes have experienced Cosmic Consciousness in a former life. Now through their fifth house North Node they are here to bring this awareness to the children of the earth.

The sign which contains the South Node shows the ways in which past-life dreams continue into this incarnation. The sign which contain the North Node indicates how the individual can constructively apply his dreams to reality through expressing creatively all he feels inside..

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