North Node in the 2nd House - South Node in the 8th House
The individual with these nodes spends a good amount of his current-life energies on the darker side of life. From past incarnations he has secrets which he now spends most of his time guarding carefully. His greatest difficulty is in attempting to lead a life which is beyond reproach for his lower self is powerfully strong.
He desires light, but with every step he takes toward it the aching of his guilt-ridden subconscious blocks the road.
He has had much prior-life experience behind closed doors, where the eyes of open society failed to look. He is even accustomed to creating deceitful circumstances where there were none before.
Actually, he is testing the limits of other people's values, and while many may know him closely, none will know him well.
Inside, he is highly nervous for fear of others unlocking his secret doors; for well he knows that he is undermining nearly everything he touches. Yet he has the self-assuredness to believe that all will go well no matter where his sometimes immoral adventures continue to head him.
Because this individual has not yet established his own sense of values, he tries desperately to study the values of others. In so doing, he inadvertently pushes others off their track and therefore can be a threat to all that others hold near and dear. In former incarnations he destroyed much of his own value systems, so now he finds it difficult to understand why others cherish the things they do. He doesn't have his own stake in this life, so with nothing to lose he feels free to claim-jump the stakes of others. Usually, this is accomplished in such subtle fashion that it is extremely difficult to recognize.
There is also strong past-life residue of sexual misuse. He has learned to think of his sexuality as his strength, using it as foothold to gain possession of others. In the female, this is the story of Delilah or Mata Hari, whose unusual sexual powers lured the strongest of men from their appointed missions. In the male, much of the life energy is dissipated on sexual thoughts. He doesn't use it for power in the same sense as the female, but it is for him the reassurance that all is going well with his ego.
The interesting thing is that sex is never the end but always the means. In the give and take barter system, sexual allure or responsiveness becomes the payment in exchange for another's values.
Individuals with these Nodes become jealous easily. Constantly they wish to trade places with whoever seems to have a greener backyard, and all too often they feel that sex is a fair price to pay for all the honors they may eventually receive.
From past incarnations, this individual feels shunned by society. Now, on the outskirts of acceptance, he is like a little lost child in the winter snow, peeking into the window of a brightly lit cabin with the hope that somebody will come and let him in out of the night.
He is less than discriminating, for he desires such an immediate release from his current pain that it hardly matters to him whether he is jumping from the frying pan into the fire.
He turns wherever solace is available for his loyalties have not yet reached the state of evolution that they may be considered totally trustworthy.
In his current-life childhood, he experiences fear of death, almost as if death itself would be the logical punishment for all his misdeeds in past incarnations.
He keeps feeling that he has to fight for the things he needs, for he has no sense of having yet earned them. When he falls short of reaching the brighter side of life, he secretly blames others for his misfortunes.
In a few rare cases this individual must overcome past life criminal tendencies or residue of witchcraft. Only through a proper assessment of his second house North Node can he establish the substance that will lead to a new rebirth.
Here the memory of past lives has to be brought to the surface and then eliminated completely in this eight house of death before the soul can progress into a new set of values.
The individual must learn to develop and build that which is sincerely meaningful to him, understanding clearly that that which is dishonorably obtained is highly difficult to preserve. He cannot expect to grow through other people's efforts for if he wishes to cross the bridge, he must pay the toll out of his own pocket.
As soon as he grows to this realization, the lighted cabin door swings open for him; not through the goodness of others, but because he has earned it.
The sign which contains the South Node indicates the ways in which former incarnations have brought the individual to be preoccupied with the business of others.
The sign which contains the North Node shows the ways in which he can now build a substantially new and meaningful life for himself by establishing his own value systems.
Reference: Karmic Astrology, Martin Schulman, Volume 1, 1975.