®	ANITA DOYLE, EVOLUTIONARY ASTROLOGER Integral BEING.org

Tips for eliciting the evolutionary story from the nodal axis:

1. What is the shared goal of the particular signs involved in the nodal axis?

2. What is the basic tension between them?

3. What are the strengths of the sign containing the South Node?

4. What are some of the pitfalls of the sign containing the South Node that might need balancing in this life?

5. What is the basic tension between the houses in which the nodes the nodes fall?

6. Now imagine the potentials pitfalls of the south node sign in the south node house --- what could that look like?

7. Is there a planet conjunct the south node? Consider that a prominent feature of the personality of the past. (It's helpful to think of the south node as the person's Sun in the past; thus, a planet conjunct that is a powerful modifier.)

8. Anything conjunct the north node? A planet conjunct the north node would be an indicator of a person or circumstances that opposed or somehow blocked the person in the past (since it's opposed the south node).

9. What planet rules the sign of the south node? Where is that planet (sign and house)? This gives you more important information about the past personality and behavior.

10. Is there anything square the nodes? Think of a planet squaring the nodes as a "skipped step" in the evolutionary process -- something the person will be forced to deal with in this life. It may represent a person, circumstance or ideology from the past that persists as an unresolved dilemma.

11. Where is the planet that rules the north node, by house and sign? This gives us information about how the north node should ideally express itself. What circumstances can you imagine would link the north node house and sign with the house and sign of the planet that rules the north node?