North Node Calculator
Your North Node sign describes the direction your life is growing in: qualities that feel unfamiliar but rewarding. Your South Node sits in the opposite sign and describes what comes easily and can hold you back. Enter your birth date to find both.
Enter your birth date in the form on this page to cast your answer. The result appears on this page, and your birth details are remembered on this device so other tools can fill them in.
North Node in each sign
The North Node spends about eighteen months in a sign, so your birth date is enough.
North Node in Aries: Towards independence (South Node in Libra)
You are learning to act for yourself, make decisions alone and trust your own instincts. The familiar pull is to keep the peace and lean on partners. Growth comes when you put your own needs on the table and take the first step.
North Node in Taurus: Towards stability (South Node in Scorpio)
You are learning to build simple, steady security and to enjoy what you have. The familiar pull is towards crisis, intensity and other people's resources. Growth comes through patience, self-reliance and trusting calm.
North Node in Gemini: Towards curiosity (South Node in Sagittarius)
You are learning to listen, ask questions and stay with the facts. The familiar pull is to preach, generalise and already know. Growth comes through conversation, learning and staying open to other views.
North Node in Cancer: Towards home (South Node in Capricorn)
You are learning to put feelings and family first and to let others care for you. The familiar pull is towards control, work and status. Growth comes when you make room for vulnerability and a private life.
North Node in Leo: Towards self-expression (South Node in Aquarius)
You are learning to step forward, create and be seen as an individual. The familiar pull is to blend into the group and stay detached. Growth comes through play, creativity and letting your heart show.
North Node in Virgo: Towards practical service (South Node in Pisces)
You are learning to bring order, routine and useful skill to your life. The familiar pull is towards escape, drift and self-sacrifice. Growth comes through daily habits and helping in concrete ways.
North Node in Libra: Towards partnership (South Node in Aries)
You are learning cooperation, compromise and seeing others clearly. The familiar pull is to go it alone and put yourself first. Growth comes through real partnership and shared decisions.
North Node in Scorpio: Towards depth (South Node in Taurus)
You are learning to let go, share resources and accept change. The familiar pull is to hold on to comfort and what you own. Growth comes through honest intimacy and allowing transformation.
North Node in Sagittarius: Towards meaning (South Node in Gemini)
You are learning to trust your intuition and look for the bigger picture. The familiar pull is to gather information without deciding. Growth comes through travel, study and committing to a belief.
North Node in Capricorn: Towards responsibility (South Node in Cancer)
You are learning to take charge, set goals and step into public responsibility. The familiar pull is to stay in the safety of home and old feelings. Growth comes through ambition and becoming your own authority.
North Node in Aquarius: Towards community (South Node in Leo)
You are learning to work for the group and value other people's contribution. The familiar pull is to need the spotlight. Growth comes through friendship, shared causes and ideas bigger than yourself.
North Node in Pisces: Towards faith (South Node in Virgo)
You are learning to trust, let go of control and follow intuition. The familiar pull is towards worry, detail and fixing everything. Growth comes through compassion, creativity and surrender.
What your North Node sign tells you
The lunar nodes are not planets. They are the two points where the Moon's orbit crosses the Sun's apparent path, and eclipses happen near them. Astrology reads the North Node as where you are heading and the South Node as where you are coming from.
The nodes move backwards through the zodiac and take about eighteen months to cross a sign, so people born within the same year and a half share a nodal axis.
How this calculator works
Enter your birth date, and a time and place if you have them. The calculator casts the same chart as the full birth chart, from the Moshier ephemeris in the tropical zodiac, and reads the sign and degree of one point. The South Node is always exactly opposite the North Node.
Common questions
What is the South Node?
The point opposite the North Node. It describes familiar habits and strengths you can lean on too much.
Why does the North Node move backwards?
The Moon's orbit slowly turns, so the crossing points drift backwards through the zodiac, completing a circuit every 18.6 years.
Find yours
See your North Node with every other planet, its house and its aspects. Full birth chart
Ask about your nodes
The nodes are read with the house they fall in and the planets near them. Vera reads them in your whole chart. Ask Vera about my North Node