Here is what Allison Gunn writes on the lunar nodal axis in general.
"Wrestling the Dragon: The Meaning and Purpose of the Lunar Nodes"
"Here’s a secret about the nature of the Nodal axis, best illustrated by the transformation that takes place when the soul is ready to move into North Node behaviors: you become utterly exhausted by your old, worn out way of doing things, and you grow intensely weary of who you have become. You long to jettison the past, and move into new ways of being. You long for it like someone walking through the desert longs for water. It is at this point that you are ready to start doing things the North Node way."My natal chart shows Scorpio North Node in the 7th house (opposite Taurus in the first)
Allison Gunn:
"North Node in Scorpio in the 7th directs its energy to understand the self in relationship to others more intensely than with any other sign. Relationships are the focus of the lifetime, with the goal of understanding the self. However, there’s South Node in Taurus to take into account, and South Node in Taurus wants a lot for itself. This is, not to put to fine a point on it, a rather greedy South Node because it is so concerned with the needs of the flesh and/or the senses.
Conversely, Scorpio North Node, in its black or white way of being, can go either way; either the focus of the lifetime is all about the lower self, and fulfilling its immediate needs and wants (thereby losing the primary relationship it craves), or the native is capable of giving up almost anything to cleanse its spirit (or make its partner happy). Scorpio North Node in the 7th is capable of great self-sacrifice for her significant other, which is a necessary step to learning how to be fully present in one’s primary relationship.
Nonetheless, Taurus/Scorpio is always a rough nodal axis because the soul’s journey can’t bear the weight of lots of stuff. Any South Node in the 1st is going to have to do a lot of work on the self to learn how to let go of whatever it is this person feels the need to hold on to. Usually, the stuff it holds on to will damage the likelihood of having a viable relationship with someone he or she would like to be closer to. Scorpio North Node has the potential to give up everything, though, if it can pry Taurus South Node’s eager fingers off the bottle of booze or extra plate of potatoes or extramarital affairs he thinks he needs to survive.
Since Pluto and Mars are both considered rulers of Scorpio, how these two planets are aspected will matter tremendously to how the native conducts his relationships. Whereas Scorpio Sun (or other planets) is usually defined as “passionate” about his relationships, Scorpio North Node is in the process of learning how to relate deeply to one special person (or more than one, most likely—life is long, after all). The fact of any North Node experience is that we are in the process of learning how to “do” both the sign and the house; the rest of the chart will either support or challenge this process.
Taurus South Node holds you back from being fully conscious in your primary relationship when it is convinced it needs something that interferes with the needs of the other person. Taurus’ ruler, Venus, is the sybarite of the horoscope; the combination of Venus ruling the South Node in the 1st means that the native has very little interest in not feeling good (which can lead to irresponsible, self-indulgent, and even crude behavior). How badly do you want to keep your relationship intact? Some people will be forced to give up on you when it becomes clear your needs matter more than theirs; stubbornness can only get you so far.
Scorpio North Node is not an easy path to tread, though, because it requires something that not all charts support: an intense desire to connect with others that isn’t terribly polite. This is not Libra, after all. This individual’s need for his partner can be very raw and open, and can put others off if he’s unwilling (thanks to the South Node) to change. Keeping up with North Node in Scorpio can be difficult too, because the soul is driven to fully understand itself, and so will engage in psychoanalysis, or any other program (usually not aligned with organized religion) designed to figure himself out.
This can take years and a great deal of emotional angst, but South Node Taurus won’t let the native give up. Their process of deeply searching for self-knowledge could make the significant other wonder what happened to the good old simple days when they just had fun, though. This nodal axis should be very careful not to overdo stressing their significant other with their process of self-understanding. Not everyone has your stamina."
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