Welcome, everyone. Today I would like to speak about the true or mean notes. There are two ways to measure the position of the note-axis of the moon. One is called the true note and the other one is called the mean notes. The first students are a little confused about this and usually follow whatever their teacher says. But I'd like to use this opportunity to understand where these measurements are coming from and why choose one over the other. And I will already say that my preference is for the true note.
So the notes are extremely important. They are important in astrology, but especially in evolutionary astrology because they are so central to understanding the soul journey. When we unpack the soul journey, we want to understand why we're here. What is this life about and particularly what is this incarnation about? And so when we measure the notes, we try to be as accurate as possible. And this also takes into consideration past lives.
So I want to just highlight that this material is taken from a whole immersion that I teach on the note-axis and on eclipses. Eclipses are immediately connected to the notes because eclipses are linear. It's full moon, new moons on the note. And so they need to be taught together. In this class, we cover the meaning of the notes in each sign and house. And then we go into understanding the past life periods that that relates to.
We focus on eclipses learning about the seros and metonic cycles. And then not only eclipses, but any planet in aspect to the notes is immediately affecting the trajectory of our soul journey. And it informs us very specifically about what this life is about, what are we here for, and what is the overall higher purpose. So it's a rich, rich archetype and symbolism that provides so much information. I mean, some astrologers only do readings focused on notes to tell you how much you can derive from that.
Now I just want to bring an example here. These are the two charts of two Dalai Lamas. One is the 11th Dalai Lama, Kedrup Jyatsuo, and the second one is the 12th, Trinli Jyatsuo. So currently the Dalai Lama is the 14th one. So these were his ancestors. And as tradition goes, it is recognized that each Dalai Lama is the reincarnation. And I just want to use this example very briefly just to give you how important the notes are.
So they both lived 18 years. They died young. And they are, you know, number 12 is allegedly the reincarnation of the 11th Dalai Lama. And you see they have the same. No laxas. Libra South node. And Aries North node. Not only that, but they both have Jupiter and conjunct the notes. And the first 11th Dalai Lama is on the South node. And Libra and the second one is on the North node.
And I've seen that through my study of reincarnation and astrology that it ought to be. Often occurs at the same planets are conjunct the nodes. And they may jump from South to North. So this is not completely, you know, out of character, so to speak. We track reincarnations through different charts. So there's not a lot of material available on that. This is part of my focus and specialty as an evolutionary astrologer.
There's a lot more to look at when we see these charts. But I just wanted to highlight the, you know, the most obvious thing to tell you how important this is. And obviously, Jupiter on the nodes has a lot to do with teachings and philosophy and knowledge. So that's true for any Jupiter. But when it's on the nodes, that is your sole purpose. You know, you are here to be a teacher.
And these two spiritual teachers are obviously embodying that Jupiter nodes quite graphically. I just want to side note that there's a lot of other things associated with Jupiter on the nodes and not every person with Jupiter on the nodes will be a spiritual teacher. So let's look at the cycles of the nodes. A full cycle is about 18.6 years.
So from one placement returning to the same placement, we experience our nodal return at 80 and a half years. That's when we finish high school. And depending on where you live in the world, whether you go then to college or whether you go traveling or whether you join the army or whether you get married, many, many different rights and rituals. But it's usually a very critical age and a right of passage, a milestone of some sort.
The reverse return, which means when the north node conjuncts the south, no one in the south, no one can judge on the north door. It happens at age 9.3, 9.5. And so every 9.5 years, you either have a reverse return or a full return. The nodes motion is retrograde. So that's their normal motion. They move from Taurus to Aries to Pisces and so forth.
What is a solar eclipse when a new moon is on either north or south node. And a lunar eclipse is when there's a full moon on the nodes. So let's look at this astronomically and graphically. What are the nodes? The purple circle is the path of the sun. And the horizontal circle is the path of the earth. And the yellow circle is the path of the moon. So most planets follow the path of the sun. Whether it's Mars or Mercury or whatnot, they follow the sun. But they move north and south of that line of the sun. So the moon follows the path of the sun, but with a variable of five degrees north and south. So you see the yellow line and you see this kind of discrepancy. But they meet twice. And these intersection points between the moon path and the sun path are the nodes. So you have the north node when it's north of the equator, the celestial equator, and the south node, the opposite, exact opposite point.
So these are basically the nodes are not a planet. They're a point of meeting between the sun, the moon, and the earth energy. And this is what we refer to them as a portal in their interpretation. There's something about the node points that refer to some access to spiritual energy. Now how do we know where the nodes are? And to know exactly where they are, we can measure that twice a month when the moon, which completes a whole cycle in a whole month, it comes at a point where it meets the ecliptic twice a month. So it's going to meet the north node and then two weeks later it's going to meet the south node. The sun could be anywhere. We're just talking about its path, not the actual sun. So when the orbits are intersecting, so you can kind of unpack this through this diagram. You see the sun is the black line, that's the sun path, and the moon goes five degrees north, then down, and it crosses, it meets here, the sun path, and then goes five degrees south, and so forth.
Now when the moon is on the sun path, it means that the moon conjuncts the north node. Then when the moon is at maximum distance from the sun, it squares the nodes. When it goes back, so that's, you know, first starting point, then one week later it's going to square. Second week later it's going to come back to the conjunction to the other nodes, and then one week later it's going to square the nodes from the south and position, five degrees south, and then back to conjunct the north node. So you see here a month in the moon cycle, a month roughly a month, it's about 29 points something days. So if we look at it over time, over a whole year, we see this onulating pattern around the sun, which obviously kind of reminds of this dragon serpentine mythology in Hindu astrology, and the northern north node. And the tail of the dragon as the south node, who and K2.
And interestingly, you know, speaking of onulation and dragons and snakes, interesting that the symbol of the nodes is right here. On the snake itself. So mean or true nodes. The mean position is basically saying, well, you know, these points of intersection are not planets. How do we know where the nodes are when the moon is not right on the ecliptic? We have two measurements a month. How do we really measure the rest of the everyday where the nodes are? And so there is a theory that developed, and I cannot tell you the historical facts, but there's a lot of debating of when it actually came to life. That says that there's an average motion that we're measuring over a year to determine what the nodal sequence will be, which means that this is a very even motion. It's an average motion. The mean nodes are an average motion. There's no perturbation. There's no change or mitigating influences.
Then you basically follow that mean motion over an extended period of time. The true node is a calculation that attempts to actually see where the nodes are at each moment. And that will take into consideration that it's not as evenly moving through the zodiac at the same pace the whole year. There are many variables. So let's examine that. First of all, I want to show you what, you know, from an astrological point of view, how this all looks like in charts. So we mentioned when the moon squares the nodes, it's going to be about five degrees north of south. So either, you know, the closing square or the opening square. Then those of you who listened to this video in 2024, January, were about to have a moon square the nodes. Not only that, it's going to be a new moon because the sun's going to be there as well, square the nodes. I'm going to come back to this chart because it's very important.
So this means that the moon is at the maximum distance from the intersection with the sun path. And this is how we see it in this table. That's how fast the moon is. But its latitude is 4.59. And it's not five because there are a few degrees here, discrepancy. So about five degrees south minus. Because why minus? Because it passed the south node. And it's going towards the north node. Once it's going to be on the north node, it's going to be at zero latitude. And when it's going to be in cancer, pass the north node. The second square is going to be plus five. So here we see it. This is the true node measured when the moon is on that position.
So when the moon is at zero latitude, oops, it's on the north node exactly to the minute. And so this again refers to this graphic. The moon is right on this point. Zero latitude means how far is it from the sun path. Now if I use the mean node, there's a small discrepancy. That same chart of the moon true node can jump the moon, same degree, same minute. But if we use the mean node, you see there's a discrepancy. There's a kind of half a degree off. So the moon is actually on the ecliptic. But the mean node doesn't reflect that because it's a little off. So that is something to pay attention to.
Now there's something more particular. And I believe in my understanding of eclipses, their meaning, that is really, really critical to understand. And that's what I'm getting at. So this is a whole period of time between January 1st and February 19, 2024. You see the position of the moon, the position of the sun, and the position of the nodes. So these are true nodes. And you see that from January until and of February mid-February 19, the nodes move about four degrees and 14 minutes. This includes the time where both the sun and the moon will square the nodes.
Now as the sun progresses forward, it gets closer and closer to the nodes. And we move into February 19 until April 8th. April 8th happens to be the time of the solar eclipse. And what do you notice is that as the sun gets closer and closer to the nodes, you know, the nodes are in Aries and the sun is progressing from Pisces to Aries and it's conjunct the north node on April 4th. And then both the sun and the moon conjunct the nodes on April 8th. So that's when the eclipse is when both sun and moon are on the nodes.
And what do you notice? You notice that this period of time as the sun gets closer to the nodes, the nodes, the true nodes freeze. This comes some kind of wobbling effect that makes them freeze on the same degree. So it basically stays on 15 degrees, Aries, 15, 30, 15, 40. They're about just a few minutes on and off and you see how, you know, they go direct and retrograde and direct and retrograde because they keep basically stationary on that degree. And if I look at that again from a larger distance here, I'm taking an period from March 10th, 2024 to April 28th, 2024.
And so during this period, we're going to have a lunar eclipse, a full moon on the nodes. It's going to happen at five, five Aries, five Aries, Libra, the moon's going to be in Libra, full moon, sun in Aries, close to the nodes. So the farther the Lunation is from the node, the less total the eclipse will be. So here the lunar eclipse happens 10 degrees away from the node, you know, five Aries, 15 Aries. So this means it's not going to be a total eclipse. This lunar eclipse is not torn.
Then on April 4th, the sun is exactly on the degree of the north node that 15 Aries. The moon's not there yet, so it's not an eclipse. And then the moon joins them on the 8th at 19 Aries, three degrees away from the nodes. And that means that eclipse is going to be total because it's pretty close to the nodes. And by the way, this eclipse will be crossing the United States from Texas to Maine. We'll show you a graph later.
Now this whole period of time where the sun is getting close to the nodes and then conjunct. And we have two eclipses. Then following that, the sun starts to move away in progress as faster into Aries and then Taurus. And you see that as the sun gains distance from the nodes, the node starts to move faster again. So they are not stationary anymore. And so into April, they're going to, into May, they're going to move fast again.
So here in January, in the space of a month and a half, they move four degrees retrograde from 21.1 Aries to 16:47 Aries. Whereas this month and a half from March 10 to March to April 28, they only moved 20 minutes, not even a fifth of a degree this whole period of time because the sun was there. And so this is what we call the eclipse season. And when I speak about the portal of the eclipse and I say something is happening that has a faded quality, eclipses are faded energy. It's when divine intervention comes in. It doesn't only happen during the day of the eclipse itself. It happens during the whole season, which as you can see is actually a six-week period.
And that degree of the nodes, the 15 degrees Aries, Libra becomes a vibrating degree. If you have a planet there, it's going to be super important. That planet is going to be activated in very high frequencies. So you're not only looking at the degree of the eclipses, which happens to be five Libra for the Libra eclipse, for the lunar eclipse or 19 Aries for the solar eclipse. You're also looking at the node degree 15 Aries. And that is only happening with the true nodes. If you compare this to the mean nodes, which doesn't take into consideration the perturbations, the changes of the sun coming close, it just follows the same motion.
You see that during this same period of time for March 10th to April 30th, the mean nodes move three degrees in 10 minutes. Compared to a fifth of a degree with the true nodes. And from the period from January 1st to February 19th, the mean nodes move two degrees 26 compared to the true nodes that move four degrees 14. So you see how the true nodes move much faster in January and much slower in March April. Whereas the mean node is like an even flow that doesn't take into consideration the eclipses.
Why is it other true nodes faster in January? Going back to this chart. We talked about eclipses when the sun and the moon are on the north node. But when the sun squares the nodes, it's called the midpoint of eclipses. Previous eclipses were in Libra in October 2023 and we had major events happening then. You don't need to remind you. So now this new moon happens to be the midpoint of eclipses because the sun will be exactly square the nodes. And that is when the nodes move the fastest.
So during the square to the sun, the nodes are full speed. During the conjunction to the sun, the true nodes freeze. And that's why you see this discrepancy here between the mean and the true node. During January, the true nodes are super fast for degrees for the same period that the mean nodes only move two degrees. And during the eclipses time, the true nodes barely move when the mean nodes stay on the same average time. Now this becomes critical when the nodes are changing signs. This is another issue that comes up between which one should we take into consideration.
The difference, otherwise between the mean and the north node, can be one, one and a half, two degrees difference. But when they change signs, especially if it's at a time when the sun square and the motion is really erratic, you're going to have different, angriest days. So coming up in 2025, the nodes are going to move from Aries to Pisces. The true nodes are going to move on January 11th to Pisces, whereas the mean nodes are going to move January 29th.
You know, that is a good 80 days difference. And so, you know, people born between January 11th to January 29th will have to really think hard what's no little measurement they want to use because it's a whole different ball game. You know, if you're born with an Aries north node or a Pisces north node. Honestly, I will tell you, when the nodes or any planet are right on those 29, 0, 29 degrees, there's usually an influence of both signs.
So truth be told, you know, if you're a zero Aries node or a 29 Pisces node, you feel the neighboring sign influence anyway. However, there is still a greater influence of the sign that it's actually in. You know, are you in Canada or are you in the United States? There is a boundary there. You know, you may feel close to Canada when you're on the border in Maine, but you're still in the States, right? So this is always the best way to measure, you know, how it works in real life is to test those nodes in the charts of people who have those changes and are born in these transition periods.
But I want to bring to your attention the importance of the true nodes because you cannot see those variables. If you'll use the mean nodes, you cannot see the change of speed. You cannot understand how important the relationship between the sun and the nodes are if you're not using true nodes and how the sun creates a whole eclipse season. So I wanted to show you how the eclipse actually looks. This is the lunar eclipse coming up on March 25th, 2024.
So you see the full moon in proximity to the nodes, 10 degrees away. He's too great a distance for a total eclipse. It's going to be a partial eclipse. And then the solar eclipse is happening on 19 Aries, three degrees away from the North node on April, 2024. So the important times to remember is when the sun squares the nodes and when the sun gets closer and closer to the nodes. And as it gets closer to the nodes, we enter eclipse season and the nodes are freezing.
We have lunar eclipse, solar eclipse, sun conjunction nodes. And when the sun starts to leave about 20 degrees away from the nodes, the nodes start to move again and gain traction again. So you may know that these coming eclipses are very important for the United States because this coming one coming up in April is this one that's going to cross the, from Texas to Maine, from through the Midwest of the United States. And the previous one in October was on the South node. It was an eclipse on the South node that crossed from Oregon to Texas. So you have a hot spot here in Austin, Texas, where these two eclipse paths are intersecting.
So this is not immediately related to true or mean, no, it's just a side node since we're talking about eclipses. I would like to refer you to these two videos from David Cochran on his YouTube channel, one of them called Cosmic Cybernetics Cosmobiology YouTube channel. And he has two videos about the updates on the measurement of the true nodes. And one of his statements is that now the true node can be calculated on a daily basis based on astronomical mathematical formulas, which I have not gotten into.
But basically what David is saying is that we are not only measuring the true nodes according to the twice monthly meeting with the moon on its, on its nodes, like this one, moon on the South, moon on the North. But there's actually a way to calculate where the nodes are at any time. And so that is in those, in those videos here that he has on YouTube. Once again, you want to study more about the nodes, about the meaning of eclipses, about seros, metonic, of the soul journey.
You can check my website under education, or you can email me and we'll take it from there. I'll direct you where to go and needless to say, this is some of the deepest, deepest knowledge. You know, it is soul knowledge. So I hope it inspires you and I hope it clarifies some confusion. Thank you for now. Until next time.