North Node in Virgo
The North Node in Virgo grows through useful, daily work. Dreaming and drifting come naturally, with the South Node in Pisces; the growth is in routine, good judgement and the pleasure of a task done well.
Your imagination is a whole country. You can lose an afternoon in it and come back with three songs, an idea for a novel and no idea what day it is.
The North Node stood in Virgo at your birth, with the South Node in Pisces. Pisces is your native water: compassion, intuition, a feeling for what nobody says. Virgo is the shore. It asks you to take what you feel and make it into something that helps on an ordinary morning.
Drifting
You give yourself away. You take on other people’s sadness, rescue those who are not asking to be rescued, and slip off into daydreams when life turns too sharp. It is kind, and it leaves you tired and vague about your own days.
Hands busy
Virgo grows through craft and order. A morning routine you keep. A skill practised until it is precise. Lists, calendars, a desk you can find things on. Service with a shape to it, where you can see the good it did by Friday.
Choose one small daily habit and keep it for a month without missing a day.
Compassion with a method
The tenderness stays, and now it has hands. People who come to you leave with comfort and with a plan, and you sleep better knowing you did one useful thing properly. Mercury rules Virgo; its sign in your chart shows the kind of work your mind enjoys.
Were you born with the North Node in Virgo?
The North Node comes to Virgo once every eighteen and a half years and stays about eighteen months.
The North Node’s every stay in Virgo from 1920 to 2030, from the minute it entered to the minute it left, in Universal Time (UTC). The node wobbles as it goes, so it can cross a sign’s edge more than once in a few weeks. Born on a first or last day? Then the hour decides it, and your chart settles it.
| Entered | Left |
|---|---|
| August 22, 1922, 11:08 p.m. | August 27, 1922, 12:31 p.m. |
| August 31, 1922, 5:54 a.m. | April 23, 1924, 12:31 a.m. |
| May 24, 1941, 7:54 a.m. | November 21, 1942, 6:15 a.m. |
| December 15, 1959, 5:37 p.m. | June 10, 1961, 8:27 p.m. |
| July 5, 1978, 10:39 a.m. | January 5, 1980, 5:12 p.m. |
| January 6, 1980, 11:38 p.m. | January 12, 1980, 7:10 p.m. |
| January 25, 1997, 12:43 a.m. | October 20, 1998, 6:16 a.m. |
| November 12, 2015, 1:03 a.m. | May 9, 2017, 6:27 p.m. |
Find your own North Node
Your chart is free and takes a moment: the wheel, your Sun, Moon and rising sign, every planet in its sign and house, and the North Node to the degree.