Nexus,
After I read your Article (a few times), I got to thinking about my own nodes.I'm aware from Horary how important they can be, and I understand that one is meant to interpret them very specifically in horary. Its a bit different to Natal.
I have my N node in Cap. in H1. So I decided to do some research.
Firstly, I looked at *the big Events* in my life. (Fortunately, I have been into astrology for a long time and my virgo moon has resulted in good record keeping with accurate times for most of the big events in my life -so far), so have plenty of *material*.
When I looked at Events: such as the death of my firstborn,death of my father, step-father, grandmother,some crucial days involving health, accidents etc...you get the idea..I could not see any action around my nodes.I expected to,as some of these events certainly had a karmic flavour to them.I'd be very interested to hear about others' experiences of nodal transits at crucial times.
I then looked at the relationships between my nodes (both of them) and planets/points in charts of significant others in my life. I see there, my daughter's dad has his natal sun in my h7 exactly conjunct my *south node*, so opposite my north node. Our *relationship* certainly seems to have been *fated/destined* in some way.
My son's father, has his natal north node conjunct mine.
My *best friend* has her north node trine to my venus-exact.
My daughter's jupiter is exactly conjunct my south node.My son's ascendant conjuncts my north node...My teacher/mentor in life has his jupiter conjunct my south node.
So I am tending to agree with you that in natal, it is not a case of one node being *good* and the other *bad*, but that certain contacts we make which seem *fated/destined* connect to one end of the nodal axis or the other.Maybe this will tell us something about the *nature* of the karmic event we are experiencing, for example whether it relates to our past or to our future, what we will take with us, what we will leave behind us...in this life (and/or the next.depending on what one believes).
I also have a friend whose north node is connected by squares and oppositions involving 5 planets as well. His life seems *thwarted*, but he did once remark that he felt like *the odds were stacked against him*. Chart-wise that appeared to be the case.I was struck by the amount of nodal involvement there.
What are your experiences, folks, with nodes in your charts and significant others'? I'd be interested to hear.
Cheers, Lillyjgc