In the sky, Antares and Aldebaran are like the Primeval Psychopath and Enlightened Buddha respectively. Antares reminds Aldebaran that while he may be enlightened and at one with the universe, he is not God and Antares can still **** up his day. Conversely Aldebaran reminds Antares that he can live like a civilized being and still be happy.
Antares is the star of Uriel, one of the four Archangels who is described as being "as pitiless as a demon".
It is like Aldebaran has built up this perfect state of meditation, this perfect worldview and his monastery is working like a fine tuned clock and he's just about to achieve nirvana but coincidentally happens to be just a few miles north of the Great Wall and Genghis Khan just happens to be riding directly toward his precious little monastery.
When astrologers refer to Antares as the Anti-Ares it doesn't mean Antares is anti war as in a pacifist who will not fight. It means Antares has the gall to wage war on war. Antares is a ruthless conqueror, not a pacifist. He puts down dissent by force and imparts a will to fight just for the heck of it. Seeing other people having the privilege of conquering upsets Antares who believes that privilege belongs to them alone.
Where Ares encourages the clash of competition and strife, Antares wants to end it all. Think of World War 2 when the US dropped nukes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That was an Antares moment.
I think with your North Node on Antares and South Node on Aldebaran your soul has a desire to experience its primal, totally unenlightened side.
Reliable information on the fixed star Antares as well as hundreds of other fixed stars may be viewed at http://www.constellationsofwords.com/stars/Stars_alphabet.htmThis very interesting to know, fascinating post & thread! I have the Antares conjunct the Moon in Sagittarius 5th H. Unfortunately I can't find a lot of reliable sources online,or info on Moon/Antares (+point Vertex) interaction.
I have the energy of warrior in me, but will not fight for the shear sake of it. I am determined when I have a just cause, eg, I will fight for ecology, for the elderly in society, for the infirm, against injustice and corruption via corporations. In a way, it is my way of making peace, or balance, which is somewhat anti-Mars, using the energy of Mars. I guess I need a channel for my energy.
I do tooI think ppl with nodes on these degrees have a history and future of a warrior of some sort, perhaps not always in a physical way depending on the person.
I have the same placement of my nodal axis, I was born just a few weeks after you....
What the south node implies in conjunction with Aldebaran goes very well with the rest of the karmic aspects of my chart - and funnily enough was also confirmed by a past life revisit experience I had under hypnosis recently.
My 12th house is ruled by Mars which is in the 8th house. My south node is in the 1st house and my taurus ascendant is conjunct algol and them lot (which teaches us that if fixed stars descriptions were to be taken literal, I should be a serial killer or something....). I also have the asteroid Karma conjunct the South node. So there is an overall lone warrior or military theme with all the karmic aspects of my chart.
My past life revisit showed me a past life as some sort of female warrior princess and later chief. Nothing fancy or famous, just the chief of a small tribe in a setting that felt somewhat nordic or celtic. I was the first female to lead my tribe so it did have some revolutionary aspect to it. I felt a very strong emotional connection to what I "saw" and it shed some light on experiences I keep having in this life. I can only recommend this.....
Having said that - my North node in 7th constellation is giving me a hard time because I can't seem to shake off that lone warrior theme even now....
I have Moon conjunct Antares in the 12th -it doesn't get much more karmic than that!
In my previous life, I was a soldier who died a violent death in WWII.
This is a crazy star though. Antares is clearly associated with both benefic Jupiter and malefic Mars because the star is in Jupiter-ruled Sag. yet part of Mars-ruled Scorpius so that's why the meanings look like a hodge-podge description of both: Mars/Scorpio (death, power, violence, war, etc.) and Jupiter/Sag. (philosophy, fortune, etc.). It seems difficult to reconcile such contrasting qualities into a single influence, so I really don't know what to expect from this placement...
I do have a feeling of dread about it though, especially since T Saturn will be conjunct my Moon this December.
Janoe, interesting experience. Your north node is in the 7th? Mine is in the first house. Would you also then have Neptune conjunct North node, though I do consider the outer planets, not all people do.
For me, I've read that I influence myself more with that aspect. North node in 7th I've read that others influence you more.
For me, my path is very spiritual in nature, I'm learning more about listening to energies other than the material 'everyday' ones. I'm doing a shamanic journey course soon. Its a life long lesson to understand my intuition,but I have a lot of Pisces influence in my chart.
With the fixed stars, they are powerful stars. I have a first house 26 degree Sag Mars and I think with the stars conjunct nodes, it makes me kind of fearless when faced with injustice.Moreso as I get older and loose my inhibitions. I fight for the right of others, I stand up for those who are vulnerable (Venus/Merc in Aquarius), I put myself in quite challenging situations just so as I can learn and grow. People reading what I write sometimes think I'm a male, but I'm female with a warrior spirit, but I think that also comes from the Chiron aspects in my chart.
I love this. Some sites go ahead and tell you all the way you’re going to die with conjunctions to these stars without telling you any benefits as if we’re all not going to die some day. I’m good woth having a “sudden painful death” if I’ve achieved way more than most people. My name will never be forgotten and that’s okayKarmic implications of antares and aldebarren
There aren't any.
Jim