The enraged Mohini decapitated the demon, but having already sipped the elixir of immortality, instead of dying, he became two new beings his head, called Rahu (the North Node) and his tail, called Ketu (the South Node). As he sipped the divine amrita from Mohini’s cup, the Sun and the Moon saw through his disguise and cried out, exposing him as a demon. She began dispensing the nectar of immortality, intending to serve it only to the gods.Ī suspicious demon called Svarbhānu recognised the trick and slipped into the line of the gods between the Sun and the Moon. When the amrita finally emerged, the gods and demons lined up to receive the elixir from the supreme god Vishnu, who appeared to them as a beautiful maiden, Mohini. The story goes that, desiring immortality, the feuding gods and demons made a pact to combine their power to churn the primordial ocean and extract the life-giving nectar, amrita, from its depths. In India, the nodes are considered as significant as the seven visible planets and are envisioned as the head and torso of a demon. The nodes move mostly retrograde through the zodiac, in contrast to the typical forward motion of the planets, and always lie opposite to each other in the zodiac they represent a tension of duality that contrasts with the usual pattern of things.
These invisible but significant points have been calculated for centuries due to their importance in predicting eclipses. These nodes are a pair of celestial points where the paths of the Sun and Moon intersect.
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The north and south nodesĮclipses take place when a new or full moon occurs within 18 degrees of the north or south lunar node. Their transits are major crossroads moments that can dramatically alter the shape of your life. The sudden blockage of the light of the Sun or Moon, which were regarded as vital for life and harmony, was believed to interrupt the natural order.Įven today eclipses remain significant portents of change, catalysing insights and bringing to the surface underlying patterns and yearnings. To some, an eclipse was the playful chaos of a cosmic trickster. Some cultures perceived them as an existential threat, especially to power, others as a cosmic coupling in which the Sun and Moon would generate new stars. The stories of eclipses reveal their powerful effect on human consciousness across history. Learn where to go deep and what in your life will need rebalancing during the eclipses in Gemini and Sagittarius in 2021.įew spectacles in nature compare to the spectacular cosmic event of an eclipse.
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