The Nodes represent the past life’s effect on the current lifetime. (If you don’t believe reincarnation, think DNA or early family nurturing.) The South Node represents the past residue of some emotional issue not resolved in one or more past lives. The North Node represents the theme during this lifetime, as well as the way of “curing” the dis-ease of the unresolved south node. As Astrologer Michael Lutin said, if the south node represents the bottle for a drunk, the nort