Nodal Return #2

The direction set the first time comes up for review. The career drifted into and the relationship kept alive by excuses both cost more to hold than to change. Do the arithmetic first: what another ten years here costs.

In detail

Nodal Return #2: the direction axis finishes a second circuit of roughly 18.6 years back onto the birth position, landing between about 36 and 38. The first return near 19 opened a direction; this one audits it, asking whether the years since actually moved things toward the north node or slid back into south node habit. The nodes move retrograde about 3 arcminutes a day, so a 3-degree orb runs roughly four months. Compared with the return at 56, where little but consolidation remains, a correction here is still affordable and still has enough road left to pay off.

FAQ

What age is the second nodal return?

Between roughly 36 and 38, about nineteen years after the first. It is the one pass of the three where a correction is still affordable and enough road remains for it to pay off.

What exactly gets audited in this pass?

Whether the direction opened at the first return was actually walked. The question is whether the years since pushed toward the growth edge or slid back into the route that was familiar from childhood.