Here, we are talking about the overall energies when the axis of the lunar nodes lies in Scorpio/Taurus or in the 8th/2nd houses, which absolutely need to be nuanced based on your birth chart and its various karmic factors; see also the article on the general interpretation of the Lunar nodes.
They represent a karmic axis of the highest importance, linked directly to your triangle of incarnation, and they symbolize both the innate, fundamental parts of yourself that you have mastered (the south node in the 2nd House / Taurus) and the pathway of your development during this incarnation (the north node in the 8th House / Scorpio).
They stay in each axis of signs for about one and a half years, which is what gives them their more general, “generational” archetypal colors; their positions in houses are more meaningful in terms of giving depth to your personality, and this is what should be analyzed as a matter of priority, while the analysis of signs will clarify their mode of action.
Rediscover the True Value of Capital
The axis of the south node in Scorpio / the north node in Taurus or of the south node in the 8th house / the north node in the 2nd house is the axis of possessions; here, it requires that people with this positioning work on forces that allow them to give themselves a better sense of security, reassure themselves, and achieve stability, durability, and reliability, and in doing so it may require that they carefully look back at their sense of values and priorities, as well as at the way in which they get attached to things and people.
This axis may greatly accentuate a “crisis of values,” as the foundations of this highly Plutonian south node may for example evoke a very “scorched-earth” or nihilistic character who has a harder time acknowledging “their bases” and “settling down.”
Perhaps this is because they have been frequently confronted with losses, frustrations, notions of instability, or even significant “socialization” of their property, possessions, and values at the expense of the notion of privacy, which tends to blur their inner boundaries that would allow them to define their own qualities and their own ways of asserting these qualities so as to be fairly rewarded for them: this whole pathway in a way has to be relearned during this incarnation!
It is important to relearn the notion of trust here, but not so much in the sense of trusting purely in oneself or in others, as may have been the case with the lunar nodes in the axis of Libra/Aries or 7/1, but more in the sense of a notion of trusting “in providence” and in what we could call the natural balance of forces and of the world.
And this is not a natural, spontaneous schema, since we know that Scorpio can be very acidic, corrosive, and violent, including internally (with self-destruction), and should these people have had “negative” prior experiences, they will have been quick to draw from it a life lesson or a rule about how to function generally, which leads them to consider only the extremes: “if losses and destruction are the rule, then why try to build something? I may as well swim in the middle of this maelstrom, at the whims of the currents, without trying to build or stabilize anything!”
This of course is at its roots a “defense mechanism” that would be tempting to fall back onto regularly, as the foundations of the south node may lead these people to often believe that if they do not get truly attached and do not truly build anything, then they never lose anything either… QED
But of course, human life being what it is, this is nothing but a partial, hybrid, momentary solution that can never last forever, and these people always find powerful counter-examples that shatter these sorts of rules and ways of thinking!
The problem is that, in spite of all that, we are also in the fixed cross of signs here! By its very nature, this cross is connected “to attachments,” feelings of possession, and the need to feel mutual belonging.
And the two sides of this axis, Scorpio just as much as Taurus, may in fact be very extreme in this way! And very excessive!
Everything is black and white, either all attachment or all detachment/destruction.
Often, behind the Scorpio archetype, which seems rather “hard,” is actually hiding hypersensitivity, and the hardness only comes from the creation of a thick protective shell (with barbs on it for good measure, so as to have peace and quiet and not be bothered by other people 🙂 ), with all of this at least allowing these people to find their balance for a moment.
But on the other hand we have Venus, which is the karmic ruler of the north node and which gives these people a glimpse—a glimmer, we could say—of other possible realities, such as a reality built from sincere, lasting attachments, a more carpe diem vision of the world allowing them to take advantage of life and of the senses, or a situation in which “accumulation” is not only possible but also productive and desirable!
In some ways, there is really a divide between these forces, which requires a paradigm shift: this is a question of managing to build our own secure foundations and thus move on from a more chaotic, anarchic state to a state of structure, durability, and fulfillment.
It is within all of this that a “crisis of values” has to take place, as the Taurus archetype truly represents the ability to “secure our environment” and the way in which we value things and people to make this happen, including ourselves! And within this schema, “work” is actually seen as an extension of our own worth, that is, a way of expressing it, getting recognition for it, and taking advantage of it.
But there may therefore be various “complexes,” which may be conscious or unconscious to varying degrees, tied to the creation of wealth or its upkeep; money may for example be seen as “dirty,” harmful, bad, and immoral to begin with, which can lead to more difficulty in seeing the logic of the “equivalence” that it represents in social and economic structures in human society.
It will of course be important in this case to “make peace” with this system in various ways, for example by understanding the different possible expressions of “value,” as well as by not being afraid of reaping the fruits of the system, if applicable.
The notion of “equivalence” may be rather touchy with this schema. Since people with this positioning already have trouble seeing their own intrinsic value, it may be useful for them to move through various “mediations” in their mind and spirit, for example by better understanding the deeper meaning of the “value/time” equation (of which money is fundamentally naught but a materialization) or by putting things in perspective relative to that which is greater, more transcendent, and more “absolute,” especially if the transpersonal energies lend themselves to this, of course: providence that generously provides for the righteous, charity, devotion, giving, vows of poverty, etc., etc.
Notably, among the famous people who had this position we can see the materialist, economist philosopher Karl Marx, who is very emblematic of all of these points and who, in his major visionary work, “Capital,” formed theories of reasoning involving the equivalence of work, money, time, and the social classes that are the result of this, which served for more than a century as the basis for Marxism, communism, and various policies or doctrines on the “social left.”
When looked at from this perspective, Taurus may very well analogically symbolize “capitalism,” which thus represents the axis of basic development of the north node, an understanding of the point of having an economic structure, and the cumulative leverage that we can gain if “savings” are used well; symbolically, “the power of capital” can be discovered here.
This may occur simply in a practical way, through managing in life to become a homeowner, settle down in a little, homey place, save some money to pass on so as to give our loved ones some security (the notion of perpetuation is also connected to the creation of security), put down roots in the earth with a family, become attached in a healthy way, without possessiveness, jealousy, desire, or destruction, have possessions that mostly allow for emancipation in various forms, and persevere in this direction, even if this inherently cannot be fully accomplished or understood until an age of greater maturity has been reached in life.
Celebrities with lunar nodes in the direction South Node 8th House => North Node 2nd House
Karl Marx, Napoleon I, Carl Gustav Jung, Helena Blavatsky, Madonna, Elvis Presley, Brigitte Bardot, Robert De Niro, Mohamed Ali, Frederic Chopin, Walt Disney, Louis XIV, Dostoyevsky, Pablo Escobar, Muammar Gaddafi…
Celebrities with lunar nodes in the direction South Node Scorpio => North Node Taurus
Martin Luther King, Kurt Cobain, Mother Teresa, Grace Kelly, Pamela Anderson, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Clint Eastwood, Gerard Depardieu, Mike Tyson, Salma Hayek, Stephen King, Jason Statham, Vin Diesel, Janet Jackson, Steve McQueen…
This article perfectly describes my husband’s life! It’s as if you were describing his past and present.
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