A Nodal Shift Shift & What It Says About Trends
And what it means for the Pisces & Virgo parts of your chart
In this post we’ll cover:
The North & South Nodes — who are they?
What’s the North Node in Pisces about?
How will it impact you based on your chart
Trend prediction fun with the Nodes!
The North Node moved into Pisces and the South Node into Virgo on January 11, 2025. They’ll stay here until April 27, 2026.
This is a collective and personal journey we’re on, centered around the abrupt changes that occur in the eclipse cycle.
What are the Nodes?
The nodes are mathematical points where the moon’s path crosses with the ecliptic — not actual planetary bodies.
The signs the nodes are in determine when/where eclipses will take place.
The past couple of years we’ve been experiencing the eclipses on the North Node in Aries and the South Node in Libra (the nodes always move through the zodiac in a retrograde/backward motion), which no doubt brought some interesting changes to these areas of life for you and for the collective.
The North Node in Your Chart
In your natal chart, the North Node represents what you’re meant to learn in this life. It’s where your growth lies, it’s the muscles your soul wants to strengthen in this lifetime or a point of amplification or instability.
The South Node represents our default responses, programming, and early and/or past life baggage we’re carrying. It’s what we already know deeply and are also learning to let go of.
We’re meant to find the higher expressions of our South Node traits and innate skills and use them to help us on our path ahead.
The Current Transit
Nodal transits can represent larger scale events and trends that exemplify the themes of the signs the Nodes are in — like a collective pattern.
With the North Node in Pisces we can expect collective emphasis on themes of:
Interconnectedness
Dreams — both in a mundane way and ideals
Spirituality
Empathy
Creativity
Compassion
Intuition
Psychic Realm
Meaning Making Systems
The big picture
With the South Node in Virgo we can expect collective releasing of:
Perfectionism
Judgement
Over controlling
Wellness Purity Culture
Discernment (be careful with this one)
The details
We can see how this may impact us by identifying:
1. Where?
Which houses do Pisces and Virgo fall in in your natal chart?
Do you have any planets, luminaries, or points there?
The houses are areas of life, so this will give you a good clue about where you’ll be impacted.
Pisces and Virgo will appear in opposite houses in your chart. Here are the major themes by opposing houses:
1st House/7th House - Body, appearance, identity / partnerships, clients, adversaries
2nd House/8th House - Resources, values, income / Inheritance, shared resources, debt, death/rebirth
3rd House/9th House - Neighborhood, skills, siblings, communication / Travel, study, philosophy, spirituality
4th House/10th House - Home, family, heritage / Career, goals, reputation
5th House/11th House - Creativity, pleasure, children, fun / Community, hopes and dreams, friends
6th House/12th House - Health, routines, lifestyle, day-to-day work / Retreat, mental health, escape, psychic clairs
2. When?
Look back to:
9 years ago: When the NN was in Virgo and the SN was in Pisces — opposite from now, but highlighting the same areas of life.
Dates: November 13, 2015 - May 9, 201718 years ago: The last time the Nodes were in this same placement.
Dates: Jun 23, 2006 - December 18, 2007.September 17, 2024: Recall the lunar eclipse in Pisces around this time. This was the beginning of a cycle. Whatever was going on then might be a continued theme over the next year or so.
Ask yourself: What themes or major events can you see in connection to these time periods — especially in the areas of life that contain Pisces & Virgo?
The Trends Tho
Keep your antennae up for trends from ~2006 making a comeback. Revisit music, art, fashion, and media and see if it jogs anything in you. How was this collective energy expressing?
Because the Nodes are a collective point of what we put more and less emphasis on, they’re a great marker of trends.
And their ~18 year cycles can align very interestingly with trend cycles.
So we can kinda use the Nodes as trend predictors — both based on what happened the last time the Nodes were here and on the themes of the signs the Nodes are in.
In the past year and a half with the Nodes Aries/Libra, we saw some VERY Aries-coded (with a Libra SN undertone) trends like:
Cunty Country
Mob Wife
Joan of Arc Core
Old Money (Libra SN)
The rise in personal style content, generally
Pisces North Node / Virgo South Node coded trends on the horizon:
Based on the Pinterest’s 2025 Predictions
Fisherman aesthetic
Sea Witchery
Surreal Soiree
Castlecore
Aura-based Beauty
Chaos Gardening
Tell me: Based on what you know about Pisces, what are your trend predictions for the next year?
Well would you look at that. My sun and rising signs. That feels … slightly scary. But maybe I’m overthinking this. 😂 18 years ago we packed up our apartment and cats and drove across the country without a job or an apartment. And we stayed there for nearly a decade. That was a big change. I wonder what this season will hold for me. I scheduled a call with you Leah so we can nerd out about what’s coming up!
This will be so helpful to me in sifting through the fragments, thank you! Been having subconscious panic with my own North Node in Virgo & South Node Pisces (5th/11th house) 😅
Also will be interesting to reflect back on early adulthood in this era, as I turned 18 during the 2015-2017 period — already similar in that I first began study in 2017, & despite having medical related troubles affecting my post-grad in recent years, I’m finally in a better place to begin again with diligence this year🤍