As you will hear, if you make it to the end, perhaps today's very best Valentine's Day gift to your love is to release some of your crap! Why? It's called the "Bending of the Nodes" and it's a very powerful aspect that is worth discussion today. Happy Valentine's Day & I love you for listening!! Feb 14 Transcription [00:00:00] Happy Valentine's day. I love you. I love you for listening. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. And it is February 14 2020. And we have a Valentine's chart that I've been just looking at for most of yesterday, and I'm still like, okay, Thomas, you got to do the podcast, so let's just roll with what's there. [00:00:31] Those of you who caught last Friday's episode, if you remember, I said that the moon was trying Venus and that it looked like it almost was a better Valentine's astrological chart than what this one was going to be. And for those of you who might have taken advantage of that and done something with your special love on last Friday. [00:00:53] You might've been a winner because the more I'm looking at this chart, the more I'm just agreeing with myself that, wow, this thing is a difficult chart for Valentine's day, especially when it comes to the topic of love. So I thought what we would do is pick apart why. And with this, we're going to go on somewhat of a deep dive into astrology because there's this concept that most astrologers just don't talk about. [00:01:20] And what it is, and this is exactly where Venus is today. I'm sorry, I, you know, as they say, I can't make this stuff up. This is where, this is where it fell. Venus is in Aries at seven degrees. Now, right there, and we've talked about this. Venus is in detriment in Aries because Libra is the opposite sign on the chart from Aries. [00:01:47] And Venus rules Libra. Therefore, when it comes over all the way around the chart to that's opposite. It ain't happy. So mama ain't happy. Number one. Number two, [00:02:00] the North and South nodes of the moon are at seven degrees, cancer and Capricorn respectively. Seven, seven, seven. Okay, so Venus is at an exact square to the nodes of the moon. [00:02:16] And this is what I don't hear a lot of people talking about is called, technically it's called the bend of the nodes or the bending of the nodes and what you do. So here's an astrology thing that if even if you have not used this technique in your own practice of astrology or your own observations of astrology, it's one worth noting. [00:02:38] There are only a couple of articles about it. astro.com has one and it quotes. A couple of articles that were published in the mountain astrologer written by Cathy Allen, and they described the bending of the nodes, and Kathy Allen evidently is the one writer out there with exposure who has the most information on this. [00:03:04] But basically there's the North and South bending of the node. Now, how do you calculate whether it's the North or South? So you find the North node, okay. For our example is in cancer, and then you find the planet or planets that are at a square, and in some rare cases you'll have a square on one side of the axis and a square on the other side of the axis. [00:03:30] So it creates a grand cross. Involving bending of the nodes. How about that? Okay, so just think about this. There's a UN opposition always. The North and South nodes are always 180 degrees opposite each other. Now what we're doing is we're just, so, there's a line, right? You always can draw a line in the chart of that opposition, so to determine which side of that line it's on, you start with the North node. [00:03:58] And you go [00:04:00] clockwise. Okay, so let's make this visual. Think of the North node up at the 12 o'clock position on the clock face. That means the South node is down at six o'clock so if you go clockwise and you come to three o'clock and you see a planet there that is called the South bending of the node. [00:04:22] If you go around on down to six o'clock there's the South no