Basically, you have two directional themes. The Nodes represent the actual road. It‘s very important not to confuse those things. The Nodes represent the actual road that you‘re going to move down. And again, there‘s something very important to understand about that road since it‘s often confused. The transition in that road, that road is a binary and that binary is ruled by Uranus. In other words, that‘s a road you‘re going to go down and the midpoint of that road is your Uranus opposition, between 38 and 44 years old.

One of the things to be very clear about that road is that when you get to that midlife point, you‘re not changing direction. There‘s this assumption that you do; and you don‘t. One of the most important ways to understand the Nodes is a city where you have a huge long street and it has two names. There are many, many, many cities that have streets like this.

The reality is that even though it‘s exactly the same damn street, because it has two different names, those different names actually create a different impression. If you think about the street from name A, it‘s a different feeling, different neighborhood, different shops, whatever the case may be. It‘s the same street, exactly the same street, but a different name. In other words, the defining of the street, the quality of the street in that area changes.

We get to see that through the movement of the South Node to the North Node, you get to see the street. You come in on your South Node side, you go wandering down, you get to your midlife point, it‘s the same direction—think about the physics of things. In a human being‘s lifetime, even if a human being is the Queen Mother, it‘s so short that if you actually measured it in terms of trajectory you would see that it could only be a straight line. Only over enormous distances in space, billions of kilometers do you have so-called curvature and even that‘s an illusion. It‘s all a straight line.

That road you‘re racing down, this is a straight line. So, it‘s not about, uh-oh, midlife crisis, we‘ve changed direction. It‘s not true. You haven‘t changed direction at all. You‘re still moving down that road, but the theme of that road, the quality of that road has somehow changed, has entered into a new neighborhood. You‘re actually getting to where you‘re supposed to be going to.

~ Ra Uru Hu