The Nodes of the Moon are the background. They set the stage. Not only do they set the stage in the sense that they provide the scenery, but more than that, they provide the scenery and the forces that are going to populate that scenery. They provide the background characteristics. They provide the forces within the context of the environment you’re going to meet in your process.

To really understand your Nodes is to recognize the world you are intended to deal with, the environment you’re intended to deal with, the kind of people who are meant to be there in the background of your life, and the kind of forces that are there to provide you with exactly the right connections, the right interaction, the right education, and the right whatever because they belong in your scene.

Think about what it means that you have an opportunity to fulfill your purpose. But the potential to fulfill your purpose has to be seen against the background because it’s in that background, it’s in that environment, that your purpose has to be achieved. And the moment you’re looking at the Nodes, as you will see as we go through this adventure of looking at the 32 polarities in the wheel and looking at the 32 Nodal environments that emerge, is to begin to see that the potential for anyone to fulfill their purpose is directly related to the environment in which it is intended to be fulfilled. This is The Cross of Life. There is no way to fulfill the potential of one without fulfilling the potential of the other because they are deeply connected to each other.

In the very beginning when I began my process, there was this deep understanding of this Cross. The deep understanding that this was the skeleton of anyone’s life. You could see the basic essence of what they were intended to live out as a purpose. You could see that purpose in their Incarnation Cross, you could see that purpose in their Profile, and you could see the potential of it in terms of its consistency, or not, in the way in which that Cross operated within the dynamics of the characteristics of the Bodygraph. But more than that, by understanding the Nodes, by understanding this scene that is being set, the stage upon which this purpose can be fulfilled, you
could immediately hone in directly to the essence of what this life was intended to be about, and who was supposed to be there in this life.

For me, it is ironic that after all of these years of teaching that I am at the beginning of a new 18 year cycle in the process of being a messenger for this knowledge. At the beginning of this new cycle, I return to the most fundamental teaching that I brought at the very beginning of my career. It’s not, in any sense, a going backwards. I can see so clearly how this is the beginning in a spiral. It’s a new beginning because today with the depth we have in the knowledge of Human Design, with the deeper understanding that exists in the mechanics and the ability through synthesis to be able to explain to others their basic strategy, the secret and the accessibility of their inner authority, that now to return to this very basic concept is to come to the simple core of understanding our lives and our purpose.

~ Ra Uru Hu