The Lunar Nodes move into Pisces and Virgo: only a true spiritual awakening can combat excessive automation now and make humanity whole again.
The Lunar Nodes in Pisces and Virgo 2025-2026
The Lunar Nodes take about 19 years to go around the zodiac, changing signs every 18 months or so. They are the mathematical points where the orbit of the moon intersects the ecliptic (or apparent orbit of the sun) around the earth. They are also magnetic points of a kind, marking where the sun, moon and earth align during the eclipses. Simply, we can also call them the ‘eclipse points’. More poetically the Lunar Nodes are like a Great Dragon hungering for new experience at one end, the Dragon’s Head (or North Node, where the Moon crosses the ecliptic upward) and spewing chewed up stuff out the other, the Dragon’s Tail (or South Node, where the moon crosses the ecliptic back downward ).
And the time has come once more for this a Great Dragon to change its diet once more, as the Nodes shift signs from Aries and Libra into Pisces and Virgo.
This happens on January 11th 2025 (true nodes, January 29th mean node) to stay so until 27 July 2026. What to make of this?
Where are we coming from? Lunar Nodes in Aries and Libra
Standing up for ourselves was a big theme in 2023-2024.
The Lunar Nodes have just spent 18 months in Aries and Libra and global attention shifted away from finances and the cost of living crisis (that's the previous Taurus-Scorpio theme) and toward matters of war and peace.
The past year and a half, the South Node in Libra called into the question the implicit social contracts and agreements that underpin our so called democracies, our very civilisation.
It was during the past year and a half that terms like ‘lawfare’ became prominent, that protests abounded the world over, and unlikely heroes emerged from the woodwork to make a stand for human rights and freedoms. The South Node tends to bring out the negative aspects of a sign, at least on a global stage, things that require resolution. This is karmic fallout, as it were, of previous choices. In Libra, we saw the misuse of laws and the justice system and the corruption of all kinds of social contracts that we hitherto took for granted. As old Libra karma ripened, it was crucial that we make a stand to re-balance the scales. That’s where the North Node in heroic warrior sign Aries came in. The North Node is our compass, the arrow that points us due North, where the resolution of our current troubles awaits. The moment was ripe to not simply roll over and let it all unfold, but to stand up for ourselves and make some noise. And so we did. But that time is now past. And it's time to pull back our 'hero' projections.
Where are we headed? Lunar Nodes in Pisces and Virgo
Now, on January 11th, the Nodes switch signs again, as they do every 18 months, and go into Pisces and Virgo, there to stay until 27 July 2026. Yet another global shift in consciousness is imminent. The Great Dragon hungers for something new. And so we're ready for the next batch of lessons for humanity.
With the South Node in Virgo and the North Node in Pisces, January 2025-July 2026 is going to be a time of excessive automation and systematisation that calls for the awakening of compassion, creativity and some sort of spiritual unity consciousness to make humanity whole again.
We seek spiritual nourishment now as we seek to heal broken systems. We seek inspiration to re-animate the soulless machine.
Virgo South Node
The South Node, by transit, tends to bring forth the dark side of a zodiac sign. And the dark side of Virgo is a grey bureaucratic automation that is inimical to life. Here we have faceless systems, functions and bureaucracies that can turn us into a barcode and make our lives a homogenised hell. Efficiency and organisation are an idealised dream in a healthy world, but can turn into a dystopian nightmare when allowed to run rampant.
The danger with the Virgo South Node is putting the cart before the horse, sacrificing our human spirit, our capacity for love and compassion, our rich imagination and creativity, our very connection to the divine, on the altar of automation and efficiency.
Virgo South Node Themes
What themes can we expect to be strongly activated over the coming eighteen months? Here are four key themes, among others.
A key Virgo theme, then, is excessive bureaucracy, automation, digitisation and A.I. and the misuse of systems and organisations already in place in a way that is life-denying, instead of facilitating the flourishing of creativity, wellbeing and the human spirit.
Another key Virgo theme is medicine and healthcare. We can expect all sorts of karmic chickens to come home to roost now in our health care system, in medical interventions and institutions, with questions of malpractice and systemic breakdowns coming to light, as the bill of previous choices comes due.
Work and employment is yet another key Virgo theme, as is the very notion of having a skill, working at it and honing it, feeling useful, doing work you love, and being of service. It's not hard to imagine the developments in A.I. starting to work their magic on that front, on the one hand making certain jobs obsolete, on the other, making us lazy - as well as a whole host of other problems around the very notion of work and employment (as opposed to servitude) that have clearly made their influence felt in recent years.
Finally, Virgo is associated with small, tiny things, tiny details that are easily overlooked (e.g. in a contract or an ecosystem) but can have huge repercussions. It is associated with all things ‘micro’ , with ‘nano’ technologies of all kinds (the pill, the microchip, meddling with our very DNA). It is crucial that we pay attention to the small print now and stay vigilant as small changes, print or interventions, passed as inconsequential, can have huge effects.
In that same vein, Virgo also represents our intricate biological symbiosis with the entire ecosystem of the earth, where a tiny change can have vast repercussions. It is crucial that we come to realise during this period that we are all one living whole and embody this realisation through our actions .
Pisces North Node
Virgo seeks a clinical kind of perfection. But life is messy. And that's where the Pisces North Node comes in. As we face the faceless, we are called to embark on a heroic spiritual journey. The antidote to the South Node always lies in the North Node, toward which we are now pulled with ever greater force.
The North Node in Pisces calls us to connect powerfully with our imagination, our creativity and our ability for compassion and transcendence. It asks us to merge fully with our spirit, the very stuff that makes so much more than a bunch of processes. This is the stuff that makes us divine.
Any emphasis on “faster”, better” or “more efficient” over the next 18 months is only going to highlight the poverty and flat one-dimensionality of such linear, mundane, automated processes, no matter how flawless. Humanity is so much more than that! And it’s time to embody that fully. To showcase it. Use it or lose it!
The Pisces North Node Tidal Wave
Pisces, now hosting the North Node, also rules the seas. And much of what will come to pass over the next eighteen months could feel like a biblical deluge of sorts, a literal or spiritual cleansing or healing on a massive scale.
Let the tidal waves come and sweep away illusions, debris and the toxicity of old malfunctioning systems. Time to let go.
Sadly, suffering and sacrifice are also Pisces lessons. Their goal is distill our spirit, and to teach compassion - not some feeble kind, born of weakness. But the ability to rise above judgment, transcend boundaries and approach all life from a greater state of all encompassing unity.
The Pisces North Node calls for nothing short of a spiritual awakening. It carries the potential for massive healing, a reconnection to our source, and huge imaginative leaps. The compass now points to the necessity of total disillusionment so we can let go of the past completely. All this while getting re-enchanted with our very own human spirit and the incredible beauty of our world.
As Einstein famously said, problems cannot be solved from the same mindset that created them.
To solve the equation now, we must leap into a whole new wavelength.
Time to let the human spirit flow back into this empty shell of a world.
North Node in Pises, South Node in Virgo: The Creative Process
A Note about Creativity and A.I.: It is s crucial that we foster our own creativity and imagination during the next eighteen months. Inspiration may be a spark that lights within, but there is also such a thing as the 'creative' (Pisces) 'process' (Virgo).
Beware of AI that’s geared toward making the creativive process more convenient by outsourcing the whole thing and externalising our reference points for what it means to create something.
Much like giving birth, creativity is meant to engender at least some discomfort. And much like giving birth brings what is inside outside, true creativity sparks from within. Even if we think of A.I. as a friend, it is one thing to dialogue with your friend about, say, your creative idea about a book, and quite another to have your friend write the book for you. This point is extremely important moving forward, especially with Pluto in Aquarius and the major changes in store for us over the next couple of years. For we are experiencing a crucial technological leap right now unlike anything that’s gone before.
Outsourcing a creative process is not the same as using a search engine to gather data. It goes much further. Google search may have put information at our fingertips tips and replaced trips to the Library or forages into World Maps, Encyclopaedias and Dictionaries. It may have even changed the way we learn. But (until recently at least) the whole project was information-based. In the past few years, algorithms and a plethora of visual and audio media platforms have started manipulating our emotions and unduly influencing our thinking - indeed we may have already dangerously outsourced certain mental processes. But creativity is not one of them. Not yet. Now AI takes all this one level up. With our attention already focused outward, it is but a step for AI to target our very capacity to create, our imagination, the inner struggle to birth something new that makes us human, our very soul. Outsourcing the creative process itself in the name of convenience could see us loose something truly precious as our spiritual and creative muscles atrophy. Life moves inexorably forward. And progress is exciting for sure! But it’s crucial that we don’t give it all up. It’s crucial that we keep reconnecting with our spirit, our imagination and inspiration from a place of stilness and use that as the starting point for everything we do. For that is the creative spark that makes us part-divine.
Previous Transits: North Node in Pisces, South Node in Virgo
In the 20th century, we've already had the North Node in Pisces and South Node in Virgo in 1913-14, 1931-33, 1950-52, 1969-70, 1987-89, 2006-07. Look back over those times in your life, and in the world at large. What key events took place that seemed small but had major repercussions? (Like Hitler being made chancellor in 1933 or the assasination of the Archduke of Austria in 1914).
Be that as it may, this time, in 2025-26, there is a crucial difference! We have Neptune, Pisces’ ruler, also in Pisces and conjunct the North Node (in February), which has never happened in the 20th century. (The last time these two met in Pisces was 1857, at the founding of Spiritualism). And we also have Saturn also in Pisces, conjunct the North Node in April. And we even do one better. For unlike the 19th century, we have great activity in the most critical degrees of the entire Zodiac (the very last degree of Pisces and the very first degree of Aries - the absolute end and begining symbols of the zodiac. We have the Lunar Nodes and Saturn and Neptune changing signs, accompanied by emphasis by the smaller planets over the spring of 2025, culminating in the seminal Saturn-Neptune conjunction in Aries in February 2026. This is not business as usual.
This has the markings of a major world rebirth that will gradually spread over all aspects of our lives.
Saturn-Neptune in Aries could well represent the iron will of the human spirit, a spiritual awakening forged in fire. Watch this space.
How does do the Nodes in Pisces and Virgo affect you personally?
Do you have planets or points in Pisces or Virgo? Then you are going to feel it the most!
If you are a Pisces or Virgo you can expect life-defining developments surrounding your person, body, identity and relationships in the year and a half ahead. Ditto if you have planets or points in Pisces and Virgo. Gemini and Sagittarius, the other two mutable signs, can expect a time of major reorientation in life, especially when it comes to home and career matters.
Cardinal signs can expect to deal with daily matters a lot; Aries and Libra can expect many changes in their working life, wellness routine and daily habits, while Cancer and Capricorn have the opportunity to travel, study, write, publish and expand their horizons and connect with different kinds of people.
For fixed signs, this is a time to invest, speculate, earn and consolidate. For Taurus and Scorpio, this could be a highly creative time when you can make an important contribution and receive your just rewards; Leo and Aquarius are sure to see important financial developments and close interactions with others in business or your personal life.
Are you born with the Lunar Nodes in Pisces and Virgo? If so you are either experiencing your Nodal Return or your Nodal Reversal. That is if you also have North Node in Pisces, then this transit is re-aligning you, for a moment, with your true north. If your natal Nodes are reversed and you have the South Node in Pisces and North Node in Virgo, then you are experiencing your Nodal Reversal, and this can be a time when your world turns upside down for a short while, just so you can see life from a new perspective). Either way 2025-26 marks an important juncture for your future development.
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Article by YourAstroGenes