Here Moon (your feelings and instincts) meets North Node (your path of growth). How strongly it shows depends on the orb, the distance from the exact angle: the smaller it is, the clearer the aspect.
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Time recommended, since the Moon moves about 13° a day.
Enter your date. The time is recommended, because the Moon moves about 13° a day.
The math runs on the Swiss Ephemeris, the same base professional astrology software is built on. The result is accurate to the arc-second, and free.
You see right away whether you have the aspect and how tight the orb is, along with a reading you can check against your own everyday life.
The same aspect also keeps forming in the current sky, and then it works as a transit. When Moon and North Node are in square up there right now, it applies to everyone, not only to people who have this aspect in their birth chart. Here feeling meets direction, and the two themes rub against each other, with small tensions and impatience in the air. Depending on how fast the planets involved move, it lasts a few hours to a few days, or weeks for the slow ones.
In Moon Square North Node, Moon and North Node sit about 90° apart. At its core that means friction that pushes you to act. Two themes meet here. One: your feelings and instincts. The other: your path of growth.
| Feature | Value |
|---|---|
| Aspect | Square (90°) |
| Orb in the calculator | ± 7° |
| Typical sign distance | 3 signs |
| Character | tense, demanding |
| Moon | your feelings and instincts |
| North Node | your path of growth |
| Needs birth time | recommended, since the Moon moves about 13° a day |
Continue with the overview of all astrology aspects and with Moon Conjunction North Node. Which life areas the aspect connects is shown by the house calculator. When a moving planet forms this angle to your chart, it appears in your personalized daily horoscope. The planets themselves are explained in the planets overview, and between two people the compatibility chart compares the same angles.
7.8 % of people born between 1940 and 2010 have Moon Square North Node in their birth chart, within an orb of up to 7°. Among 711 aspect combinations that occur at all, that is number 173 by frequency. The most common aspect between Moon and North Node is the trine (7.8 %).
This is plain geometry: Moon and North Node move through the zodiac independently. A square exists twice on the circle, once on each side. With an orb of up to 7° it covers 28° in total, which is 7.8 % of 360°. The conjunction and opposition exist only once, so they are rarer.
In the sky this angle becomes exact 26.9 times a year, because the Moon moves so fast. It stays within 1° for only a few hours each time, about 97 hours a year in total.
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Share of births | 7.8 % |
| Rank among all combinations | 173 / 711 |
| Orb | 7° |
| No aspect between Moon and North Node | 70.1 % |
| Exact in the sky per year | 26.85 |
| Hours a year within 1° | 97 |
Counted with the Swiss Ephemeris: 25,933 birth charts, one for every day from 1940 to 2010 at 12:00 UT, orbs as in the calculator. Sky: every day 1900–2100. Famous people: Wikidata, only where the aspect holds for the whole birth day.
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