Lunar nodes (American Federation of Astrologers)

Are your Nodes balanced yet? This is what must be done! It is much easier to continue at the South Node than to come to the North Node area. One pushes and struggles at the North Node area where the new growth must be worked for. Whenever anything goes wrong in one's life, the person wants to revert to the South Node position where he is safe and secure. The Nodes signify the relationship between the plane of the Moon's orbit and that of Earth's orbit. Earth's orbit centers around the Sun, as do the other planets, but the Moon's orbit goes around the Earth. It is the meeting of these two planes that produces the Nodes. This relationship between the two orbits becomes the relation of Earth to Sun. This means an adjustment of our Earth-centered ego and our own self-will with that of the solar self, or cosmic will.