With a North Node in Scorpio, you are learning to let go of situations, belongings, and belief systems that are detrimental to your spiritual and mundane growth.

Individuals with their North Node in Scorpio are learning to take risks and release attachments to old patterns and habits. You may find yourself in life situations that force you to evaluate and address your stubbornness. With this placement you may frequently covet or desire to have what other people have. North Node in Scorpio individuals are learning to let go of unhealthy attachments.

The point opposite the North Node, your South Node, is in the zodiac sign of Taurus. This placement implies that you may feel “stuck” in your situation and you have trouble recognizing the way out. You are learning to understand the psychological motivations of others in order to free yourself from undesirable partnerships regarding your career, love life, and family bonds. The North in Scorpio soul urge is working towards embracing necessary change. Individuals with this placement are searching for an authentic connection with the spiritual realm. You are looking to free yourself of stagnation in order to follow your dreams and desires.

Frequently the nodes are activated when someone or something comes into our lives, whether this is a person, a new job, or a new environment. Nodes may also be activated when someone or something goes out of one’s life too. Read the descriptions below for an understanding of a Scorpio North Node through the natal houses.

North Node Scorpio in the 1st House / South Node Taurus in the 7th House

With a North Node Scorpio in the 1st house of individuality, you are developing a more sexual presence. Approaching the world with intensity. Putting passion into everything you do. No longer being stuck in materially codependent relationships. No longer expecting other people to provide stability in your relationships. No longer being so concerned with the financial success of your relationships. Becoming deeply involved in everything you do. No more “phoning it in.” Making every moment count. Treating every day like it’s the last day of your life. Realizing that you don’t have to explain your every action. Letting people think you are hiding something. Scorpio in the 1st house will ensure you are getting in touch with your sexual persona. Becoming adept at shedding the old you when necessary. Following your passion. Letting go of resistance to plunging all the way into life. Getting to know who you are beyond the surface level. Getting to know your way around the world beyond the surface level. No longer looking to other people to reflect your self-worth. Realizing that everything contains “more than meets the eye.” Letting your life get complicated. Getting complicated. You don’t need to keep things simple for the sake of other people. North Node Scorpio in the 1st house will gift you with the innate ability to create solid, stable relationships in your life, but they may hold you back from necessary growth. If necessary, choosing a passionate life on your own over a stagnant life in a relationship. Learning about the power of presence. The agony and the ecstasy of unflinchingly embracing your authentic presence.

North Node Scorpio in the 2nd House / South Node Taurus in the 8th House

With a North Node Scorpio in the 2nd house, you are learning to value the passion and intensity that is within you. Digging out the innate talents that you may not realize you have. Finding value in your intense experiences and dark nights of the soul. The innate calm that you bring to other people’s experiences of pain and trauma feeds your ability to handle your own pain and trauma. Becoming passionate about what you hold dear. Learning to give up the material possessions that hinder your growth. Learning to let go of outmoded values and priorities that have nothing to do with who you are now. Scorpio in the 2nd house will ensure you are placing less worth on what other people have experienced and more on what you have experienced. Learning to deeply share your talents and abilities with others. Letting go of greedy tendencies concerning other people’s money. Letting go of any stinginess in sex. Bringing more to the table in financial partnerships. Learning to deeply share your body. Learning the value of sex, and making sex a priority. No longer being possessive of your partner’s sex life. No longer being possessive of your partner’s intimate relationships. North Node Scorpio in the 2nd house urges you to no longer being slow when it comes to changes you need to make concerning how other people affect your self-worth and self-esteem. No longer being complacent about your intimate relationships. Finding out what you really desire and going after it with passion. Letting go of physical stagnancy. Learning about the power of your priorities.

North Node Scorpio in the 3rd House / South Node Taurus in the 9th House

With a North Node Scorpio in the 3rd house of communication, you are becoming deeply interested in what other people have to say. No longer being stuck on your own opinion. Giving up stubborn, dogmatic opinions. Getting in touch with emotional intensity through conversation and writing. Giving up smug assumptions. Forming deeper relationships with your siblings, uncles, and cousins. Speaking in your authentic, unfiltered, voice. Moving away from taking the easy way out by clinging to tried and true opinions. Scorpio in the 3rd house will teach you to take those risks in communication that will bring deeper emotional involvement with others. Letting go of resistance to complicated discussions. Trusting that you can share what you think. Speaking with passion and intensity. Not letting other people make you feel foolish for communicating with intensity and passion. North Node Scorpio in the 3rd house will urge you to move away from self-righteous feelings about money and material comfort. No longer needing a solid philosophical base on which to rest your thinking. Deep sharing that informs and educates. Learning to deeply support other people’s learning processes. Unflinching, authentic, discussions about sex and sexuality. Embracing intimate communication. Learning about your powers of communication.

North Node Scorpio in the 4th House / South Node Taurus in the 10th House

With a North Node Scorpio in the 4th house of home, roots, family, and self-care you will move away from materialistic professional ambitions. Becoming intensely focused on your roots, ancestry, and heritage. Becoming passionately involved with your family. Learning to share your emotions with the people you consider to be like family. Developing emotionally rich relationships with your parents. Scorpio in the 4th house will keep you unflinchingly facing every family crisis. Becoming more deeply connected to your family through the experiences you share together. Diving into the emotional complexity of family dynamics. Releasing the need to be seen as the dependable peacekeeper. Giving up your reputation as the strong, silent type. Letting your relatives know about your deep feelings. Giving in to a deep need for personal privacy. Your home is your hideaway. Learning to live with your complicated feelings. Moving away from a tendency to be stingy in your career. Moving away from any materialistic aspirations. Moving away from self-indulgent aspirations. Releasing attachments to being seen living “the good life.” Sharing more of who you are when you’re not in the spotlight. Becoming passionate about your home life. Releasing slow responses to family crises. Becoming the one the family can look to in times of turmoil. Rather than displaying outer calm, turning inward and letting yourself become deeply involved with getting to the root of issues and problems. North Node Scorpio in the 4th house will ensure you are deeply supporting the people who create the foundation of who you are. No longer using material security as the measure of your success.

North Node Scorpio in the 5th House / South Node Taurus in the 11th House

With a North Node Scorpio in the 5th house of self-expression, you are moving away from stagnant friendship patterns. Moving away from groups of like-minded people who prevent you from diving into passionate, personal creative self-expression. Defriending people who hold you back from growth. Defriending people who encourage you not to get deeply involved in romantic relationships. Releasing a tendency to move slowly when it comes to your long-term plans and goals. Releasing a tendency to move slowly when it comes to your wishes and hopes. Putting your all, or nothing, into your creative self-expression. Scorpio in the 5th house will ensure you are approaching romance and casual sex with more depth. Becoming intrigued by the mystery of attraction. Becoming passionate about the lives of your children. Beginning to share your personal creativity with other people. Releasing stingy behavior with people who share your interests. Letting go of materialistic long-term goals. Moving away from materialistic casual acquaintances. Letting go of casual associations based on material benefit, organizations based on financial gain, and friends consumed with the “real” world. North Node Scorpio in the 5th house will urge you to release attachments to peaceful movements and involvements that prevent you from expressing your personal passions and convictions. Learning about the power of creativity. Learning about passionate involvement in recreation to revitalize and renew. The transformational power of deep relaxation.

North Node Scorpio in the 6th House / South Node Taurus in the 12th House

With a North Node Scorpio in the 6th house, you are intrigued by the mystery of everyday life. Delving into the mystery of the human body. Understanding how health and diet can play a part in transformation and renewal. Becoming passionately involved in your work. Scorpio in the 6th house will ensure you are finding a job that satisfies you at a deep emotional level. Finding work that you can pour your passion into. Becoming passionate about service. Discovering your depths through volunteering and lending a hand. Finding ways to access emotions through bodywork. Health and disease issues become paths to intimate involvement with other people. Learning to share work in a deeply emotional way. Moving away from stagnant patterns of solitude. Moving away from deep inner resistance to participating in everyday life. Letting go of a tendency to be overly possessive and stingy with your free time. Letting go of a tendency to drag your feet at the thought of getting a job. North Node Scorpio in the 6th house will ask you to release an attachment to peace which prevents you from getting involved in the sticky affairs of everyday life. Releasing a deep inner need for stability that prevents you from participating in the emotional highs and lows of everyday life. Becoming more deeply, and emotionally involved with the people in your life who have health issues. Finding a daily routine that fills you with passion. Learning how to be ecstatically involved in your daily life and work.

North Node Scorpio in the 7th House / South Node Taurus in the 1st House

With a North Node Scorpio in the 7th house of relationships you are acknowledging, and letting go of, an overly complacent approach to life. Releasing smugness and self-satisfaction in relationships. Embracing the mystery that is relating. Resisting the urge to simplify everything as a way to avoid emotional disruption. No longer choosing a peaceful life alone over a complicated life together. Learning to value the complication that your partner brings to your life. Learning that relationships help you grow in a deep way. Giving your all to your partner. Treating every day with your partner as if it might be your last. Scorpio in the 7th house will ensure you are developing deeply bonded significant relationships. Asking your best friend about his secrets and desires. Asking your partner about her secrets and desires. No longer content to just be. Looking for a partner with depth and substance. Becoming more passionately involved in your partnerships. No longer letting your partner handle the rough stuff, or blaming your partner for the rough stuff. Letting yourself get emotionally entangled in your relationships. Becoming more interested in other people instead of sitting back and taking it all in. North Node Scorpio in the 7th house will teach you to understand the complex ways in which you cast other people in the role of your shadow. Owning your shadow. Understanding how your behavior provokes other people. Learning about the power of relating. Embracing the agony and ecstasy of relationships.

North Node Scorpio in the 8th House / South Node Taurus in the 2nd House

With a North Node Scorpio in the 8th house, you are moving out of a place of self-concern with material comfort and financial security. Releasing attachments to things. Learning that getting in deep with other people will offer the most growth. Releasing resistance to complex intimate relationships. Embracing intangible mystery. Becoming more involved with what society considers taboo. Beginning to realize that there is more to the world than what meets the eye. Valuing emotional discovery over financial security. Valuing the experience you gain through complex relationships over what you preserve by keeping to yourself. Scorpio in the 8th house will teach you to share your most private emotions in extremely intimate relationships. Valuing other people’s complexity. Experiencing high emotional highs and low emotional lows. Feeling your pain. Giving more of yourself to other people. Awakening to your inner mystery. Letting go of greedy tendencies. Letting go of the tendency to be stingy with your talents and abilities. Resisting the urge to keep yourself to yourself. No longer hoarding your possessions. No longer hoarding your innate instinct for life. Following your nose into other people’s business. Exploring that which cannot be explained by the “real” world. Letting go of an attachment to earning a living. North Node Scorpio in the 8th house will urge you to realize that there is more to life than paying your bills. No longer letting financial security be the final say in whether you let yourself explore something that intrigues you. Needing more from sex than personal physical satisfaction. Letting go of physical self-indulgence for the sake of psychological growth. Reaching out for the forbidden fruit.

North Node Scorpio in the 9th House / South Node Taurus in the 3rd House

With a North Node Scorpio in the 9th house of expansion and the higher mind, you are moving away from the materialistic small mind. Moving out of a complacent, self-satisfied mindset. Getting out of a stuck place intellectually. Challenging yourself to take on the bigger mysteries. No longer stagnating in everyday conversations. Fewer conversations about money, more pondering of the broader questions and their implications. No longer accepting whatever you were taught in school. Overcoming mental inertia. Overcoming a lack of curiosity. Sharing your ideas in an effort to come to a higher understanding. Scorpio in the 9th house will ensure you are becoming passionate about academia and higher learning. Moving out of the comfort zone of what you’ve already learned. Becoming passionate about your convictions. Learning to speak about your beliefs with emotional depth. Developing a lifestyle that encourages deep sharing and mutual support. Allowing yourself to travel to places that intrigue or fascinate you. Treating the big questions as if their answers were a matter of life or death. Following your passion for traveling. No longer being so concerned with whether or not your ideas can make you money. North Node Scorpio in the 9th house will urge you to move out of a daily concern for practical matters. Getting deeper into mysticism.

North Node Scorpio in the 10th House / South Node Taurus in the 4th House

With a North Node Scorpio in the 10th house of structures and traditions, you will become passionately involved in the uses and abuses of power in the outer world. Challenging yourself to learn about the power of authority. Allowing yourself to challenge authority and to challenge your parents. Releasing an attachment to the status quo of how things are supposed to be done. Getting out of your comfortable private life to see what else is going on in the world. No longer being afraid to lose your home, your roots, or your stability as you actively tangle with the outside world. Knowing that you have an inner reservoir of calm to draw upon when the world outside shifts into crisis. Scorpio in the 10th house will urge you to find your source of power to make a difference. Learning how to hold a position of power, authority, and control. Being seen as a person who is probing, difficult or mysterious – even if that makes you uncomfortable. Allowing yourself to rock the boat in your profession. Allowing yourself to be seen as having power. No longer playing it safe. Cultivating an edgier, sexier, more confrontational public persona. Dealing with power struggles with your parents. North Node Scorpio in the 10th house will ask that you are dealing with your deep desire to have a career that gives more than material security.

North Node Scorpio in the 11th House / South Node Taurus in the 5th House

With a North Node Scorpio in the 11th House, you are creating deep relationships with the people who share your interests. Forming deeper connections with the people you meet on the internet. No more romantic relationships strictly for physical satisfaction. Getting passionately involved in causes and humanitarian issues. No longer being so stingy with your personal creative projects and hobbies. Becoming willing to share your creativity with others. Moving away from safe forms of self-expression. Moving away from materially rewarding forms of self-expression. Scorpio in the 11th house will ensure you are getting passionately involved with your audience and fans. Finding a group that you can share your agony and ecstasy with. Exploring associations that have sexual undertones. Looking for deeper fulfillment in your casual friendships. Allowing yourself to keep some secrets in your casual relationships. Becoming involved in secret clubs and organizations. Learning how to hold a position of power within an organization. North Node Scorpio in the 11th house will teach you how to control a group of people. Understanding what motivates masses of people. Finding the passion of the masses.

North Node Scorpio in the 12th House / South Node Taurus in the 6th House

With a North Node Scorpio in the 12th house of endings and completions, you are moving into passionate involvement in spirituality. Tantric sex. Sexual meditation. Taking retreats to revitalize and renew yourself. Understanding how spending time alone can be cathartic for you. Getting in touch with your inner mystery through meditation and dreams. Beginning to understand spiritual cleansing. Scorpio in the 12th house urges you to be passionate about your inner world. Transforming your fears. Plumbing the depths of your nightmares for clues into your inner world. Deeply sharing your alone time with another. Getting way into your private inner emotional world. North Node Scorpio in the 12th house asks you to deeply explore and investigate those areas of life that have no real or practical application. Letting go of overly earthbound attitudes. Allowing more into your life than a job that pays well. Probing your fears. Grappling with family skeletons.

Other North Node Combinations:

North Node in Aries / South Node in Libra

North Node in Taurus / South Node in Scorpio

North Node in Gemini / South Node in Sagittarius

North Node in Cancer / South Node in Capricorn

North Node in Leo / South Node in Aquarius

North Node in Virgo / South Node in Pisces

North Node in Libra / South Node in Aries

North Node in Sagittarius / South Node in Gemini

North Node in Capricorn / South Node in Cancer

North Node in Aquarius / South Node in Leo

North Node in Pisces / South Node in Virgo

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