It’s one thing to know what your North Node means, but it’s a whole other thing to know what you can actually do with it — especially when it comes to your career.
Aries North Node? It’s your destiny to learn how to become a brave, courageous warrior. Libra North Node? It’s your purpose to create beauty, love and harmony wherever you go.
Viewing the North Node in this way is good to know, but it often creates more questions than answers. What are the practical steps to actually achieve this “destiny” within the context of a professional career and your real life?
your north node + your career.
On the most foundational level, your North Node can express through your profession, as the profession itself. Your North Node is an astrology placement that can point you towards the right type of work for you, if you’re actively seeking a new career path.
It describes:
- The kind of professional experiences that are likely to feel fulfilling, rewarding, and challenging (in the best way)
- The industries, roles or projects that will put your skills to good use (while stretching them at the same time)
- The paths that will develop and evoke a side of you that you haven’t seen before the realm where you can find a strong, felt sense of purpose in what you do
What if you’re already in the “right” career, but it just needs a little refinement or redirection? The North Node is a resource that can guide you there, too.
On a more advanced level, the North Node isn’t just your destiny. It represents your highest possible potential. It describes the version of you that your soul aspires to become, including all of the qualities, behaviours and characteristics they possess.
It’s believed that acquiring those qualities is what will help you to create that destiny. That by becoming a brave, courageous warrior, or by creating beauty, love and harmony, you open new doors that can lead you to where you’re destined, to go.
By becoming more and more familiar with the energy of your North Node, life gradually shapes you into your most capable, skillful, and successful self.
north node embodiment.
If the North Node is a set of behaviours or personal qualities, it becomes your spiritual task to not only understand them, but to become them. To acquire them and weave them into your identity as a character-building exercise where you become the type of person who is brave, courageous or creative, for example.
In this way, the North Node can express through your profession as soft skills — the subtle, energetic nuances that show up in your actions, behaviours and words. When combined and honed over time, they make you an energetic match for your life’s best work.
The difference between just mentally understanding these qualities, and actually embodying them, comes when you decide to practice them.
It’s the difference between simply witnessing where you aren’t in congruence with your North Node versus consciously deciding to try on a new behaviour or identity.
It’s the difference between saying “I’m not very comfortable taking risks in my work”, versus “I want to be the type of person who is comfortable taking risks in my work”.
When it comes to matters of karma and destiny, our inner reality is often reflected into our outer world. You might find that making a simple declaration like this attracts new events, opportunities and experiences where life asks you to flex that muscle, shaping you into that “type of person” in real time.
So when the opportunity comes, how will your free will respond? Will the North Node remain an idea or concept? Or, will you take inspired action off the back of the question: What would the slightly more brave version of me do in this situation?
It might be a simple matter of honouring your no instead of your habitual yes. Standing your ground, even if your South Node makes your voice shake. It might be about letting yourself take the spotlight to be seen when your South Node would usually prefer to stay behind the scenes. It might be about taking a leap you’ve put off for too long, because your South Node prefers the comfort of the status quo.
The North Node will almost always stretch your edges, but it’ll also warp-speed your personal and professional evolution, too.
In this way, the North Node gets to express through your career as the version of self you’re choosing to be there.
the north node is a choice.
As an evolutionary astrologer, I hold the belief that your North Node is different to the other parts of your chart that unfold rather organically — like your Sun, Moon and Rising.
But your North Node?
That’s a placement that lays somewhat dormant in your life until you consciously decide to explore it. It represents a potentiality. A possible version of you that is available, which you *could* evolve into. It’s a destiny that you could unlock, if you choose it.
Contrary to the word destiny, you’re not “destined” to arrive at the North Node unless you get in the car and drive yourself there. When you commit to the wobbly journey of shaping yourself to become more of your North Node, you become the type of person who already knows how to be successful, feel fulfilled and move with a greater sense of purpose. You know how to lead yourself to create your own version of soul-aligned success.
The North Node isn’t about prescribing your destiny. It’s a journey of evolution and becoming, where, if you choose your North Node, your destiny will choose you, too.
So, who will you choose to be?
hi, i’m corey — offline’s resident north node guide.
I’m an Aquarian ex-HR advisor turned astrologer. I’d love to help you harness the power of your authentic blueprint as you do your most impactful, purposeful work in the Aquarian Age. You can find my North Node musings on Instagram @natural.astrology.
