Nodal Chart by Betty Petruk

This concept is something I have read in a wonderfully written book called” Astrology Nutrition & Health” by Robert Carl Jansky.   A technique that places a planet that was being studied on the Ascendant by longitude degree and minutes set up an equal house system and fill in all of the Natal planets.  From this concept Robert Jansky used the premise that the South Node is the weakest part of the chart as it shows where we have come from, and or old patterns and conditioning from the past. The North Node is the arrow pointing to the future.

To construct the placement of the body and see the anatomical placement of the body to the houses, Robert Jansky reasoned that at birth, the head is the first part to emerge and form  an independent relationship with the environment.  The head is also the weakest part of the body as it is not fully closed on the crown until many days after birth. Therefore the head would be placed on the first house of the Nodal chart as if the body were lying face up on a wheel.  To determine right and left sides of the body, Robert Jansky stated that in Astrology the first 6 houses represent the personal side of one’s nature, while the last 6 houses represented one’s exposure to the external world.  He has given rulership of the right side to the Sun, as it naturally rules the 5th house, and the left side of the body to the Moon as the ruler of the flow of energy within the body.

The nodal chart form is quite revealing of your everyday health and nutritional needs.  Put your natal planets into the Nodal Chart form and observe how the daily transits  and  progressions effect you.

 

Nodal Chart Form

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Nodal Chart Delineation

 

Ascendant = South Node by degree and minute, houses 1 to 6 right side of body, 7 to 12 left side

  • Houses 12 and  1 represent the head and neck with the 2nd and 12th house cusps falling along the axis of the collarbone

  • Houses 2 and 11 represent everything in the chest cavity from the collarbone to the diaphragm, including the heart, with the 3rd and 11th house cusps falling along the axis of the diaphragm

  • Houses 3 and 10 represent the stomach, upper small intestine, liver, spleen and pancreas, extending down to an imaginary line through the kundalini point just below the navel

  • Houses 4 and 9 represent the lower abdomen, rectum, kidneys, bladder, large intestine and organs of reproduction, as well as the hips

  • Houses 5 and 8 represent the buttocks and upper legs, extending down to the middle of the kneecap

  • Houses 6 and 7 represent the lower legs and feet

Planets rulership of the anatomy is as follows:

  • Sun = Heart and circulatory system

  • Moon = Fluids, mucous membranes, stomach storage organs and bladder

  • Mercury = Nervous and respiratory systems skin, gall bladder

  • Venus = Throat, thyroid gland

  • Mars = Muscles, adrenal glands, blood

  • Jupiter = Liver, pancreas

  • Saturn = Skeletal system, teeth, bones, joints

  • Uranus = Nervous system, along with Mercury

  • Neptune = Cerebra-spinal fluid, pineal gland, lymphatic system

  • Pluto = Bowels, reproductive system

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