The Nodal
Passage Circle
A monthly orientation for the Aquarius–Leo nodal passage
On July 26th the lunar nodes cross into Leo and Aquarius, opening an eighteen-month passage the whole collective will move through. This is a place to move through it awake — reading the pattern, finding where it touches your own life, and choosing how you take part.
Beginning with the nodal shift of July 26, 2026.
For eighteen months the work has been Piscean and Virgoan — dissolving and discerning, surrender and refinement. On July 26th that chapter closes, and the long tension between Leo and Aquarius opens in its place.
The South Node moves into Leo: the pattern that already has gravity, the old hunger to be seen in order to feel real, worth measured by how brightly one shines in front of a room. The North Node moves into Aquarius: the direction with no pull of its own until we lend it some — belonging to something wider than the personal, the turn from being adored to being known.
A threshold like this can be crossed two ways. You can be carried across it, or you can cross it on purpose. This circle is for crossing on purpose.
To recognise the larger pattern moving through the collective, locate where it crosses your own chart and your own life, and participate — without mistaking a symbol for a sentence handed down.
This is not a horoscope read aloud to you, and it is not a circle where everyone waits their turn to have a chart interpreted. It is a practice in symbolic literacy: each month you learn to read a little more of the pattern yourself, to find where it is touching your life, and to test the reading against what you actually notice.
You leave more capable, not more dependent. That is the whole point.
Five movements, every month
The same sequence each gathering — not a lecture to absorb, but a way of standing inside symbolic time until it becomes yours.
Observe the field
What is actually happening — before any map is laid over it?
Name the symbol
What pattern helps us read what we're already living?
Locate the crossing
Where does this touch your chart, your houses, your life?
Test the interpretation
Does it create clarity, responsibility, agency — or fear and projection?
Choose participation
What can be practised now, in the body, this month?
Ninety minutes, once a month
Arrival & the field
10 minWe begin with what everyone has actually noticed since we last met. Territory first, then the map.
The month's axis
20 minOne living tension of Leo–Aquarius — visibility and belonging, the heart and the system, recognition and contribution — with any relevant transits or eclipse windows noted only where they light that theme.
A grammar lesson
15 minOne small piece of chart literacy: what the nodes are, how a house locates a field of life, how to tell a symbol from a prediction.
Mapping your own chart
20 minWhere Leo and Aquarius fall for you, whether the nodes are nearing a natal planet, which role may be loosening and which capacity is asking to be practised.
Live chart questions
20 minThree to five focused questions, chosen because they teach something the whole circle can use.
Your practice for the month
5 minYou leave with one question to hold, one thing to observe, one embodied practice, and one small experiment to try.
What it means to be in the circle
A member is someone who can feel this passage arriving and would rather move with it consciously than be carried by it — someone who would sooner learn to read the sky than be read to. You don't need to know your chart yet. You need to be curious enough to look, and willing to test what you find against your own experience.
- A live 90-minute gathering on the first Friday of each month, with the replay if you can't be there
- A monthly nodal map — a workbook page for that month's crossing, so the passage becomes a record rather than scattering
- The month's symbolic theme, with chart prompts by house, plus the key dates and eclipse windows to watch
- One embodied practice each month to carry off the screen and into your life
- The chance to bring a personal-chart question and have it read live, as a lesson the whole circle learns from
- A growing fluency in the sky — each month you leave a little more able to read the pattern yourself, not more dependent on someone to read it for you
By the end you hold a record of the whole passage — not a stack of disconnected calls, but a crossing you have mapped and walked.
An orientation, then a monthly circle
Reading the Crossing
A ninety-minute foundation before the circle begins — Friday, July 24 at noon Eastern. We cover what the nodes are astronomically, why a point of intersection can carry meaning, the South Node, the North Node, and the axis between them, and how to find that axis in your own chart. No prior chart knowledge assumed.
Included for founding members, and open on its own to anyone simply curious.
A monthly gathering, ongoing
We meet on the first Friday of each month, beginning in August and continuing through the passage. Each month takes up one living tension of the Leo–Aquarius axis, so the circle deepens as the nodes move rather than repeating itself.
You join month to month and stay as long as it serves you. Come for a single gathering or move through the whole passage — the door stays open either way.
Your Personal Nodal Map
A written, one-to-one map of your own crossing: the houses being activated, contacts to natal planets, approximate timing, your core polarity and its likely shadows, and questions and practices shaped to your chart. Circle members receive it at a reduced rate.
Personal chart questions are welcome, and the circle is not a private reading. Each month I take three to five, chosen because they teach the whole group — so no single chart, however operatic, quietly takes the entire evening.
A threshold is coming whether we attend to it or not. The nodes will cross on the 26th with or without our noticing. The only question is whether we cross with them awake.
The future requires your participation. Come and take part.
The Nodal Passage Circle
A Nodal Passage Circle member is someone who can feel this passage arriving and would rather move with it consciously than be carried by it — someone who'd sooner learn to read the sky than be read to. You don't need to know your chart yet. You need to be curious enough to look, and willing to test what you find against your own experience.