Having your North Node in the 2nd house of the natal chart automatically also means that the South Node is located in the 8th house. This natal placement of the nodes indicates a heavy emphasis on matters concerning your belongings, possessions, and money. In addition, the axis shows that your life lesson also involves your attitude towards other people’s money and how you use it. As the Lunar Nodes indicate Karmic debts and connections with previous lifetimes, the native who has the North Node in the 2nd house must concentrate on standing on his own legs during this incarnation. The North Node always shows what road we must follow in order to develop ourselves, and most of the times it is not the easiest one to choose.
As the years go by, the need to be puts greater pressure which increases the desire to find a form of autonomy. We want to live on our own, to be cut off, detached from this dependency. There are deep within us desires to be that need to be realized. We want to be free to experience our own existence, to choose a profession that will make us happy, to choose our cohabitation, to choose where we live, to choose who we are, to choose not to invest, to exist on its own without having to be accountable to anyone.
The North Node in II then invites us to experience making ourselves independent with respect to the subsidies that make us live. We must learn to earn money by ourselves, to become the creators of our own values, to develop our self-confidence in our ability to meet our own needs with our energy.
Often the commitment to this path will ask us to give up in part a form of comfort, a standard of living that we thought was essential and in which we wanted to settle. The North Node in II is not meant to experience poverty or discomfort. He experiences the joy of autonomy. And despite the initial fears, you quickly feel happier with a little less, but free to do with it what you want.
The feeling of living on one’s own energy is the key. Where the money comes from is secondary. A woman will be able to achieve her autonomy in a separation where she receives money in the form of a pension. What matters is that she doesn’t feel indebted. There are different degrees of independence. Earning money through a salary or a remunerated activity can generate a form of strong independence and also dependence on the boss or customers. The important thing in the realization of the North Node in II is to always feel autonomous, free to choose your life, to change it, never in dependence, nor indebted. We are built in our Node in II when we have the feeling that we will always be nourished and protected materially without having to pay for it by nourishing others through acts that we condemn.