POLARIS

Polaris: Humanity that loses its 'Self' 

Polaris, the North Star, is a fixed point in the sky that has guided travellers for millennia, illuminating the way through darkness. Symbolically, it mirrors the North Node within and the universal trajectory toward alignment within the self. Without direction and consciousness, humanity drifts through endless dark night, and loses its 'self'. Humanity is not lost because it lacks knowledge or soul; it is lost because it has become so diverted by the material world that it has forgotten its direction. Beneath the programmed cycles of rise and collapse, beneath revolutions, technologies, and ideologies, there exists a deep consciousness within the human psyche, often diverted and masked by the distractions and illusions of modern life. Beneath society’s endless pursuit of progress, pleasure, power, and validation, something deeper remains overlooked and unresolved. A silent and ever-increasing fracture grows within us, a deep crevasse dividing who we ‘think and believe we are’ from who we truly are, distinct from the conditioning of the modern world we call reality.

From these depths within the self, the North Node offers us a path forward, a universal trajectory in our soul’s evolution and purpose for its lifetime. Far from the common misconceptions of the human ego, it is not a promise of greatness or destiny, often mistranslated and romanticised as a human experience of ‘cosmic fate’. It is, rather, simply unity, a direction in perfect alignment with universal truth. One that can only be identified and navigated once a line is drawn through the psyche and into the soul, crossing the edge of toxic attachments and inherited familiarity. For modern humanity, that has lost its ability to navigate itself, it simply illuminates where past beliefs must die and growth must occur in order for coherence to be restored. In an individual life, and in the collective body of humanity itself, the North Node reveals the path away from fragmentation and toward wholeness.

And in a universe whose foundations are formed on polarity, the North and South Nodes, often foolishly mistaken for planets, are in fact points of intersection, places where the orbit of the Moon crosses the path of the Sun. In astrology they form an axis, a line of tension between past pattern and future potential, between memory and becoming. In this truth, we begin to understand that the North Node cannot be located without the South Node and vice versa, as they together, physically in our universe and metaphorically in our experience, define what it is to be human.

The South Node, in contrast, is the imprint of what has already been lived. It is the archive of memory, habit, and conditioning folded into flesh and bone. It is not merely past-life energy or distant history; it is the nervous system, the body, the mind, the psyche carrying generations of survival strategies, attachment patterns, and learned responses. It is the part of us that repeats, not out of ignorance, but because the body knows repetition as safety. It is familiar, automatic, and seductive, offering comfort in the guise of identity, even when it perpetuates suffering. The South Node is the threshold of what kept us alive, yet it is not the pathway toward who we are meant to become.

To step into true alignment and toward the North Node is to move beyond this familiarity, to meet what the self has never yet experienced. It is to move onto a trajectory that the body initially resists because it is unknown. The North Node asks for the dismantling of roles, behaviours, and attachments that have defined us, not to punish or erase, but to free the self from unconscious repetition. It is the edge of evolution, where identity loosens its grip on survival and opens to alignment with the soul’s own trajectory. The highest timeline is not a fantasy of perfection; it is the life that emerges when the self no longer makes decisions through the lens of fear, trauma, or attachment. It is the reality that unfolds when the body, mind, and heart are no longer entangled in cycles of repetition and reactivity, but are present, coherent, and free to respond with integrity to the call of the soul.

Trauma, both personal and collective, has been the invisible architect of the human experience. It shapes perception, reaction, and relationship, carving pathways in the body and brain that reproduce familiar patterns. The South Node is intimately entwined with these patterns, anchoring us in cycles that feel necessary even when they are no longer serving life. The North Node, then, is the invitation to step out of these cycles, to reclaim energy that has been bound to the past and redirect it into conscious presence, clarity, and self-alignment. Freedom is not achieved by denying the past, but by allowing it to settle, releasing its hold, and choosing, moment by moment, to inhabit the self that has always been waiting beneath 

The collective experience of humanity has long been anchored in the South Node, in patterns of violence, control, material obsession, and bondage. These shadows are carried across generations and become woven into the structures of our families and communities, the very fabric of society. In a universe of polarity, it is through this diametric clarity that the North Node is revealed, illuminated deep within the darkest recesses of the self. By facing the depths of our collective trauma and the attachments it has created, and by understanding how separation, fear, control, and habitual striving have shaped our world, we begin to trace the path where growth, coherence, and truth converge. Our evolving understanding of the South Node of humanity, seen through the lens of the self, its compulsions and unhealed memory, has forged the trajectory of the North Node. This axis of polarity becomes a living guide, a linear path along which consciousness unfolds, and at the intersection of shadow and awareness, a new alignment emerges. It is a trajectory that bridges us into a New Earth, an evolution in human consciousness.

Alignment with universal truth cannot remain contracted inward. It expands, rippling across the field of collective consciousness, opening and forging possibilities for generations to come. Each choice to align with the North Node, each moment of clarity, of truth, and each act of presence becomes a seed sown into the soil of humanity. Over time, these seeds grow into a world capable of blooming experiences of liberation upon land once barren, where only scarcity and fear had been held, coherence and health where once there was fragmentation, and truth where once there was repetition. The North Node is not a distant realm projected as heaven; it is the axis of evolution, reflected in the mirror of our history and illuminated by the contrast of what ‘all that has been’ and 'all that could be’.  An experience of humanity that loses its 'self' only to re-imagine what it could be, expanded in both its polarity and truth.  A 'self' conscious in its understanding and infinite in its possibility, and a true embodiment liberated from its dark history and alchemized by its experience.