The nodes are the moving points at which the Moon’s path intersects with the Ecliptic. These are the places where. Eclipses occur and therefor inherited a negative association early on in the tradition. However, later in antiquity the Ascending Node became associated with thing increasing (for better and worse), and the Descending Node with decreasing.
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