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☊Mean Node

Mean Node is represented as the mean ascending node of the Moon for chart placement and lunar-point reference copy.

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Source basis

A synthesized lunar point for the mean ascending node of the Moon.

Mean Node is represented as the mean ascending node of the Moon for chart placement and lunar-point reference copy.

The row is limited to the astronomical point identity and the calculation context already cited by the source notes.

This object row does not publish interpretive meanings, default orbs, nodal doctrine, or predictive rules for Mean Node.

Source texts

  • Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac.

  • Abu Ma'shar. Persian Nativities III: On Solar Revolutions, trans. Benjamin N. Dykes (2010), 1285-1291.

  • W. M. Smart, Textbook on Spherical Astronomy.

Aliases

Mean Lunar Node

Published interpretations

These interpretations are sourced from reviewed reference texts.

Abu Ma'shar

firdaria timing

Abu Ma'shar's firdaria sequence includes terminal Dragon's Head or Tail phases, so nodal timing is exposed as a direct period condition rather than a generic planet substitute.

Source: PERSIAN_NATIVITIES_III_DYKES, 1276-1291

Interpretive rules

Rules are drawn from cited reference texts. Topics without reviewed source-backed notes stay empty.

Abu Ma'shar · timing

Abu Ma'shar firdaria node period

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When a nodal firdaria period is active, the engine surfaces Abu Ma'shar's terminal Dragon's Head or Tail phase directly.

Citations
  • Abu Ma'shar. Persian Nativities III: On Solar Revolutions, trans. Benjamin N. Dykes (2010), 1285-1291.

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