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☊True Node

True Node is represented as the Moon's instantaneous ascending node for chart placement and lunar-point reference copy.

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Source basis

A synthesized lunar point derived from the Moon's instantaneous orbital plane.

True Node is represented as the Moon's instantaneous ascending node 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 True 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

True Lunar Node

Published interpretations

These interpretations are sourced from reviewed reference texts.

Abu Ma'shar

firdaria timing

The True Node page carries the same reviewed nodal firdaria context: Abu Ma'shar gives the Dragon's Head and Tail their own terminal period role in the timing sequence.

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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