North Node Solar Eclipse:

The Moon is conjunct the North Node and therefore provides an opportunity for higher intuitive faculties to be integrated into the personality. This requires an adjustment to new circumstances or acceptance of current conditions. The Sun is "overpowered" by the Moon conjunct the North or South Node (in total eclipses) and reiterates the Moon's instinctive powers of reaction and persuasion. The Moon absorbs the Sun's power during this eclipse which accentuates issues that need to be examined: ego, dependency needs, selfishness, and emotional deprivation. A North Node Solar Eclipse focuses us on areas of our lives where we are compulsive, enchained to habits and rituals, and to somatic disorders which arise from stress.

South Node Lunar Eclipse:

The Moon is conjunct the South Node which brings forth the Sun as the most powerful factor. A renewal of solar will and purpose overrides the Moon's dominance at a North Node Solar Eclipse. With the Sun dominant, attachment to the past falls away. Stress from working out North Node new growth abates, in favor of rational, directed thoughts and actions. A South Node Lunar Eclipse focuses the psyche heroically, but sacrifices the intuitive, soulful fluctuations of the North Node's Lunar power base. The psychic nature and "feeling nature" are temporarily out of balance. At this time one faces psychological complexes without the Moon's "feeling-tone" which allows the psyche to dream, visualize, and imagine creative solutions to current dilemmas.