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Mean Node

The node's average position, moving steadily backwards at about 19.3° a year.

The mean node smooths out the Moon's wobbles. Older ephemerides and many traditional astrologers use it; this site offers it as a setting.

How it is worked out: Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms, eq. 47.7, with nutation added.

Kind: Calculation
Tradition: Shared across Western traditions
In this site’s birth chart: used

Swiss Ephemeris documentation (Astrodienst): house systems, nodes and calculation conventions (opens in a new tab) technical

Written for Cool Moon Facts in its own words. An astrology source documents what astrologers believe or practise; it does not establish that astrology works.

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