Capricorn North Node in the 1st: The self pushes this Nodal axis towards achievement and ambition, but the Self, which is another way of saying the esoteric personality that always aspires to nobility of purpose, is forced to remember everyone who supported him or her along the way. If you wanted to roll out a quick and dirty path toward ‘solving’ the ‘problem’ this nodal axis often presents, it would be to make your aspirations in life line up with taking care of old people or children. It’s not more complicated than that. But wait. Life is always more complicated than that. People with this Nodal axis often find older relatives to be a burden; or that family, the wife and kids, prevent them from ‘getting ahead’, yet the native can’t stop helping people who need them. Friends seem to require more care than one ‘should’ have to give. The key to this particular Nodal axis is not to let your compassion overwhelm you. Your lover shouldn’t be your child, nor should you be your wife’s baby. If you’re going to attain everything the North Node in Capricorn would like to lead you towards, you’re going to have to give up the excessive neediness, or, conversely, the excessive giving. The best use of North Node in Capricorn in the 1st energy is to be the Rock of Gibraltar others look to you to be; fulfill your obligations and find a path that balances out either your, or the other’s, emotional needs, with your duties. The potential downfall to this combination is how grim North Node in Capricorn can be if it’s overburdened. It’s entirely possible that what nobility looks like in this house is a stiff upper lip in the face of troubles, but if so, then the other will be asked to take some of the burden off this beleaguered person. Any time you find Capricorn combined with the 1st house, it can be difficult to get these guys to delegate, so if you see this combination resembling Scrooge, look to see if they are ignoring their bas
ic emotional needs. Once this combination stops leaning too heavily on family and friends every time they get scared, relationship issues usually begin to resolve, but it can take a very long time for them to learn the self-containment and self-reliance North Node in Capricorn in the 1st is pushing them towards. Capricorn/Cancer in the 1st-7th house axis is one of the more difficult combinations to have when it comes to expressing emotions smoothly in relationships, and it might be necessary to have a big discussion about getting family issues from the past (South Node in Cancer in the 7th) resolved via therapy before one undertakes a marriage or other permanent bond. If you think what I just said belongs in the 4th house, realize that South Node in Cancer brings with it family-related issues with the potential to poison its future relationships if what they learned to believe about themselves early in life isn’t addressed consciously in adulthood.