Chavela Vargas and the north node dispositor

     My newest favorite example of the dispositor of the north node being so elemental to a person’s most prominent trait is Chavela Vargas whose north node ruler is Jupiter in Cancer.  Listen to this woman, who is in now in her nineties and still belting it out, sing, and you will understand, or better yet you will feel what it means to be filled with the archetype Cancer. 

     The emotional expression is effusive, and this illustrates the fact that her north node is in Sagittarius – enthusiastic and far-reaching.  At times in her songs, it sounds as if she is actually crying, so filled with Cancer emotion is she.  She is the beloved Mexican cancionera, expressing the heritage, yet again a Cancer theme, of her country’s traditionally emotional ballads.  

     From our home here on earth, the moon is the brightest object in the sky besides the sun.  But unlike the sun, the moon is accessible.  We can look directly into the face of her and witness her moodiness, her changeability.  It is thought that shifts in sleep patterns resulting from the moon’s phases may have once caused the “lunatic” behavior we attribute to her in folklore and common mythology. 

     Likewise, the moon comforts us in the darkness, “mothers” us when we would otherwise be lost in black forests.   Without her, we would be thrown into absolute darkness.  We seek the moon’s symbolic comfort from one another as well.  As Chavela Vargas’ well-known song, “Luz de Luna” (Light of the Moon), explains: “since you have gone, there has been no light of the moon”…

     Yo quiero luz de luna para mi noche triste…

                  For my sad night I want the light of the moon…