South Node (SN) in Aries, South Node (SN) in the 5th House

South Node in Aries ♈︎ in the natal chart

The South Node in Aries in the natal chart indicates a life path in which you are working towards finding harmony and balance within yourself. As the South Node represents skills and circumstances you have already mastered, a South Node in Aries indicates you will most likely have a well developed sense of identity. 

You will be a naturally courageous person desiring to take the lead in many situations. South Node in Aries individuals are typically not afraid to speak or act on their convictions. You have amazing integrity and honesty. You are learning to integrate the lessons of compromise, going with the flow, and ease in your personality. South Node in Aries individuals are often working on leaving behind an over attachment to getting one’s way or being selfish. 

You are experiencing life from a new perspective, giving partners, lovers, and friends an opportunity to take the lead. Due to your natural outgoing and candid approach you are better able to discuss finding a compromise. You are practicing resolving conflicts without violence or force. South Node in Aries individuals can have very dramatic tendencies. You are working on minimizing being reactionary, instead developing skills of diplomacy and tact.

5th House

Keywords: The keywords associated with the 5th house include love affairs, romance, sex, sexuality, creativity, art, dating, play, playfulness, children, spontaneity, fun, diversity, and the spotlight. 

Succedent House Type: The Succedent house type is ruled by a fixed sign. Leo is the fixed fire sign ruling the 5th house. 

The 5th house in astrology is symbolic of creativity, sexuality, and children. The reason all of these themes come together in the 5th house is due to the fact that they all of them are related to making or creating something outside of oneself. Creativity brings forth something new and imaginative. Your relationship to sexuality or how you express your sexuality can be a creative act or viewed as the reproductive act that creates babies. 

Having an emphasis of planets or lack of planets in the 5th house speaks more to what you make and create in life and less literally to how many children you will or will not have. When you are playing in the 5th house it is all about finding your creative spark, what enlivens you, and how you can bring your true identity forward. 

The focus of the 5th house is what unique experience do you want to share with others, what makes you special. The 5th house is also associated with affairs, flings, and romance due to the playful and often spontaneous nature of this area of the chart.