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North Node in the 4th house

The North Node in the 4th house points your growth toward home, family and your inner life. The South Node sits opposite in the 10th house of career and public standing, so the axis runs from achievement in the world to a private life that feeds you.

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House: The 4th house: home, family, roots and private life
House type: Angular
Natural ruler of the house: The Moon
Opposite house: North Node in the 10th house
What the nodes are: Not planets but the two points where the Moon’s orbit crosses the ecliptic; they move mostly backward through the zodiac and circle it in about 18.6 years
South Node: In the 10th house, always exactly opposite the North Node
Birth time with the Sun near the North Node: The last third of the time from sunset to solar midnight
Birth time with the Sun near the South Node: The last third of the morning, up to solar noon

How it shows up

You may be used to measuring yourself by your work, your title or how others see you. Astrologers read the 4th house North Node as an invitation to put roots down: to make a home you love, to understand your family story and to spend time with your own feelings without needing them to be useful. Growth here often comes from choosing the private side of a decision over the public one. The 4th is an angular house that begins at the IC, the bottom of the chart, so the axis is a prominent one.

The South Node in the 10th house

With the South Node in the 10th house, ambition and responsibility are familiar. You may be capable, organized and used to being the one in charge or the one people look to. Astrologers read this as a real strength, and as something that works best when it rests on a secure home base.

Strengths

You are often reliable, hardworking and able to take on responsibility. As you develop the 4th house side, you add emotional warmth, a sense of belonging and a place to recover.

Challenges

You may put work before rest, or feel uneasy when you are not achieving something. Some people with this placement find it hard to ask for care. Protecting time at home and treating your feelings as worth attention give your ambition something solid to stand on.

In relationships

In love you may give more to your role in the world than to your private life. Astrologers read this placement as asking for a relationship that feels like home, where you can be off duty.

At work

Work that connects with home, care or roots suits the North Node here: property, design for living spaces, family businesses, caregiving, history or working from home. Public roles may come easily, but they feel better when they leave room for a private life.

When is the North Node in the 4th house?

The lunar nodes are not planets but the two points where the Moon’s orbit crosses the ecliptic, the Sun’s yearly path through the zodiac. Like the Sun, they are carried through all twelve houses about once a day by the turning of the Earth. Along the zodiac they move slowly backward, one sign in about a year and a half, so the Sun meets the North Node about every 347 days, a little less than a year, and meets the South Node about halfway between. When the Sun is on the North Node, the North Node is in the 4th house during the last third of the time from sunset to solar midnight. When the Sun is on the South Node, the North Node is in the 4th house during the last third of the morning, up to solar noon. Eclipses can happen only within about two and a half weeks of these meetings, and astronomers call these windows eclipse seasons. The Sun’s latest passage was over the South Node on August 22, 2026; its next is over the North Node on February 9, 2027. These are the North Node’s stays in the 4th house on four dates of 2026, in local time:

The North Node in the 4th house on four dates of 2026 (Placidus houses, true node, local time)
Date	Sun and node	New York	London	Sydney
January 1	Sun 60° from the North Node	1:53 AM to 4:01 AM	1:54 AM to 4:06 AM	3:10 AM to 5:03 AM
April 1	Sun 33° from the North Node	8:46 PM to 10:55 PM	8:47 PM to 11:00 PM	9:05 PM to 10:57 PM
July 1	Sun 51° from the South Node	2:15 PM to 4:27 PM	2:14 PM to 4:33 PM	1:40 PM to 3:29 PM
October 1	Sun 39° from the South Node	8:06 AM to 10:19 AM	8:05 AM to 10:25 AM	7:32 AM to 9:21 AM

Calculated with the same node, Sun and house engines as our birth chart calculator. Each row shows the first stay that begins on that date at that place. The angle is measured along the zodiac at noon UTC, and passage dates are in UTC. “Eclipse season” marks the Sun within 18° of a node, close enough for an eclipse to be possible; it does not mean an eclipse happens that day.

Why the South Node is in the 10th house

The South Node is always exactly opposite the North Node, and opposite house cusps are always 180° apart, in Placidus as in Whole Sign, Equal and Porphyry houses. So with the North Node in the 4th house, the South Node is in the 10th house, and the times in the table above are also the times the South Node spends in the 10th house. Astrologers read the two houses as one axis: the South Node shows what comes easily, the North Node the direction that asks for effort.

Your node signs with the North Node in the 4th house

The nodes take about 18.6 years to circle the zodiac, so they stay in each pair of signs for about a year and a half, and everyone born in the same 18 months or so shares their node signs. The house is the personal part: it depends on your birth time and place, and in Whole Sign houses the North Node is in the 4th house when your North Node sign is three signs after your rising sign. This table pairs each North Node sign with its South Node sign and the rising sign that puts the North Node in the 4th house, and lists the North Node’s years in that sign from 1940 to the early 2030s. The North Node is in Aquarius now and the South Node in Leo, so in Whole Sign houses a child born today with Scorpio rising has the North Node in the 4th house. Years at the edge of a passage are shared with the neighboring sign, so the North Node calculator gives the exact sign for your birth date. In Placidus and other quadrant systems the house cusps usually do not line up with the sign boundaries, so the North Node can fall one house earlier or later than this table shows.

Node signs and rising sign for the North Node in the 4th house (Whole Sign houses), with the North Node’s years in each sign from 1940 to the early 2030s
North Node sign	South Node sign	Rising sign	North Node in that sign
♈︎ North Node in Aries	♎︎ South Node in Libra	♑︎ Capricorn rising	1949–50, 1967–69, 1986–87, 2004–06, 2023–25
♉︎ North Node in Taurus	♏︎ South Node in Scorpio	♒︎ Aquarius rising	1947–49, 1966–67, 1984–86, 2003–04, 2022–23
♊︎ North Node in Gemini	♐︎ South Node in Sagittarius	♓︎ Pisces rising	1945–47, 1964–66, 1983–84, 2001–03, 2020–22
♋︎ North Node in Cancer	♑︎ South Node in Capricorn	♈︎ Aries rising	1944–45, 1962–64, 1981–83, 2000–01, 2018–20
♌︎ North Node in Leo	♒︎ South Node in Aquarius	♉︎ Taurus rising	1942–44, 1961–62, 1980–81, 1998–2000, 2017–18
♍︎ North Node in Virgo	♓︎ South Node in Pisces	♊︎ Gemini rising	1941–42, 1959–61, 1978–80, 1997–98, 2015–17
♎︎ North Node in Libra	♈︎ South Node in Aries	♋︎ Cancer rising	1939–41, 1958–59, 1977–78, 1995–97, 2014–15
♏︎ North Node in Scorpio	♉︎ South Node in Taurus	♌︎ Leo rising	1956–58, 1975–77, 1994–95, 2012–14, 2031–32
♐︎ North Node in Sagittarius	♊︎ South Node in Gemini	♍︎ Virgo rising	1955–56, 1973–75, 1992–94, 2011–12, 2029–31
♑︎ North Node in Capricorn	♋︎ South Node in Cancer	♎︎ Libra rising	1953–55, 1972–73, 1990–92, 2009–11, 2028–29
♒︎ North Node in Aquarius	♌︎ South Node in Leo	♏︎ Scorpio rising	1952–53, 1970–72, 1989–90, 2007–09, 2026–28
♓︎ North Node in Pisces	♍︎ South Node in Virgo	♐︎ Sagittarius rising	1950–52, 1969–70, 1987–89, 2006–07, 2025–26

Read it with your North Node sign

The house shows where in life your North Node is most active; the sign shows how it behaves there. Read this page together with the 4th house in astrology and your North Node sign (the table above lists the North Node’s years in each sign; the North Node calculator finds it from your birth date), and look at any planets that aspect your North Node. Astrology describes tendencies, and the same placement can be lived in many ways.

Questions

What does the North Node in the 4th house mean?

Astrologers read the North Node in the 4th house as a path of growth through home, family, emotional roots and your inner life. The South Node in the 10th house shows an existing talent for career and responsibility that you no longer need to define you.

What does the South Node in the 10th house mean?

The South Node in the 10th house points to familiar strengths in ambition, leadership and public duty, and a habit of putting status first. It always comes with the North Node in the 4th house, which asks you to build a secure private life.

What time of day is the North Node in the 4th house?

It depends on where the Sun is relative to the nodes, which changes over the eclipse year of about 347 days. When the Sun is near the North Node, the North Node is in the 4th house during the last third of the time from sunset to solar midnight; when the Sun is near the South Node, during the last third of the morning, up to solar noon. A birth chart with your exact birth time and place shows which house your North Node is in.

The North Node in the other houses

All twelve houses in astrology