This Reveals What You Agreed to Before You Were Born... (Purpose & Love)

In this video Aaron Doughty explores the idea that each soul sets intentions before incarnating, and that those intentions can be uncovered through astrology, specifically the North Node and South Node points in a natal chart. He shares his personal journey from skepticism to embracing this perspective, citing influences such as Bashar, Abraham Hicks, and astrologer Bracha Goldsmith. Aaron explains how the South Node represents mastered energies from past lives (for him, Virgo‑grounded perfectionism) and the North Node points to the new, evolving direction (for him, Pisces‑water, 11th‑house themes of community, flow, and collective activation). He shows how aligning his YouTube content with these node themes has driven growth, and he offers a step‑by‑step method for viewers to locate their own nodes using online calculators. Aaron also connects the node work to larger practices like OM activations and the Maharishi effect, positioning astrology as a “permission slip” that can guide personal purpose, relationships, and business without dictating destiny. The video ends with a call to action for viewers to share their nodes and suggests a future interview with astrologer Bracha.
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What if before you were born, there were certain intentions you had for what you wanted to experience in your life? What if there were certain themes and there was a certain purpose and a certain direction that you wanted to go through and you set these energies and intentions up before you came here, but maybe in life now you've simply forgotten about it. In this video, I'm gonna show you this somewhat esoteric perspective on this and show you exactly step by step how you can become aware of some of the themes, some of the energies, the purpose, the intention behind your life that you may have completely forgotten about. And I wanna show you exactly how to find it, how to use it to transform your life, and how I am using it in my own life. And it's helped me gain so much clarity in a very powerful way. Now, first off, let me say I was very skeptical of this not that long ago. Even just this last 2 weeks, I've become so much more open to this, and I was somebody that never really gave this that much time of day, all right? This modality that I'm about to share with you is gonna sound simple. It might sound weird to some of you. A lot of you, I think you'll be very familiar with it in some ways, but nonetheless, it has completely opened myself up to a new level, a new dimension within myself. It's helped me become aware of a lot of these patterns within me. And I was even skeptical of this in a way to where then I went to other trusted sources that I have been using for years, and I wanted to hear the perspective on that. And even that reaffirmed my initial belief about this and the truth of it. So let me share with you what this is and specifically what it is within the thing I'm gonna share that's very general. So first off, what this thing is, is astrology. Now I know you might hear that Maybe you absolutely are like, oh awesome, I love astrology. Maybe on the other side of it, you're like, dude, this is freaking weird. You can't tell me that the planets have some intention or some ability to influence your life in certain ways. And first off, I totally get it. And I was in the same exact boat. So I empathize with that. And I've been there to where I thought it was just something that a lot, 'cause a lot of times like I get so annoyed with people that are like, you know, Mercury's in retrograde. Oh my God, missed text message, missed this, don't sign any contracts. Oh my God. And I'm like, this feels like you're giving away your power to something else. So for a long time, I was very resistant to astrology just because of the common, I guess you could say, like the superficiality that some people like use it for in certain ways where it's an excuse for everything, you know? However, let me share with you a little bit of what I've learned about it because over the last 2 weeks, I'm in no way an expert at astrology, but specifically within astrology, there is something called the North Node. The North Node is in a way where the, the path that you came to learn in this life, your North Node is the direction that you wanted to go in. And there's something called the South Node. The South Node is what you came in and you kind of mastered. They say that maybe in your past lives this was an energy that you mastered, but your transition from your South Node to your North Node in your life is in a way the direction that you came to go in. And I've been studying this for like the last couple days now, specifically just the North Node and the South Node, and also specifically where it is in your chart. That has helped me become so much more aware of even where I'm taking this YouTube channel, even where I'm doing live events out in the world. That has helped me gain clarity as to what that direction is. And I'll even share it with you in this video to give you a little bit more of a perspective on it. So you can kind of see where the channel's going and stuff. But, um, I was listening to this one YouTuber that's actually like an astrologer that was talking about this, and she said once she started making videos that were more in alignment with her South Node to North Node energy, which doesn't mean she's like making videos about North Nodes and astrology, but she specifically focused on the energy of what her North Node represented, her channel went from like 3,000 subscribers to like 500,000. And I thought that was interesting because I noticed on my YouTube channel that most of the videos on my channel that have done well are videos that are within the dynamic of this South Node to North Node thing. So we'll talk more about that in a minute, but first off, let me share with you the perspective that I have about astrology in general, uh, from listening to Abraham Hicks, Bashar. I know these are a little bit more esoteric concepts. However, nonetheless, I've been completely blown away by it as well because I made a video with Broca Goldsmith, who is like a world-renowned astrologer that's been doing this for like 30 or 40 years. And she is like the— in my opinion, she's like the GOAT of this. She's a YouTuber as well. I've had her on my YouTube channel and I've had— I've had 2 or 3 readings with her over the last like 2 years. And recently I had a reading and it completely like her, I don't know if you call it reading or an astrology reading, whatever you call it, but this next year for me is a very powerful year. But the things that I learned from her, I've applied and it's completely changed the way that I show up in the world. And it's like, it's the path of least resistance in a way. And just from like seeing and hearing her like help guide me through different things when it comes to just having a reading like once a year with her, It's helped me so much that it's made me like look at it in a different way. And then I started looking into astrology because I just found it fascinating. So Bashar is someone that is like, you know, I've been listening to Bashar for years. Abraham Hicks is another one. I was curious, what are their perspectives on astrology? And basically to help you understand a little bit more about this from like the whole perspective of what you forgot before you were born, Imagine that like in your life you do have free will to put your intention and attention in a direction that you want. Now, because you are an eternal spiritual being living a temporary human experience, you didn't just set out so that in life you have this specific intention you want to go down. Even before you were born, there were certain energies and certain intentions that you may have had for what you wanted to experience in your life. And based on our collective reality, like let's imagine that this reality that we live in is a form of virtual reality in a way where we are eternal spiritual beings having temporary human experiences. And imagine that there were certain themes, certain experiences you wanted to have so that you could learn, maybe release certain levels of energetic patterns that you carried from like past lives, which also exists now. This is what metaphysics, I think, will begin to show more and more as time goes on. But right now in the present moment, even before you were born, there were certain intentions that you wanted to experience. Now the way that Bashar explains it is it's more of a reflection. It's like it's reflective of where all the planets were at the time we were born was a reflection of the energy pattern and signature of what we wanted to experience in our life. Now here it is again though, it's a general theme. It's almost like a general theme that helps keep us on track for what we want to experience. And the way Abraham Hicks explains it is it's very similar. It's we, before we were born, we had these different intentions and it helped us, you know, become aware of the themes, the direction, the purpose of what we wanted to experience in our life. So from those two sources, from all the research I've done, because over these last two weeks I've become aware, I'm not an expert, but I have become aware of what the planets mean, how to read a chart, the different houses within a chart, what those mean. And it's been like a whole new world for me. That's also just, that sounds so weird to say, but like even within my, that's just the way I operate. Anything I'm into, I go all in on and I become somewhat like completely immersed in so I can learn as much as I can. And then I might just let it go and move on with my life. But this is like the theme I'm in right now of learning this. but it's a powerful permission slip. All right, now the permission slip for this video and for what you can learn to do with this is what I recommend you do is you become aware of your, what is called your north node and what house your north node is in. And to do this, you could simply go into that of on Google and you can type in north node, south node, or astrology calculator or something like that. And you can figure it out. And then also find out what houses it's in. And what that will help you to do is become aware of where you're going and what context that energy has. Now for me, for example, in my YouTube channel, if you've been watching my YouTube channel for a while, some of the videos that do best on my channel are videos that are about letting go. Now the reason being is it actually as well is a reflection or that of a, um, the energy pattern of what my south node to north node is. Now let me explain it. I don't want to get too heady about this because I'm not an expert at it as well, but this is helping me gain direction for where to put the energy into my channel even. So my south node is that of Virgo, very grounded, very practical. A lot of the things I share in my videos are very practical techniques. I'm very grounded when it comes to what I share. It's the energy that they could say I've mastered in a past life or many past lives. Now, another aspect of this I found familiar, sometimes the shadow side of this Virgo energy is that in past lives, I may have been somebody, and even in this life, even in my childhood, but I may have been somebody that was more so serving an organization or serving other people. Sometimes they say slaves came from like Virgo and South Node, but just think of the energy of it and think of even my past, right? From 7 to 15, having the ex-stepmom in my life who was very controlling, she in a way was like a reflection of I had to please and I had to be perfect. And there was a feeling of not being worthy and of serving just so I can get by. And a lot of my sense of self-value and self-worth was based on what I could provide and what I could give to other people. So in a way, in my childhood even, maybe that's a reflection of that energy too. And what I come in with though is this groundedness, this practicality, this hard work energy, very hardworking, very controlling in the form of lists and organization, sometimes even over-analytical to be like overly prepared, attention to detail. Perfectionism is the big one too. There's a level of perfectionism that I have when it comes to my videos, who I am out, who I am in the world. This is an energy that I've already in a way mastered and also, there's a shadow side to it too. I'm very hard on myself and I'm very hard on other people. Um, and that's because I'm hard on myself. So one thing that's like a life lesson is for me to move out of the energy of that and move into Pisces, which is more watery. So Virgo is earth, Pisces is watery, watery. Uh, Pisces likes to go with the flow. Pisces is about a bigger universal plan, a bigger universal energy. And that is in, don't wanna get too heady about this, but it's in my 11th house. The 11th house is the house of community, friendship. It's the house of partnerships. It's the house of abundance in certain ways. It's the house of like a new, I believe it's the house of the new earth. And in a way, my videos that have done well on YouTube are the videos that are about letting go, letting go of perfectionism, letting go of trying so hard. It's like this iPod that my dad gave me when I graduated high school. I got an iPod and on the back of it there was a quote, and I don't even know why my dad picked this quote, but it was so relevant to my life. And it said, it's a quote by Yoda, and it said, "Do or do not, there is no try." Something like that. "Do or do not, there is no try." Like trying, the energy of trying is the energy of resistance. It's the energy of I'm not enough. It's the energy of forcing. And a lot of the videos on my channel, if you look, are about letting go of attachment and trusting the flow of life, trusting the universal flow, trusting the energy to flow through you, and for trusting the universe in a way. And that's a huge pillar of what I teach, but also more so than that, there's even deeper threads there I don't have to get into this video, but the deeper threads have to do with me doing live events and showing more about like connecting group, connecting community together, connecting group energy together. I've done live events before, I've done retreats before, and the connections people create is so magical. And what I've realized is even, I've always had resistance when it comes to what I do, somewhat resistance of me, like a fear of going into the next path I have rather than just making YouTube videos, but like doing live events and stuff. Because there's a part of me that's afraid of letting my ego shine too much or letting my ego take control too much. It's like a fear I think I have from maybe past lives, I don't know, but from letting it be all about me because I wanna be more of like a representation of an energy. I want it to flow through me. I know that if I take too much credit for like, look at what Aaron's done on YouTube, look how awesome I am, look how amazing I am, I feel like the universe will come in and there's like a fear that I have 'cause I think that it'll come in and kind of like slap me in a way. But in this whole north node to south node thing, it kind of explains that energy and how I actually work better like with working with other people, with working with groups, connecting people together, helping people go with the flow, channel this energy through, find out your passion, and also creating systems for people to connect and transform the planet. Which is why I think I've always been called to doing these, whatchamacallit, the OM activations. I do these OM activations where we connect to the energetic field of the planet so that we could bring through higher vibrational energy to transform the planet. It's called the Maharishi effect, where many people with one unified intention not only change their own lives, but change the planet, change the timeline that they're on. I know it sounds esoteric, but this is something I've always been fascinated by. This is exactly what the chart shows. And like, I'm going to be putting more energy into that than just like, the whole attract love content on YouTube. And normally the attract love content only really does well when I'm talking about letting go, which I find very fascinating. But it's how can you use this in your own life? Well, first off, even just the energy themes of learning about what your south node and north node is will help you to understand why you're moving away from a certain energy and into a different type of energy. Think of this in terms of energy. And then more specifically, you can learn about how to apply that in your life. Doesn't mean that necessarily you look this up online and it says, oh, you're gonna be a dentist. Your north node says you are a dentist and your south node says that in a past life, you were a great, you know, tile or architecture, architecture. It doesn't show you that necessarily, but it shows you an energy to follow. And as you start following that energy, that north node energy, That's when you begin to create more momentum in your life to become more aware of what you can be passionate about and how you can apply that. Now in other ways as well, astrology— I feel like a freaking astrology nerd now, even though like I'm not expert at it or anything, but there are certain things within your astrological chart that will show you why you are a certain way when it comes to your relationships, why you are a certain way when it comes to your business, when it comes to like who you are and how you show up. And don't let these things, these are permission slips. Don't let them take power over you to where you feel powerless, 'cause that's, if you overanalyze it, you can get there. You're like, why do I have this in my chart? Why do I have this? But just in general, you came here to experience a certain alignment of energy. And by becoming aware of simply your north node to south nodes, North node, south node, I think there's a general direction that you can become aware of that will help you to find your purpose, that will help you to find clarity in your life, that will help you to find more alignment because then you move away. I'm moving away from perfectionism, from over-controlling aspects of my life. You know, even just yesterday as an example of this, somebody on my team who I work closely with, He does a lot of my, uh, he, he helps me post. So I make the videos and stuff. He'll post it sometimes on my social media channels and he accidentally posted a video that was supposed to go on my, it's called the Shift Experience Instagram page, which is like an Instagram page where I post a lot of videos more consistently. He accidentally posted it on my main profile, which I don't really post as often on my main Instagram profile. And when that happened, I was like, hey, why does it was, it was an accident. And at first I was, there was an initial trigger where I was like, why'd you, "You messed up, right? You put it on this channel." And I went in, I deleted the video on my new one, and I expressed that to him. And I could tell he has kind of a perfectionist mentality too, because I think of his childhood dynamics in a way as well, where his mom was very strict. She's like a teacher, and he's kind of like, doesn't wanna mess up. And I kind of know that about him. So in a way, I wanted to be more compassionate. And also at the time that this happened, I was like reading about North Node, South Node stuff. And I became aware of like how hard I am on myself and how I hold other people to that high expectation. So even though I don't want it to happen again, what I said was, I said, you know, he felt bad. He's like, oh shit, dude, I'm sorry. I was doing, or whatever he says, I'm sorry. And I said, it's all good, man. We make mistakes happen. Don't even worry. Don't be so hard on yourself. That's what I said to him. And he sent me something back and said, thanks, man. He's like, I was just moving too fast. But I can tell he appreciated that I said that. And it was kind of a breakthrough for me to just not be, be like so strict, 'cause sometimes I am. I'm like, I want someone to feel like, don't mess up again. But maybe that trigger energy keeps it happening, you know? So that's like an example of how I'm using it to where there's still a standard, but I could be more compassionate because that's one thing I came to learn. Not only be compassionate with other people, but being compassionate with myself because I am so freaking hard on myself. I am such a perfectionist in many mentalities. And the reason I'm hard on other people is 'cause I am hard on myself. And that perfectionist, detail-oriented, list, organizational mentality, as I move into live events and as I move into like these group OM activations and helping people connect to like this larger kind of more abstract, go with the flow energy, not only am I like fulfilling my mission of why I came here, but also I think it's gonna, I think it will have a different effect on the collective and on the energy because we get signs based on the path that we're going on. That we're on the right track or we're off the track. And I think when I make videos that are just about attracting love or just about like things that maybe aren't as relevant to what I'm passionate about or what that energy flow is, it's kind of like a distraction in a way. And sometimes the universe will give you ways of getting back on track. But I think if one of the path of least resistances is to become aware of what your north node is and specifically what house it's in as well. And that will help you become aware of how you can be more in alignment with yourself. And an interesting way as well is looking at my best friends. My friend Victor, his passion is helping people. Like, we— him and I have a business together called Full Time Purpose where we help people go full time doing what they love. His whole theme of his life is like he helps people find their purpose. And I actually sent him a voice note on this yesterday, this whole North Node, South Node thing, and he's super interested in it. But his is, his North Node, I believe if I'm correct on this, is in his 10th house, which is about career, which is about self-image and career. And it's in the house of, I believe, Gemini. And the, it's very clear to me though that what he's helping people do is he's helping people to expand their scope and to become more expressive on their purpose because his is in the, the house of that, of like career. And it's like what him and I do in our joint business together. But I can tell that if he just doubled down on that, his first book, he wants to be on purpose, helping people find their purpose and their spiritual awakening to leading them to their purpose. But in a way, this doesn't just work for people that create content. I think this works for just like understanding who you are and how you go about the context through which you go about your purpose. Now, there's also another side of this. There's traditional astrology, there's Vedic astrology. It's a little bit different, but similar in some ways. But in general, what I'd recommend is you become aware of just what your north node is and what your south node is and become aware that that is the energy in your life, the path of least resistance that you can become aware of, what house it's in, become aware of that context. And that might help you gain clarity as to who you are, why you came here, and what the energy themes that you wanted to have are. And if you want, there's calculators online will help you find out what that is. And I'm curious, what is your north node, south node? Can you share it in the comments below? Let me know what you think of this concept. If you want me to, maybe what I'll do is I will bring Bracha on. Let me know, comment below, and maybe I'll have her come on for a whole video on this of knowing what your purpose is and how to find your purpose within your astrology chart. Um, once again, this is a, this is a permission slip. Don't let it overtake your life or tell you exactly who you are. Follow, use your internal guidance system and that is the first barometer. But I think in a way this may help many of you gain clarity as to who you are, what you're passionate about, and how you can absolutely transform your life by applying that. Now also there's a video right here, the video I did with Bracha, if you want to learn more about the year coming up, the energy we're moving into, the Age of Aquarius, the Great Awakening, check this video out right here. This is like a massive portal opening for the potential of many, many, many more souls waking up. As a world-renowned astrologer,
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