Since these are usually going retrograde, what does it mean when they station or direct? Is this covered in one of the Courses/Videos?
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Unless I'm sorely incorrect pretty sure rahu/ketu are always retrograde
Hmmm... I saw this in a friend's chart last week, using astro-seek, with "True Nodes" turned on..
Someone asked the same question elsewhere:
https://forum.astro-seek.com/topic/10755
It seems that "mean node" calculation averages out a "wobble" that makes the Nodes "appear" to go back and forth... (not the same as retrograde or direct, since they are mathematically derived "points" based on the moon?). So, using "True Nodes", technically 10% of the time they appear to be stationed or direct (according to another link Google brought me to)?
https://psychologicallyastrology.com/2019/11/23/true-nodes-stationary-during-eclipses/
Rahu and ketu do always go retro. HOwever, they really dont exist as anything we can see. They are just the point of the moon crossing the eclipitc and the moon does this every 2 weeks. At other times, that point does not exist, so where is it? The differnet node options are attempts to figure it out. Mean node does not average out the wobble that makes the nodes appear to go retrograde. It simply takes the mean motion of the nodes and uses that constant motion. The problme with it is that when the moon crosses the ecliptic, the mean node is not at the same degree as the moon, which it should be at. So mean node is very inaccurate.
with true node, when the moon crosses the ecliptic the node is exactly on the moon as it should be. However, the problem is the rest of the time, which is most of the time. Since the moon has very rapid changes in latitude, where it "may" cross the ecliptic changes dramatically thus the direct motion of the true node option. But it's not really TRUE, its only true when the moon crosses the ecliptic. However, it's a better working node option than mean node.