Lunar node
Also called: lunar nodes, node, nodes
One of the two points where the Moon's path crosses the Sun's. They matter because eclipses can only happen when a New or Full Moon lands near one, and because they move backwards through the zodiac, taking about eighteen and a half years to go all the way round.
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