Editing Orbital node (section)

===Use in astrology===

The image of the ascending and descending orbital nodes as the head and tail of a dragon, 180 degrees apart in the sky, goes back to the Chaldeans; it was used by the Zoroastrians, and then by Arabic astronomers and astrologers. In Middle Persian, its head and tail were respectively called {{lang|pal|gōzihr&thinsp;sar}} and {{lang|pal|gōzihr&thinsp;dumb}}; in Arabic, {{lang|ar|al-ra's al-jawzihr}} and {{lang|ar|al-dhanab al-jawzihr}} — or in the case of the Moon, ___&nbsp;{{lang|ar|al-tennin}}.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Gōzihr |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica (iranicaonline.org) |date=February 17, 2012 |at=Vol. XI, Fasc. 2, p. 184 |url=https://iranicaonline.org/articles/gozihr |access-date=March 28, 2023}}<br>Cf. [[Gochihr (Zoroastrianism)]].</ref> Among the arguments against astrologers made by [[Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya]] (1292–1350), in his ''Miftah Dar al-SaCadah:'' "Why is it that you have given an influence to {{lang|ar|al-Ra's}} [the head] and {{lang|ar|al-Dhanab}} [the tail], which are two imaginary points [ascending and descending nodes]?"<ref name=Livingston>{{Cite journal | title=Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah: A Fourteenth Century Defense against Astrological Divination and Alchemical Transmutation | first=John W. | last=Livingston | journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society | volume=91 | issue=1 | year=1971 | pages=96–103 | doi=10.2307/600445| jstor=600445}}</ref>