What ☋ means
It marks where the Moon’s orbit crosses the ecliptic going south.
The ecliptic is the Sun’s apparent path across the sky, and the Moon crosses it twice in its orbit. In astrology, ☋ is the South Node. Some chart traditions read it as familiar patterns, prior conditioning, or release; astronomy treats the node as orbital geometry, not a personality reading.
Why is ☋ called the Dragon’s Tail?
The name comes from eclipse stories that pictured a dragon.
In Indian traditions, Rāhu and Ketu are linked to the two parts of a demon associated with eclipses. Iranian traditions described a dragon spanning the lunar nodes, and related dragon head-and-tail terms appear in medieval Islamic sources. The route by which the imagery traveled among these traditions remains uncertain.
Specialist chart notation; the surrounding chart tells you whether the writer means orbital geometry or an astrological reading.
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsDon't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does ☋ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
How to type ☋
☋\260BCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.