☍ Opposition
Mars opposition Black Moon Lilith
Wanting and refusing collide. Read as anger arriving late and disproportionately, which the tradition treats as pressure rather than temper.
- Angle
- 180°
- Orb used
- ±6°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ♂ ⚸
What these two are about together
Assertion and what will not be made acceptable. Associated with anger that was not permitted, and with what a person does with it once it is.
What a opposition does
An opposition puts two planets exactly across from one another, in signs that are traditionally paired rather than unrelated. It is read as tension between two things that genuinely belong together, which is what separates it from a square. The tradition frames it as a problem of balance and, very often, as something a person meets through other people rather than alone.
How it reads
Wanting and refusing collide. Read as anger arriving late and disproportionately, which the tradition treats as pressure rather than temper.
In practice
Read as a see-saw. Whichever end is being favoured, the other end is being neglected, and the aspect tends to describe the swing between them rather than a settled position.
What to watch for
Projection. Oppositions are the aspect most associated with meeting your own unowned half in somebody else and disliking it there.
The two planets
Mars: Drive, anger and how you go after things
Black Moon Lilith: What you will not apologise for
Mars and Black Moon Lilith at other angles
- Mars conjunction Black Moon LilithTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Mars semi-sextile Black Moon LilithThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Mars semi-square Black Moon LilithForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Mars sextile Black Moon LilithSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Mars quintile Black Moon LilithSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Mars square Black Moon LilithNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Mars trine Black Moon LilithA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Mars sesquiquadrate Black Moon LilithA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Mars quincunx Black Moon LilithA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared
Find this in your own chart
A reading like this only tells you what the pairing is associated with. Whether Mars and Black Moon Lilith actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.