☍ Opposition
Mars opposition North Node
The push and the direction fight. Read as energy going into the familiar thing instead, and as frustration that is informative rather than obstructive.
- Angle
- 180°
- Orb used
- ±6°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ♂ ☊
What these two are about together
Action and the direction of development. Associated with whether a person actually moves toward what they are supposed to be growing into, which the tradition treats as the whole practical question of the nodes.
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
The push and the direction fight. Read as energy going into the familiar thing instead, and as frustration that is informative rather than obstructive.
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
North Node: The direction of growth, and the thing you have no practice at
Mars and North Node at other angles
- Mars conjunction North NodeTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Mars semi-sextile North NodeThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Mars semi-square North NodeForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Mars sextile North NodeSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Mars quintile North NodeSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Mars square North NodeNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Mars trine North NodeA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Mars sesquiquadrate North NodeA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Mars quincunx North NodeA 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 North Node actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.