☍ Opposition
Mars opposition South Node
The reflex misfires. Read as the familiar response producing a result it did not used to, which the tradition treats as information.
- Angle
- 180°
- Orb used
- ±6°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ♂ ☋
What these two are about together
Action and what is already known. Associated with the reflex a person reaches for under pressure, and with whether that reflex still serves them.
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 reflex misfires. Read as the familiar response producing a result it did not used to, which the tradition treats as information.
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
South Node: What comes easily, and what you hide in
Mars and South Node at other angles
- Mars conjunction South NodeTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Mars semi-sextile South NodeThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Mars semi-square South NodeForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Mars sextile South NodeSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Mars quintile South NodeSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Mars square South NodeNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Mars trine South NodeA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Mars sesquiquadrate South NodeA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Mars quincunx South 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 South Node actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.