☍ Opposition
Mercury opposition South Node
The familiar answer stops fitting. Read as the moment expertise has to be revised, which the tradition regards as productive.
- Angle
- 180°
- Orb used
- ±6°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ☿ ☋
What these two are about together
Thinking and what is already known. Associated with fluency in something learned long ago, and with the difference between knowing a subject and still being curious about it.
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 familiar answer stops fitting. Read as the moment expertise has to be revised, which the tradition regards as productive.
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
Mercury: Mind, language and how you process
South Node: What comes easily, and what you hide in
Mercury and South Node at other angles
- Mercury conjunction South NodeTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Mercury semi-sextile South NodeThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Mercury semi-square South NodeForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Mercury sextile South NodeSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Mercury quintile South NodeSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Mercury square South NodeNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Mercury trine South NodeA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Mercury sesquiquadrate South NodeA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Mercury 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 Mercury and South Node actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.