☍ Opposition
Moon opposition Black Moon Lilith
Comfort and refusal pull apart. Read as needing to be liked and needing to be honest, and the tradition does not pretend those always agree.
- Angle
- 180°
- Orb used
- ±6°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ☽ ⚸
What these two are about together
Feeling and what will not be made acceptable. Associated with the feelings a person learned early not to show, and with what happens to them afterwards.
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
Comfort and refusal pull apart. Read as needing to be liked and needing to be honest, and the tradition does not pretend those always agree.
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
Moon: Need, instinct and what settles you
Black Moon Lilith: What you will not apologise for
Moon and Black Moon Lilith at other angles
- Moon conjunction Black Moon LilithTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Moon semi-sextile Black Moon LilithThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Moon semi-square Black Moon LilithForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Moon sextile Black Moon LilithSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Moon quintile Black Moon LilithSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Moon square Black Moon LilithNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Moon trine Black Moon LilithA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Moon sesquiquadrate Black Moon LilithA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Moon 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 Moon and Black Moon Lilith actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.