☍ Opposition
Moon opposition Neptune
Need becomes fog. Traditionally read as idealising the wrong people, as escapism, and as a longing for something that cannot be named and therefore cannot be met.
- Angle
- 180°
- Orb used
- ±6°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ☽ ♆
What these two are about together
Need and dissolution. The most permeable pair in the chart, and the one the tradition most associates with both compassion and self-deception.
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
Need becomes fog. Traditionally read as idealising the wrong people, as escapism, and as a longing for something that cannot be named and therefore cannot be met.
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
Neptune: Imagination, dissolution and what you cannot see clearly
Moon and Neptune at other angles
- Moon conjunction NeptuneTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Moon semi-sextile NeptuneThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Moon semi-square NeptuneForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Moon sextile NeptuneSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Moon quintile NeptuneSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Moon square NeptuneNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Moon trine NeptuneA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Moon sesquiquadrate NeptuneA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Moon quincunx NeptuneA 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 Neptune actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.