☍ Opposition
Moon opposition North Node
Comfort pulls one way and growth the other. Read as the specific difficulty of having to be unsettled to get anywhere, rather than as anything going wrong.
- Angle
- 180°
- Orb used
- ±6°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ☽ ☊
What these two are about together
Comfort and the direction of development, which the tradition treats as one of the more demanding pairs, because the Moon is what already feels safe and the North Node is by definition unfamiliar.
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 pulls one way and growth the other. Read as the specific difficulty of having to be unsettled to get anywhere, rather than as anything going wrong.
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
North Node: The direction of growth, and the thing you have no practice at
Moon and North Node at other angles
- Moon conjunction North NodeTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Moon semi-sextile North NodeThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Moon semi-square North NodeForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Moon sextile North NodeSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Moon quintile North NodeSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Moon square North NodeNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Moon trine North NodeA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Moon sesquiquadrate North NodeA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Moon 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 Moon and North Node actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.