☍ Opposition
Moon opposition Pluto
Need turns into compulsion. Traditionally read as jealousy, as emotional crises that keep recurring until something is genuinely faced, and as a difficult or overwhelming mother figure.
- Angle
- 180°
- Orb used
- ±6°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ☽ ♇
What these two are about together
Need and power. Emotional intensity at its most extreme, and the tradition's clearest statement about what people do when they are afraid of losing something.
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 turns into compulsion. Traditionally read as jealousy, as emotional crises that keep recurring until something is genuinely faced, and as a difficult or overwhelming mother figure.
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
Pluto: Power, compulsion and what will not stay buried
Moon and Pluto at other angles
- Moon conjunction PlutoTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Moon semi-sextile PlutoThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Moon semi-square PlutoForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Moon sextile PlutoSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Moon quintile PlutoSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Moon square PlutoNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Moon trine PlutoA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Moon sesquiquadrate PlutoA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Moon quincunx PlutoA 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 Pluto actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.