☍ Opposition

Moon opposition Venus

What soothes you and what attracts you disagree. Traditionally read as wanting closeness and space at once, and as a tendency to seek comfort in the exact thing that unsettles you.

Angle
180°
Orb used
±6°
Type
Hard
Bodies
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What these two are about together

Need and value. What comforts you and what you find beautiful, which the tradition treats as one of the gentlest pairs in the chart.

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

What soothes you and what attracts you disagree. Traditionally read as wanting closeness and space at once, and as a tendency to seek comfort in the exact thing that unsettles you.

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

Venus: Values, attraction and what you find beautiful

Famous charts with moon opposition venus

515 of the 13,000 documented charts on this site have it. The 24 best known are below. Every one is computed from that figure’s own birth data, with the source of the birth time stated on their page.

23 of these are marked approximate: the figure has a birth date and no birth time, and the Moon moves far enough in a day that the hour could change whether the aspect holds. The rest do not depend on the hour at all.

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Moon and Venus at other angles

Moon and Venus also have a midpoint: the halfway point between them, read as a third place in the chart rather than as an angle between two.

Find this in your own chart

A reading like this only tells you what the pairing is associated with. Whether Moon and Venus actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.

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