☍ 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
- ☽ ♀
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
Moon and Venus at other angles
- Moon conjunction VenusTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Moon semi-sextile VenusThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Moon semi-square VenusForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Moon sextile VenusSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Moon quintile VenusSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Moon square VenusNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Moon trine VenusA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Moon sesquiquadrate VenusA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Moon quincunx VenusA 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 Venus actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.