☍ Opposition
Sun opposition Black Moon Lilith
The self and the refusal argue. Read as the cost of being palatable, and as a recurring choice between approval and accuracy.
- Angle
- 180°
- Orb used
- ±6°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ☉ ⚸
What these two are about together
The self and what will not be made acceptable. Lilith is read as the part of a person that refuses to be smoothed over, which the tradition distinguishes firmly from the part that is wrong with them.
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
The self and the refusal argue. Read as the cost of being palatable, and as a recurring choice between approval and accuracy.
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
Sun: Identity, vitality and what you are becoming
Black Moon Lilith: What you will not apologise for
Sun and Black Moon Lilith at other angles
- Sun conjunction Black Moon LilithTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Sun semi-sextile Black Moon LilithThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Sun semi-square Black Moon LilithForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Sun sextile Black Moon LilithSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Sun quintile Black Moon LilithSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Sun square Black Moon LilithNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Sun trine Black Moon LilithA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Sun sesquiquadrate Black Moon LilithA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Sun quincunx Black Moon LilithA 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 Sun and Black Moon Lilith actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.