☍ Opposition

Sun opposition Neptune

The self is obscured. Traditionally read as confusion about direction, as a tendency to idealise people who do not deserve it, and as vitality that comes and goes for no clear reason.

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

Identity and dissolution. What happens to a sense of self when the edges are not firm, which the tradition reads as both the artistic gift and the central difficulty of this pair.

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 is obscured. Traditionally read as confusion about direction, as a tendency to idealise people who do not deserve it, and as vitality that comes and goes for no clear reason.

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

Neptune: Imagination, dissolution and what you cannot see clearly

Famous charts with sun opposition neptune

512 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.

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Sun and Neptune at other angles

Sun and Neptune 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 Sun and Neptune actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.

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