Sun opposition Uranus

What these two are about together

Identity and disruption. Whether being yourself is a settled matter or something that keeps breaking and reforming.

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 urge to break out arrives at the wrong moment. Read as restlessness, abrupt reversals of direction, and a pattern of leaving things just before they mature.

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

Uranus: Disruption, independence and the sudden turn

Sun and Uranus at other angles

• Sun conjunction UranusTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
• Sun semi-sextile UranusThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
• Sun semi-square UranusForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
• Sun sextile UranusSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
• Sun quintile UranusSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
• Sun square UranusNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
• Sun trine UranusA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
• Sun sesquiquadrate UranusA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
• Sun quincunx UranusA hundred and fifty degrees apart: two things that cannot be compared