☍ Opposition
Venus opposition Black Moon Lilith
Being wanted and being unedited conflict. Read as the difficulty of being loved without being tidied, which is the whole of this aspect.
- Angle
- 180°
- Orb used
- ±6°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ♀ ⚸
What these two are about together
Worth and what will not be made acceptable, which the tradition treats as the central Lilith pairing and also the one most often written about badly.
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
Being wanted and being unedited conflict. Read as the difficulty of being loved without being tidied, which is the whole of this aspect.
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
Venus: Values, attraction and what you find beautiful
Black Moon Lilith: What you will not apologise for
Venus and Black Moon Lilith at other angles
- Venus conjunction Black Moon LilithTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Venus semi-sextile Black Moon LilithThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Venus semi-square Black Moon LilithForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Venus sextile Black Moon LilithSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Venus quintile Black Moon LilithSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Venus square Black Moon LilithNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Venus trine Black Moon LilithA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Venus sesquiquadrate Black Moon LilithA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Venus 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 Venus and Black Moon Lilith actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.