☍ Opposition
Venus opposition South Node
The old preference stops satisfying. Read as a pattern becoming visible, which is usually uncomfortable and usually useful.
- Angle
- 180°
- Orb used
- ±6°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ♀ ☋
What these two are about together
What is wanted and what is already known. The tradition associates this with the type a person keeps returning to, in relationships and in taste.
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 old preference stops satisfying. Read as a pattern becoming visible, which is usually uncomfortable and usually useful.
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
South Node: What comes easily, and what you hide in
Venus and South Node at other angles
- Venus conjunction South NodeTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Venus semi-sextile South NodeThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Venus semi-square South NodeForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Venus sextile South NodeSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Venus quintile South NodeSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Venus square South NodeNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Venus trine South NodeA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Venus sesquiquadrate South NodeA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Venus quincunx South NodeA 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 South Node actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.