The Opposition

Think of a see-saw. When one side goes up, the other goes down, and the fun only works when both people are on it. That is an opposition: two energies facing each other across the chart, each needing the other to find balance.

The opposition is the angle of 180 degrees, half of the circle. Two planets in opposition sit in opposite signs, six signs apart, looking straight at each other.

The geometry

Opposite signs always share a modality and a polarity: Aries and Libra are both cardinal and both active, Taurus and Scorpio both fixed and both receptive. They are two halves of one axis: self and other, keeping and releasing, home and world. So the opposition is less a fight than a negotiation.

Every full Moon is an opposition

Here is something you have seen many times. A full Moon is the Sun and the Moon in opposition: the Moon fully lit because it stands opposite the Sun, across the Earth. Everyone born at a full Moon has a Sun-Moon opposition. Their will and their needs face each other, and often they learn early to see both sides of everything.

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