☍ Opposition
Mars opposition Chiron
Wanting is where it catches. Read as hesitation about pursuing anything for yourself, and as anger that turns inward rather than outward.
- Angle
- 180°
- Orb used
- ±6°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ♂ ⚷
What these two are about together
Assertion and the sore place. Associated with what happens to somebody who was punished for wanting things, and with the particular difficulty of acting on your own behalf.
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
Wanting is where it catches. Read as hesitation about pursuing anything for yourself, and as anger that turns inward rather than outward.
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
Mars: Drive, anger and how you go after things
Chiron: The injury that does not close, and what it made you able to do
Mars and Chiron at other angles
- Mars conjunction ChironTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Mars semi-sextile ChironThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Mars semi-square ChironForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Mars sextile ChironSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Mars quintile ChironSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Mars square ChironNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Mars trine ChironA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Mars sesquiquadrate ChironA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Mars quincunx ChironA 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 Mars and Chiron actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.