☍ Opposition
Mercury opposition Black Moon Lilith
Saying it costs. Read as a pattern of being right and being unwelcome, which is a description rather than a warning.
- Angle
- 180°
- Orb used
- ±6°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ☿ ⚸
What these two are about together
Voice and what will not be made acceptable. Associated with the thing a person says that other people wish they had not.
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
Saying it costs. Read as a pattern of being right and being unwelcome, which is a description rather than a warning.
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
Mercury: Mind, language and how you process
Black Moon Lilith: What you will not apologise for
Mercury and Black Moon Lilith at other angles
- Mercury conjunction Black Moon LilithTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Mercury semi-sextile Black Moon LilithThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Mercury semi-square Black Moon LilithForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Mercury sextile Black Moon LilithSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Mercury quintile Black Moon LilithSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Mercury square Black Moon LilithNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Mercury trine Black Moon LilithA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Black Moon LilithA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Mercury 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 Mercury and Black Moon Lilith actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.