☍ Opposition
Moon opposition Chiron
Being soothed is where the difficulty is. Read as needing care and finding it hard to accept, which the tradition treats as a habit formed early rather than a fault.
- Angle
- 180°
- Orb used
- ±6°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ☽ ⚷
What these two are about together
Feeling and the sore place. The pair the tradition associates most strongly with early care: what was missing, what was given inconsistently, and what a person does about it afterwards.
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 soothed is where the difficulty is. Read as needing care and finding it hard to accept, which the tradition treats as a habit formed early rather than a fault.
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
Moon: Need, instinct and what settles you
Chiron: The injury that does not close, and what it made you able to do
Moon and Chiron at other angles
- Moon conjunction ChironTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Moon semi-sextile ChironThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Moon semi-square ChironForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Moon sextile ChironSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Moon quintile ChironSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Moon square ChironNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Moon trine ChironA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Moon sesquiquadrate ChironA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Moon 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 Moon and Chiron actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.