☍ Opposition
Moon opposition Uranus
Security and freedom fight. Traditionally read as an unstable early home, as difficulty staying, and as leaving before being left.
- Angle
- 180°
- Orb used
- ±6°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ☽ ♅
What these two are about together
Need and disruption. Whether emotional life is settled or repeatedly rearranged, often by the person themselves.
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
Security and freedom fight. Traditionally read as an unstable early home, as difficulty staying, and as leaving before being left.
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
Uranus: Disruption, independence and the sudden turn
Moon and Uranus at other angles
- Moon conjunction UranusTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Moon semi-sextile UranusThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Moon semi-square UranusForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Moon sextile UranusSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Moon quintile UranusSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Moon square UranusNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Moon trine UranusA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Moon sesquiquadrate UranusA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Moon quincunx UranusA 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 Uranus actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.