☍ Opposition
Sun opposition Chiron
The self keeps meeting the sore place. Read as a recurring bruise to confidence rather than a defect, and traditionally described as the aspect most likely to be underestimated by the person carrying it.
- Angle
- 180°
- Orb used
- ±6°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ☉ ⚷
What these two are about together
The self and the injury that did not close. The tradition reads this as the place where a person is least able to take their own competence at face value, and where their actual usefulness to others tends to come from.
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
The self keeps meeting the sore place. Read as a recurring bruise to confidence rather than a defect, and traditionally described as the aspect most likely to be underestimated by the person carrying it.
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
Sun: Identity, vitality and what you are becoming
Chiron: The injury that does not close, and what it made you able to do
Sun and Chiron at other angles
- Sun conjunction ChironTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Sun semi-sextile ChironThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Sun semi-square ChironForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Sun sextile ChironSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Sun quintile ChironSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Sun square ChironNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Sun trine ChironA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Sun sesquiquadrate ChironA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Sun 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 Sun and Chiron actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.