☍ Opposition
Sun opposition Pluto
Identity in a power struggle. Traditionally the aspect of confrontation with authority, of compulsion that overrides judgement, and of periods where the person feels they must be entirely remade.
- Angle
- 180°
- Orb used
- ±6°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ☉ ♇
What these two are about together
Identity and power. The most intense pairing the Sun makes, and the one the tradition reads as being about control, survival and what a person will not let go of.
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
Identity in a power struggle. Traditionally the aspect of confrontation with authority, of compulsion that overrides judgement, and of periods where the person feels they must be entirely remade.
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
Pluto: Power, compulsion and what will not stay buried
Sun and Pluto at other angles
- Sun conjunction PlutoTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Sun semi-sextile PlutoThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Sun semi-square PlutoForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Sun sextile PlutoSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Sun quintile PlutoSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Sun square PlutoNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Sun trine PlutoA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Sun sesquiquadrate PlutoA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Sun quincunx PlutoA 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 Pluto actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.