☍ Opposition
Sun opposition South Node
Identity and the old habit argue. Read as the useful kind of discomfort, and as the point at which a person stops doing the thing they are known for.
- Angle
- 180°
- Orb used
- ±6°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ☉ ☋
What these two are about together
The self and what is already known. The South Node is read as the familiar competence, so this is about identity resting on something a person is already good at.
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 and the old habit argue. Read as the useful kind of discomfort, and as the point at which a person stops doing the thing they are known for.
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
South Node: What comes easily, and what you hide in
Sun and South Node at other angles
- Sun conjunction South NodeTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Sun semi-sextile South NodeThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Sun semi-square South NodeForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Sun sextile South NodeSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Sun quintile South NodeSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Sun square South NodeNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Sun trine South NodeA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Sun sesquiquadrate South NodeA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Sun quincunx South NodeA 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 South Node actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.