☍ Opposition
Venus opposition Chiron
Being valued is where it catches. Read as difficulty accepting affection rather than difficulty attracting it, and traditionally the more painful of the two to live with.
- Angle
- 180°
- Orb used
- ±6°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ♀ ⚷
What these two are about together
Worth and the sore place. The tradition reads this as the aspect most concerned with whether a person believes they are wanted, and with what they do about believing they are not.
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 valued is where it catches. Read as difficulty accepting affection rather than difficulty attracting it, and traditionally the more painful of the two to live with.
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
Venus: Values, attraction and what you find beautiful
Chiron: The injury that does not close, and what it made you able to do
Venus and Chiron at other angles
- Venus conjunction ChironTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Venus semi-sextile ChironThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Venus semi-square ChironForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Venus sextile ChironSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Venus quintile ChironSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Venus square ChironNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Venus trine ChironA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Venus sesquiquadrate ChironA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Venus 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 Venus and Chiron actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.