☍ Opposition
Venus opposition North Node
What appeals and what develops are not the same. Read as a real tension rather than a warning, and the tradition does not say which should win.
- Angle
- 180°
- Orb used
- ±6°
- Type
- Hard
- Bodies
- ♀ ☊
What these two are about together
What is wanted and the direction of development. The tradition associates this pair with relationships and values that carry a person forward, and with the difference between what is attractive and what is good for them.
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
What appeals and what develops are not the same. Read as a real tension rather than a warning, and the tradition does not say which should win.
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
North Node: The direction of growth, and the thing you have no practice at
Venus and North Node at other angles
- Venus conjunction North NodeTwo bodies at the same degree, acting as one
- Venus semi-sextile North NodeThirty degrees apart: neighbouring signs, with little in common
- Venus semi-square North NodeForty-five degrees apart: half a square, and read as half its weight
- Venus sextile North NodeSixty degrees apart: cooperation that has to be taken up
- Venus quintile North NodeSeventy-two degrees apart: a fifth of the circle, and the odd one out
- Venus square North NodeNinety degrees apart: two things that will not sit still together
- Venus trine North NodeA hundred and twenty degrees apart: the same element, working together
- Venus sesquiquadrate North NodeA hundred and thirty-five degrees: a square and a half
- Venus quincunx North 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 Venus and North Node actually make this angle in your chart depends on your birth date, time and place.