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♂︎ ☍︎ ♃︎ Mars opposition Jupiter

Mars opposite Jupiter sets the will to act across the wheel from the appetite for more: two half-truths looking for a balance.

Mars pushes forward where there is desire, courage, and conflict; Jupiter expands where there is growth, luck, and meaning. What follows is what happens when the two are tied together.

Across this divide, a target and room to expand look like opposites, and the pull is to pick a side. The real work is holding both, since each carries half of the truth.

At its best the friction produces courage that is well aimed tempered by generous faith that opens doors. Under strain it slides toward force for its own sake colliding with more for the sake of more, the same energy turned against itself.

As a transit, Mars moving to opposition Jupiter marks a passing window, hours to days for the Moon, months or years for the slow outer bodies, when the theme is live and worth watching. In a birth chart the same aspect is a standing feature of character rather than a single moment.

Here the opposition joins Mars (drive and desire) with Jupiter (expansion and faith), held 180° apart.

Right now

Mars and Jupiter currently stand about 28.5° apart, 151.5° away from an exact opposition. Watch it move on the live clock.

When: past and next exact oppositions

Computed from the ephemeris (UTC), not copied from a table.

More on this pair

• Jupiter opposition Mars
• Mars conjunction Jupiter
• Mars sextile Jupiter
• Mars square Jupiter
• Mars trine Jupiter

Where these two stand today

• Mars in Cancer
• Jupiter in Leo

Related oppositions

• Mars opposition South Node
• Sun opposition Jupiter
• Moon opposition Jupiter

In traditional astrology this is interpretation, not fate. More: about oppositions · all aspects.