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♂︎ ☍︎ ♆︎ Mars opposition Neptune

The opposition strings Mars and Neptune along one axis, so each tends to be met out in the world, in other people, rather than owned within.

Mars governs drive, courage, and appetite; Neptune governs dream, faith, and imagination. Read the aspect as the working relationship between them.

Across this divide, a target and something to merge with 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 compassion and vision without a wall around them. Under strain it slides toward force for its own sake colliding with a fog that hides what is real, the same energy turned against itself.

As a transit, Mars moving to opposition Neptune 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 Neptune (dreams and dissolution), held 180° apart.

Right now

Mars and Neptune currently stand about 102.5° apart, 77.5° 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

• Neptune opposition Mars
• Mars conjunction Neptune
• Mars sextile Neptune
• Mars square Neptune
• Mars trine Neptune

Where these two stand today

• Mars in Cancer
• Neptune in Aries

Related oppositions

• Mercury opposition Neptune
• Venus opposition Neptune
• Jupiter opposition Neptune

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