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♂︎ ☍︎ ☊︎ Mars opposition North Node

Mars opposite the North Node sets the will to act across the wheel from the direction of growth: two half-truths looking for a balance.

Mars governs drive, courage, and appetite; the North Node governs growth and the work of this life. Read the aspect as the working relationship between them.

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

As a transit, Mars moving to opposition the North Node 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 North Node (the path being learned), held 180° apart.

Right now

Mars and North Node currently stand about 137.0° apart, 43.0° 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

• North Node opposition Mars
• Mars conjunction North Node
• Mars sextile North Node
• Mars square North Node
• Mars trine North Node

Where these two stand today

• Mars in Cancer
• North Node in Aquarius

Related oppositions

• Jupiter opposition North Node
• Saturn opposition North Node
• Uranus opposition North Node

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