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♂︎ ☍︎ ♄︎ Mars opposition Saturn
The opposition strings Mars and Saturn 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; Saturn governs work, time, and responsibility. Read the aspect as the working relationship between them.
Across this divide, a target and a rule to keep 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 patience that builds something lasting. Under strain it slides toward force for its own sake colliding with fear that hardens into a wall, the same energy turned against itself.
As a transit, Mars moving to opposition Saturn 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 Saturn (structure and limits), held 180° apart.
Right now
Mars and Saturn currently stand about 92.6° apart, 87.4° away from an exact opposition. Watch it move on the live clock.
When: past and next exact oppositions
| 9 August 2025 | most recent |
| 29 August 2027 | upcoming |
Computed from the ephemeris (UTC), not copied from a table.
Where these two stand today
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In traditional astrology this is interpretation, not fate. More: about oppositions · all aspects.