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☿︎ ☍︎ ♃︎ Mercury opposition Jupiter

Mercury opposite Jupiter sets the thinking mind across the wheel from the appetite for more: two half-truths looking for a balance.

Mercury connects where there is thought, speech, and exchange; Jupiter expands where there is growth, luck, and meaning. What follows is what happens when the two are tied together.

Across this divide, something to work out 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 a clear, agile, curious mind tempered by generous faith that opens doors. Under strain it slides toward nervous talk that never lands colliding with more for the sake of more, the same energy turned against itself.

As a transit, Mercury 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 Mercury (mind and message) with Jupiter (expansion and faith), held 180° apart.

Right now

Mercury and Jupiter currently stand about 35.9° apart, 144.1° 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 Mercury
• Mercury conjunction Jupiter
• Mercury sextile Jupiter
• Mercury square Jupiter
• Mercury trine Jupiter

Where these two stand today

• Mercury in Virgo
• Jupiter in Leo

Related oppositions

• Mercury opposition Pluto
• Mercury opposition North Node
• Mercury opposition South Node

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