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☿︎ ☍︎ ☊︎ Mercury opposition North Node
Face to face at a hundred and eighty degrees, Mercury and the North Node each hold half of something, and the work is finding the point between quickness and wit and a pull toward the unfamiliar.
Mercury governs thinking, talking, and trading; the North Node governs growth and the work of this life. Read the aspect as the working relationship between them.
Across this divide, something to work out 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, Mercury 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 Mercury (mind and message) with North Node (the path being learned), held 180° apart.
Right now
Mercury and North Node currently stand about 158.6° apart, 21.4° away from an exact opposition. Watch it move on the live clock.
When: past and next exact oppositions
| 25 August 2026 | most recent |
| 7 August 2027 | upcoming |
| 20 July 2028 | upcoming |
Computed from the ephemeris (UTC), not copied from a table.
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Where these two stand today
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In traditional astrology this is interpretation, not fate. More: about oppositions · all aspects.