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☿︎ ☍︎ ♇︎ Mercury opposition Pluto

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

Mercury connects where there is thought, speech, and exchange; Pluto transforms where there is power, buried things, and rebirth. What follows is what happens when the two are tied together.

The opposition places them on one axis, so Mercury tends to show up in the people and situations Pluto attracts. The task is to own both ends instead of casting one of them onto someone else.

Pushed in a good direction, it yields a clear, agile, curious mind sharpened by the power to remake yourself from the root. Pushed badly, it hardens into nervous talk that never lands set against a grip that cannot let go.

Timing matters. When Mercury forms this opposition to Pluto in the sky, it is a temporary weather system that comes and goes. Held in a natal chart, it describes something the person carries for life.

Here the opposition joins Mercury (mind and message) with Pluto (power and transformation), held 180° apart.

Right now

Mercury and Pluto currently stand about 133.0° apart, 47.0° 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

• Pluto opposition Mercury
• Mercury conjunction Pluto
• Mercury sextile Pluto
• Mercury square Pluto
• Mercury trine Pluto

Where these two stand today

• Mercury in Virgo
• Pluto in Aquarius

Related oppositions

• Moon opposition Pluto
• Venus opposition Pluto
• Mars opposition Pluto

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