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☿︎ ☍︎ ☋︎ Mercury opposition South Node

Face to face at a hundred and eighty degrees, Mercury and the South Node each hold half of something, and the work is finding the point between quickness and wit and ease and instinct.

In this pairing Mercury carries thinking, talking, and trading, while the South Node carries inherited ease and old habit. The aspect describes how those two departments of a life meet.

Across this divide, something to work out and to be released 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 South 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 South Node (the familiar past), held 180° apart.

Right now

Mercury and South Node currently stand about 21.4° apart, 158.6° 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

• South Node opposition Mercury
• Mercury conjunction South Node
• Mercury sextile South Node
• Mercury square South Node
• Mercury trine South Node

Where these two stand today

• Mercury in Virgo
• South Node in Leo

Related oppositions

• Mars opposition South Node
• Jupiter opposition South Node
• Saturn opposition South Node

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