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☽︎ ☍︎ ♂︎ Moon opposition Mars
The Moon opposite Mars sets the feeling body across the wheel from the will to act: two half-truths looking for a balance.
In this pairing the Moon carries emotion, habit, and the need to belong, while Mars carries drive, courage, and appetite. The aspect describes how those two departments of a life meet.
Across this divide, shelter and a target 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 nourishing, honest emotional instinct tempered by courage that is well aimed. Under strain it slides toward moods that rule the day colliding with force for its own sake, the same energy turned against itself.
As a transit, the Moon moving to opposition Mars 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 Moon (instinct and feeling) with Mars (drive and desire), held 180° apart.
Right now
Moon and Mars currently stand about 21.5° apart, 158.5° away from an exact opposition. Watch it move on the live clock.
When: past and next exact oppositions
| 23 August 2026 | most recent |
| 21 September 2026 | upcoming |
| 20 October 2026 | upcoming |
| 17 November 2026 | upcoming |
| 15 December 2026 | 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.