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☽︎ ☍︎ ♀︎ Moon opposition Venus
The opposition strings the Moon and Venus along one axis, so each tends to be met out in the world, in other people, rather than owned within.
In this pairing the Moon carries emotion, habit, and the need to belong, while Venus carries love, pleasure, and taste. The aspect describes how those two departments of a life meet.
Across this divide, shelter and someone to draw close 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 warmth that puts others at ease. Under strain it slides toward moods that rule the day colliding with a taste for comfort that avoids the hard thing, the same energy turned against itself.
As a transit, the Moon moving to opposition Venus 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 Venus (attraction and values), held 180° apart.
Right now
Moon and Venus currently stand about 121.9° apart, 58.1° away from an exact opposition. Watch it move on the live clock.
When: past and next exact oppositions
| 31 August 2026 | most recent |
| 29 September 2026 | upcoming |
| 25 October 2026 | upcoming |
| 22 November 2026 | upcoming |
| 20 December 2026 | upcoming |
Computed from the ephemeris (UTC), not copied from a table.
Where these two stand today
Related oppositions
In traditional astrology this is interpretation, not fate. More: about oppositions · all aspects.