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♅︎ ☍︎ ♆︎ Uranus opposition Neptune

Face to face at a hundred and eighty degrees, Uranus and Neptune each hold half of something, and the work is finding the point between originality and surprise and imagination and mercy.

Uranus breaks the pattern where there is disruption, invention, and awakening; Neptune dissolves the edges where there is dreams, compassion, and dissolution. What follows is what happens when the two are tied together.

The opposition places them on one axis, so Uranus tends to show up in the people and situations Neptune 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 genuine flash of the new sharpened by compassion and vision without a wall around them. Pushed badly, it hardens into change for the shock of it set against a fog that hides what is real.

Timing matters. When Uranus forms this opposition to Neptune 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 Uranus (disruption and awakening) with Neptune (dreams and dissolution), held 180° apart.

Right now

Uranus and Neptune currently stand about 62.1° apart, 117.9° away from an exact opposition. Watch it move on the live clock.

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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.