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♀︎ ☍︎ ♂︎ Venus opposition Mars
Face to face at a hundred and eighty degrees, Venus and Mars each hold half of something, and the work is finding the point between charm and ease and heat and nerve.
Venus draws close where there is love, beauty, and what we value; Mars pushes forward where there is desire, courage, and conflict. What follows is what happens when the two are tied together.
Across this divide, someone to draw close 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 warmth that puts others at ease tempered by courage that is well aimed. Under strain it slides toward a taste for comfort that avoids the hard thing colliding with force for its own sake, the same energy turned against itself.
As a transit, Venus 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 Venus (attraction and values) with Mars (drive and desire), held 180° apart.
Right now
Venus and Mars currently stand about 100.4° apart, 79.6° away from an exact opposition. Watch it move on the live clock.
When: past and next exact oppositions
| 12 December 2024 | most recent |
| 19 March 2027 | 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.