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♀︎ ☍︎ ♆︎ Venus opposition Neptune

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

Venus draws close where there is love, beauty, and what we value; Neptune dissolves the edges where there is dreams, compassion, and dissolution. What follows is what happens when the two are tied together.

Across this divide, someone to draw close and something to merge with 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 compassion and vision without a wall around them. Under strain it slides toward a taste for comfort that avoids the hard thing colliding with a fog that hides what is real, the same energy turned against itself.

As a transit, Venus moving to opposition Neptune 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 Neptune (dreams and dissolution), held 180° apart.

Right now

Venus and Neptune currently stand about 157.1° apart, 22.9° 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

• Neptune opposition Venus
• Venus conjunction Neptune
• Venus sextile Neptune
• Venus square Neptune
• Venus trine Neptune

Where these two stand today

• Venus in Libra
• Neptune in Aries

Related oppositions

• Moon opposition Neptune
• Mercury opposition Neptune
• Mars opposition Neptune

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