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♀︎ ☍︎ ♄︎ Venus opposition Saturn

Venus opposite Saturn sets the power of attraction across the wheel from the principle of limit: two half-truths looking for a balance.

In this pairing Venus carries love, pleasure, and taste, while Saturn carries work, time, and responsibility. The aspect describes how those two departments of a life meet.

Across this divide, someone to draw close and a rule to keep 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 patience that builds something lasting. Under strain it slides toward a taste for comfort that avoids the hard thing colliding with fear that hardens into a wall, the same energy turned against itself.

As a transit, Venus moving to opposition Saturn 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 Saturn (structure and limits), held 180° apart.

Right now

Venus and Saturn currently stand about 167.0° apart, 13.0° 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

• Saturn opposition Venus
• Venus conjunction Saturn
• Venus sextile Saturn
• Venus square Saturn
• Venus trine Saturn

Where these two stand today

• Venus in Libra
• Saturn in Aries

Related oppositions

• Venus opposition South Node
• Sun opposition Saturn
• Moon opposition Saturn

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