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Sun opposite Venus

Sun opposite Venus is impossible in a birth chart. Venus stays within about forty-eight degrees of the Sun, so the two can never sit across the chart from each other.

Venus is always close to your Sun. She is never on the far side of the sky from it.

What it looks like in a life

If your sense of self and your love life feel like two ends of one rope, the aspect doing that is elsewhere: Venus opposite the Moon, Mars, Saturn, or Pluto, or your Sun opposite something sitting in the seventh house. Between two people the contact is real and common. One person's Sun opposite the other's Venus reads as strong attraction with a built-in pull in two directions.

The gift

Eliminating the impossible is part of reading a chart honestly. It sends you to the placement that is actually running the pattern.

The friction

An aspect that cannot exist still gets printed, quoted, and believed. Anything built on it is built on nothing, however true the feeling underneath it was.

The esoteric layer

The esoteric reading of the opposition is full-moon logic, two lights facing each other across the sky. Venus, tied close to the Sun, has never been able to take that position.

Where this goes

Find the planet your Venus really opposes, because that is the tension you have been feeling. A full natal reading tracks it from both ends.

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