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Two small circles joined by a straight line.
Also known as: Opposition
Two bodies 180 degrees apart, on opposite sides of the sky. A full moon is the Moon in opposition to the Sun, which is why the aspect is easy to picture even without any astrological reading.
Marks an opposition: two celestial bodies 180 degrees apart in celestial longitude, so that one rises as the other sets.
Encoded at U+260D in the Unicode Miscellaneous Symbols block.
A full moon is the Moon in opposition to the Sun — the clearest everyday instance of the geometry the symbol records.
In astrological practice the aspect is read as tension or polarity between the two bodies.
A reading within astrology, recorded as what the tradition holds. Symbolwise makes no claim that it describes or predicts anything.
Two small circles set apart and joined by a single straight line running between them.
Opposition is 180 degrees; conjunction is zero.