Uranus in Capricorn stood opposite Neptune in Cancer through the years around 1906, and the aspect belongs to that entire generation. As with every outer-planet contact, the generational fact must be said first and then set aside, because it explains nothing about one native. What can be said individually is that oppositions externalise. Whichever end of this axis the native occupies, the other will be supplied by somebody close: the practical reformer married to the mystic, the sceptic whose closest friend is a devotee, the engineer with an unaccountable brother.
The houses containing the two ends name the two people, or at least the two departments. Fourth against tenth gives a household of settled sentiment and a public life spent overturning things, with each accused of ruining the other. Sixth against twelfth divides the native between rigorous daily habit and a private life of retreat that the habit is designed to hold at bay. The argument is real and it does not resolve by choosing. It resolves, if at all, by the native admitting that both parties to it are their own.
A personal planet on either end determines how loudly the whole thing is lived. On the Sun it becomes the shape of the biography. On the Moon it becomes the emotional weather, alternating between a demand for freedom and a longing to be absorbed. Absent such a contact, the opposition remains a background tension in the chart, showing chiefly as a low-grade disbelief in permanence and an attraction to people who represent whichever half the native has declined to carry.
What It Gives
- ◆reform and sympathy held together
- ◆attraction to unlike temperaments
- ◆permanence never taken for granted
- ◆capacity to hold two positions
What It Costs
- ◆half the self carried by others
- ◆freedom and absorption at war
- ◆each side blamed for the other
This is one line of a whole chart. The rest of it — every placement, house and aspect at once — is a birth date away.
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