Here Sun (your core self) meets North Node (your path of growth). How strongly it shows depends on the orb, the distance from the exact angle: the smaller it is, the clearer the aspect.
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Your birth date is enough. You do not need time or place here.
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The math runs on the Swiss Ephemeris, the same base professional astrology software is built on. The result is accurate to the arc-second, and free.
You see right away whether you have the aspect and how tight the orb is, along with a reading you can check against your own everyday life.
The same aspect also keeps forming in the current sky, and then it works as a transit. When Sun and North Node are in opposition up there right now, it applies to everyone, not only to people who have this aspect in their birth chart. Here will meets direction, and the two themes pull in opposite directions and ask to be balanced. Depending on how fast the planets involved move, it lasts a few hours to a few days, or weeks for the slow ones.
An opposition is an angle of 180°. In Sun Opposition North Node it links two themes. As an opposition, that means two poles looking for a balance. One theme: your core self. The other: your path of growth.
| Feature | Value |
|---|---|
| Aspect | Opposition (180°) |
| Orb in the calculator | ± 8° |
| Typical sign distance | 6 signs |
| Character | tense, demanding |
| Sun | your core self |
| North Node | your path of growth |
| Needs birth time | no, the date is enough |
Continue with the overview of all astrology aspects and with Sun Conjunction North Node. Which life areas the aspect connects is shown by the house calculator. When a moving planet forms this angle to your chart, it appears in your personalized daily horoscope. The planets themselves are explained in the planets overview, and between two people the compatibility chart compares the same angles.
4.4 % of people born between 1940 and 2010 have Sun Opposition North Node in their birth chart, within an orb of up to 8°. Among 711 aspect combinations that occur at all, that is number 571 by frequency. The most common aspect between Sun and North Node is the trine (7.8 %).
This is plain geometry: Sun and North Node move through the zodiac independently. An opposition with an orb of up to 8° covers 16° of the circle, which is 4.4 % of 360°. Trines and squares exist twice on the circle, once on each side, so they are almost twice as common.
In the sky, Sun Opposition North Node becomes exact 1.05 times a year on average. It then usually stays within 1° for 1.9 days at a stretch, 2 days a year in total. Of the 2,219 famous people in our database, 103 have it for certain, for example Simone de Beauvoir, Scarlett Johansson and Richard Dawkins.
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Share of births | 4.4 % |
| Rank among all combinations | 571 / 711 |
| Orb | 8° |
| No aspect between Sun and North Node | 70 % |
| Exact in the sky per year | 1.05 |
| Days a year within 1° | 2 |
| Longest stretch within 1° | 2 days |
| Famous people (of 2,219) | 103 |
Counted with the Swiss Ephemeris: 25,933 birth charts, one for every day from 1940 to 2010 at 12:00 UT, orbs as in the calculator. Sky: every day 1900–2100. Famous people: Wikidata, only where the aspect holds for the whole birth day.
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