Part of Necessity
Part of Necessity Opposition Moon
The Part of Necessity opposite the Moon brings what binds you into tension with family, household, and public need, so the duties you must endure often arrive through people who depend on you. The strain is between your own comfort and the care others require. Honor the bond without letting it become a leash you can never set down.
- necessity
- belonging
- tension
Sources
- Brennan, Hellenistic Astrology (2017)Brennan reads the Part of Necessity, the lot of Mercury, as the point marking constraint, compulsion, subordination, enemies, and the limits one is bound to endure.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Treats the meeting of feeling, body, and the public with the lot's significations of constraint as a specific working relationship.
- Valens, Anthologies (160)Valens reads the opposition to a lot as tension and challenge reaching the lot's affairs, often through others or open conflict.