Aspects
Ascendant Semi-Sextile Orcus
With Orcus semi-sextile your Ascendant, a faint underworld gravity runs just beneath how you meet the world. The oath-keeping force sits a half-step from your manner, near it but not aligned, so there is a quiet sense that the principled depth in you and your outward self are slightly out of phase: small pulls toward keeping faith, minor stirrings of conscience that flicker at the edge of your presence. It is easy to overlook and asks only for small, ongoing attention. Tend the little promptings of integrity as they stir and a quiet depth finds its way into your manner; ignore them and a principled weight stays just below the surface, unexpressed.
Lean in — Tend the little promptings of integrity as they stir.
Watch for — Let a principled weight stay unexpressed.
- orcus
- ascendant
- semi_sextile
- nudge
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Reads natal Orcus semisextile the Ascendant as the dwarf planet of oaths, integrity, and the deep underworld self, expressed through the rising point, the self you meet the world with.
- Tarnas, Cosmos and Psyche (2006)Tarnas frames Orcus as an archetype of the binding word and the solitary keeping of one's deepest commitments; here it works through the Ascendant, the rising point, the self you meet the world with.
- Greene, Relating: An Astrological Guide to Living with Others on a Small Planet (1977)Greene reads the Ascendant as the rising point, the self you meet the world with, where Orcus semisextile sets the theme of integrity, consequence, and what one is bound to.