Aspects
Ascendant Trine Orcus
With Orcus A flowing, supportive aspect between planets about 120 degrees apart, usually in the same element. Things come easily here, sometimes too easily to notice. your The zodiac degree rising on the eastern horizon at your birth, also called the rising sign. It sets the whole house framework of the chart and colors how you meet the world., deep integrity flows easily into how you meet the world. A natural gravity, a sense of being bound by your word, and an instinct for what is true come to your manner without strain, an unforced principled weight others feel the moment they meet you: you keep faith, you mean what you say, you carry the depths lightly. There is a graced integrity to your presence. The only caution is that ease can let you lean on a principled nature you never test. Used consciously, it is a lifelong gift, a deep, trustworthy self that lets you keep your word and hold your line with a steadiness most people have to fight for.
Lean in — Keep your word and hold your line with steadiness.
Watch for — Lean on a principled nature you never test.
- orcus
- ascendant
- trine
- flow
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Reads natal Orcus trine 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 trine sets the theme of integrity, consequence, and what one is bound to.