Aspects
Descendant Opposition Orcus
With Orcus opposite your Descendant, rising on the self-pole, you bring your own gravity and oath-keeping into your bonds rather than meeting it across from you. The principled, binding force lives in you, and it faces the partnership axis from the other side: you are the one who takes a bond as a vow, and you look for what your own fidelity means in the space between you and another. The gift is bringing real loyalty to a relationship. The shadow is binding a partner with your own seriousness, or needing a bond mostly to prove your faithfulness. The lifelong work is to let your oath-keeping and the bond meet as equals, keeping faith with another rather than imprisoning the relationship in your gravity.
Lean in — Keep faith with another rather than imprison the bond in your gravity.
Watch for — Bind a partner with your own seriousness.
- orcus
- descendant
- opposition
- self
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Reads natal Orcus opposition the Descendant as the dwarf planet of oaths, integrity, and the deep underworld self, expressed through the partnership axis, the bonds you form and the people you draw close.
- 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 Descendant, the partnership axis, the bonds you form and the people you draw close.
- Greene, Relating: An Astrological Guide to Living with Others on a Small Planet (1977)Greene reads the Descendant as the partnership axis, the bonds you form and the people you draw close, where Orcus opposition sets the theme of integrity, consequence, and what one is bound to.