Aspects
Descendant Quintile Orcus
With Orcus quintile your Descendant, an inventive depth of loyalty threads your bonds. This fifth-harmonic contact lends an original gravity to relationship: a knack for keeping faith with a partner in ways that are distinctly yours, a principled imagination that comes alive in your closest ties. It is subtle and rewards deliberate development. The gift is a kind of bond built on a signature fidelity, a partnership able to hold its word without the usual heaviness. The lifelong invitation is to cultivate it on purpose, treating your relationships as a place to live your loyalty and finding a living, personal form for the commitment between you.
Lean in — Find a living, personal form for the commitment between you.
Watch for — Carry a bond's loyalty with the usual heaviness.
- orcus
- descendant
- quintile
- talent
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Reads natal Orcus quintile 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 quintile sets the theme of integrity, consequence, and what one is bound to.