Aspects
Descendant Semi-Sextile Orcus
With Orcus semi-sextile your Descendant, a faint gravity stirs just beneath your bonds. The oath-keeping force sits a half-step from the partnership axis, near it but not aligned, so your fidelity and your relationships are slightly out of phase: small pulls toward keeping faith with a partner, minor stirrings of loyalty at the edge of a bond. It is easy to overlook and asks only for small, ongoing attention. Tend the little promptings of fidelity in your closeness and a quiet depth finds its way into your bonds; ignore them and a binding loyalty between you stays just below the surface.
Lean in — Tend the little promptings of fidelity in your closeness.
Watch for — Let a binding loyalty between you stay buried.
- orcus
- descendant
- semi_sextile
- nudge
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Reads natal Orcus semisextile 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 semisextile sets the theme of integrity, consequence, and what one is bound to.