Aspects
Descendant Semi-Square Orcus
With Orcus semi-square your Descendant, a low grave friction nags at your bonds. The oath-keeping force chafes against relationship in small, repeating ways: a heaviness when a bond feels unfaithful, a habit of binding yourself to small promises, a minor pull to take a relationship too gravely. Left unexamined it can fray a partnership into joyless duty. Worked with, the friction becomes useful, a prompt to keep a bond faithful and alive at once. The lifelong task is to address the small principled heaviness in your closeness directly, letting it deepen your loyalty rather than a relationship forever weighed down by its own seriousness.
Lean in — Keep a bond faithful and alive at once.
Watch for — Let a relationship sink into joyless duty.
- orcus
- descendant
- semi_square
- friction
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Reads natal Orcus semisquare 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 semisquare sets the theme of integrity, consequence, and what one is bound to.