Aspects
Descendant Sextile Orcus
With Orcus A friendly, opportunity-shaped aspect between planets about 60 degrees apart. It offers help you have to reach for rather than receive automatically. your The point directly opposite the Ascendant, on the western horizon. It describes partnership, others, and what you seek in relationship., a workable depth of loyalty is available to your bonds when you reach for it. Unlike the A flowing, supportive aspect between planets about 120 degrees apart, usually in the same element. Things come easily here, sometimes too easily to notice.'s effortless fidelity, this one rewards effort: when you actively bring your principled, oath-keeping nature into relationship, you and a partner can build a bond of real trust, the kind that holds its word and bears weight together. The deep loyalty in your bonds is there, but it grows only if used. The lifelong opportunity is to keep drawing on that fidelity on purpose, letting a committed, trustworthy bond become a steady part of how you love rather than a depth you leave unbuilt.
Lean in — Draw on your fidelity on purpose.
Watch for — Leave a committed, trustworthy bond unbuilt.
- orcus
- descendant
- sextile
- opportunity
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Reads natal Orcus sextile 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 sextile sets the theme of integrity, consequence, and what one is bound to.