Aspects
Imum Coeli Conjunction Orcus
With Orcus on your The lowest point of the chart, opposite the Midheaven, often called the IC. It points to home, roots, family, and your private foundation., the keeping of one's word is rooted at the base of your chart. Orcus is oaths, integrity, and the deep underworld self, and at the foundation it makes your very ground a matter of vow and consequence: you may come from a family with a code of honor, carry a home built on deep commitment, or feel your deepest roots in an inherited duty and a binding word. The gift is a foundation of real integrity, a ground whose loyalty you can always return to. The shadow is a family bound by grim obligation, an inherited duty that imprisons, or a code of honor that allowed no escape. The lifelong work is to let your rooted integrity be a source of steadiness rather than a vow you cannot question.
Lean in — Let your rooted integrity be a source of steadiness.
Watch for — Carry a code of honor that allows no escape.
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Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Reads natal Orcus conjunction the Imum Coeli as the dwarf planet of oaths, integrity, and the deep underworld self, expressed through the foundation of the chart, your home, roots, and inner ground.
- 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 Imum Coeli, the foundation of the chart, your home, roots, and inner ground.
- Greene, Relating: An Astrological Guide to Living with Others on a Small Planet (1977)Greene reads the Imum Coeli as the foundation of the chart, your home, roots, and inner ground, where Orcus conjunction sets the theme of integrity, consequence, and what one is bound to.