Aspects
Imum Coeli Opposition Orcus
With Orcus opposite your The lowest point of the chart, opposite the Midheaven, often called the IC. It points to home, roots, family, and your private foundation., crowning the The highest point of the chart, also called the MC, marking the top of the sky at your birth. It speaks to career, reputation, and your public direction., your integrity and underworld self reach your foundation from the public peak rather than the private base. The oath-keeping and the gravity live in your outer life and vocation, and they face your roots from across the chart: the commitments you make in the world tend to shape, or weigh on, the home and family beneath you. The gift is a public integrity that can eventually steady your roots. The shadow is a life so bound by outer duty that the foundation goes neglected, or a home strained by the vows you keep in the world. The lifelong work is to let the integrity you live outwardly bring depth to the ground you stand on rather than starve it.
Lean in — Let the integrity you live outwardly bring depth to your roots.
Watch for — Stay so bound by outer duty the foundation goes neglected.
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Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Reads natal Orcus opposition 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 opposition sets the theme of integrity, consequence, and what one is bound to.