Aspects
Imum Coeli Semi-Square Orcus
With Orcus semi-square your Imum Coeli, a low grave friction nags at your foundation. The oath-keeping force chafes against your roots in small, repeating ways: a heaviness when your home feels unprincipled, a habit of binding yourself to family duties past their use, a minor pull to take your roots too gravely. Left unexamined it can fray your foundation into joyless obligation. Worked with, the friction becomes useful, a prompt to keep your home deep and alive at once. The lifelong task is to address the small principled heaviness at your base directly, letting it steady your roots rather than a foundation forever weighed down by inherited duty.
Lean in — Keep your home deep and alive at once.
Watch for — Let your foundation sink into joyless obligation.
- orcus
- imum_coeli
- semi_square
- friction
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Reads natal Orcus semisquare 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 semisquare sets the theme of integrity, consequence, and what one is bound to.