Aspects
Mars Conjunction Orcus
Your drive and the Orcus principle are fused, so your assertion serves your commitments and you act with a deep, unwavering resolve to honor your word and your principles. You have the willpower to keep a hard vow, to do what you said you would even when it costs you, and to fight for what you have committed to. The gift is a formidable, principled determination, drive in service of integrity. The shadow is a stubborn rigidity, forcing yourself or others to honor outdated commitments, or a self-punishing drive that will not rest. Let your will serve your real vows, fierce in keeping faith without becoming inflexible or harsh.
Lean in — Let your will keep faith with your real vows, fierce but not harsh.
Watch for — Force yourself or others to honor outdated, lifeless commitments.
- principled-resolve
- willpower
- keeping-faith
Sources
- Tarnas, Cosmos and Psyche (2006)Gives the archetypal field of Orcus, oaths and the long consequence of the vow, as it meets the Mars.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Frames the Orcus-Mars aspect as an inner dynamic of the chart.
- Forrest, The Inner Sky (1984)Reads the Orcus-Mars contact in evolutionary, growth-oriented terms.