Aspects
Mars Opposition Orcus
The Orcus principle and your drive sit across from each other, so the test of resolve and integrity often comes through others, those who break their commitments or whose betrayal provokes your fight. You may battle to enforce a vow, or be cast as the rigid enforcer of principle. The resolution is balance, not choice: own your own relationship to resolve and commitment rather than only meeting it in others, and let your drive defend your real vows without making you the harsh enforcer, so will and integrity face each other and combine into principled, effective action rather than a stubborn war over broken words.
Lean in — Let your drive defend your real vows without becoming an enforcer.
Watch for — Battle to enforce a vow, or play the rigid enforcer of principle.
- projected-resolve
- enforcing-vows
- balancing
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.