Aspects
Mars Quincunx Orcus
Your drive to act in keeping with your word never quite fits raw impulse, so you keep adjusting between honoring commitments and acting freely. The gift is action you can stand behind. The shadow is being bound by a vow when action demands change. Keep tuning between fidelity and decisive freedom in what you do.
Lean in — Act true to your word and still adapt when you must.
Watch for — Stay bound by a vow when action demands change.
- oaths
- drive
- adjustment
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.