Aspects
Mars Semi-Square Orcus
A low-grade friction runs between your drive and the Orcus theme, so a fierce sense of the broken oath can pull you toward avenging it, repaying betrayal with cold severity. The irritation asks you to keep faith without weaponizing it. Honor your own word without making yourself the avenger of every broken promise.
Lean in — Keep your word without becoming the avenger of broken oaths.
Watch for — Avenge a broken promise with cold, severe retaliation.
- oaths
- drive
- friction
Sources
- Tarnas, Cosmos and Psyche (2006)Gives the archetypal field of Orcus, oaths and integrity and the long consequence of the vow.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Treats the meeting of oath-keeping and drive as an inner dynamic of action true to one's word.
- Tierney, Dynamics of Aspect Analysis (1983)Reads the semi-square as low-grade hard tension that seeks release through small adjustments.