Aspects
Mars Sextile Orcus
There is a usable opening between your drive and the Orcus principle of oaths, one that rewards initiative. When you put your energy behind keeping your commitments, drive and integrity cooperate, letting you act with resolve on what you have promised and defend your principles effectively. It is a door you push, not a current that carries you. But take the step of doing what you said you would, fighting for the vows that genuinely matter, and you find drive and integrity reinforce each other, so that being someone whose resolve keeps faith becomes a reliable strength rather than a standard you only hold in theory.
Lean in — Do what you said you would and defend the vows that matter.
Watch for — Make commitments you lack the resolve to act on.
- resolved-action
- opportunity
- 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.