Aspects
Mars Square Orcus
Your assertiveness and the Orcus principle keep colliding, so your resolve can harden into stubbornness, you may force the keeping of vows past their life, drive yourself harshly to honor a commitment that no longer serves, or fight unforgivingly over broken trust. Drive and integrity get crossed, so the very willpower that should keep faith becomes rigid or punishing. This A tense aspect between planets about 90 degrees apart that creates friction and a push to act. Squares are challenging but are often what drives real growth. does not want either betrayal or inflexibility, it wants action: to act on your real commitments while letting the dead ones go, to keep faith without self-punishment, and to fight for principle without becoming the enforcer, until drive and the vow stop grinding.
Lean in — Act on your real commitments while letting the dead ones go.
Watch for — Force outdated vows, or drive yourself harshly to honor them.
- stubborn-resolve
- self-punishment
- integration
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.