Aspects
Mercury Conjunction Orcus
Your thinking and the Orcus principle are fused, so your word carries weight and you hold your speech to a deep standard of truth and integrity. You say what you mean, keep verbal promises as binding, and think deeply and privately about what is right. The gift is a trustworthy, principled voice, a mind whose word means something. The shadow is a rigid moralism in how you think, harsh judgment of others' broken words, or a brooding, solitary cast of mind that holds its truths too severely. Let your word be as good as your bond, holding your standard of truth without turning it into a hammer on yourself or others.
Lean in — Let your word be as good as your bond, held without harshness.
Watch for — Turn your standard of truth into a hammer on yourself or others.
- binding-word
- truthful-mind
- principled-speech
Sources
- Tarnas, Cosmos and Psyche (2006)Gives the archetypal field of Orcus, oaths and the long consequence of the vow, as it meets the Mercury.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Frames the Orcus-Mercury aspect as an inner dynamic of the chart.
- Forrest, The Inner Sky (1984)Reads the Orcus-Mercury contact in evolutionary, growth-oriented terms.