Aspects
Mercury Opposition Orcus
The Orcus principle and your need to communicate sit across from each other, so questions of kept and broken words tend to surface through others, those who break their promises or hold you to yours. You may feel let down by others' unreliable speech, or be cast as the one who holds everyone to the letter. The resolution is balance, not choice: own your own relationship to the binding word rather than only judging it in others, and hold your standard of truth without rigidity, so your integrity and your exchange with others inform each other rather than one policing the other.
Lean in — Hold your standard of truth without policing everyone's words.
Watch for — Feel let down by others' words while holding them to the letter.
- projected-broken-word
- tested-truth
- balancing
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.