Aspects
Mercury Quincunx Orcus
Your sense that a word given is a bond never quite fits casual conversation, so you keep adjusting between weighing every promise and speaking freely. The gift is a voice that means what it says. The shadow is treating every offhand remark as a sworn oath. Keep tuning between the binding word and ordinary speech.
Lean in — Mean what you say without binding every remark.
Watch for — Treat every offhand remark as a sworn oath.
- oaths
- word
- adjustment
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.