Aspects
Mercury Septile Orcus
There is a faint, fated, almost uncanny thread between your mind and the Orcus theme, where a word given can feel irrevocably binding, an oath you cannot take back. The weight of the word feels destined. Honor your word's gravity without losing the freedom of ordinary speech.
Lean in — Honor the weight of your word without forbidding ordinary speech.
Watch for — Bind yourself to the exact letter of every utterance.
- oaths
- word
- fated
Sources
- Tarnas, Cosmos and Psyche (2006)Gives the archetypal field of Orcus, oaths and integrity and the long consequence of the vow.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Treats the meeting of the binding word and the thinking mind as an inner dynamic of the promise kept in speech.
- Tierney, Dynamics of Aspect Analysis (1983)Reads the septile as a seventh-harmonic aspect of fated, inspired, almost compulsive pull.