Aspects
Mercury Square Orcus
Your thinking and the Orcus principle keep colliding, so your standard of truth can turn into rigid moralism, you may judge others harshly for broken words, brood alone over what was said or promised, or bind yourself to statements you have outgrown. Mind and integrity get crossed, so the very seriousness of your word can become inflexible or punishing. This square asks for action, not a truce: to hold your truth firmly without wielding it as a weapon, to forgive a broken word where you can, and to let your commitments of speech evolve, until your word and your integrity stop grinding and your voice is both true and humane.
Lean in — Hold your truth firmly without wielding it as a weapon.
Watch for — Judge others' broken words harshly, or bind yourself to old statements.
- rigid-moralism
- harsh-judgment
- 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 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.