Aspects
Midheaven Quintile Orcus
With Orcus quintile your Midheaven, an inventive depth of integrity threads your vocation. This fifth-harmonic contact lends an original gravity to your public path: a knack for keeping your word and bearing consequence in work that is distinctly your own, a principled imagination that shapes your calling. It is subtle and rewards deliberate development. The gift is a vocation with a signature depth, a capacity to hold your line and carry weight without the usual heaviness. The lifelong invitation is to cultivate it on purpose, treating your career as a place to live your integrity and finding a living, personal form for the gravity your work asks of you.
Lean in — Find a living, personal form for the gravity your work asks.
Watch for — Carry your work's weight with the usual heaviness.
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Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Reads natal Orcus quintile the Midheaven as the dwarf planet of oaths, integrity, and the deep underworld self, expressed through the peak of the chart, your vocation and public path.
- Tarnas, Cosmos and Psyche (2006)Tarnas frames Orcus as an archetype of the binding word and the solitary keeping of one's deepest commitments; here it works through the Midheaven, the peak of the chart, your vocation and public path.
- Greene, Relating: An Astrological Guide to Living with Others on a Small Planet (1977)Greene reads the Midheaven as the peak of the chart, your vocation and public path, where Orcus quintile sets the theme of integrity, consequence, and what one is bound to.