Aspects
Midheaven Semi-Square Orcus
With Orcus semi-square your Midheaven, a low grave friction nags at your vocation. The oath-keeping force chafes against your public path in small, repeating ways: a heaviness when your work feels unprincipled, a habit of binding yourself to duties past their use, a minor pull to take your responsibilities too gravely. Left unexamined it can fray your career into joyless duty. Worked with, the friction becomes useful, a prompt to channel the gravity into work of real integrity. The lifelong task is to address the small principled heaviness in your vocation directly, letting it deepen your work rather than a standing forever weighed down by duty.
Lean in — Channel the gravity into work of real integrity.
Watch for — Let your standing stay weighed down by duty.
- orcus
- midheaven
- semi_square
- friction
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Reads natal Orcus semisquare 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 semisquare sets the theme of integrity, consequence, and what one is bound to.