Aspects
Orcus Square Venus
Your longing for love and the Orcus principle keep colliding, so your deep commitment can become rigid, you may stay bound to a relationship past its life out of principle, hold a partner to unforgiving standards, or find betrayal impossible to forgive. Affection and integrity get tangled, so the very devotion that runs deep can trap you. This square does not want either betrayal or imprisonment, it wants action: to commit deeply without binding yourself to what is dead, to forgive where you can, and to let love be faithful by living choice rather than rigid vow, until love and the oath stop colliding and your devotion frees rather than cages.
Lean in — Commit deeply without binding yourself to what is already dead.
Watch for — Stay bound to a dead relationship on principle, unable to forgive.
- rigid-devotion
- cannot-forgive
- 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 Venus.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Frames the Orcus-Venus aspect as an inner dynamic of the chart.
- Forrest, The Inner Sky (1984)Reads the Orcus-Venus contact in evolutionary, growth-oriented terms.