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Pallas Athene
As Zeus’s favorite daughter, the archetypal “daddy’s girl,” Pallas Athene points
to another issue: one’s relationships to one’s own fathers. In birth charts, Pallas
Athene reveals the ways in which one emulates the father, seeks his approval, wants
to interact in his world, and gives him power over one’s lives. A strong, well-placed
Pallas Athene in a woman’s chart usually shows a girl who was cultivated by her father
and who has learned valuable life skills from him.
As a woman dressed in the garb of a warrior, Pallas Athene speaks to calling up
and expressing the masculine within women, and the feminine within men. This
movement toward androgyny balances and integrates polarities within the self and
brings wholeness through the reclaiming of a contrasexual identity.
Pallas Athene’s serpent symbolism also connects her to the healing arts. In one
of her guises she was called Hygeia, goddess of miraculous cures. Her armor and shield
can be likened to the immune system warding off attacks. She especially represents
the power of the mind in curing disease.
In summary, Pallas Athene represents the part of a person who wants to
channel creative energy to give birth to mental and artistic progeny, or children of
the mind. She represents the capacity for creative wisdom and clear thinking, and
speaks to the desire to strive for excellence and accomplishment in a chosen field
of expression. The model of the strong, courageous, ingenious, artistically creative,
and intelligent woman, Pallas Athene shows how to use one’s intelligence to seek
truth; how to achieve in practical, mental, or artistic fields; and how to work to
attain worldly power.
Insofar as Pallas Athene is the military strategist and the administrator of justice,
her placement in the horoscope shows how to apply one’s intelligence to warding
off attack and preserving balance and integrity in one’s body, mind, and social interactions.
This is not only a matter of self-defense, it is also a fundamental principle of
healing. The placement of Pallas Athene in a chart shows the healing modalities that
are likely to work best.
In addition, the placement of Pallas Athene may suggest how to relate to
ones’ father and to what fathers stand for, and how to incorporate the qualities of
the opposite sex into ones’ own makeup. It may also suggest what life was like before
a career was chosen.
—Demetra George
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George, Demetra, with Douglas Bloch. Asteroid Goddesses: The Mythology, Psychology and Astrology
of the Reemerging Feminine. 2nd ed. San Diego: Astro Computing Services, 1990.
———. Astrology for Yourself: A Workbook for Personal Transformation. Berkeley, CA: Wingbow
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