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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 jus-

tice, 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 interac-

tions. 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 Astrol-

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———. Astrology for Yourself: A Workbook for Personal Transformation.Berkeley, CA: Wingbow

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