Athena/Pallas Athene
No matter whom you consider, there’s a universe inside him or her.
And yet we don’t always think that all of us is welcome to come out and play.
Somewhere along the line, for any number of reasons, each of us finds it’s easier to attempt to shelve a particular part of the self that seems to get in the way. This is a normal feature of the human experience, as the complexity that each of us is can’t at all times be fully represented outwardly. Just which part of us we attempt to put away again and again is a matter of the journey of the soul, and is determined by a host of factors fitting with what kind of experience the soul has signed up for in the great experiment of this life-on-earth lab course.
Once this part of us is shelved, though, we may in time forget how to relate to it. We might find ourselves misunderstanding how it can even be a part of us. We might even begin to believe that we don’t deserve to have access to it, which is in effect saying that we don’t deserve to be whole.
But it exists. In fact, others can see it in us. When confronted by the reflection of it from others, we can be like the deer caught in the headlights: stunned, momentarily paralyzed. What trips us up is that we know they’re right; we know that it’s true, that it’s us. We just don’t understand how to be or “do” that part of us. Or, more precisely, how to be or do it and still feel like us – still be who we think we are.
There’s a price whenever we put a part of ourselves away. In time, whether over the course of one life or many, repeatedly choosing to put a part of our wholeness on hold can result in an apparent divorce from that part. In the beginning it might have been to avoid complication, for the sake of convenience. But for any of us, persisting in a refusal to be our whole selves will at some point become a problem.
The part on hold hungers for attention. And after it gets attention, it will hunger for public recognition of its existence and importance. We need both to be whole and to relate to other people as wholes, being seen for who we understand we really are.
Understanding what you’ve shelved and why you’ve shelved it is the first step to healing the fracture that results from this strategy. Your Pallas Athene by house, sign and aspect will lay out the vocabulary to help you understand what it is. Use the following broad strokes to get an idea of the thematic nature of Pallas Athene through the signs and houses – for each of us, she will take part in a configuration needing more attention to tease out and understand. In other words, here are some notes intended to point in the general direction of where you can choose to go.
Mine is in Sagittarius, second house, conjunct Neptune. According to this site, my issues are...
Hm.... I suppose.
Sagittarius intuition & expanding, feeling freedom
2 sexuality, survival skills, resources, self-worth
