Aspects
Ascendant Conjunction Pales
Pales sits right on your rising point, so tending and protecting what is in your keeping is not something you do, it is how you arrive. People sense a guardian in you before you say a word, and you reach instinctively for the vulnerable creature in any room. Let that instinct lead, but keep some care for the shepherd too.
Lean in — Lead with the steady, protective warmth people already feel from you.
Watch for — Do not let everyone read you as a free caretaker on demand.
- guardian persona
- instinctive care
- protective
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Reads Pales by myth, the Roman guardian of shepherds and flocks, as a point of pastoral care, husbandry, and the nurture and protection of what is in one's keeping.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Treats the meeting of pastoral care and the Ascendant, the self and persona, as a specific working relationship.
- Tierney, Dynamics of Aspect Analysis (1983)Reads the conjunction as a fusion of two principles acting as one.