Aspects
Ascendant Opposition Astraea
With Astraea opposite your The zodiac degree rising on the eastern horizon at your birth, also called the rising sign. It sets the whole house framework of the chart and colors how you meet the world., your sense of what is just keeps arriving through other people, who either share your high bar or expose it. You may pick partners and rivals who embody the conscience you are still building. Watch the urge to judge them by an ideal you have not yet lived yourself. Use the mirror to refine your fairness, not to confirm your disappointment.
Lean in — Let others reflect your standards back so you can refine them.
Watch for — Do not measure people against a perfection you cannot meet.
- mirror
- fairness
- relating
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Reads Astraea by her myth, the star-maiden of justice who withdrew from the fallen world, as a point of fairness, idealism, and uncompromising integrity.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Treats the meeting of idealism and integrity and the Ascendant, the self and persona, as a specific working relationship.
- Tierney, Dynamics of Aspect Analysis (1983)Reads the opposition as a polarity seeking balance, often met through others.