Aspects
Astraea Square Midheaven
Astraea square your Midheaven sets your sense of right against the compromises a career can ask of you. You feel forced to choose between getting ahead and keeping your integrity intact. The friction can sharpen you into someone who advances without selling out. Find the path up that does not require betraying your standards.
Lean in — Carve a way to advance without trading away integrity.
Watch for — Do not treat success and conscience as enemies by default.
- friction
- ambition
- ethics
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 Midheaven, career and public role, as a specific working relationship.
- Tierney, Dynamics of Aspect Analysis (1983)Reads the square as dynamic tension that drives growth through friction.