Aspects
Chiron Semi-Sextile Pales
The Pales theme and a deep wound sit a step apart, so an old hurt around tending everyone while no one tended you can quietly meet your gift for care, a resource that, tended, becomes a gift for helping other caretakers feel held. What went unmet in you can teach you to care without self-erasure. Let the old wound deepen your stewardship without driving you to over-give.
Lean in — Let your old hurt deepen your care without over-giving.
Watch for — Tend everyone again from an old wound of being uncared-for.
- stewardship
- wound
- growth
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Reads Pales by myth, the Roman guardian of shepherds and flocks honored at the Parilia, 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 caretaking and the wound as an inner dynamic of the over-burdened caretaker, finally healed.
- Tierney, Dynamics of Aspect Analysis (1983)Reads the semi-sextile as a minor growth aspect, a subtle nudge toward integrating two neighboring principles.