Aspects
Descendant Opposition Pales
Pales sits opposite your rising point, on the partnership axis, so your protective instinct shows up most clearly in who you choose to love and shield. Partners draw the guardian out of you, and you see your own caretaking mirrored in them. Notice when minding them is really a way of avoiding your own needs.
Lean in — Watch how your partners reveal your own urge to protect.
Watch for — Do not lose yourself in tending the people you are meant to meet as equals.
- mirrored care
- tended partner
- projection
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 Descendant, partnership and the other, as a specific working relationship.
- Tierney, Dynamics of Aspect Analysis (1983)Reads the opposition as a polarity seeking balance, often met through others.