Basics
Class: B-type asteroid
Location: Main belt
Orbit length (approx): 4.61 years
Discovered: 28th March 1802 (time unknown), from Bremen, Germany, by Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers
Events at time of discovery:
- February – The Rosetta Stone is brought to England by Colonel Tomkyns Hilgrove Turner.
- March 11 – The Rosetta Stone is presented to the Society of Antiquaries of London, which in turn presents it to the British Museum.
- March 25-27 – The Treaty of Amiens between the French Republic and the United Kingdom ends the War of the Second Coalition. The treaty also ends the French Revolutionary Wars.
- April 10 – The Great Trigonometrical Survey of India begins with the measurement of a baseline near Madras.
Naming information
Name origin: Pallas Athene, Greek goddess of wisdom and good counsel, war, the defence of towns, heroic endeavour, weaving, pottery and various other crafts.
Mythology: Athene was depicted as a stately woman armed with a shield and spear and the aegis: a snake-trimmed cape adorned with the monstrous visage of the Gorgon Medusa. Patron of Athens, she was born fully grown from her father Zeus's head after he swallowed her mother Metis. From Theoi.com: "as her father was the most powerful and her mother the wisest among the gods, so Athena was a combination of the two, that is, a goddess in whom power and wisdom were harmoniously blended...She was further believed to have invented nearly every kind of work in which women were employed, and she herself was skilled in such work: in short Athena and Hephaestus were the great patrons both of the useful and elegant arts."
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| Classical mosaic depicting Athene with the aegis, from a villa at Tusculum, 3rd century AD; now at Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican. Artist unknown. |
Astrological data
Discovery degree: 29+ Virgo (50% approx probability)
Discovery Sabian: Totally Intent Upon Completing an Immediate Task, a Man is Deaf To Any Allurement
Discovery nodal signature: Virgo-Pisces
Estimated orbital resonances: Mercury 1:19, Venus 2:15, Mars 6:13, Ceres 1:1, Jupiter 18:7, Saturn 19:3, Chiron 11:1
Discovery chart details: Last quarter lunar phase. Moon approaching conjunction to Eris. Pallas is on cardinal point in last degree of Virgo, closely sesquiquadrate Vesta. Mars is opposite Jupiter; Chiron square the Nodes.
Summary and references
May indicate strategy and how we solve problems[1]; wisdom, counselling, sage advice, perceptual gifts, pattern detection, manual dexterity[2]; practical intelligence, success based on current knowledge and common sense, good use of resources[3]; foresight, planning and creative intelligence[4]; approval seeking, whether willingness or ability to please is present[5]; dependable advice, weaving and crafts, reconciliation and peace, activism, overcoming obstacles, combining logic with intuition[6]; learning, problem solving, visual arts and music, healing of various kinds, social justice and legal matters, martial arts, professionalism[7].
References:1) Amanda Painter: Full Moon for a Tilted World
2) Alex Miller: Pallas 2
3) Amable: (2) Pallas
4) Kirsti Melto: Full Moon in Aries – Sept. 29, 2023
5) Martha Lang-Wescott: Basic Resources
6) TAKE Astrology: Asteroids in Astrology
7) Demetra George & Douglas Bloch: Asteroid Goddesses (Ibis Press, 2003)
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| Noon discovery chart for (2) Pallas: 28th March 1802, Bremen, Germany. |
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