The asteroid Athena, the battle strategist goddess who Athens is dedicated to a Parthenogenesis Virgin Goddess also known as Minerva to the Romans, she who never marries, belongs to no man, runs through the woods with her dogs//wolves,yes THAT book, on July 7th conjuncts Mars at 28 LEO over the next few days. Mars enters VIRGO July 10. This was the traditional degree of Fixed Star Regulus the heart of the Lion which has now preceded into 0 Virgo. Its is a degree of STRENGTH in the Tarot and the ARCHANGEL Raphael.
Athena is the sister of the Warrior God Mars. This is a sibling get-together, a family event.
In Classical Greek Mythology Athena is a Goddess of technological battle strategy she is a defender of Athens, the city dedicated in her honor. She is the Goddess of wisdom and weaving, skills and the arts.Her symbols are the wise owl who sees in all directions and symbolizes psychic and feared powers as a silent predator. Snakes are also sacred to Athena, as well as The Amulet of the Gorgon’s Head, the Olive tree is also her tree.
Mars known as ARES to the Romans was the god of war, bloodshed and wild destruction along with his blood lusting sister Eris who is now known to us as a Dwarf Planet. Mars is associated with being humiliated in war and love by the Greeks. Mars symbols were the spear,sword,helmet and a dog.
Athena was said to be a guide and supporter of those who are moved to heroic deeds. In the Trojan War she favoured Perseus, and was instrumental in his defeating the Gorgon Medusa, by giving him a mirrored shield that enabled him to survive her petrifying gaze. Athena aided Heracles/Hercules during the Twelve Labours, and was instrumental in enabling Achilles defeating Hector during the Trojan War. She faced off with her brother Mars in that battle and Zeus had to intervene to separate them.
This aspect can signify sibling rivalry and family dramas.
Ares is regarded with a certain amount of dislike as being crude and blood lusted by the other gods and was not widely worshiped in Ancient Greece. But as Mars to the Romans he played a very important role.
This is an interesting symbol to come to us in the skies right now. Ares or Mars and Athena symbolize the complimentary divine oppositional pairings. Athena is a peacemaker and Ares is blood-thirsty for a dramatic fight especially in LEO. Like Elon and Zuck right now?
Be brave, bold, passionate, smart and fiery. Lead from your heart. This is a good time for bold passionate changes of heart, courage, daring and fortitude. Think about your own inner masculine brother and feminine sisterly energies. Are they at war with each other? How can they learn to love and work together?
The heart knows. Let your heart lead, not your head.
This is the degree that Venus turns retrograde at in July 22.
So think a bit ahead and lean into what you want is your heart’s true desire, what your heart would fight courageously to defend, and the past dramas you’ve been through. Venus will journey bravely in her Retrograde journey into the underworld to die and be reborn as a right of passage. Dream a glimmer of a sense of what the outcome may be when Venus truths Direct September 3/4 and when Venus bypasses its Retrograde degree-this degree on October 7.
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