Understanding ego patterns. Having the wisdom to let your father shine. Not outshining dad. Taking a backseat to dad. Acting as dad’s wise counsel. Keeping your own counsel. Seeing patterns is what you do. You have a strategy for everything. You want to know how everything fits together. Everything is part of a larger pattern. The strategist. The holistic identity. Vocational counselor. Making peace with your father.
Understanding the pattern of women’s cycles. Understanding patterns of emotional exchange. Letting mom shine. Taking a backseat to mom. Acting as mom’s wise counsel. Seeing emotional patterns is what you do. Understanding how small emotional exchanges make up a larger pattern. Having an emotional strategy. Having an emotional strategy of keeping the peace. Family planning. Meal planning. Having a strategy to feed people. Holistic emotions. Behavioral counselor. Making peace with your mother.
Understanding patterns of information. Knowing how to put bits and pieces of information together to create a whole. Manual dexterity. Mental dexterity. Having mental strategies. Knowing how to string information together. Having a strategy on how to put information together. Holistic thinker. Teacher. Being able to break information into parts and being able to synthesize those parts into a whole. Making peace with your siblings.
Understanding patterns of relationships. Acting as wise counsel on relationship. Giving relationship advice. Seeing how relationships, values and art fit into a larger pattern. Having a strategy in relationships. Taking a backseat in relationships. Letting the partner shine. Deferring to the partner. Having a strategy on how people relate to each other. Holistic relationships. Wanting everyone to fit into a pattern of relationships. Relationship patterns. Choreographing a sex scene. Relationship counselor. Creative strategies. Financial planning. Making peace with your lovers. Wisdom about female gender identity.
Understanding patterns of action. The ability to understand how one action leads into another. Physical dexterity. Having a battle plan. Having a plan of attack, while keeping peace in mind. Taking a backseat to men. Deferring to other men. Negotiating in times of war. Having a sexual strategy. Understanding patterns of physical action. Martial arts choreography. Action film choreography in general. Anger management counselor. Making peace with sex. Wisdom about male gender identity. Masculine mind.
Understanding patterns of meaning. Knowing how small cultural patterns relate to the whole. Having a strategy in religion. Having a battle plan when traveling. Looking for ways to facilitate peace between people of different cultures, religions and beliefs. Deferring to the church or religion. Standing by as big personalities take over. Having profound insights into whole patterns. Making peace with religion.
Understanding patterns of authority. Understanding how structural parts fit into the whole. Understanding how discipline fits into the bigger picture. Holding back and deferring to authority figures. Making peace with authority. Architect. Building planner. Coordinating police activities. The ability to understand definitive plans.
Understanding how small chaotic events impact the big picture. Knowing how patterns in technology affect people at large. Technology planning. Having a technological strategy. Having a strategy for rebellion. Planning a coup. Standing by as chaos takes over. Deferring to technology. Putting equipment together. Shocking strategies. Shocking wisdom. Designing a computer program. Making peace with shock. Perceiving patterns in astrology. Shocking understanding of gender identity.
Understanding how intangible, nebulous parts fit into a whole. Deferring to imagination. Standing by as shady people take control. Dance choreography. Film choreography. Weaving a fantasy together. Understanding patterns of addiction. Drug or alcohol addiction counselor. The ability to tie together ethereal, elusive and transitive elements to create a whole pattern. Imaginative planning. Making peace with addiction. Perceiving patterns that are not discernible to other people. Fuzzy pattern perception.
Understanding how the dark side of humanity fits into the whole. Compulsive planning. OCD. Obsessive strategies. Making peace with your dark side. Understanding karmic patterns. Knowing how undermining behaviors create a pattern in a life. Knowing how unconscious attitudes make a whole person. Wisdom in understanding unconscious processes. Ferreting out subversive plans. Plans and strategies that have a deep impact. Psychological counseling.
Acute sensitivity to patterns, holistic thinking, holistic perception, strategizing, and planning- for better or worse. Recognizing patterns of wounding. Recognizing patterns of healing. Recognizing patterns in astrology. Knowing how wounding impacts a whole person. Knowing why wounding would make a person want to give up.
Pallas Athene’s brilliance was so great that … the whole earth quaked before her. For a time the sun ceased to shine, and the only light in the world radiated from the goddess Athena, splendid as a star.
— The Goddess: Myths and Stories by Lindel Barker-Revell (pg.42)
Pallas Athene #2 - Goddess of Wisdom
- Athene / Athena
- Goddess of Wisdom
- Pallas
- Pallas Athene
- Athene's Nature and Deeds
- Born of her father Jupiter / Zeus’s head. Zeus swallowed the goddess Metis, who gave him counsel from his belly. One day, he had a raging headache, and Athene was born from his head.
- Jupiter / Zeus’s favorite child
- Never met her mother, Metis
- Never lost a battle with Mars (Ares)
- Flayed the skin from the Gorgon, Medusa, after Perseus beheaded her
- She took the blood of Medusa and divided it between herself and the great healer, Asclepius
- Asclepius used the blood to heal and raise the dead
- Athene used it to start wars and take life
- She took the blood of Medusa and divided it between herself and the great healer, Asclepius
- Virgin
- Had to tone down her brilliance
- Wise counselor
- Owls & snakes surround her as symbols of her wisdom & gift of prophecy
- Exceptional manual dexterity as patroness of weaving
- The ability to perceive whole patterns
- Strategic thinker & planner
