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Pallas in the eleventh house

the asteroid 2 Pallas in the eleventh house, in modern Western asteroid practice

What the tradition reads

Pallas in the eleventh house places the strategist in the house Alan Leo gives to friends and acquaintances, hopes, wishes and aspirations, the friends read as arising from unions. AstroFix's list reads this placement as seeing how an individual fits into humanity as a whole and how individual contributions serve the collective, and as seeing the path towards long term aims: a long term strategy, in its words, along with a battle plan for social causes and a strategy for clubs, organisations and groups. It reads a holistic understanding of group endeavours and interactions, and keen perception and insight into the collective. Read against what Astrology King gathers as the modern sense of the asteroid, which includes strategy, political nous and pattern recognition, the eleventh house version is the one that watches a pattern made of many people rather than one. Wikipedia's page on asteroids in astrology gives the plain reading of Pallas as an indicator of effort, of wisdom or of intelligence, and records that only a minority of astrologers use asteroids in chart interpretation at all.

The story

Pallas has twice been understood through company rather than alone. In 1917 the Japanese astronomer Kiyotsugu Hirayama began plotting the mean orbital motion, inclination and eccentricity of a set of asteroids and found several distinct groupings; in a later paper he reported a group of three associated with Pallas, which was named the Pallas family after its largest member. Since 1994 more than ten members have been identified, with inclinations between 33 and 38 degrees, and the family's validity was confirmed in 2002 by a comparison of their spectra. The second instance is a crowd of people. The best observed of all asteroid occultation events was the passage of Pallas in front of a star on 29 May 1983, watched by 140 observers, whose combined measurements produced the first accurate calculation of the body's diameter. A figure too small and too dim to be measured by one observer was measured by a hundred and forty acting together.

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