Pallas

Pallas Athena is the second-discovered major asteroid and astrologically represents the archetype of strategic intelligence — the goddess Athena's domain: pattern recognition, the wisdom to choose the right battle, creative problem-solving, the warrior strategist (distinct from Mars's direct combat). Your Pallas sign and house describe where your strategic intelligence is most active and what kind of patterns you're best at seeing. Strong Pallas placements often produce people whose minds work in unusual diagonals — diagnosticians, strategists, designers, writers whose work has architectural elegance. Pallas is also associated with father-daughter dynamics (in the myth, Athena springs fully-formed from Zeus's head) and with the experience of being a woman in male-coded intellectual territory.