Aspects
Ascendant Septile Metis
Metis septile your The zodiac degree rising on the eastern horizon at your birth, also called the rising sign. It sets the whole house framework of the chart and colors how you meet the world. threads a faint, fated compulsion through your self-presentation, as if you are quietly driven to be the shrewd one whether or not you chose the role. The pull feels older than your decisions. Honor it without letting it run you, and shape the compulsion into counsel you offer consciously rather than by reflex.
Lean in — Bring the fated pull toward giving counsel under conscious aim.
Watch for — Let an unexamined compulsion cast you as everyone's strategist.
- cunning
- fate
- compulsion
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Reads Metis by her myth, Titaness of cunning wisdom and mother of Athena swallowed by Zeus, as a point of practical intelligence and resourceful counsel.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Treats the meeting of cunning wisdom and the Ascendant, the self and persona, as a specific working relationship.
- Tierney, Dynamics of Aspect Analysis (1983)Reads the septile as a seventh-harmonic aspect of fated, inspired, almost compulsive pull.