Aspects
Ascendant Sesquiquadrate Metis
Metis sesquiquadrate 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. builds a nagging agitation in how you present, a pressure of unspent cunning that keeps pushing you to be the clever one in the room. Left alone it leaks as one-upmanship or sly maneuvering. Give your strategic mind a real problem to chew on, and the agitation turns into clean, useful resourcefulness.
Lean in — Aim your restless cleverness at a real problem to solve.
Watch for — Let pent-up cunning leak out as one-upmanship or maneuvering.
- cunning
- agitation
- release
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 sesquiquadrate as a minor hard aspect of agitation seeking release through action.