Aspects
Ascendant Sesquiquadrate Metis
Metis sesquiquadrate your Ascendant 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.