Aspects
Ascendant Sextile Metis
Metis A friendly, opportunity-shaped aspect between planets about 60 degrees apart. It offers help you have to reach for rather than receive automatically. 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. offers a ready chance to grow real resourcefulness into your persona, but only if you reach for it. The capacity for clever, practical presence sits within easy grasp, waiting on your decision to use it. Step into situations that ask for quick wits, and let competent strategy become part of how people know you.
Lean in — Volunteer your practical wits when a situation calls for them.
Watch for — Wait passively for your cleverness to show without ever using it.
- cunning
- opportunity
- self-development
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 sextile as an opportunity that rewards being acted on.