Aspects
Chiron Semi-Sextile Metis
The Metis theme and a deep wound sit a step apart, so an old hurt around your wisdom being unseen, co-opted, or never credited can quietly meet your gift for counsel, a resource that, tended, becomes a gift for helping others own their own wisdom. What was swallowed in you can teach you to voice it. Let the old wound deepen your counsel without keeping it buried.
Lean in — Let your old hurt deepen your counsel without keeping it buried.
Watch for — Advise from the shadows to avoid a wound of being unseen.
- wisdom
- wound
- growth
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Reads Metis by her myth, Titaness of cunning wisdom, mother of Athena, swallowed by Zeus, as a point of practical intelligence, resourceful counsel, and wisdom that risks being absorbed or unseen.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Treats the meeting of wisdom and the wound as an inner dynamic of counsel unseen, finally voiced.
- Tierney, Dynamics of Aspect Analysis (1983)Reads the semi-sextile as a minor growth aspect, a subtle nudge toward integrating two neighboring principles.