Aspects
Descendant 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 point directly opposite the Ascendant, on the western horizon. It describes partnership, others, and what you seek in relationship. offers a real opportunity to develop practical cunning through close partnership, provided you act on it. The right alliance can sharpen your strategic mind, but only if you engage. Seek partners who challenge your thinking, talk problems through together, and work the relationship rather than waiting for it to make you wiser.
Lean in — Choose alliances that sharpen your strategic thinking.
Watch for — Hope a clever partner will make you wiser without your effort.
- cunning
- opportunity
- partnership
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 Descendant, partnership and the other, as a specific working relationship.
- Tierney, Dynamics of Aspect Analysis (1983)Reads the sextile as an opportunity that rewards being acted on.