Aspects
Imum Coeli 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 lowest point of the chart, opposite the Midheaven, often called the IC. It points to home, roots, family, and your private foundation. offers a real opportunity to grow practical cunning from your foundation, provided you act on it. A resourceful home and grounded inner life can sharpen your judgment, but only if you build them on purpose. Invest in your base, learn from the wisdom in your family, and let a solid foundation become the source of your wider counsel.
Lean in — Invest in a home base that grows your practical wisdom.
Watch for — Neglect the resourceful foundation that could make you wiser.
- cunning
- opportunity
- home
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 Imum Coeli, home and roots, as a specific working relationship.
- Tierney, Dynamics of Aspect Analysis (1983)Reads the sextile as an opportunity that rewards being acted on.