Aspects
Mars Semi-Sextile Metis
The Metis theme and your drive sit a step apart, so a quiet shrewdness can guide your action, a resource you grow into the cunning that achieves through cleverness rather than force. You find the strategic way. Let your drive act on your own cunning, for your own ends as well as others'.
Lean in — Let your drive act on your cunning, for your own ends too.
Watch for — Use your shrewdness only to power another's throne.
- wisdom
- drive
- 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 cunning and drive as an inner dynamic of shrewd, strategic action.
- Tierney, Dynamics of Aspect Analysis (1983)Reads the semi-sextile as a minor growth aspect, a subtle nudge toward integrating two neighboring principles.