Aspects
Mercury Square Metis
Metis A tense aspect between planets about 90 degrees apart that creates friction and a push to act. Squares are challenging but are often what drives real growth. your Mercury, so resourceful thought grates against ordinary thinking, often through ideas that are clever but unheeded. The work is to let the friction sharpen counsel that lands.
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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 an aspect as a specific working relationship between two principles, read by the geometry of the angle between them.