Aspects
Metis Quincunx Midheaven
Metis An awkward aspect between planets about 150 degrees apart, joining signs with nothing in common. It asks for constant small adjustments between things that do not naturally fit. your The highest point of the chart, also called the MC, marking the top of the sky at your birth. It speaks to career, reputation, and your public direction. keeps your practical cunning slightly out of alignment with your career direction, so the clever counsel you bring rarely fits the role you actually hold. Ongoing adjustment is the task. Keep retuning where and how you apply your strategic mind at work until your wisdom and your ambition finally point the same way.
Lean in — Keep retuning where your cleverness meets your career aim.
Watch for — Force your strategic gift into a role it plainly does not fit.
- cunning
- adjustment
- vocation
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 Midheaven, career and public role, as a specific working relationship.
- Tierney, Dynamics of Aspect Analysis (1983)Reads the quincunx as a minor aspect of adjustment and incongruity that must be continually realigned.