Aspects
Metis Semi-Sextile Moon
The Metis theme and your emotional instincts sit a step apart, so a quiet practical wisdom can rise in your gut, a resource you grow into a knowing that senses the shrewd, workable answer before you reason it. Your instinct counsels you. Let your gut wisdom be heard and trusted, not swallowed unspoken.
Lean in — Let your gut wisdom be heard and trusted, not swallowed.
Watch for — Let your instinctive counsel go unvoiced and unheeded.
- wisdom
- feeling
- 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 practical wisdom and emotional instinct as an inner dynamic of the knowing gut.
- Tierney, Dynamics of Aspect Analysis (1983)Reads the semi-sextile as a minor growth aspect, a subtle nudge toward integrating two neighboring principles.