Chiron
Chiron is a puzzling member of the sub-sized members of our solar system. Scholars debate its origin as a comet, a traveling planetoid, or other type of roaming space rock just rambling around the universe and presently in orbit around our sun, but someday will leave us to go on its journey.\
The important thing about Chiron is that it relates to wounding and healing. Chiron, the Centar was the wisest of his race of half-man, half-horse. He was wounded by a poisoned arrow of Herculies in an unfortunate accident. Being immortal he could not die, but had to endure his wound, to reconcile with it and move on, teaching and healing.
Where Chiron is in your chart is where you will experience a significant pain, something that will affect your life and which must be healed through a deep awareness of the nature of this psychic wound and how to understand and work through the effect it has had on your life.
Presently Chiron is about to make a conjunction with Neptune in the sign of Aquarius. To my mind, this will be an opportunity to look at how each of us relates to the pain and healing of the collective. We are all involved with the pain of lack of vision of many leaders of the various forces in the world and personal areas. Greed has wounded our financial markets, aggressive religous fanatics and jingoism threaten the very fabric of the world community. The rape of Gia the mother earth continues. As a culture we have fallen into a culture that is polluting the planet.
It seems to me that Chiron in Aquarius gives usthe chance to seriously work on healing this wound. The time is right for people to start working towards solutions to these problems. It road will be difficult, but new is the time to make a start as each individual realizes that he can do something like recycle, using less energy, cut back on products that continue to pollute. We have seen a popular new President rise up during this time, it is a time to heal the planet and our vision as a people.
On a personal level this passage of Chiron through Aquarius gives us the opportunity to re-examine the personal vision of our lives, those areas where we have be wounded by making wrong choices, where out side events may have also wounded us to our very soul. This is the time to look to resetting goals for our journey, to find a new and meaninful direction in self achievement and definition. There is a lesson and the potential for growth in even the most unsettling forms of pain if only the wound is seen as something that can be worked through.
Death, accidents, prejudice, divorce are just a few of the pains we humans must endure. But during this time of Chiron is Aquarius,the potential of astrology can be most helpful. The astrologer knows that the solar system keeps on moving, that new planetary configurations will transit the natal chart. The secret is to use the knowledge of astrology to understand that all is transitory, all will change. And in this constant change we are governed by the choices we make as the evolving planets move on.
Our challenge then is to heal ourselves through the insight of astrology. That it is our ability to continue choosing the best choices that the concept of happiness is generated from within. To continue to dwell on the pain of a wound is to be captured in a moment that keeps one from moving forward. As deep as the pain may have been, astrology teaches us that we must move on, we must learn, and continue to learn how to cope with the challenges that life, that the transits to the natal chart, gives us. It is the only way for growth. Just look at those who have dealt with their pain and moved on as to those who continue to carry their pain with out letting it go. The obvious answer is to move on, those people who have learned from their pain and created a larger vision for themselves are the role models to emulate. This is the lesson of Chiron, to heal ourselves both as a culture and as an individual. And thetime of Chiron is Aquarius is the time to get in touch with the larger collective, the true revelation of ” as above so below” metaphor that can guide us to the true miracle of astrology, to see in the signs and the planets a way to discover and heal ourselves.