“How Chiron is Making A Splash in our Astrology in 2024 – A Tragedy”. Just kidding! Y’all relax. We’ll be fine.
All right, now that we’ve soothed ourselves to regulation, what or who is Chiron anyway??? I mean seriously, you can go on Google and find a whole list of explanations on Chiron but lemme give you the gist cuz who the hell wants the whole story???
Okay so ya. One day Saturn raped a nymph and she got preggo. She gave birth to a…somewhat…centaur??? I’ll explain later. Disgusted by this, he was left on the side of a rocky mountain (did I invent the rocky part) to die cuz that’s what you totally do to kids you don’t want. But it’s fine cuz here comes Apollo to save the day and becomes his new daddeh-o. So Apollo teaches Chiron to be an amazing teacher and healer and oh yeah let’s talk about how Chiron actually looks:
Like yo. That’s not how centaurs look. Centaurs actually have a horse bodeh and a human head and torso. But oh well, Chiron’s special lolz. This anatomical structure actually makes him clumsy but back to the story. So Chiron’s a demigod and this super amazing guy, but one day he gets shot with an arrow by Hercules I think cuz fucking hell, all the other centaurs were having a ruckus and chaos ensued—and that’s another story back to Chiron—and he’s wounded and since he’s a demigod he won’t fucking die. But he can’t heal himself either. So he just lives for the longest time in absolute agony—
Ahem. As I was saying, he lives in agony and never dies blah blah then he makes a deal with someone to become human and he finally dies. Geez. What a shortcut version BUT ANYWAY! The point is that his mythology is all about being the WOUNDED HEALER.
Now let’s talk ass-trologehhhhhhh. Ok. Astrology. I can spell.
So in antiquity the traditional 7 planets (sun, moon, mars, mercury, venus, jupiter, saturn) were the primary heavenly bodies used to make a chart. Later on the new kids on the block (uranus, neptune, pluto) joined the mix. Then in 1977 Chiron was discovered and while it took a while to understand what it even was (is it a planet? is it an asteroid?) and later on what it even means—it eventually became so notable it’s become a standard in chart delineations by most astrologers today.
So what does Chiron represent in your chart? I’ll make this super brief:
- It can represent your wounds and what you need to work on in this lifetime
– this can include your traumas, abuse (and the people behind it) and its effects on you - It can represent epigenetic or ancestral themes especially surrounding guilt that you can put an end to
- A sense of sacrifice, something you’ve been working towards your entire life (and you don’t see a reward in sight)
- Exile, seclusion, ostracism
In the end it will all depend on the entire chart, which includes the houses, signs, aspects yada yada. Sometimes it won’t even be your wound — especially if your Chiron is anywhere but the first house. For those of you who don’t know, the first house will ALWAYS be you. But any other house can represent other people in your life. For example the 3rd house can be your classmates if you’re still in school, the 7th house can be your spouse or business partner, the 9th house can be your cult leader.
Oh good, I still have a sense of humor. Baha.
For the first 30 years of my life I had thought that my life purpose was to mitigate and mediate. That I was born to bring peace – whether it was to my immediate circle or to the world. My insecurity stemmed from feeling so different from the rest of my family that I thought I was inadequate. In order to “pay my dues” I overextended myself, making sure I was useful. But getting into healing over a decade ago taught me to unlearn all my perceptions and focus on working on me and my paying clientele instead.
But last January it was confirmed that my purpose in life was indeed to do just that. To lure someone back. I was pushed into the arms of someone I despised with a motive in mind. I was pawn in a game of two…okay three adults. There were no winners and it was ingrained into me epigenetically that my validity soley depended on my ability to reach this goal.
I was crushed. Again.
This among many other things that fit itself into just one week of my life in the first month of 2024 stomped on my already broken heart. Invalidity engulfed my entire being and just because I am a healer doesn’t mean I wanted to rid myself of those feelings immediately. Part of the human experience is to allow ourselves to feel the deepest darkest parts of our souls, and eventually learning to stand up and walk again.
I mentioned in passing in a previous post that Chiron plays a huge role in the celestial events this year, especially the Libra-Aries Eclipses (March 25 and April 8 2024), Mercury Retrograde in Aries and yada yada yada.
Chiron and Rahu (North Node) are sign based conjunct in Aries right now, just where the Libra-Aries Eclipse axis is taking place. That plus all the planets seem to like congregating this year…so the Sun and Mercury are also doing its thing there. So we really want to know first and foremost, where is Chiron and secondly, where is the Libra-Aries axis in your chart?
Whatever houses they fall into will play a major role in your life, not just this April-May, but the rest of the year. Eclipses and Mercury Retrogrades are already epic enough, but having Chiron be a part of this energy is really transformative — but you have to go through the fire first.
I remember when I first took note of my Chiron placement, I had no idea what the hell it meant. But little by little it’s all starting to make sense.
Being a healer is part of my Chiron. I am the wounded healer. I am letting my work resolve all my karmic obligations from other existences – so yipee, good for me. Being in Taurus (ruled by Venus) in the 6th House in a superior trine to MC and Psyche in my 10th house of Virgo (ruled by Mercury), healing and astrology is exactly what I am supposed to be doing in this lifetime. But instead of focusing on people who take advantage of me, I have turned it into a career that pays the bills. How 6th/10th house of me.
But that isn’t all what my Chiron is. The asteroids Anteros and Hephaistos are conjunct Chiron and my biggest wound really stems from childhood: the yearning of having the people I love love me back.
What is interesting about the myth of Chiron is that while he is an amazing healer and demigod, he was still vulnerable and unable to heal himself. THIS is what Chiron in your chart means. Wherever it lands and whatever it aspects…this is where you “can’t” heal. Therefore it is fascinating that while I can heal others for the exact same wounds, I am unable to heal my own.
I’ve chased, worked hard, waited, made magic all for love be it blood, platonic or romantic. As my previous foundations of love crack beneath my feet, I am learning what it even really means to do this. What does it mean to love and what does having someone love me really mean?
I actually don’t know the answer so I guess I’ll come back with another blog when a few epiphanies have set in. But in the meantime, I really am focusing on analyzing what is truly valuable to me based on the cells of my body instead of what is presented to me by human media.
The Eclipses + Mercury Rx + Chiron energy is NO JOKE this year. This is a time to confront our wounds head on and not run away like we’re used to. This is a time to reassess our values, look at ourselves hard in the mirror and find out who we really are and who we really want to be. This is a time to check if the life we’ve been living is still the life we want to live. If the people we’re hanging out with are still the ones we want influencing us. If the home we’ve been living in is still the environment we want to wake up to everyday. If the mask you wear to work is getting too heavy, too eroded, too plastic to continue putting on your face.
We won’t get an instant answer. But the least we can do is open ourselves up to letting the Chiron energy in when it knocks on your door.
So. Instead of putting your armour on like Aries would typically have us do, maybe we should just sit with it and explore it like our shadows. Embrace it instead of repressing it. Know that we aren’t built to be perfect and let our vulnerabilities shine.
All right y’all. I got a dove to feed. No, really. I bought pigeon feed.
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