Exploring Chiron - The Wounded Healer
Sculpture of Chiron by Christophe Charbonnel. https://www.artsy.net/artwork/christophe-charbonnel-the-centaur-chiron
Chiron in astrology
Chiron, discovered in 1977, was the first planetary body categorised as a centaur, after the mythological Greek creature — a hybrid of man and beast. Like their mythological counterparts, centaurs are hybrids, embodying traits of both asteroids and comets. Today, scientists estimate there are more than 44,000 centaurs in the Solar System, concentrated mainly in a band between the orbits of Jupiter and Pluto. [astronomynow.com]
Chiron mythology
In Greek mythology Chiron was a centaur ~ half man, half horse. In particular Chiron was known for his intelligence and gentle manner and most notably for his knowledge of healing. Having been mistakenly pierced by an arrow poisoned with the blood of the hydra whilst dining with the centaur Pholus, he was unable to heal his own wound. Even though it was said that Chiron was immortal (being the son of Cronus, a Titan) he could not live with the pain and so sacrificed his life. He then took his place among the gods on Mount Olympus. His constellation is known as Centaurus.
Chiron meaning
Chiron is known as the wounded healer. He is a representation our deepest spiritual wounds and how we heal them. By finding where he is in your birth chart he can show you the type of wound you carry and the recurring issues that arise from it and what can be done to resolve it.
Chiron prominently held in a birth chart points to the great potential that you hold to become an educator or healer. A Chiron personality is often wise and practical. As a knowledge holder of higher teachings and intellect he strives to unite the mind and body.
This highly revered teacher and healer with Achilles and Jason amongst his students, was unable to cure himself and this for me shows the great necessity to look deeply within the self to find our own lessons and subsequent answers. We can emerge from chaos and pain enlightened and transformed with a renewed sense of meaning to our life. Indeed our deepest wounds overcome, can be transformed into our greatest strengths.
In this way crisis and pain are tools that can bring us knowledge, growth and ultimately peace of mind…
You can find your Chiron Sign here
http://www.findyourfate.com/astrology/chiron.html
Chiron in Aries
Key word: I AM
Wounding: Self-Worth and Rejection
Gift: Associated Empowerment
Master: Archangel Michael
If Chiron falls in Aries in your chart you have a wounding that impacts not only your sense of identity’, but also issues regarding ‘self-worth’, fears surrounding ‘rejection’ and what I have come to see personally on a spiritual level as issues regarding ‘energy’ and ‘power’.
With Chiron in Aries people, there is a deep wounding around the “I Am”. This creates a wounding regarding the sense of self and brings up fears around rejection. They can struggle with feelings of being unloved and misunderstood, not just as a child, but even throughout life experiences. These feelings of self-worth build self-defence mechanisms and as a result they very seldom show their vulnerability and uncertainty. Thus they are usually seen as strong and independent or sometimes even self-righteous rather than sensitive and need to feel secure or even validated regarding their emotions, perceptions, gifts or actions.
The wounding around self-worth can also manifest as self-pity and self judgment with some carrying the ‘martyr syndrome’ and feeling they need to sacrifice themselves in different ways. This comes up because of unresolved issues from the past or past lives regarding persecution and abandonment.
Through mastering your wounding to overcome these feelings of doubt, punishment or sacrifice, you begin to embrace who you truly are, without the fear of being judged or rejected. By owning your sense of self and strengths, you gain peace of mind, inner power, magnetism and leadership qualities in whatever field of interest that you go into. Therefore, healing yourself opens you and your wound up to the world, giving you a chance to help others to overcome their uncertainties of and insecurities around being their ‘true self’.
Chiron in Aries people are seen as the warrior because of their association with Mars and the fire element. This in itself creates issues in their lives around energy and power. They are unusually sensitive to energy and are guided by Chiron to understand how to channel it constructively in their lives. Therefore, if they do not work through their Chiron, they become physically depleted through their power centre and also in their body.
Chiron in Taurus
Key word: I Feel
Wounding: Security
Gift: Nurturing and Creativity
Associated Master: Master Kathumi
If Chiron falls in Taurus in your chart, there is a deep wounding around ‘insecurities’ and feeling ‘safe’ and provided for in the world. This can come from feeling either emotionally or spiritually ‘deprived’ to such a point that you feel that you are never truly ‘fulfilled’.
This Chironic placement makes a person who, because of a wound around feeling neglected either from past life or this one, (perhaps your parents were self-absorbed, closed off from you or unable to show you love and affection), bear either mental or physical pain that weakens the spirit, body and mind.
At the heart of a Chiron in Taurus is a yearning for security and the pleasure of sensory stimulation: food, physical affection and nourishment. Taurus loves to indulge, but with Chiron in Taurus, you’re never quite fulfilled in either feeling nourished in the body, sometimes sexually or with issues regarding intimacy, through to issues of the heart relating to unfulfilled emotions. Rather than wallowing in feelings of what you lack, Chiron in Taurus encourages you to appreciate what you have, from your relationships through to your professional and spiritual achievements. By cherishing gifts and releasing the need for possessions, you can free yourself up from the bonds of materialism and share or express your gifts and wisdom with others who struggle with the insecurities of the world.
With Chiron falling in Taurus you hold the power of endurance and have such a strong connection to the inner realms of Nature and the Elemental Kingdom. You also obtain this through creative abilities, and through the path of service, this can be channelled into both artistic and psychic gifts for healing and transformation, so others like you can come to feel the joy of being on Earth.
Chiron in Gemini
Key word: I Know
Wounding: Intellect
Gift Associated: Knowledge and Awareness
Master: Master Serapis Bey
If Chiron falls in Gemini in your chart, you bear a pain of doubting or emphasising your ‘intellectual’ and mental capacities. You ‘like to think’ and are sometimes too much in the mental plane, being very sensitive psychologically to others and what they say. You are highly attuned to the intellect and consciousness, and the patterns of those around you.
When you have worked through your Chiron and your feelings of self-doubt intellectually, you are conscientious about wanting to shift or create more awareness in others regarding the ideals that they carry or believe in.
There are some who have a past life wounding relating to mental illness or even an inability to complete writing or establishing information regarding the sciences, philosophy and literature. Through pursuing this field of interest in the past or even in this lifetime, you are able to not only heighten your own sense of awareness, but to also shift global awareness and support the evolution of the mind and consciousness of humanity.
You believe on some level deep within that people co-create their realities by how they think, and have an amazing ability to pursue and alternately enhance their knowledge regarding the skills or interests that they pursue. This position therefore enforces you to exhaustively seek knowledge, but until you have mastered more, you can become resentful of those who seem naturally gifted intellectually or with words and ideas.
At the heart of Gemini is a need to be heard and understood, and to also be in the middle of everything. They love to talk and have people listening intently, or to have in-depth conversations. But with Chiron in Gemini, you feel as though your ideas fall on deaf ears or, if they are heard, are victim to ridicule. You could even feel frustrated because you are pioneering in your thoughts and reach levels of awareness that others cannot comprehend.
Rather than feeling ignorant or misunderstood regarding what you feel you know or don’t know, Chiron in Gemini encourages you to believe and trust in what you know, enhance that knowledge and release the fear to express that wisdom to others. By cherishing your natural talents, perceptions, instincts and ideals, you are able to open yourself up to the world. By doing so you show others how to release their fear around their capacity to think, learn or believe in their intellectual abilities and allow them to appreciate that everybody thinks differently.
Additionally through your own specific intellectual gifts, you can enable others to open up to new levels of awareness, consciousness and wisdom.
Chiron in Cancer
Key word: I Love
Wounding: Abandonment
Gift: Compassion
Associated Master: Mother Mary
If Chiron falls in Cancer in your chart, you bear the pain of the heart, what ‘love’ creates in life, as well as the fear of ‘separation’. You are especially sensitive to ‘emotion’ and hold within you a wound around feelings of separation, abandonment and grief.
Because of the hyposensitivity of your own emotions, you are especially empathetic towards others. This creates the burden of sometimes taking on, both emotionally and energetically, what others are feeling. Thus you sometimes become overburdened with the pain of others.
Because of an inner wounding regarding abandonment, you can feel unworthy of love and thereby give too generously to everyone else but yourself. Therefore, you can sacrifice your own needs and pleasures to the point that you become disconnected to your own inner feelings and desires.
You also have a deep fear of pain, both physical and emotional, because of your hypersensitivity. At the heart of it, Chiron in Cancer people do need to work through their emotional body and channel this energy constructively into their daily life. This then delegates their need to nurture, have a family and seek personal and financial security.
They’re always taking in stray animals, relatives and friends that have fallen on bad times. But with Chiron in Cancer, they neglect their own pain. Rather than giving all your love to others, Chiron in Cancer encourages you to learn to love yourself. Once Chiron in Cancer people concede that they deserve to be loved back and release the fear around it, they can give to themselves even more so, this time in a more balanced, healthy way. This way they can begin to cherish their own needs for love and nurturing and can open themselves to the world, allowing love to flow back to them.
Cancer people draw others into their life that need to be nurtured and cared for, are humanitarian and intuitive by nature and make great healers. As they master these gifts they embody ‘Heart Master Energy’ and hold a space in the world for others to heal, open and deepen their emotions as they go deeper into the inner chambers of their heart chakra.
Chiron in Leo
Key word: I Express
Wounding: Ego
Gift Associated: Self- Expression
Master: Master El Morya
If Chiron falls in Leo in your chart, there is a wounding in the ‘ego’ and through the influence of Chiron, the ego can begin to refine more in nature and consciousness. One’s ‘will’, can also be purified to enable the manifestation of pure ‘intent’. There is a purification of the lower-self and the integration of the higher-self through the purification of the ego, will and consciousness.
Chiron in Leo also brings through a healing of the inner child, and by doing so, re-establishes the refined emotional and spiritual qualities of the inner child back into the heart of humanity. This is such a vital step toward self mastery and as the spiritual teaching proclaims, to enter the Kingdom of Heaven we need to re-establish the purity and essence of the inner-child.
By healing the inner child, the need to create unnecessary drama to be seen and loved for who you truly are, can finally be healed. Those with this sign usually have a lack of self-recognition in regards to their gifts and talents. This placement makes for a person who feels like they’re never given a chance to shine and believes that they’re far less talented than what they truly are. This can come through from a past life wounding where their unique qualities and gifts could have been overseen because of the different circumstances or events playing out in their lives at the time. Therefore, at the heart of Leo is the quest to be adored for their gifts, talents and sense of presence.
For those with Chiron in Leo, constituently seeking attention for recognition sometimes only disconnects them more from their true selves and creates over time, even more frustration. So rather than pitying yourself for not being realised for your potential, Chiron in Leo encourages you to believe in yourself and express the talents that you have. By cultivating and cherishing your talents you are able to open yourself up to the world and share what you’ve learned, giving others the opportunity to also believe in themselves and express those aspects and qualities that they hold dear.
Chiron in Virgo
Key word: I Heal
Wounding: Control
Gift Associated: Self-Healing
Master: Master Hilarion
If Chiron falls in Virgo in your chart, you bear the pain of ‘compulsiveness’ which can create unnecessary stress. You also like to be in ‘control’ as much as possible regarding the circumstances within your reality and you are usually a ‘perfectionist’ in whatever you apply yourself to. These attributes can make you too analytical or even critical at times, not only with others but also yourself. The key here is to lighten up and feel the joy of just being in the moment. You are very conscious of your body and appearance, and have an interest in health and physical wellbeing.
Your interest in health is however, sometimes based on fear regarding illness in the body. Therefore, you can become quite fearful about issues around your health and can constantly worry about ailments and symptoms.
On a more positive note, if you can work through this fear regarding your health, you channel your interest into healing of all kinds, specifically the Earth or alternative healing modalities, as well as orthodox medicine. Some are also drawn into understanding energy and how it works on a healing level within the body. You are being encouraged by the universe and are therefore drawn into practicing a healing modality that supports your own healing process, as well as others’. This then becomes a vital key into your awakening and enlightenment process.
Being such a perfectionist does give you a tendency for wanting to control people and circumstances around you, and a desire to constantly fix things, as well as having high expectations of not only yourself but others. This can create the ‘pressure to perform’ in those you are associated with.
Chiron in Libra
Key word: I Balance
Wounding: Injustice
Gift Associated: Inner-Harmony
Master: Goddess Athena
If Chiron falls in Libra in your chart, there is a need to find ‘harmony’ and fulfilment regarding issues around the heart and specifically relationships. There is also a strong desire for ‘equality’ and ‘respect’ and a tendency towards ‘idealism’ as well as viewpoints regarding the injustices that occur in one’s life and the world in general.
The key for those born with Chiron in this sign is to maintain balance in the emotions, thereby sustaining feelings of ‘inner-harmony’, and through doing so creating a sense of order at times of chaos. These people do have to constantly look at their emotions and work at the karmic issues that occur within relationships. By becoming stronger in their emotions they can find and feel the essence and beauty of ‘true love’. It is also through relationships that they learn to overcome issues that create feelings of personal disempowerment so that they can become stronger and hold a torch for independence and equality between and with others in the world around them.
They can’t bear the pain of dependence and idealism regarding love. They can either see their partner through rose coloured glasses or, on the other hand, not see them for who they are. It is like they hold the ‘twin flame’ syndrome within their relationships. They attract very karmic and sometimes consuming issues regarding relationships and through reflection and resolutions made regarding these issues, they become more whole and complete within themselves. Until this point however, the issues that arise within these more karmic relationships can almost at times break their spirit, until they can get clearer and stronger in regards to their beliefs and sense of self. Those who cannot achieve this continue to attract similar circumstances by endlessly forming and destroying relationships that fail to live up to their standards or expectations.
Rather than always demanding harmony, perfection and expectation in relationships, Chiron in Libra compels you to understand that conflict and resolutions made can lead to greater intimacy, love and more of a feeling of completeness. By learning independence and fostering healthy, balanced relationships (by working through karmic issues and emotions), you are able to open yourself to the world and share that by working through emotions regarding your relationships, you can find balance, fulfilment, harmony, love and also independence and equality in life.
Chiron in Scorpio
Key word: I Transcend
Wounding: Fear
Gift Associated: Death & Rebirth
Master: Buddha, specifically the Tibetan ‘Book of the Dead’ teachings
If Chiron falls in Scorpio in your chart, you bear the pain of ‘fear’: fear of the unknown, loss, persecution, death or even fear of ‘change’. Quite often there has been past life wounding around struggles concerning the use of your ‘power’, so in this life time you are encouraged to understand and reconnect to it. Therefore, you can attract power issues into your life.
This sign also encourages you to awaken more to the depth of your emotions so that you can heal on an emotional level and evolve. You can either experience birth trauma, illness or even the loss of a parent or friend at an early age. The resulting emotion of grief connects you to your emotions and spirituality. One of your quests is to release the fear of feeling.
You can also be drawn into struggles involving sex or power, either dealing with issues regarding your sexuality or being put in situations to test your power and how to use it. Sexuality is also a driving force in your life because you are energetically encouraged to activate the kundalini so that you can be supported in the awakening of your psyche and latent gifts, creating spiritual empowerment.
You can feel so deeply that the fear of loss can make you possessive, dominant, uncertain or even jealous. You can also draw others to you that feel the same uncertainties, forcing them to let go of control and release the fear of looking at and resolving painful emotions. It is through breaking through the boundaries of fear based emotions that your emotions can transform, change and evolve in such a way that you can own your wisdom. Healing takes place when you can surrender to a transference shift and allow change and transformation into your emotional body, consciousness and reality.
Rather than fearing change and holding on so tightly to what you have, Chiron in Scorpio compels you to appreciate what loss can teach you about life and living. By realising this, you are able to open yourself up to the world and share the wisdom of overcoming fear, embracing the depth of emotion, creating opportunities for empowerment, reconnecting to the psyche to understand more about the unknown, awakening the kundalini and to ultimately release the fear of times of transference and of death/rebirth itself. It is through this process that you truly heal and become enlightened.
Chiron in Sagittarius
Key word: I Believe
Wounding: Restriction
Gift Associated: Belief System
Master: Lord Sananda
If Chiron falls in Sagittarius in your chart, you fear the pain of ‘confinement’ and search for a sense of ‘freedom’ to follow your ‘passion’ in life. You also search for ‘truth’ and are therefore pushed to break through your internal limitations and reconnect to your Higher Self and find ‘meaning’ on a spiritual level. You have also had, in past lives, battled over issues around ‘religion’ and spirituality, you therefore struggle in this life regarding such matters. You also yearn to ‘explore’ and ‘travel’ so that you can obtain a greater meaning out of life.
At the heart of Sagittarius is the need to be free. By exploring the world, its cultures, religions and the ideals of its people, you can come to understand more about the diversity of human nature, the psyche and belief systems. However there is a frontier for you to cross to release yourself from the chains of Earthly religions and live a spirituality that is more delegated through and from your Higher Self. This process is supported by the universal energies and teachings that energetically encompass or are incorporated within all living matter within our dimension, and can only be accessed through higher consciousness. This is your quest: to establish your own belief system. It is intangible yet obtainable through the heart and delegated by the Higher Self.
When Chiron is in Sagittarius, you can become resentful that you are underestimated or not recognised for your spiritual gifts and wisdom by those around you. Rather than resenting that you are seen as average and therefore destined for a mundane fate, Chiron in Sagittarius compels you to acknowledge and utilise the wisdom and gifts that you hold personally, because of your own spiritual journey and awakening process. Through mastering your Chiron, you can reach a state of spiritual empowerment and fulfilment that is obtained by your own internal journey and reconnection to the universe and all the knowledge and powers that be. By healing and then opening yourself up to the world, you can integrate these new and divine practices, wisdom and spiritual gifts. You are able to then live your beliefs and help others to find theirs, by supporting them in their quest for divine healing, insight, reason and truth.
Chiron in Aquarius
Key word: I Unite
Wounding: Separation
Gift Associated: Uniqueness
Master: Lord Maitreya
If Chiron falls in Aquarius in your chart, you bear the pain of alienation, of feeling isolated or even a fear of betrayal by those around you. There is a real wounding around feeling comfortable or even safe in being part of a group, whether in a family unit, community or industry at large.
These people can be very ‘ungrounded’ and are considered ‘air heads’ simply because they find it difficult to stay conscious at times when they feel overwhelmed. They are so unique or even eccentric in nature that they become very conscious of what people think about them. They find it exceptionally difficult to hold their light in group situations and are constantly fighting for their sense of self. They are so oversensitive in regards to their differences that they need to be constantly reassured, accepted and recognised for their gifts, to the point that they cannot just simply ‘fit in’ and feel the joy of participating with others in a unified and complete way.
In past life they have been isolated, discriminated against or have even felt betrayed by a group, whether it was by an organisation or community. Therefore, there is a deep sense of lack of trust and even fear of not feeling valued by others. This is why they are consistently seeking to own and hold their power or sense of self with those around them. However, these emotional dynamics that they feel and are playing out in different degrees, can create difficulties simply because it does involve others or groups in general, and it is only through that group situation and others that they can heal their Chiron wound and manifest their gifts.
It is their uniqueness that they need to embrace and then they can bring forth their ‘true sense of self’ and release the need to create conflict through staying separate, consequently being able to emanate such beautiful and interesting diversity within the organisation so that the group or organisation is seen for its uniqueness as a whole.
At the heart of Aquarius is the need to belong to a group and feel part of some larger significant force that is creating change in the world. When Chiron is in Aquarius, you feel so outside of things, eccentric and therefore uncomfortable, self consciousness and almost inadequate, to the point that you become ungrounded and almost disempowered. Because of that sense of feeling lost in the crowd, you may pull back completely, or create power issues and become aloof. However, in effect, you are yearning to be involved with people and share your energy and gifts. Rather than pulling away or creating drama or conflict through your need to be accepted or even pretending to be someone you're not, Chiron in Aquarius compels you to be yourself, reflect and cherish your uniqueness and eccentricity, and share your input with others.
Once you own your individuality, you open yourself up to the world and encourage others to also express their individuality. You can also then support groups to reflect the diversity of their enterprise and what they can give to the world, release the pain of separation, and for those who master, enable something significant to be created within our reality that goes beyond comprehension at the time, simply because of the uniqueness of its nature, thereby shifting global consciousness.
Chiron in Pisces
Key word: I Reconnect
Wounding: Spiritual Sacrifice
Gift: Faith
Associated Master: Lady Nada
If Chiron falls in Pisces in your chart, you bear the pain of disconnection from Spirit or that divine aspect of self that established itself at the time of disconnection from the God/Goddess. There is a wounding in your ‘faith’.
Therefore you can lack faith in not only yourself, but also in others and the universe. These people have suffered or sacrificed in the past for their faith and have gone through such extreme tests of faith, some having been crucified for it, that they now feel the fear of reconnecting to their faith once again. However they do feel deeply driven to reconnect to Spirit and their faith, resurface their hidden spiritual potential and then utilise their ‘spiritual gifts’ in this incarnation.
There can be a past life wounding usually related to feelings of abandonment by the God/Goddess at times of spiritual sacrifice for the sake of others. One profound example is the events that played out regarding Joan of Arc at the time of her inquisition and ‘burning at the stake’ powers. Therefore, you could have suffered at the hands of others or religious institutions because of your spiritual gifts and powers.
For others, there could also be a wounding that you remember deep on a cellular level from your final disconnection from The Light or Spirit when you became embraced in matter at the time of your original incarnation into our dimension and Earth itself.
At some time in your life, you have been let down by the world or by some belief you have held very dearly. You may have shut down your emotions and become fearful of life itself, but once you open your heart and overcome the resentment, fear and pain of sacrifice, your faith and love for Spirit and humanity will emerge.
Those with Chiron in Pisces need to follow their intuition and inspiration, and understand the deeper motivations of the human spirit and the universe. Remember that maintaining resentment regarding the matters of the heart or disillusionment regarding your faith does restrict you from reconnecting to the universe and the spiritual potential that you hold. Rather than turning your back on others and your beliefs, Chiron in Pisces compels you to realise that things happened for a reason, that the universe works in mysterious ways, that you do not need to suffer or sacrifice yourself and that your path is divinely orchestrated for you in this incarnation.
Once you realise that your suffering has not been in vain, and by reconnecting to your spiritual powers and faith, you become enriched in so many ways. As you open yourself to the world you are able to live and experience the gifts that your faith provides. You become a spiritual instrument or channel to support others in their re-connection to Spirit and the spiritual planes, and most importantly, you help in establishing their faith so that they too, can also feel the blessing that Spirit bestows.
Taken from “Beyond Doorways” By A Cartwright (2006)
[with thanks to - http://www.kyrona.com/wp-content/uploads/WisP/old/49332100.pdf]
