Many people are familiar with their own astrological sign because Sun Sign astrology is popular in today‘s culture. However, astrology is a complicated tradition and there is much more to the chart than just the sign where the Sun resides. The Earth’s Moon, for example, is a powerful factor to help a person gain greater understanding of a person’s nature, and so are the planets from Mercury out to Pluto. All of these bodies, working through zodiacal signs, residing in sections of the sky called Houses, and interacting with each other via angular relationships known as aspects, create a birth chart which astrologers can interpret.

In 1977 another body was added to the astrologer’s toolbox. Given the name Chiron (after the mythological Centaur) by its discoverer, this minor planet adds another dimension to a person’s chart. It reveals a person’s wounds, how to heal those that can be healed, and how to accept those that cannot. By exploring Chiron in a person’s chart, the path to healing and becoming psychologically well is highlighted. Doors to a larger perspective are revealed, and lessons are learned which enable you to teach others what you have discovered.

When exploring Chiron interpretations, please bear in mind that, inevitably, every chart will contain some apparent contradictory influences, but this is because human beings themselves can have conflicting thoughts, emotions, and desires active at the same time. Usually, an astrologer will synthesize these apparent contradictions in order to present a cohesive and meaningful interpretation of the dilemmas of the chart.

Please also be aware of the fact that each person may possess both positive and negative influences arising from Chiron in their chart, and therefore in their lives. The challenge is to accept and overcome the negative influences, so that you can successfully focus on manifesting the positive traits or qualities that are inherent within their own personal chart. This report outlines the cosmic influences to better enable a person to work towards achieving wholeness within one’s self. Advice given within this report is meant to encourage the individual to accept responsibility for his or her own actions during a lifetime. Ultimately, the decision rests with each individual.

At birth, óur parents, (and everyone else in the world), are worrying over many of the problems that relate directly to whatever sign Chiron may be transiting at a particular moment in time. The obstacles you are trying to overcome could be major issues, and preoccupy much of the parents’ minds. These obstacles may be decisions that have been neglected for too long, and now MUST be taken care of immediately or you could be the result of changes in the world that cause restructuring, or redefining of issues and situations that need immediate attention. Whatever the problems are, it may be essential that they must be dealt with.

What may occur is that a child’s mind may become imprinted with the importance of a particular psychological problem. The child does not realize that she/he will have to face other problems later on in life which may be of equal or greater importance. Since our parents (or other role models) are so concerned about what is going on in their lives during gestation the child may become imprinted with the concept that solving these problems at some stage during life may become a psychological issue..

The child learns that nothing must stand in the way of resolving any difficulties in these areas. This then becomes a deeply ingrained ‘personal imperative’, which remains imprinted within the unconscious of that child..

Chiron has an extremely eccentric (or elliptical) orbit. Astrologically this means that it stays in some signs much longer than others. It moves through the signs of Virgo and Libra in less than two years each, while it takes over 8 years to travel through Aries. Consequently there are many more people born in some Chiron signs than in others.

In order for a person to tap in to the healing energy of their Chiron sign, they need to also turn to the opposite sign for grounding, so we will also refer to this sign as we describe your Chironic energy.

Chiron is in Capricorn

With Chiron in Capricorn, you need to create some type of order or structure that will not fall apart when other things do and which, it is hoped, will function after you are gone. You need to feel that you are on THE right path, and you deeply believe there is one specific path you must find for yourself. You also believe this is true for others: that each person has a correct path for himself.

But there is a wound behind this that you initially have difficulty seeing. Perhaps you felt you were expected to be able to accomplish tasks without anyone really showing you how to do them, or showing you once and expecting you to be an expert right away, causing you to feel a failure when you were unable to repeat what you were shown. Or perhaps one or both parents placed impossibly high standards on you so that you felt doomed to failure before you even started a task. As a result you may have grown up either afraid to try and excel at anything, or you may have an inner voice constantly pushing you to the same impossibly high standards and making you feel terrible about yourself when you do not succeed at something.

You feel you must find your true path, your true calling perhaps, yet constantly question your choices whenever you begin working towards the goals along the way. As you look around you, and see some people who seem to be accomplishing great things in their lives, in their careers, you may feel all the more frustrated that you just can’t get your own act together.

If you are healing from the wound, you recognize that each person’s path is totally his own. You grow to feel that no one, not you, nor anyone else, should be swayed from their appropriate paths. But if the deep pain of your wound is still controlling you, the tendency will be, once you find a path to follow, to try and get others to follow the same path which can come across to others as controlling, or make others see you as a ‘true believer’, a zealot like someone who has found what they feel is the ‘true religion’.

You hate anything that can sway you from your course, and want more than anything to succeed overcoming any deep fear of failure. Thus, at its root is the wound you received from a parent or other authority symbol who had made you feel only perfection was acceptable. Because of this you find it difficult to allow anyone to have authority over you, in part because you can see their humaness, therefore their imperfections; thereby, makes them unfit to tell you what you should or shouldn’t do; however, as you heal the realisation that someone need not be perfect to see how something should be done better than you, from that you encourage others with permission to be in charge if you see there is a need for it.

Grounding is through the energies of the opposite sign Cancer, the sign of nurturing, home, and family. Chiron shows that you need to organise, structure, and follow your chosen calling to success, but it also shows that you will accomplish this best by making sure you build a good home base, connect with family, nurture people who depend on you and discovering the positive aspects of your roots. The more you are able to connect with your caring, nurturing side, the more you are able to be available to help others with their needs, the more you will advance in life, become successful.

The twelve divisions of the sky, known to astrologers as Houses, represent twelve areas of life, and the House where Chiron is placed indicates the circumstances surrounding a person’s wounding, and the life matters that will be shaped by the wound will give clues as to the direction they must take to begin the hero’s journey towards healing.

Astrologers tell us that Saturn denotes basic lessons in life in the House it resides in. Where Chiron is placed in a House describes how a person will discover the lessons they need to learn next, after Saturn’s tasks are learned. The affairs of Chiron’s House have an element of ‘NOW!’to them; when a problem arises here the person cannot wait until later to resolve it and nothing must stand in their way when they are trying to overcome obstacles here. The House in which Chiron is placed is where the greatest focus for healing and wholemaking lies. By using the positive energy as described by Chiron’s House position can help heal any problems that may be inherent in the horoscope.

People represented by a particular House are of a special importance to the person relative to the horoscope under question.. On the one hand there is a feeling of something in common with people here, but these people are often those that kindle pains tied to old wounds; in other words, people described by House position are the instrument for opening old wounds whether from the present life or even those suffered from a previous life that had not been resolved.

Chiron can act like a doorway to the basic energy force of the House itself, enabling a person to tap the particular power inherent in the House under review, and use it almost without limit or restriction. In fact, through Chiron’s House position a person can open doors to whole other realms, once opened, those doors can never be closed again.

Chiron is in the 7th House

You want to be exclusively what you are, you don’t want your creativity to be influenced by anyone else. As a result you are keenly aware of how you differ from each person you relate to on a one-to-one basis.

You tend to be uninhibited and temperamental, and there is frequently an ‘anything goes’ attitude in the way you express yourself. No rules govern your creativity, and your style is totally your own.

You are the type of person who will have a certain something that lives on after you have passed on. There is something so totally unique about you that people know whom you are talking about when someone mentions this quality, mannerism or creation of yours.

You have major lessons to learn through children and/or lovers, and these lessons will change your whole life-style, once learned. Some of your deepest wounds centre around your creative abilities, and/or your rights to be able to express yourself as you are naturally inclined. These wounds can cause you difficulty in expressing your creativity until you can learn to heal from them, and forgive those who gave you the wounds.

This position often creates the opportunity to add a whole new career after pursuing one career for many years, yet frequently keep the old one as well. You have a strong competitive streak, lots of enthusiasm for your field, and if you need to train for something you train hard.

Many people with this position are known for their sharp or caustic wit.

There is often a strong bent towards trying to create a totally realistic style. You are one of the true defenders of self-expression and freedom of thought.

These people don’t like having to deal with people in any set pattern or order: their approach is, typically, a nondiscriminatory process when dealing with others. Their need for contact with people is powerful, especially with the opposite sex. Cooperation; however, is difficult and competitiveness strong, especially with members of the same sex. They need to be seen as ‘just as good as’ anyone else, especially with any other in the same field of activity or interest.

You are often highly strung in temperament which can be a useful tool when drawn into a debate being unyielding in argument.

You are stongly opinionated, especially when the debate turns into a crusading ‘urge’.
Apart from being openly contoversial, sometimes aggressive, often sharp tongued, usually loquacious, you can also be quite candid when putting across your views to any opponent.

Your ability to improvise is strong; often turning your personality into that of flamboyance with the skill of being the clown (the latter especially if you have Capricorn on the cusp of the 7th House conjoined with Mercury).

Your siblings or other members of the family group play an important part in your life; especially when matrimony is in the air. If marriage is in the limelight of the moment and is opening up new experiences for them you are there to act as host and toastmaster, depending on circumstances at the time; even mediator if there is a breakup in a relationship with family concerns.

With Chiron in the 7th House you may be the healer or teacher in the health concerns of your partner; as the 7th House is also about partnerships you may even be the mediator in a business partnership that has become untenable thereby healing any rift that has become manifest; teaching that partnership is about trust in one another. This approach can alleviate any possibility of creating enemies by using the potential of diplomacy and wisdom. (Not forgetting that Chiron played the role of being neutral and in the process was accidentally wounded by by a friend.)

As much as Chiron in the 7th House is discinclined to participate in party machinations with this placement you are able in fact to teach political opponents the wisdom of diplomacy, healing party factions that are in array and communicating in a manner that is civilized, creating a far better form of governing so that the interests of the community are paramount in having a harmonious society.

Planets interact based on angular relationships which astrologers call aspects. Chiron’s aspects show a person the specific cause of any wounding, and where they must turn on the path to becoming whole, to face and defeat the inner dragons that are blocking the healing path.

Chiron is Square The Sun

You are person who truly wants to change the world in some way, although you may or may not ever do anything about it. This urge stems from something very subjective, your wound has forced you to go through at least one, but usually several major changes in your self-image and sense of purpose. Any Chiron square throws the other body off balance, and often, so that the person must make time to re-establish the balance.

Most likely, the wound stemmed from your relationship with your father, or other male role model. Perhaps you never could understand what your parent expected of you, what they expected you to be or how they wanted you to behave, and so no matter what you did, you never received their approval to help you feel good about yourself. Or perhaps you were made to feel that you had to stay in the background, that your parent was much more important than you. No matter what, you developed into an adult with a poor sense of who you are and your potential. And as a result you became a searcher, trying to find your true self, your calling, your ultimate purpose, never feeling completely sure you are on the right path.

Once you have learned to leave a sense of ‘ultimate purpose’ open to change, and have learned that your self-image must be allowed to adapt through new circumstances, you then begin to thrill in self-discovery and in discovering more about the universe. At the same time this process goes on, you should begin to want to do something for the world in some way to correct an imbalance, open a door, teach, research.

NOTE: Some people never do accept change and are forced to cope with one disruption after another. If you continually fight the healing growth of Chiron, this aspect can become a symbol of feelings of persecution, as you nearly always see the disruptions as coming from external forces.

Chiron is Square Mercury

You are a very original thinker, one-of-a-kind, a true innovator and proud of it. A wound, very early in life, made you realize just how different your thinking was than of those around you. You probably embraced this discovery of being different and may even have felt happy about it.

The wound can cause you to stick to your conclusions rather than considering what other people have to say and there are times when this actually is a negative trait. Sometimes your conclusions are right on, but not always and you can have a blind spot about this.

As you heal, you will learn to listen, not only to your own logic, but also to that of others, and learn that at times others may be right.

And you speak your mind! (Try to stop you!) Have you heard the song with the refrain, ‘I did it my way’? That one is your theme song.

Some people love and admire you for your mind, and your words, but you have no trouble compiling lists of the enemies you have made among people who are too easily offended. There is even a tendency in you to try doing particular things just to disprove some statement that these things are impossible, cannot be done.

You can have a rather sharp wit, even a bit biting if you choose. Rarely do you find anyone with this aspect who is not rather intelligent. Chiron seems to push Mercury to learn more, find out more, and think more. Often, when you were growing up, you had trouble sticking to certain lines of thinking, and discovering (sometimes traumatically) that you had to change your thinking. Once you learn, through such forced changes, that your mind must adapt, be willing to try new ways of thinking, you then relish trying new and experimental approaches.

Chiron is Trine Venus

This aspect gives you a unique style, your own manner of expression, which can truly be said to be one-of-a-kind. One of Venus’ areas is the aesthetic sense, and yours is unique, and can be said to be quite different from that of the average person. You are able, for example, to see beauty in places that others do not, and you find it very difficult to appreciate superficial beauty. Being different in this way may have caused you some anguish growing up, as you may have been ridiculed or even ostracized.

As an adult, you continue to have your own perception of beauty, but healing from the wound for you is, at least in part, being able to use the emotions and feelings you experienced as creative tools. Many with this aspect try their hand at some form of artistic expression, and whether only for yourself, or on a larger scale, you should be doing this as well, as it will help you to heal and share your unique perceptions with others.

A very positive effect of this aspect is that you are able to focus on things others miss, or things people take for granted, and see the beauty there. If you choose to go into the arts in some manner, your style of expression has that ‘little something extra’ that can make your creations truly memorable.

Another side to this aspect is that, as a child, you were not allowed to bemoan your fate, to suffer all the way through your pains. You were expected to bounce back, to not let things get to you. Part of healing your wound here is to go back and experience your pains again, and work your way all the way through them to connect with them to heal. But this aspect did develop within you an innate ability to bounce back, whether from a minor setback or a major one and when you do you come back having learned a great deal and become a stronger person, as well. These experiences not only teach you, but they give you the knowledge to teach other people who are going through similar experiences how to get through them.

Chiron is Square Saturn

It is a rare person with this aspect who did not as a child have a great deal of difficulty with parents. Since this aspect seems to stay within orb for many years, it seems to represent more people, whole generations, rather than single individuals. Thus, a great many people came from homes where there was difficulty dealing with authority. This aspect expresses itself as a tendency to get set into some routine, or some effort to build a structure that is impervious to change. You have a clear-cut idea of reality, and while you might not like it, it is secure. But then Chiron comes along and throws you totally off your feet. You may easily feel that you have been zapped! The world picture is suddenly different from what you had thought it was, and reality must be drastically redefined. At this point, you have two options:

1. Allow fear to take over, withdraw, not knowing who or what to trust. You know that what you had counted on no longer works, but you fear looking for something that will work. The best thing you could do at this point would be to seek guidance, but it is a scary thing to do, and some people allow themselves to be almost crushed before seeking help.

2. This is the more positive expression. You recognize that it is up to you to put the pieces together to form a more coherent personal definition of reality. You pull yourself together, sometimes seeking assistance from a counsellor, psychologist or guru, and attempt to construct a more workable life system with a structure that will withstand whatever comes. At this point crucial decisions are made. You may go so far as to establish a new, tight, secure foundation for yourself, and then hide behind it. If this path is chosen, you will find that you must eventually go through the catastrophe all over again as you discover that the new reality is faulty, too. or, you may go to the extreme of disregarding conventions, structures, and any definition of reality altogether. You may become totally anti-authority. If you choose this route, you will also, one day, reach a critical point where everything collapses around you, only for you, it may eventually be the coming of a very heavy Saturn event (imprisonment, poverty, ostracism) causing a great loss of personal freedom. What this aspect is trying to teach you is a major lesson, but if you do not learn from such experience, the cycle can repeat.

The most positive path, however, is the acceptance of any definition of reality as temporary, and any structure as useful, but only as a means to an end. By learning to accept change, accepting authority as necessary to a particular situation (but not as all-powerful), accept that those in power are also human, you reach a great equilibrium. You can use Saturn when needed, and go beyond it when necessary. In fact, you can create your own structures to fit the occasion, and discard them when they’re no longer needed. One of the people with this aspect, Robin Williams, said it best as the title of his album, ‘Reality is a Crutch’.

Chiron is Opposite Uranus

Between 1952 and 1989 Chiron exactly opposed Uranus forty-one times, and was in orb of opposition for just about everyone born during those 47 years. Thus, it is more of a generational influence than an individual one.

Historically, you can see that this aspect is tied into the accelerated pace of scientific advancement during the second half of the Twentieth Century. Actually, one of the problems is that science is making discoveries faster than they can be integrated into society; even faster than proper safeguards can be devised for our protection from side effects and from the discoveries themselves.

This same ‘vibration’ is, in many ways, a part of the nature of individuals who have this aspect. There is a thirst for the new, for discovery, for experiences, that often outweighs the taking of any precautions. Others dare not try to curtail your freedom, the consequences may not be pleasant. The urge for independence can be so strong that it can create difficulties in relationships. The only relationships that truly last for someone with this aspect is one where each person is given a lot of space to be themselves, in truth, it is difficult to find someone sufficiently secure to give a partner that much freedom. It does give a real spirit, though.

The wound of the whole generation, though, can be summed up in the words, ‘fallen heroes’. For thousands of years, people had heroes to worship, people to look up to as almost godlike. But this generation has seen all of its heroes fall, or show very unheroic sides, or in one way or another, prove they are just like everyone else. As a result, your generation has had a wound that each person must learn to heal in his/her own way, but the lesson is to become one’s own hero to become the person you would like to look up to and respect.

Chiron is Opposite The Ascendant

One of the major lessons you must learn in life is how to deal with other people, as there is a deep wound surrounding how you see yourself in relation to other people, and how you believe others see you.

On the plus side, you can often have remarkable insight into other people, and really want to help other human beings.

But your wound forces you to go through some very heavy self-examination, before you realize just how your own attitudes have kept you from truly relating to other people. For some, this occurs early in life, for others, not until the Chiron return. There is a need to ‘prove yourself’, prove you are just as good as anyone else. Perhaps you felt you were always being compared, unfavorably, to other people as a child; or perhaps you were made to feel that you had to be better than others. In either case, there is this ‘me versus you’ attitude until you begin to heal.

Your perspective, your way of looking at things, your ideas of how to deal with other people, were questioned, perhaps denounced, perhaps ridiculed. The Ascendant to some extent is the self-image, or at least that part of it that you show to the outer world. Because it is opposition Chiron, you can be your own worst enemy in that this self-image blocks you from seeing how people really are, instead, you see them through your own window, and old pains are easily stirred; people easily push your buttons. For some individuals, the pain inside pushes them to easily get into conflict with other people.

But this wound has given you incentive to find alternative ways of seeing things, and as you heal, you find that you are able to help others heal as well.

Once healing does occur, though, you then take a unique perspective on any relationship, for you have learned many things about what can go wrong, and many things about other people in general. This position gives you the ability to become a counsellor, once you have begun healing from your own wound, as you then develop an excellent one-on-one manner in dealing with people. Once you stop the need to prove yourself, you can then help others to find out their own worth.

You have a great desire to help others, you feel their pain intensely, and you feel quite miserable if you are unable to help. As you come to terms with your own wounds, the more you are able to help others, eventually you could develop into a gifted healer.

Chiron is Sextile The Midheaven

The Midheaven is how you are seen by the public, and is what has often been called the ‘ego ideal’ that is, what role you want to strive to become. This is why it is tied in to career; think of the child who speaks about what he ‘wants to be when he grows up’ and you’ll have a good idea of the Midheaven energy.

Chiron shows that at some point when you were growing up, there was pain associated with what you wanted to be when you matured. It may be that you were made to feel that you had to find the right career and nothing else would do. Or it may be that some adults tried to force you into accepting the idea that you would never become anything important without working very hard at it, that nothing would ever come easy for you. In any event, on some level, it became extremely important that you find out what you want to do with your life, the role you want to play, and that you are sure it will be the ‘right objective.

This aspect also gives you the ability to help open doors for other people, to be the person that helps someone get their foot in the door if needed.

The text in this report has been written by Australian astrologer Zane B Stein.
About the Author: The text in this report has been written by astrologer Zane B Stein. Zane is considered the leading authority on Chiron. His ground-breaking book, Essence and Application: A View from Chiron, is still the most widely read text on the subject. He is currently seeking to unravel the meaning of other Centaurean bodies, trans-Neptunians, and some of the more unique asteroids.

In typical Gemini fashion, Zane has been active in a number of different careers. He has been involved with astrology for more than 40 years. He has also worked as an IT Technical Support Specialist for the past 13 years, helping to solve software, hardware and internet problems. Zane has worked as a salesman, designed websites, has a degree in hypnosis and has interviewed a number of noted show business personalities for newspaper articles. Originally from the United States, he now has made Western Australia his new home, where he has a private astrological practice. He and his astrologer wife Lynette have started an astrological school in their home in Spearwood. Zane can be reached at Mr.Chiron@zanestein.com or 04 5252 4387.

The Centaur opening the door was designed by artist Alice Loftin and included with her permission. All other Centaur illustrations are derived from ancient paintings and drawings.


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