Healing the Warrior: Chiron moves into Aries
On April 17th, the asteroid Chiron moves into Aries after around seven years transiting Pisces. It will be in Aries until 2027, although this first pass into Aries only lasts a few months, with Chiron moving retrograde back into Pisces in October of this year, then back into Aries for good in February 2019. Chiron is a large asteroid, sometimes known as a "planetoid". Located between Saturn and Uranus, it can be seen as forming a kind of symbolic bridge between the inner planets, and the slower generational energies of the outer planets. Some see it as bringing together the structures of Saturn and the urge to break down structures symbolised by Uranus, and so Chiron has a rather paradoxical, maverick energy. This is reflected in its very elliptical orbit, meaning that unlike most of the other planets, it spends different amounts of time in each sign.
Chiron has been associated with the archetype of the wounded healer since its discovery in 1977. Here we meet the wound that we cannot heal, the hurts that go too deep. Chiron in Aries describes a wound to the warrior archetype, to our ability to stand proud in our individual identity. Chiron in Aries may bring hidden conflicts out in the open, or demand resolution to ongoing conflicts. We are brought face to face with our adversary, inner or outer. There is a process of initiation at work here. Chiron enters Aries as Uranus gets ready to leave it, initiating us into our authentic self. As with all initiations, the old self must die before the new one can be re-born. We may feel at war with ourselves, doing battle with long buried pain, as the ego tries to keep us safe in our comfort zone and Chiron urges us to further growth.
Aries rules the will, our will power, our ability to act and to get things done. With Chiron here, our will may be damaged or hidden. This can manifest in two ways. Either we over-compensate, and become compelled to act as a cover for our innate sense of powerlessness, or we give in to that sense of powerlessness and become passive. If the inner warrior is wounded, our drive, our passion, our energy may be repressed or sublimated. We may become passive aggressive, too fearful to express our anger, burying it deep.
With Chiron in Aries, we may question our very right to exist, to assert our own needs and desires. Aries' key phrase is "I am" or "I exist", and so Chiron in Aries can bring a fundamental fear of non-being, a feeling of not having a right to exist. Those with a strong Chiron in Aries (raises hand sheepishly - I have Chiron in Aries in the third house, exactly sextile my Sun. And so all this resonates deeply for me...) may find that they take their sense of identity from others, that Libran "other" onto which we project our best or worst or even all of our self. Clearly this is not healthy, and it can be a life's work for Chiron in Aries people to take back that self, to fill the void inside with our own identity instead of that of others. Figuring out, and then living by, what is ours and what is other, is an ongoing process.
Sounds like a barrel of laughs, right?! Chiron shows where we always seems to have a "learning experience", where we keep banging into those patterns that show us what we are here to learn in this lifetime. But Chiron can also bring gifts, because what we learn deeply for ourselves, we can teach to others. Chiron in Aries people are often able to empower others, to enable others to find their passion and their willpower. With this placement, we identify what is deeply true for us, what is worth fighting for, how we can best focus our passion. Chiron in Aries knows that we are all just wisps of energy in an immense and indifferent universe. And Chiron in Aries knows that our every action holds power, all the same.
Chiron has been associated with the archetype of the wounded healer since its discovery in 1977. Here we meet the wound that we cannot heal, the hurts that go too deep. Chiron in Aries describes a wound to the warrior archetype, to our ability to stand proud in our individual identity. Chiron in Aries may bring hidden conflicts out in the open, or demand resolution to ongoing conflicts. We are brought face to face with our adversary, inner or outer. There is a process of initiation at work here. Chiron enters Aries as Uranus gets ready to leave it, initiating us into our authentic self. As with all initiations, the old self must die before the new one can be re-born. We may feel at war with ourselves, doing battle with long buried pain, as the ego tries to keep us safe in our comfort zone and Chiron urges us to further growth.
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With Chiron in Aries, we may question our very right to exist, to assert our own needs and desires. Aries' key phrase is "I am" or "I exist", and so Chiron in Aries can bring a fundamental fear of non-being, a feeling of not having a right to exist. Those with a strong Chiron in Aries (raises hand sheepishly - I have Chiron in Aries in the third house, exactly sextile my Sun. And so all this resonates deeply for me...) may find that they take their sense of identity from others, that Libran "other" onto which we project our best or worst or even all of our self. Clearly this is not healthy, and it can be a life's work for Chiron in Aries people to take back that self, to fill the void inside with our own identity instead of that of others. Figuring out, and then living by, what is ours and what is other, is an ongoing process.
Sounds like a barrel of laughs, right?! Chiron shows where we always seems to have a "learning experience", where we keep banging into those patterns that show us what we are here to learn in this lifetime. But Chiron can also bring gifts, because what we learn deeply for ourselves, we can teach to others. Chiron in Aries people are often able to empower others, to enable others to find their passion and their willpower. With this placement, we identify what is deeply true for us, what is worth fighting for, how we can best focus our passion. Chiron in Aries knows that we are all just wisps of energy in an immense and indifferent universe. And Chiron in Aries knows that our every action holds power, all the same.