HOLE #11: Chiron: Between the Rule-Maker and the Rule-Breaker

Chiron goes into Taurus on June 19 = briefly, before retrograding back into Aries and returning for good in 2027. A good moment to ask what this small, strange body actually does in your chart.

This one goes past the "wounded healer" romance. We start with the myth, then astronomy: Chiron orbits between Saturn and Uranus (rule-maker and rule-breaker), and behaves like neither. Saturn you can feel and work on. Chiron you can't = it's the wound with no signal coming back, the place you can read in everyone but yourself.

Then Chiron through all 12 signs and houses, so you can find yours and sit with it.

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Transcript

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This is the Uranian rabbit hole, and I'm Barrett. I'm an astrologer, and what I actually do is hand people a flashlight and point it at themselves. This is a voice from the dark. Come on in. I'm figuring out where the light switch is myself. Okay, here we go again. Rabbit hole number 11. And this time I chose somebody interesting, Chiron. Chiron enters Taurus on June 19th, stays a little bit, only short, and then goes back into the sign of Aries in September. And doesn't return to Taurus until April 2027. So that's a long time. But for me, a reason enough to talk about him, Chiron. Right? You've probably heard about this planet. Actually, it's not a planet, it's an asteroid. Or actually, it's not even an asteroid, they call it a centaur. Fact is, Chiron is freaking small. And for me, that was always a reason to not take him so seriously. Let alone look at it in my own chart and sometimes even in clients' charts. But I am changing my mind as I speak, as I research, as I dive a little bit into Chiron. My mind is fixed energy. I have a Mercury in Aquarius, so I don't do that lightly. But sometimes when you look closer at things and maybe with a more of an open mind, or at people or at planets or at astroids, it can be surprising. So Chiron, the famous wounded healer, which to me sounds almost romantic, like an artist who I don't know, suffered through the art and turned it into something beautiful and tender, like his pain became his purpose and his muse, right? Even though it's pain. Like if you're broken, but in an interesting way. It's even a little bit sexy. But that isn't all. At least I don't think so. So let's go down and take my hand as I think out loud, or take my mind as I think out loud about Chiron. Not in Taurus, but in general. And we're gonna talk about the wound and we're gonna put a little bit salt in it, maybe. And we will find where Chiron lives, or actually where he suffers, in your personal chart. And I will run Chiron through the 12 zodiac signs and the houses at the very end of the episode. So you can kind of feel into your own placement. So let's get down. And a good way to get down and to start to understand anything in life, I think, is a good story. Mythology tells these stories that are sometimes weird. And here's the Chiron myth. It starts with Saturn. So many things start with Saturn. Saturn, who is a god, met a nymph, and she was named Philara or Philara. Actually, Saturn, to get her convinced to also fall in love with him, transformed himself into a horse. And that trick somehow worked. And they made love and she got pregnant. And then she gave birth to a child that came out half horse, half human, because you know Saturn had turned himself into this horse. So no wonder. What did she expect? And she took only one look at her newborn son and abandoned him right away. And a shepherd found Chiron, her son, and raised him, and then gave him over to Apollo, the sun god. And then Apollo took over and taught him everything: medicine, music, the arts, and how to heal. And a funny, not funny, but a side note is that Saturn actually, to ease Fileria's shame, turned her into a freaking tree. Or maybe it was Zeus, and maybe she asked him to be turned into a tree. We don't really know. We only know that the tree named after this nymph is called Linden. Also kind of romantic, like we talked about it in the beginning. Fact is, one day Chiron got caught in a fight between Hercules and some other centers. Centers in mythology were considered kind of mob because they were not gods. So they fought a lot, you know, with the gods. And even though Chiron wasn't the fighting guy, through an accident, a poisoned arrow hit him in the leg or the foot. We don't know. But the poison could not be cured. And since Chiron too was immortal, right, because the son of a god, he could not die. And he was stuck with an eternal wound that never closed forever. That's hard. So with this, you know, this forever staying wound, he decided to become a healer. He just became a healer and also taught others. And then eventually, probably the suffering got too much, and he made a choice and gave up his immortality, which suddenly was possible, it's mythology. And he did it by taking the place of Prometheus. There is this Prometheus story who stole the fire from the gods and gave it to mankind, and the gods were mad and punished him by tying him to this rock where an eagle would eat his liver and then it would grow back overnight, and then the eagle came and ate it again, etc. etc. So Chiron jumped in and freed Prometheus as an act of compassion and love and healing in a way, and tied himself to this rock. And by doing that, both of them became free. We don't know how, but it just happened. It's all symbolism anyway. A story just helps us to get closer to the meaning of these gods and energies within our own psyche. So we get this image, this story about Chiron. The matching astronomy is also interesting and will not be boring, I promise. It's also short. So Chiron, the asteroid or the centaur, orbits between the planet Saturn and the planet Uranus or Uranus. We never know how to pronounce this one. Which is very cool and also very telling because Saturn is the planet of boundaries and hard work, right? Saturn is relentless. It's about the grind, the everyday grind. Saturn in your chart says where you are never good enough, so you have to keep working harder. It's like a life lesson. And it's hard, but it's gonna be rewarded. And you can also feel it. If you check your Saturn placement by sign and house, you will feel, yeah, I identify this is where I think I'm really not very good. Right? You kind of know what to do, at least in theory, which doesn't make it easier, right? But my point is that Saturn work is doable. It's doable by working and working again and pushing harder. But Uranus is the opposite, I want to say. Uranus breaks the very rules that Saturn came up with. He breaks rules and breaks us open. He frees us, he breaks all the chains. This is why Uranus rules over awakening and freedom, right? Uranus makes everything you never thought was possible possible. It's a rebellious planet. And Chiron sitting between both of them, between Saturn and Uranus, tells us it has something to do with work and with breakthroughs, with Saturn and with Uranus. And also, to me, the most important thing of fact, or the thing that got me most interested in Chiron is that he is the son of Saturn. And we can see it in the sky. I mean, we cannot, but astronomers can see it, because Chiron grows rings. And Saturn already has rings, father and son, right? But this son, Chiron, has a bit of a Uranian edge to him because of his position in the sky, because of orbiting between Saturn and Uranus. So it's kind of the rebellious son of Saturn. You can master Saturn with work, but you cannot master Chiron the same way. And that is interesting and maybe even a little bit frustrating. Again, Saturn responds to work. If you work, you get better. There is a feedback loop that exists, but Chiron doesn't have this freaking feedback loop. And here's why. Chiron is this wound, but you cannot see it from the inside. Because you can almost imagine it like an instrument you have to locate the wound, the broken thing. Imagine if this measuring tool that reads if you have enough of something, of money, of safety, of I don't know, love, of rest, of appreciation, which is love. If that thing is broken or not only broken, maybe it shows you a full tank when the tank is empty. And the other way around. In other words, you just cannot trust it because you cannot feel that something is even broken. How do you know if something is broken if you don't feel it? Yet it's a wound. Very mysterious, right? So it's a wound that you don't really feel and you don't really know how to fix because you also don't really feel it. Again, Saturn says work on it. But with Chiron, working on it doesn't help. Because you cannot feel what needs to be worked on. Like the freaking measuring stick is numb or dead or deaf. It's not dead, it's deaf. Which is a big difference, right? Saturn and Chiron. You can feel Saturn because you know exactly where you think you suck. Chiron you don't feel. It's almost like the volume is turned off there. It's it's death is, I think, a great analogy. And then you keep going, kind of unaware of your Chiron placement, like I did. I didn't even look at it. And maybe this very Chiron placement is actually your greatest gift. I mean, that's Chiron's promise, or one of them. I'm still not sure if that's true because I don't want to give Chiron this small asteroid too much power over a chart, but it's worth circling around or feeling into. You know, they talk about your the famous Chiron return. We all have Saturn returns at 29, and then again at my age, 57-ish. But the Chiron return happens only once in a lifetime, unless you get over a hundred. It's when Chiron comes back to the place where he was at your birth, and that happens around the age of 50 or 51-ish, right? And they say in the astrology books that your wound, your chiron comes back and asks you more or less directly, what did you ever do with this wound, with your gift? Did you work on it? Did you feel it? Do you feel it? Right? And at that age, 51, I also had my chiron returned, but I did not feel it. My chiron is in Pisces at 29 degrees, which is the anoretic degree. It's a supercharged degree, it's the last freaking degree of the zodiac, and I did not feel it. But maybe because I was too closed off. So, question to you. If you look at your own chiron and you can see it easily in your chart, it looks like a little circle with a K on top. Do you sense, maybe sense is a better word, do you sense the placement of your chiron? Which I think is really not easy to do. And maybe here's another astronomical reason why. Chiron moves fast when he is close to the sun and then very slow when he's far out. Meaning he spends a lot of years in some signs and less in other signs. For example, eight years in Aries, I think seven in Taurus, but in Virgo and in Scorpio, way shorter than that. It's almost like this orbit is a thing, a living organism, right? It doesn't follow the calendar like Saturn. Saturn is a clockwork. And this is why Saturn work, at least to me, as a deeply Saturnian person, is easier even though the work is hard, if that makes sense. But it's more uranian in a way to you know check out the wild chiron out there and what he's doing, and what he's doing for you and through you. Now, what does your chiron actually do? As we said, your chiron by sign and house is the area where you carry this wound, this insecurity, this place that you super super secretly feel you're not as good as everybody else. Which on paper sounds like your Saturn placement. I know, but the difference is, at least I think so, that you can spot this very wound in other people. You see it across the room. You don't have a blind spot there, only in yourself. And you probably give those other people great advice about it. You might be the person that everyone comes to for exactly that theme, but in yourself you just cannot find it. Even worse, you're not even aware that you have it, and that you're even good at it. You have no measurement. Remember, the measuring tool is numb. Are you full of it? Do you have a leg? You don't know. And that's the strange part. Like you're almost an expert on the wound as long as it belongs to somebody else. And you know, the Chiron house and sign is where that lesson lives. By house, it's the area of life you're learning in, and the sign is about the actual wound. That's that wants to heal, and maybe healing is an overused word, but I don't have a better one. So the move is when Saturn would want you to master the placement, Chiron wants something a little bit sneakier. You kind of have to go a detour, you cannot attack that thing, that wound. You have to go for others first to heal the thing you cannot do for yourself and get good at it. Like scarily good, super good. And that's the inner genius you have. That's your art, right? Your art. Which brings us back to this romantic image of the broken artist from the top, remember? I mean, my since we're at it, my Chiron is in Pisces, in the 10th house. Pisces is the love for the aesthetics, and I love fashion, I love interior design, you know, I love the way you can make a space feel aesthetically. And the 10th house is about career. So I was never an interior designer or something in my career, but a friend, an astrology friend, reframed it for me and said, maybe you do some sort of interior design in a spiritual way in your career. Like you arrange other people's inner space so they can live in it beautifully and feel good in it. And that's actually an astrology reading. That is what this is right now, me speaking to you. And wherever I take my astrology, it's kind of the same thing, right? The Pisces love, I never turned into an interior design job, gets spiritualized and pointed at other people. That might be my Chiron. The art is to integrate it. And it is kind of romantic, it's also very personal because you know, Chiron, the Chiron thing or the Chiron job is only finished when you turn it inward, when you own it. First, you have to, of course, notice the wound, which is the hard part, remember? You don't feel that wound, like you feel your saturn placement, and then you go for it. But you don't stay with the other person and healing everybody else. That would be the miss, but you try to include the healing in yourself. In my case, in my case, that is, you know, making this interior design for myself, making my own soul a cozy, beautiful, Piscean spiritual place. And I'm working on that. Also with the help of other placements in the chart. Again, I don't want to give Chiron like the only authority, which is a weird word, it's a Saturnian word, the only authority about healing. Getting to the center of your chart, the center of the sun that we draw is a circle, is the whole journey of a lifetime. And Chiron helps us get there to and all the other planets. Okay, that was our little trip to Chiron in the skies. And now I want to run Chiron through the signs and the houses. So you want to find the little symbol in your chart, print out your chart, um, task number one, and then look for the little circle with a K. That's your Chiron. And look for the placement it's in, meaning the house and the sign. And use one of your favorite, I don't know, uh, research help machines if you cannot find it out. I have a chart calculator on my website, so that's also a good place to go. Chiron in Aries slash in the first house. When you have that placement, you might have been born not sure that you have the right to even exist as yourself. That wound is called identity, Aries, right? And the first house is where you learn to claim your identity, your own will and face. So notice where you kind of still wait for this permission slip to be handed to you. Saturn, uh not Saturn, I would love for it to be Saturn. It's Chiron in Taurus or in the second house. And again, maybe I should say that for astrology Newis. You can listen to this if you have Chiron in Taurus, or if you have Chiron in a different sign, but in the second house, because it interprets kind of the same. Okay, Chiron in Taurus or in the second house. Means that you might not be able to trust your very own body to tell you when you have had enough. Maybe that's about money or food or safety or rest or I don't know what anything also material, right? The signals come in wrong. You cannot really measure it. And this wound is called wound is called enough or not enough. And the second house is your resources and also your worth and self-worth. So track maybe even only one thing where you feel deep down you don't have enough of. Chiron in Gemini or the third house is about words and learning. And maybe you think your words don't really land or that you're misunderstood. It's very Gemini. The wound is called your voice, and the third house is how you speak. It's also the world right around you. So clock, who and if and why you go quiet sometimes, and maybe exactly in the very same moment that you feel you're most alive, and then you shut up. Why? Chiron in Cancer or the fourth house. Here we talk about home and safety, and maybe home isn't or wasn't ever safe, or family wasn't what it what it's supposed to be. So your wound is clearly called home. And the fourth house is not only home, but also your roots, your personal roots, where you come from and where you, like a tree, find stability in. So watch if you are trying to build a home, maybe even out of a place that broke you. Why you built that home? What is it representing to you? Chiron in Leo or the fifth house. Question of joy. Do you hide, or are you maybe even afraid of the thing, the very thing that brings you joy? And just you know, push it back down into the box. I call it the wound of being seen, or maybe even better, the wound of not being allowed to have joy. The fifth house is about playing and love and romance and creativity and gambling, right? But the fifth house and love has no strategy. The question is if you dare to live life, or let's say to say yes to life without this heaviness and strategy. Can you say yes to life? Do you have like almost like so much life inside of you that's ready to explode? Can you feel that? Chiron in Virgo or the sixth house might be your body becoming a problem to fix, or this whole idea of problems to fix, right? And maybe this fixing, this working is almost like a punishment, but you dress it up as a purpose, as something beautiful. Your wound is called good enough. What is good enough? You know, and as you listen to all these Chiron placements, maybe you feel that the Chiron wound is somehow the wound of the sign that we're talking about. So this Virgo wound of good enough doesn't only come out in Chiron. The sixth house is about health and daily practices. So catch, where you still treat yourself, your body like a machine that needs to be fixed and optimized. Chiron in Libra, or the seventh house, is about relationships, Libra, and maybe you're the one who disappears in them. And maybe you got an expert in knowing what the other person needs. The wound is called the other, right? Because the seventh house is also partnership, but maybe you know all about partnerships, about relating in theory. But do you actually have one? The question is why? Or why not? Chiron in Scorpio, or the eighth house. That is, as always, with Scorpio, trust territory, and power games. Intimacy, you might feel, means losing yourself. The eighth house and Scorpio is sex, death, what you share, what you merged. So notice where you play it safe instead of risking the real deal with somebody else. Or with something else, like giving your all, your soul almost, right? Scorpio is always a little bit underworld territory. Chiron and Sagittarius or the ninth house is about your beliefs and what you are allowed to believe. To believe, your faith, is it your own? The truth you believe in or you think is true, is it yours or was it kind of handed to you? Your wound is called meaning. The ninth house is the the big why of life, the philosophy, the big picture. Why are we here? Meaning. So you want to listen inside for what you actually believe when you are alone and free of the rest of the world. Your personal religion. Chiron in Capricorn or the 10th house is about your worth getting measured in achievement. A good old Capricorn story. Your wound is called approval. And the 10th house is your reputation in the world, your name on the door shingle. Are you the CEO? Watch how you measure your personal success. And what kind of achievements mean success to you? And maybe the biggest achievement is somewhere in your heart, or is actually your heart. And you don't have to prove it, and you don't need the shingle. Chiron and Aquarius or the 11th house is about connection and belonging to a group, and maybe you fear you don't. Maybe you are the black sheep that just doesn't fit in. Or maybe you have disappeared into the group. Your wound is called belonging. Belonging to a group, but belonging in general. The 11th house is friends and the collective. So it's less about belonging to a family and home, but more to a group, right? So notice when you, even though you want to belong, or you do belong in a group, you keep yourself at arm's length, at arm's length from the people who actually might get you. Chiron in Pisces or the 12th house. Pisces is about fog and heaven. I always say heaven in lack of a better word. But it's a beautiful word. Who doesn't want to be in heaven? Maybe it's also about the boundaries, and that boundaries for you feel almost like betrayal. You're not allowed to have them. Your wound is called your own edges. Do you have somewhere where you end and the other begins, right? And also the wound of the unseen world, I would say. Maybe you can talk to fairies. The 12th house is the unconscious after all. So ask yourself if you see fairies, and what you give away of yourself that you were never able, not able to give, but that was never yours to give. I'm referring to this, you know, giving the last your your own shirt to the other person, and then you freeze to death. It's a classic Pisces wound. Those were just me trying to interpret Chiron through the signs and the houses. And as I said in the very beginning, and I stand by my word, I'm kind of inui myself in the Chiron territory. So let me know in the comments what your Chiron experiences are, how you feel it. If you feel it, if you don't, I'm feeling it a little bit more year by year. But I also have a Venus in Pisces who helps me feel my Chiron in Pisces. Let me know yours and let's get back up together out of the rabbit hole into the light, and I see you next time.