by Robert Wilkinson
Yes, Chiron is about to go stationary retrograde at 6:59 am PDT on July 26! We now get a review of what we have learned about healing/mentoring, whether our own or another’s. This threshold will give us all “concentrated doses of spiritual energy.” We’re going to get a technique to focus our social and emotional energies which will bring good fortune if we put forth effort and don’t get too impatient with the process.
As Chiron is not merely “the wandering, wounded healer” but also the first, best mentor and teacher we could ever have, it helps us to “heal into our Higher Self” by mastering whatever lessons of science, philosophy, logic, healing, and yes, astrology we are offered. Because Mars was conjunct Chiron in May 2024 at 23 Aries, we’ve just begun that two year cycle of healing by learning how to take the initiative in healing ourselves or mentoring others in our own unique way.
While Chiron is in Aries, it will be helpful to remember that Aries can only do what it does in its own way. As the first sign, it literally is inspired motion itself, moving on its own initiative toward whatever Light and/or heat it feels will bring the seed life to the surface, where it may acquire substance in Taurus. Chiron in Aries is healing and mentoring us in Aries ways; with the 2024 Chiron retrograde station at 24 Aries, this long cycle is another “flame on” to our healing, our learning, our teaching, and our journey from suffering in our woundedness to being a Master of breaking the link between the pain of life and the suffering of the lower ego.
At this point, Chiron begins its retrograde review of a span of degrees it’s occupied since late March. It will RX back to 20 Aries through December, when it will again go stationary direct. That means we got our first look at 20-24 Aries between March and now, and will get our “look back” at the same emotional-social and actional-material span through the end of the year. As 23 Aries marks the long wave theme of Mars conjunct Chiron, it would seem the coming months will give us multiple looks at that larger cycle.
The Sabian Symbol for Chiron’s Retrograde Station
This retrograde station falls at 24 Aries. While I've given you a sense of this degree up to now, this is where we go into depth.
The symbol for 24 Aries is “An open window and a net curtain blowing into a cornucopia.” In the original Jones class notes Dane Rudhyar published in The Astrology of Personality, he states this degree is about “good fortune attending upon the putting forth of effort,” “rush of spiritual forces into the conscious ego,” and “protection.”
In The Astrological Mandala,, Rudhyar says this degree is about “Openness to the influx of spiritual energies.” He offers that this is about abundance “operating at a more subtle and spiritual level,” where “the wind (pneuma, spirit) blows through the open mind-window and brings into the house of personality a promise of more-than-material potency.” He notes that wind blows from “a region of high pressure to one of low pressure,” and “as the window curtains are blown inward, the individual consciousness represented by the house is receiving a more concentrated influx of spiritual energies, enabling this consciousness to extend the scope of its awareness and creative expression.”
He states “inner growth demands not just an open mind but one able to provide a container for a spiritual harvest,” and he speaks of the “cornucopian shape of the window’s curtains suggests that the subtler translucent aspect of the mind (the curtains) has acquired a plastic quality enabling it to be molded by transpersonal forces.” He states this is in the Span of Examination, and is the technique degree of the emotional-social level of Potency in the Act of Differentiation.
Dr. Jones, creator of the Sabian Symbols, offers that this degree is a symbol of “the mutual prodigality of (ourselves and our world) whenever we retain our uninhibited enthusiasm and so welcomes every varying and recurrent opportunity opening up before us.” He speaks of “the continued outer manifestations of what at times may seem to be an unmerited good fortune, but they merely show the human and cosmic facets of reality in a convenient and joyful realization of each other.”
He offers us the keyword MUNIFICENCE. He goes on to say that when operating in a positive way, this symbol is “an irrepressible genius for capturing the richer rewards of life and providing a wider distribution for the higher realities.”
So we enter a time of reviewing how these qualities have mentored us, or helped us heal in recent months, getting a different angle of understanding these as active qualities. What’s important is that this degree is one of opening to spiritual energies which will bring new opportunities for growth and sharing. Cultivate “generosity of spirit” and you’ll do just fine!
Chiron In Aries Will Dominate the Decade
The cycle created by the June 2022 Mars/Chiron conjunction at 16 Aries ended at their conjunction at 23 Aries in May 2024. That recent conjunction’s influence lasts through their next conjunction at 29 Aries in May 2026. That means Aries is the way to heal for many years to come! So really, we’re in the middle of a much larger Mars/Chiron dance at this time in history, as Jupiter and Chiron launched another major long term healing and mentoring cycle when it conjuncted Chiron at 15 Aries on March 11. That began a long wave Chiron cycle which will last until the Summer of 2036.
As an aside, when Chiron transits between Aquarius and Gemini, it moves relatively slowly and has conjunctions with Jupiter about every 13 years. However, it can take 19-20 years for the next conjunction after Gemini or Cancer. That means once the conjunction at 16 Gemini happens in the Summer of 2036, then we won’t have another conjunction of Jupiter and Chiron until the Spring of 2056 in Aquarius.
If You Want To Know More About Chiron
Chiron is a greater force within us than most understand. It is truly that part of us which mentors our personality traits so we can become integrated personalities expressing the Love, Wisdom, and Intelligence of our Higher Self. This article is a fairly good exploration of Chiron’s traits and powers, so please take a look if you want to know more about this amazing power within you to become more than you have ever dreamed of!
Chiron, the Wandering Wounded Healer and Metaphysician Guiding Our Hero's Journey
For more about Chiron in Aries specifically, I wrote this in April 2018 when Chiron first entered Aries. In it I gave you some personal anecdotes for what happened in my life the last time Chiron was in Aries, so if you’re interested in that take on this position, please revisit Chiron in Aries
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