by Robert Wilkinson
Chiron goes stationary direct at 1:13 pm PST on December 29. We now resume our forward motion related to healing and/or mentoring we’ve experienced since May 2023 when Chiron first transited 19 Aries.
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 that call us throughout life. Chiron doesn’t move fast, as it is the bridge between the Ring Pass Not of Saturn and the spiritual liberation in the here and now of Uranus. If we would “break on through to the other side,” then we must understand how to heal ourselves to be of service to our world.
Chiron takes about 50 years to make a complete orbit, but its time in each sign is highly irregular. To give you a sense of it, between Cancer and Scorpio, it’s always less than two years and 6 months, mostly around 2 in each sign. It spends around 3 years each in Sagittarius (1999-2001) and Capricorn (2002- 2/05). Then it jumps to over 5 years in Aquarius (2/05-4/10), 8 years in Pisces (4/10-4/18), and 9 years in Aries (4/18-4/27) before it goes back to over 6 years in Taurus (4/27-7/33) and just under 6 years in Gemini (7/33-4/39). As you can see, it races through Cancer to Sag, and then slows WAY down in Pisces, Aries, Taurus, and Gemini.
Chiron Conjunctions In Aries Will Dominate the Decade
So we’re now well into Chiron’s journey through Aries, and it’s beginning to speed up gradually these next few years. Obviously, all the conjunctions made to Chiron these past years set long wave cycles of healing and growth into motion. Mars conjuncted Chiron at 29 Pisces in late December 2018, a degree of things “coming apart” at the end of cycles. It’s easy to see how many things ended in our world in 2019 and the first half of 2020. That healing cycle dominated the span that followed until the first of four Mars/Chiron conjunctions in Aries.
The first one was in June 2020 at 10 Aries, when Chiron was SRX. That cycle and its themes dominated until Mars conjuncted Chiron in June 2022 at 16 Aries, beginning another two year cycle of healing using Mars energies or being healed or mentored by someone with strong Aries energy. The cycle which began in 2022 moved the energies from the culmination of the emotional and social level of “Emergence” into the initiation of the scene of “Potency” on the actional and physical levels of life. This was boosted in a huge way when Jupiter conjuncted Chiron at 15 Aries on March 12, 2023, launching an entirely new long wave healing cycle in our lives in the house where 15 Aries falls.
The next Mars conjunct Chiron took place at 22 Aries in May 2024, and the final one happens May 2026 at 29 Aries. Aries is the sign which jump starts everything of its own initiative. With Chiron in Aries, by learning how to take the initiative in healing ourselves, being mentored or mentoring others in our own way, we grew through reinterpreting the imagery of our lives to find new meaning 2020-2022, and now heal and grow into our Higher Self by finding a new inspiration. Another factor in the conjunctions is that because Chiron is the bridge to Uranus, it may be that all of these Mars/Chiron cycles in Aries relate directly to what we awakened when Uranus was in Aries between March 2011 and February 2019 except for a few months when it was in transition.
Chiron Dancing in mid-Aries
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. As the 2020 Chiron retrograde station conjuncted Mars, that long cycle was a “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 last look at the themes of 19 Aries, which are now a platform for how we can best express Chironic energies in our lives. As mentioned, it first crossed 19 Aries in May 2023, retrograded back across this degree in September 2023, and then crossed it again while direct in March 2024. It now moves forward in its shadow zone up to 24 Aries and moves into unknown zones in April 2025 until it finally goes stationary retrograde at 28 Aries in July 2025.
So we’ve been dealing with themes involving the span between 19-24 Aries this year and into 2025. Since Spring we’ve gotten glimpses of “a strife transcending and unattached outlook,” and joined with others to offer what we could in the way of active community. We’ve had opportunities to generate raw energy as well as optimism, and follow through on some things where we wound up with concentrated doses of spiritual energy “streaming into the windows of our minds.”
With this direct station Chiron begins to leave the Leo decan of Aries with an extra dose of the Sun, preparing to enter the Sagittarius decan of Aries with an extra dose of Venus! So we close this Chiron transit of 19 Aries with a technique of transcending strife and ugliness while anticipating the coming social and emotional healing when Chiron moves into the third decan of Aries.
The Sabian Symbol for Chiron’s Direct Station
This direct station falls at 19 Aries. While I've given you a sense of this degree up to now, this is where we go into depth.
The Sabian symbol for the 19th degree of Aries is "The magic carpet.” In The Astrology of Personality, where Rudhyar uses the original Jones class notes on the symbols, 19 Aries is said to symbolize “Capacity to transform everyday life by the power of creative significance; or escape into idle fancy.”
In The Astrological Mandala he states this is a degree of “the use of creative imagination,” and offers that “a way of life refusing a hectic involvement in social competition and waste-producing overproduction allows for the development of unattached and transcendent understanding.” He goes on to say the carpet symbolizes a platform of understanding that “can become transformed into the means for great flights of imagination and super-physical perception.”
He continues that our withdrawal from outer activity “bound to collective normality” gives our creative mind the opportunity “to see whole” and the “possibility of developing a new technique of perception, a strife transcending and unattached outlook upon everyday reality.” He says this degree falls in the Span of Examination, Act of Differentiation, and is the penultimate, or technique degree of the actional-physical level of the Scene of Potency.
Dr. Jones, creator of the Sabian Symbols, says this is a degree of "the periodic expansion of (our) freedom of spirit and soul through (our) widely winging interest in potentialities far removed from (our) normal promise,” as expressed in our “vicarious or imaginative self-fulfillment.” He states these result in “a revelation of the mind’s infinite capacity for an overview of experience” where we may participate in “idealistic possibilities” without too much “self-involvement.”
He goes on to say that “Human affairs become personal only to the precise extent desired.” He offers the keyword PANORAMA, and states that when operating positively, the degree is "full realization of the broad endowment which everyone may make their own.”
So the Chironic theme for the coming months involves us healing into our Higher Self by embracing techniques of “freedom of Spirit and Soul” opening new possibilities of action, where we can see whole situations without taking things personally or in a stressful way. Allow Chiron to mentor you into a larger view, seeing how a “personal future endowment” may be fulfilled through embracing idealistic possibilities in thought and action.
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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