Chiron enters Aquarius, 2.21.2005

"Chiron enters Aquarius, on Monday, February 21st, joining Venus and Neptune there, and it is possible that some pattern of wounding may shift." --Henry Seltzer in his February AstroGraph report

That shift, I think, is about taking a personal or collective sense of -- or attachment to -- hurt, transgression or abuse of authority, and transmuting its energy/function from "What was done to me; what he, she or they did" to "What I will do for myself; what I or we will do" in order to function in line with the role and purpose we know we are capable of fulfilling. Chiron is regarded as the archetype of the wounded healer who, familiar with personal suffering, seeks to bring aid and empowerment to others.

Ah, yes, precisely: "In the birth chart, Chiron reflects the archetypal energies of the shamanic wounded healer and teacher who potentially lives within each one of us. It reflects an accidental wounding we received most often in early childhood. This Chironian wounding is an injury to our instinctual nature and is a wounding of trust.

"The wounding was generally brought about as the result of a stupid, careless, thoughtless accident... so there is normally no one who can be blamed with purposely, intentionally, maliciously wounding us. The wounding was generally done by someone close to us, someone we thought well of and trusted.

"Further, a Chironian wound is an injury that [might not ever] totally heal. We learn, suffer and grow from dealing with this sensitive area of wounded instinct and trust, but the wounding will never totally go away. This Chironian wounding can, later in life and after much personal struggle, become a special area where we can help others by sharing our healing and teaching powers with them." --Ellie Crystal makes it crystal-clear.



What isn't mentioned at the top is that "Chiron moves into Aquarius until 2011, energizing the need to shift our rebellious spirits from being against the old order to creating the new." --from the Aquarius overview at Moonsurfing

"When Chiron is in Aquarius, there is a crisis over being grounded, over existing on Earth in a balanced way. Higher consciousness has no place without a body, and as we move into Aquarius, we are being taught about bridging [the consciousness and the body] by the ecological crisis that exists on our planet.

"Chiron, represented by a centaur, embodies this issue with its horse/human body. We have to have animal/human, Earth/sky, body/soul, or we will perish." --Barbara Hand Clow, "Chiron: Transforming Bridge between the Outer Planets"



"An object cataloged as an asteroid when it was discovered in the 1970s, Chiron was discovered to be a comet by D. Tholen, D. Cruikshank, and the Planetary Science Institute's William K. Hartmann (who created the image above) when they observed it brighten in 1988 during observations at Mauna Kea Observatory. Orbital studies show that it passes Saturn about every 10,000 years, which may deflect it into the inner solar system, closer to Earth."