Chiron & Asteroids
Chiron in Aquarius points at belonging to the group. What Chiron is as an object, why its signs are uneven, the Chiron return at fifty, and an honest note on how new this reading is.
Chiron is a small body about two hundred kilometres across, discovered on 1 November 1977 by Charles Kowal at Palomar Observatory in California. Its orbit runs between Saturn and Uranus and crosses both, taking 50.42 years to go round. It was the first of a class now called the centaurs, and it has the odd distinction of being catalogued twice: as minor planet 2060 Chiron and, after it was seen to develop a coma in 1988, as comet 95P/Chiron. It is officially both.
The orbit is steeply elliptical, which has a practical consequence for astrology: Chiron does not spend equal time in each sign. It can pass through one in under two years and take the better part of eight over another. So a Chiron sign is a much wider or narrower generational band than a Saturn sign, depending which one you have.
The sore spot: belonging to the group. A long sense of being outside it, whatever it is.
The convention is that the two halves come together: the place you were hurt is the place you can see clearly in other people, because you have been looking at it for years from the inside. With Chiron in Aquarius that shows up as making room for outsiders, automatically, without being asked.
| How it shows up | |
|---|---|
| The sore spot | belonging to the group |
| What it feels like | Older than the events that would explain it, and oddly resistant to evidence |
| What it is good for | making room for outsiders, automatically, without being asked |
| What does not help | Treating it as a problem to be solved once and then finished with |
Worth a caution. The wounded-healer framing is evocative and it encourages people to read far more into a single placement than a single placement can carry. A sign placement is shared by everybody born across several years. If something in your life matches this closely, the useful question is what in your own history put it there, and that is not a question astrology answers.
A 50.42-year orbit means Chiron comes back to its birth position once in a normal lifetime, at about fifty. It is the one Chiron transit almost everybody experiences and the one with the clearest reputation: the age at which the old sore spot stops being something you are inside and becomes something you can finally do something with. What else lands at fifty is here.
Everybody born in your stretch of years shares Chiron in Aquarius. What is yours is the house it fell in and what else in your chart it touches, and both need your birth time. Here is how to find it.
belonging to the group. The other half of the convention: making room for outsiders, automatically, without being asked.
A body about two hundred kilometres across, found on 1 November 1977 by Charles Kowal. It orbits between Saturn and Uranus in 50.42 years and is catalogued both as minor planet 2060 and as comet 95P/Chiron.
At about fifty, because the orbit is 50.42 years. It is the only Chiron return most people live through.
No. It was discovered in 1977 and entered astrological use in the early 1980s, which makes it the newest body in common use and the one practitioners agree about least.
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