Saturday, April 14, 2018

Chiron - The Wounded Healer






Chiron has been aptly nicknamed “the wounded healer.” In Astrology, it is primarily about issues of wounding and healing and that process from being hurt and wounded to being healed. It is now transiting the sign of Pisces (prior to April 16/17, 2018) and will soon enter the sign of Aries.


Chiron was discovered on November 1, 1977. And, Chiron was initially called an asteroid (and, it is comet-like), but is now considered a minor planet. Some astronomers consider it a dwarf planet. It orbits the Sun between Saturn and Uranus (although, it occasionally crosses Saturn’s orbit), and it was the first-identified member of a new set of objects known as centaurs - bodies orbiting between the asteroid belt and and the Kuiper belt. Chiron’s orbit is elliptical in nature and it takes roughly 49-51 years to orbit the Sun. Therefore, most folks will experience their Chiron return at about age 51. This also means that Chiron does not spend the same amount of time in each sign. Its shortest transit of a sign is its transit through Libra - about 1.75 years. Its lengthiest transit of a sign is its transit through Aries - 8.25 years.


My favorite writing (or book) about Chiron is Martin Lass’ Chiron - Healing Body & Soul. This is what he writes about the Chiron paradigm:


Most importantly, Chiron’s higher message is that everything is about perception, Seeing one side of things (duality) is wounding. Seeing all sides of things (unity) is healing. As we heal, so the world around us changes, not because we have set out to change it, fix it, or get rid of things we do not like, but because we see things differently. In short, as we heal, we increasingly see things from the eyes of love. This is the ultimate gift in the wound. Surely, this is a journey worth pursuing.







Chiron enters the sign of Aries on April 17, 2018 at 1:10 AM PDT. It has been prominent for a while now since it has been transiting the anaretic degree (the 29th degree) of Pisces. Issues and themes are brought to a head in this degree. The initial degree of Aries is also an important placement.

In Aries, the wound is a profound lack or loss of self-worth. There can be feelings of unworthiness or of not being deserving of what life has to offer. It can cause a feeling of being unneeded, unwanted, or useless. There is a lack of focus - a feeling of being scattered. Our search is to find “self” or identity. It brings to mind the phrase “searching for oneself.” Who am I and what is my place in the universe? The gift is the discovery, acknowledgement, and loving of our own unique divine design - our self. It is the ability to remain firmly but gently in our own space. We do this despite the opinions and actions of others. We acknowledge the divine within us and our spirit becomes FAR less destructible.












Wednesday, April 4, 2018

The Trade War Between The USA And China






President Trump has gotten the USA involved in a trade war with China the last few days. The countries have been issuing tariffs on goods exported from the other country. Transiting Saturn and Mars have been aspecting relevant planets in the charts for all three - Trump, the USA, and China. Added to that, transiting Uranus is now squaring the USA’s Pluto. Transiting Uranus is in a trine aspect to Trump’s natal Mars (in the twelfth).


Transiting Saturn has been aspecting Trump’s natal Mercury and Neptune by opposition and square aspect respectively for a couple of months now. As Mars joined Saturn in early Capricorn (in addition to transiting Sun and Mercury in early Aries), the trade war broke out.


The latest government of China was formed on October 1, 1949 in Peking. The chart drawn for that event (shown below) puts the Sun at 8 Libra, Mercury at 13 Libra, and Uranus at 5 Cancer. The Libra planets reside in the eighth house of joint finances and others’ money. Uranus is conjunct the USA’s Jupiter and Venus.


There are a number of charts used for the USA. I use the Gemini rising chart. I decided on that chart after reading Celeste Teal’s book on eclipses. That chart shows Venus, Jupiter, and the Sun in the second house of money. Those planets are under siege from transiting Saturn and Mars in the eighth house. The Sun and transiting Mercury are squaring those planets from the eleventh house of friends and groups.

The most popular chart used for the formation of the USA is called the Sibley chart and Sagittarius is on the Ascendant in that chart. Transiting Uranus is now squaring Pluto in the USA chart(s). And, in the Sibley chart, Pluto resides in the second house of money. Uranus is the ruling planet in China’s chart.


It should be noted that this is all going on during a Mercury retrograde period. Mercury turns stationary direct on April 15 at 5 Aries. It’s possible that both countries decide to lift these tariffs soon after that - having decided that a trade war is not in the best interests of either country.