Chiron Transiting Aires - Part VIII Aries and Libra

Peter Paul Rubens oil on panel (1630-1635)

Chiron in Aries Transiting the 7th house

(Probably for Libra Rising Sign)

The lesson of Chiron in Aries transiting the 7th house is about how to create and maintain healthy relationships, personal, business and public. Establishing any kind of relationships stems from our sense of identity, the persona we project out. When relationships are unhealthy, there is a need to reflect back to ourselves. If we conduct our relationships from an unconscious state of being, we project onto the 'other' in a reactionary mode. We usually end up attracting someone that acts as a mirror, in whom we can look at ourselves very 'naked'.

Insecurity problems regarding our identity will make us attract unbalanced people who can awake on us our protection mode, or our need to fix them. This happens just because we feel inadequate and not good enough, then instead of realizing it is us who wants the 'fixing', to avoid the pain of facing ourselves, we just work on the 'other's' faults. Conversely, we may put the 'other' on a pedestal; just because we feel so unworthy, that person in front of us looks so much better than us. In both cases, the work we attempt is futile. We either realize we can never change that person, or finally see the real person beneath the romanticized skin we had thrown upon his or her shoulders.

Nonetheless, in the process, we hurt ourselves very badly. First we long so badly for the perfect partner that we see a Dulcinea on every beggar, a person who sabotages us, smashes our purest feelings, trashes our best gifts, and smears our reputation. We may have an abusive, unscrupulous, broken (particularly with head injuries or ailments, since it is in Aries), addictive, even mentally ill, aggressive, violent, or otherwise challenged partner. This is just what we expect, unconsciously showing that "I am worth nothing". After all is said and done, we end up feeling a bottomless infinite solitude, full of emptiness and powerlessness. Puzzled, we ask "why did he(she) did this to me if I was so good to him(her), and I gave everything to the relationship?"

The best way to use Chiron transiting the 7th house is to work on our own identity. It is important to feel perfectly comfortable in our own skin, to build the character we want, acquire the virtues and qualities and values we look for in a partner. If that person in front of us is not someone with whom we feel happy, then it is time to think "what am I doing wrong to get what I get?"

Chiron in Aries Transiting the 1st house

(Probably for Aries Rising Sign)

Aries transiting Aries in the first sign is a double dip of intense feelings of inadequacy. Aries rules the first impulse of life, your body, and in particular the head (no wonder!, the first thing appearing in the birth canal is the head, right?). The first house is the Self, the image we show to the world, the persona, the identity, first impressions, the attitude, appearance, self awareness, and your response (reflection) to the environment.

Chiron there, makes us feel inadequate in all those areas. It often manifests as feelings of being too much or too little of something, i.e. "my nose is too big", "my hips are too narrow", "my hair is too curly" kind of complaints. But also, affects the psychology of your identity: "I am not enough", or the other extreme "I will show you how ____ I am" kind of automatic and unconscious reactions.

Consequently,  one may feel not worthy, not able to fit in, may lack assertiveness or be too much assertive to compensate. One may fear self expression, may have an unconscious tendency to hurt oneself (especially the head). One may feel deeply inside that has no right to exist, and try to be invisible, or on the other hand spend all the energy trying to prove that one exists; "please, look at me" attitude. It can also manifest as unconscious mirroring of the 'other'. From that mindset of insecurity, one can fear assertion, may act too soon or too late, do things on one's own instead of asking when help is needed. You may feel your initial impulses are inappropriate,  you start your actions too soon, or too late.

There is a deep anguish from feeling that one's existence, actions and desires are not acceptable. Therefore, there is a feeling that there is no point in trying to obtain one's desires, one may give up trying, ending up getting what one doesn't want. Some people can grow very shy, repressing their life drive. Others may go pleasing everybody left and right, except themselves, in an attempt to prove themselves of value. Likewise, others may show a big ego.

Feelings of disempowerment, impotence, frustration, suppressed anger, even passive aggression are common. Extreme cases (depending on hard aspects Chiron makes in the natal chart to other cosmic bodies) can end up getting ill, self-inflicting pain, with the ideation of proving that they exist, or that someone will pay attention to them or value them. The stronger the suppressed desires, the more radical the reaction, because the Martian energy of Aires needs to show up somehow.

This polarity between the 1st and 7th houses interact with each other as do the other ones also. The way one sees oneself, impacts the way we relate to others, the way we choose the people we want to be around, and our long term partners. You may want to read both houses to understand how they mutually relate. Also, make sure you have read the post The Pain of Being where I explain in more detail about Chiron transiting Aries in general. I will next write about Remedies for Chiron transiting Aries. Stay tuned! Also next week, transiting Mercury will conjunct Chiron in Aries at 3º. Soon after, Venus will conjunct him as well. You may as well want to read the post on these Transits.

If Aries falls in a different house in your Birth Chart, feel free to scroll down my blog to find the right post for you. If you'd like me to read your Birth Chart, Progressed Chart, Astrocartography (to find the best relocation place to live), or other kind of astrological information, please email me to pukavypora@gmail.com or satsangatyoga@gmail.com.

Chiron transiting Aries - Part III - Taurus and Scorpio

For Taurus Rising, Aries is the 12th house
For Scorpio Rising, Aries is the 6th house

Chiron in Aries in the 12th House

(maybe for Taurus rising)

Chiron in Aries in the 12th house represents a journey within to find who we are. A conflicted sense of identity looks for solutions in confined, hidden, secret or isolated spaces. The individual may be triggered by daily events at work, health problems, tangible imbalances, and in relationships with service people or people in need of him or her,  to reflect on the 'who am I?' subjects.

One way of manifesting this process can be a disappearance of identity, denying or blocking innate shameful personality features. On the other hand, fearing the identity dissolution, one can try intimately proving one's sense of identity in dreams, or by retreating into isolated or secluded places.

Projecting the unconscious identity drama will show up in the relationships with 6th house people, i.e. service providers, employees, people in the fringes of society, the poor and needy, even on a small pet. Remember that other people work as mirrors. When we see someone else, we don't really see who they are, but the reflection of who we think we are. These people will end up being a great source of identity revelations. Therefore, if these relationships show us unsavory aspects, make sure not to react, and if you do, take it as an example of your intolerance for your own inadequacy feelings about that trait in yourself. Anybody and anything could be a great teacher if we are able to tune in to the lesson.

Yet, there will be individuals who would sabotage themselves by escaping the identity reassessment implied by Chiron. Some would numb themselves with substances, others may find other 'hidden' enemies that will arrive to sabotage their sense of identity. 'Hidden' enemies can be in the form of people, drugs, real or apparent external situations, problems. Feelings of inadequacy, of not being enough or being too much will dominate the time alone.

Given the intense introspection, and the sensitive nature of analyzing core issues related to the way one presents oneself to the world, the individual may be inclined to seek professional advice, or spiritual ways of relief. In fact, any kind of spiritual journeying activity can be a positive way to deal with 7 years of introspection. Formal meditation practice, like transcendental, vipassana (insight), breath, mindfulness, or metta (pure unconditional love) meditation styles, is an invaluable tool that can help the individual find answers to any identity question.

Ultimately, if this Chiron process gets too deep and the individual feels unable to handle it anymore, psychotherapy, counseling, hypnosis and shamanic journeying can alleviate the pressure and provide an  issue for releasing the conflict.

Chiron in Aries in the 6th House

(maybe for Scorpio rising)

In the 6th house, Chiron represents a journey of finding our identity through life imbalances. It gives the feeling of not being enough, or of having to prove who we are in situations of conflict, challenge,  or illness. The meaning of our existence, thus affirming the identity, will be found in the workplace, or in the service of others. Feelings of inadequacy may arise related to the way we conduct our work, be it methods, processes, or problem solving. The lack of boundaries between the individual and his or her employees or service providers may be the source of questioning the sense of being or an opportunity to prove it.

The inability to keep schedules, daily routines can also trigger feelings of doubt about self reliance.  The individual may project those inadequacy feelings on service providers, or needy people in order to prove or disapprove his ability to keep up with time management. Remember the mirror effect I explained above for the 12th house. The lack of organization and planning may be the reason why one feels inadequate in the workplace or daily life situations. One can develop an obsession with being on time or plan ahead, or conversely, always arriving a few minutes late or being unprepared, affirming, one way or another, our feelings of not being good enough in the completion of these tasks.

There is a tendency here, as well, to escape. The person can become more obsessive with his or her addictions, in order to flee the daily responsibilities for which he or she feels inadequate. On the other hand, the individual can get fixated on doing everything perfectly to the point of not accomplishing anything, but looking, in the process, for a satisfaction of being capable. 

One may become sick to prove one's existence by receiving health services. Somehow, hospital visits or stays can be at play in the search for self affirmation. Conversely, the individual may become fixated on dietary regimens and alternative therapy methods, in order to prove that he or she is able to be healthy and fit.

In conclusion, becoming aware of what the process is about, gives us the freedom to stop and observe it, and then decide how to best handle it. Best wishes to all! Go next to Part IV

If you missed them, please visit the Introduction and the Chiron transiting Aries description previous posts.

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The Mythology of your astrological Natal Chart

How the Myths in Astrology help us understand who we are, where we come from and where we go.

Childbirth is one of -if not The- most transformational events in a woman's -and to a certain extent man's- life. Seven months after having my first baby, I fell into the post partum depression, my hair starting to fall in handfuls, I couldn't gain weight, and so many other things that I had to undergo therapy. Then, I learned about a psychotherapy technique using imagery and archetypes. The patient is guided on a journey to the underworld, the unconscious, visualizing what he/she encounters on the road. This works as a guided tour into understanding yourself.

What does that have in common with the traditional children stories read in childhood, the same ones that I read to my own children later? They show images that have a meaning. The images that the person 'sees' in the mind's eye are charged with the meaning that the individual ascribe to them. Those are representations of what is hidden in the unconscious, or subconscious. The archetypes of the children stories have an already set of meanings from the collective unconsciousness. Both, imagery psychotherapy and fairy tales are equally useful to help the person reveal who she/he really is inside. They work in different ways, one reveals from inside, the other from the external world, still both reflect conceptions, emotions, representations of stuff ingrained in the person's identity. The technique works as a movie projected on a screen.  Once those images are created in the mind, the patient is able to discover him/herself by describing them. Reading fairy tales or myths, one's unconscious is projected on the story making the detachment possible.

When I was studying for my Masters in French, I became fascinated with the genre of myths, legends and traditional story tales from the old times. I dug into the most ancient versions available of our classic tales, like Red Riding Hood and such. In the beginning they were not children stories, in fact they were like the adult TV shows of the times. Some of them pretty intense and gruesome. I ended up learning that those sometimes shocking stories worked as psychological therapy then. They helped people sitting around the home hearth in the cold winter evenings -dark nights of the soul- to process their most intimate fears, phobias, passions, and conflictive traumas.

Astrology is tightly related to Mythology. Knowing the language of Astrology, one understands the messages those iconic mythological characters give us personally, individually as they are designed in our own unique Birth Chart. Let me show you an example in a chart.

This is the chart of today's transits at my location. Please look at the arrow pointing to the left to a green glyph representing Taurus with the number 10º 47'. That line represents the Ascendant, the Rising Sign on the Eastern Horizon at the moment of one's birth. The sign of Taurus gives the main personality and mission for that Soul for this incarnation. It's ruled by Venus. She is in the opposite sign of Scorpio, in a debilitated position because she is the farthest she can be from her home, even though she also rules the contiguous sign of Libra. In any case, she is in the house of Mars and Pluto. 

Now imagine the Goddess of Love, beauty, sweet, delicate, refined, romantic, well mannered, love giving, seductively gorgeous, sitting in the living room with Mars, the warrior, all covered in armor, sweaty and smelly from the battle, aggressive, forceful, violent at times, and with Pluto, or Hades, the Lord of the Underworld, the same one who kidnapped, raped and kept captive Persephone as his "wife". Colorful painting, right? 

What kind of Taurean personality would you think this person born today will have? Also, the 7th house of Scorpio represents his/her longterm relationships, the type of person with whom she/he will associate with a higher level of trust. There, together with Venus, we find another visitor to an unlikely house, Jupiter. He can be wise and spiritual, full of knowledge and understanding of higher concepts, but he also likes to exaggerate things a bit too much. With Jupiter there, the picture I described previously is augmented 300 times. Can you see what kind of partner, she/he may have?

Venus was a very nice lady, right? The Greeks called her Aphrodite, she was so beautiful that she was said to have seduced Mars and had children with him. In Astrology, Venus behaves differently depending on the place where she is in her travel around the Sun. She could be behind him or ahead, even though she does not go too far away. If she travels ahead of the Sun she's called Phosphorous, the Light Bearer or Morning Star. Then she is more outgoing, extroverted, more intense. When she travels after the Sun, she's called Hesperus or Evening Star, and she behaves more feminine, her feelings are more reserved, more receptive. In this chart Venus is Aphrodite or Evening Star. This trait describes the nature of the person's Yin energy -regardless of being a male of female. And in a man's chart, Venus describes the kind of woman he will be attracted to. This person can be shy and reserved in love, but may attract a partner that is dominant, jealous, and even aggressive, able to totally transform his/her life.

There are many other factors to consider about Venus the ruler of this person's chart when describing exactly what kind of Venus energy it gives. Because in this case, Venus is also Stationary Retrograde, she is antagonizing with Mars, in a somewhat disharmony with Saturn, she makes loose harmonious connections with Neptune, the Lord of the Oceans, and the Moon. All of that gives Venus a very particular personality, unique to her this day, at this time, in this town.  

I'm sure you have read legends, stories and myths in childhood, and you probably read them also again and again once you learned how to read. There is something in them that draw us close to a mirror where we can see ourselves reflected. I think that's why they are so appealing and we like them so much. Bruno Bettelheim in his work "The Uses of Enchantment" says that "There is a general agreement that myths and fairy tales speak to us in the language of symbols representing unconscious content" (pg. 36). 

In my approach to Astrology, I sustain that its mythology is the aspect that helps people to understand themselves, individually, to find out their uniqueness. The story telling of those archetypes is what explains our deepest psychological blueprint. Understanding them is opening the door to the most essential answers we seek: why am I here? who am I? what am I doing? where am I going? why this is me? "Modern thinkers who have studied myths and fairy tales from a philosophical or psychological viewpoint arrive at the same conclusion", Bettelheim states. And after quoting Mircea Eliade, he adds "Drawing on anthropological parallels, he and others suggest that myths and fairy tales were derived from, or give symbolic expression to, initiation rites or other rites of passage -such as a metaphoric death of an old, inadequate self in order to be reborn on a higher plane of existence" (pg.35).

This is the perspective our personal astrology gives us. We incarnate again and again, initiating a 'new life', a new cycle of 'seasons' (birth, development, decay and death) in order to better what we've done in previous ones, to change and repair what went wrong before, to have new experiences that progressively elevate our Soul to a higher state. The symbolism in our birth chart is the language that gives us the clues of what happened before, what we decided to do this time around, what is our goal and what kind of work we chose to do to achieve it. "This amounts to saying that initiatory scenarios -even camouflaged, as they are in fairy tales- are the expression of a psychodrama that answers a deep need in the human being" (Mircea Eliade).

Discovering the Myths in our personal Birth Chart can be greatly revealing. We can have insights into our consciousness as well as our unconsciousness. We can develop understanding of the reasons why we make certain choices, like certain partners, develop certain eating habits, choose a certain career, and many other life decisions. A new perspective on things can help us change direction when we're not happy about those. If you are curious and would like to discover the mystery of your SELF, make sure you find out your personal Mythology by ordering a Natal Birth Chart reading.