Cycles in Astrology - Chiron, the cycles of healing

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The Astrological Cycles

Astrology is based on the Geometry and Mathematics of the Universe. The Universe, like everything in existence, is put together in harmony by elements in orbit around other elements, from the atom to the galaxies. The cosmic bodies relate to each other in cycles marked by their orbits. In their relationships to each other they have phases. The most visible and common example for us is the Moon orbiting around the Earth in relationship to the Sun light. But the same happens to all of the cosmic bodies in relationship to other cosmic bodies, which creates cycles within cycles of energy exchange, exactly like atoms work to form molecules and molecules to make up substances. They work in harmony to give a certain kind of energy (contained in the substance).

Chiron Cycles of Healing

Have you ever wonder why most people get along better with grandparents than with parents? Astrology answers that question very precisely. Studying the cycles of Chiron, one can understand why. As I explained before in Part I, Where we come from, Chiron's ovoidal orbit is out of wack between Saturn's and Uranus'; sometimes touching the first one, and later touching and going beyond the second one.

This means that Chiron travels certain signs (i.e. Pisces and Aries for 8 years) for a long long time, and others (i.e. Libra for 1 year, Leo, Virgo, Scorpio and Sagittarius 2 years). Going forward from the Natal Chiron Placement, he would form the first quarter square very soon for one generation of people, and very late for the next generation. Keep in mind that Chiron takes ~50 years around the Sun, an average lifetime nowadays. The same is true for his opposition and second quarter square to his Natal placement. While your mother maybe had the first quarter square when she was a young child, maybe at 6 years old, you may have had it at 23 years old. However, your grandparents had it around the same age you had it. This is why, you synchronize better with them.

Considering that each of those geometrical formations, including Chiron Return to the Natal Placement at 51 years old, represents a critical icon in human psychological development through the energetic evolution of the Soul, one can easily relate its occurrence to very noticeable events in our life. Often times, they represent a time of a crisis in consciousness. When reading a client's chart, and looking back at those life times coinciding with Chiron first square, opposition, etc., the client remembers very vividly the life event, circumstances, or psychological shift that occurred. Usually, what happened at those times was pivotal in their personal evolution.  Thus, when the client starts tying up the four phases of Chiron in his or her life, he or she discovers the theme and the course of the healing process taking place in this lifetime. Also, as I explained in Part I as well, the position of Saturn and Uranus every time is critical in the way the process manifests.

The Moon Phases

 In order to better understand the importance of the cosmic bodies phases, let's take the example of the Moon. Each of us was born in a certain phase of the Moon. Some during New or Full Moon, others, during the First Quarter or Second Quarter Moon. This determines the emotional personality of the person and how she relates to the world. As the Chart progresses, and the Moon advances, one sees the person's emotional evolution very clearly! I am amazed (and hopefully you are too) at how Astrology shows so precisely who we are and how we evolve through life!

For example, comparing the different phases of the Moon to the process of a plant growth, the process starts with the seed underground in darkness (Balsamic Moon Phase, a few days right before the New Moon), it's the end of Winter, a cycle has ended, but Nature is getting ready for Spring. Quoting Kelly Surtees, people born "at the Balsamic Moon have entered a lifetime of closure and completion." They emotionally retreat to understand better their karmic past, they are emotional hermits in deep reflection. They form relationships to finish unfinished past life 'business' with others. Often times, they encounter people with whom they have short but very transformational relationships. The completions get this person ready to start anew in the next life. Those born at the New Moon are starters of a new cycle, they initiate a new emotional life. Thus, every person is born under a different emotional personality according to the Moon Phase they have in their Natal Chart. You can calculate your natal Moon Phase on this website.

Chiron Phases

Chiron phases to himself can be daunting. One of my clients fell in severe depression and anorexia at 13 years old and had to start psychiatric treatment; while another went on a spiritual quest at age 23 that took her to another country leaving behind everything, both of them during the first quarter square. The theme continues evolving and appears with a different face in the subsequent Chiron opposition, square and Return. Another client had a painful relationship trauma during his Chiron Return, that finally taught him what he had been avoiding to recognize for 50 years. 

We often go through life asleep and oblivious to what the problem really is, repeating self destructive behavior, and suffering without understanding why. Learning about the condition of your Natal Chiron, its placement by Sign, House and Aspects, and understanding the life events during those phases, can shed light into your psychological evolution, making you aware of what is deeply transforming in your Soul. As I always say, Awareness is the best tool we can use to heal. Sometimes, this new clear self-understanding can save us years of therapy where we spend time, money and energy talking aimlessly to a professional that may know a lot about general Psychology, but will never know us better than we can know ourselves if we work at it. 

Additionally, when we learn about Chiron in our Birth Chart and his evolution through the years, we can understand the best course of healing, personalized. Chiron teaches us about alternative methods that may work more efficiently with our individual Chiron issue. You may want to read more about Chiron's alternative healing methods in my post Chiron - The Healing Journey.

Please feel free to leave a comment or question at the bottom of this article. Share it if you can with friends and family. If you are interested in having your Birth Chart read, please contact me at pukavypora@gmail.com, or satsangatyoga@gmail.com. Interested in learning more on your own? Here are my reading recommendations.

References

Astrology and the Rising of Kundalini, by Barbara Hand Clow, Astrologer.
Chiron, Healing Body and Soul, by Martin Lass
Once Upon a Midlife, Classic Stories and Mythic Tales to Illuminate the Middle Years by Allan B. Chinnen, M.D. 

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Chiron activation - Transits to Chiron in May, 2019

Mercury in Gemini 5º sextile Chiron 5º Aries on May 23

Mercury is at home in Gemini. He is now very active looking for all the information he can gather. He's in the neighborhood, in the city, meeting people, chatting, asking questions on the go to everybody. He has busy short trips to and fro. He's busy learning new skills via the internet and filing the data. His connection with Chiron is an auspicious one in the healing process.

When he sextile Chiron in Aries, we have the opportunity to name our wound, and if we are ready, maybe it's time to talk about it with someone who can contribute to our healing. This could be a painful or hurtful conversation that finally lets out that negative energy, resulting in a relief. We may have the opportunity to learn about our wound. Maybe we receive a message, or read an article, or come across something in the media that represents or expresses exactly our inadequate feelings regarding our Chiron journey in Aries.

Mercury in Gemini gives Chiron an opportunity to learn or teach about its wound. Mercury stimulates the mind giving us insights into the healing or helping us realize where the pain is. It can also contribute to alleviate the pain by discovering information related to alternative healing methods.

Mercury also represents siblings and neighbors. During this fast but positive connection to Chiron, they may find a way to heal themselves. It's definitely an opportunity to heal our relationships with any of them. Mercury represents also the learning of new skills. We may realize that there is a new skill available to learn that can heal our Aries wound.

It is a great time for counseling or group therapy where we can talk about our Chiron in Aries sorrows. Also Meditation on the Breath or with a Mantra are especially indicated for this impaired Mercurian energy.

Mars at 5º Cancer square Chiron 5º Aries on May 24.

Mars in Cancer may not be so comfy, he is all sensitive and too soft and mushy to be aggressive. He rather uses his energy to protect and defend our emotional core, or to safeguard the home and family. He may not show his impulsive, warrior-like quality, but for nurturing and providing the most private needs of our soul. We may feel that is difficult to assert or defend ourselves, or to obtain what we desire.

Presently, he's the ruler of Chiron in Aries, so, any aspects he makes to Chiron will be important and noticeable. He may awake awareness of our identity wound in the house Aries occupies in the Chart. We may attempt unsuccessfully to defend our right to be, or to protect and sooth that inner unease by acting out emotionally. Feeling guilty for our firm convictions and direct attitudes, can either frustrate us or awake a need to stand up for ourselves instead of avoiding confrontations.

We may have high sensitivity to hostility, anger and violence or its perception even if it is not there, and do something about it. Conversely, we may tend to repress anger and sexual urges with a fear of becoming too self assertive. Repressed negative feelings can give frustration and even upset the stomach. This is a dynamic provocative energy that impels us to action to right the wrongs of our lives.

In the world, we may see events where suffering people rebel against oppressors, injustice, or against the adversity in their lives. They may fight for their safety, survival, food, shelter. This may highlight the effect of some other planetary interactions that have been going on for a while now. 

The best way to use this conflictive energy between Mars and Chiron, would be finding ways of active healing, especially of emotional, intuitive, motherly kind. This is a great time for physical therapists and yoga teachers, especially if they combine physical activity with other emotional or spiritual techniques to channel this impaired Martian energy.

A meditation using hand movement to connect with the brain, like Kirtan Kriya, or Sat Kriya to raise energy towards the higher chakras, can open the energy flow and balance the nervous system command.


Sun 5º Gemini sextile Chiron May 26

The Sun in Gemini sheds light on the issues of Chiron. It opens up an opportunity to stand up to authorities of any kind in your life, be it father figures, bosses, teachers, heads of organizations, etc. It also helps us to be aware of our own authority in matters of Chiron in our Natal Chart. In what way are you unique? How comfortable are you with your shortcomings and imperfections? How comfortable are you with your qualities? What sensitivity is overwhelming to you regarding your self-expression? We can use the energy of this aspect to face those issues and do something about them.

A situation or event may arise that gives us the opportunity to heal the relationship with our own father, or with men in general. We could even tap into our self-healing power, that can rebalance the personal masculine (outgoing or yang) energy.

Sun sextile Chiron may give us an opportunity to heal our identity issues at the core. One way it can manifest is to meet a person who reflects to us our own trauma, feelings of inadequacy, or identity conflicts, bringing them up into conscious awareness for us to face them. If we pay attention, we realize that what we consider unacceptable or awkward in the other, is in fact, what we don't tolerate about ourselves. 

A good way to use this healing opportunity is to tap into the creative self-expression, and share our creations with others. Do you paint, do wood work, gardening, costume design, do you sculpt, sing, or knit? What is the talent that can best show who you are? It doesn't matter if you're not a professional at it, but it is a way to say who you are with qualities, skills, deficits, errors, and flaws. You have now an opportunity to accept yourself just as you are, love and enjoy being yourself.

Sebian Symbol Aries 5º

Dane Rudyard's Sebian Symbol for Aries 5º says

"Aries 5°: A triangle with wings. The capacity for self-transcending.

This is the symbol of the desire to reach a higher level of existence, of pure aspiration or devotion, of bhakti. What has emerged in the first phase of the process of differentiation is becoming aware of the possibility of further up-reachings. The principle of "levitation" is seen as one of the two essential factors in evolution. The emergent being glorifies and deifies it, but it is still only an ideal. At this stage, nevertheless, the whole being experiences a childlike longing for its eventual realization.

At this point the last and synthesizing stage of the first five-fold unit in the cyclic process is reached. A NEW DIMENSION of being is envisioned mobilizing creative endeavors."

If the reader is interested in reading the Sebian Symbol for the other 5º in Gemini and Cancer, they can be found in mindfire.ca. They are surprising to say the least.  

Numerology of 5  (All those planets are all at 5º)

Number 5 represents freedom, the search of happiness, creativity, independence of thought and action, desire to change in order to be happy. This symbolism agrees with Chiron in Aries, the Cardinal Sign that looks for independence of spirit and initiation, and promotes change and self-realization.

According to Angel Numbers, number 5 has "a message to do with your health and wellbeing. Your angels are helping you to make positive, healthy lifestyle choices and changes that will enhance and benefit you in many ways;  physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually."

Note: Be reminded that astrological events cannot be taken in isolation. Current transits may or may  not make contact with your natal or progressed chart's planets, therefore, their energy may not be felt or significant for everyone. Transits should also be considered in the context of the whole chart. 
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Chiron - The Healing Journey

No matter where your Natal Chiron is located in your Birth Chart, its journey around the Zodiac is your Healing Journey. His present transit through Aries for 7 years is activating that area (zodiac house) of your life. (Please read the corresponding Post by scrolling down the Blog). The activation is a healing process, but it could start with a painful situation, event, circumstances to reveal to you your wound in that area and the way it relates to your natal wound (where Chiron is in your natal chart).

The Rising of the Kundalini energy activates the Healing Journey

Having a clear understanding of Chiron interaction and action in the sector Aries occupies in your chart can help you use his energy consciously and live the related circumstances mindfully. It is definitely a learning process; the more awareness one has, the better one can deal with it.

Special attention should be paid if you're living your Chiron Return. Around 50 years old, Chiron has made the whole journey around the zodiac and comes back to conjunct your natal placement of Chiron. This is one of the milestones in your spiritual development, which involves emotional, psychological and even physical processes. Significant as well are the opposition and the two squares. The second square has a stronger effect because it is preparing you for the Return. The second square is also related to other important milestones activated by Saturn and Uranus (feel free to explore this in my post "Where we come from"). These two planets, Saturn and Uranus, and Chiron, working in harmony, activate the rising of the Kundalini (natural healing energy of the body) energy during our lifetime.

A note to remember is that everything in the Universe is energy. The cosmic bodies relate harmoniously and in synchronicity with each other. Their energetic interplay is a choreographed dance. In order for the planetary energy to work positively and well with us, we need to be in harmony with their energy as well.

What happens is that if we live an unconscious life and we are mindlessly aligned with our shortcomings and negative baggage, the planetary energy tries to align us with the Universe. The experiences that we perceive as negative, and sometimes catastrophic, are wake up calls and shakers that attempt to move us in the right direction and into harmony with the Source of All (you may call it God, essence, as you like).

Some of us, live our life avoiding the need to attend to our personal 'wound'. Instead, we project it onto the 'other' whom we commit unavailingly to fix. This is so futile that often times, we cause inadvertently our own wound to become rawer, bigger, more hurtful, and even bleeding.

If Chiron brings pain and suffering, it means that there is something to align in that area of life. The upheaval, injury, 'negative' event, person or circumstances, is there to open up the healing. Conversely, healing comes easily if we are ready for it. For instance, if we have been consciously working the issue of the 'wound', nursing it, attending to its needs with much self love, then Chiron transits are a balm to our 'wound'. In both cases, once we heal, we become the effective Healer, the Shaman, the Astrologer, the Alchemist, the Wise Man or Woman to help others heal as well.

When one decides to work on one's Chiron Wound, one needs to consider that regular medicine is not effective. Proper diagnosis is difficult to pinpoint. There is always some 'mystery' about it. There is a mystic flavor to it. In general, there is a spiritual cause underlying the 'wound'. For instance, my natal Chiron is in my 6th house in Pisces. I've been investigating all my life why my digestive system is so sensitive, trying to discover which food irritates me, what diet is more appropriate, what time of the day is best to eat, how I should eat, what is best way to help elimination without disturbing the balance, etc. To no avail! Until I observed the cusp of my 6th house in Aquarius, ruled by Uranus in my 12th fired up in Leo! And I realized that my nervous system is always in a state of spiritual emergency. Therefore, my digestive system responds in kind, with chronic irritation, somatizing the energy coming from such spiritual (12th) stress (Uranus) and difficult sleep (Uranus in 12th house). The only remedy, is a spiritual remedy, like yoga and meditation.

Chiron should always be attended with an alternative approach and healing methods. After all, he was the creator of alternative healing, the Wounded Healer. Following his modality, the best approach is to use the wounding to heal the wound, in other words, Homeopathic medicine. Modern medicine attacks the illness, fights the symptoms, kills the germs so aggressively that it also kills the parts that are not ill.

Chiron uses instead his own wound as a healing method. Rejected at birth, he exposes himself to be rejected by choosing to exist and love himself (1st house). Deprived of everything, he creates his value and good fortune using his own body and attributes (2d house). He elevates his half-animal condition into a human-like condition by developing his mind and intelligence through studies (3d house). He becomes his own home, he builds his own home where he teaches Achilles and others (4th house). He uses his wound to develop his creative expression by teaching, imparting healing and wisdom (5th house). His wound also serves him to find his own spiritual healing, thanks to it he becomes a Shaman, an Alchemist (6th house). Because of his wounded condition he develops the great relationships he had with students, with his adoptive father and with Prometheus. He gives his own treasure, his immortality, to merge with 'the other' (7th house).

Should we talk about his transmutation due to his abandonment and rejection wound? (8th house). Can we see how his wound gave him the Higher Knowledge he acquired? (9th house). Wasn't his public reputation gained using his wound? (10th house) Didn't he socialized and achieve his wishes through his wound? (11th house) Wasn't his spiritual development through his wound? (12th house).

Every disease or imbalance has its source in a spiritual imbalance or disconnection. Among the several healing alternatives, one could consider, herbal therapy, flower essences, Naturopathy, Hypnotherapy, Astrology, Energy work, Water therapy, Homeopathy, Shamanic journeying, past life regression.

Meditation of any kind, is a great healer, specifically Pranayam (breath), Mantra chanting, Swara Yoga (rebalancing the nostril predominance breathing), Transcendental, Vipassana, Mindfulness, tree hugging, e Breathwalk.

Any tradition of Yoga practice done as a meditation is also healing, especially Kundalini yoga because of its higher spiritual quality. Yoga works on rebalancing the chakras, or energy centers that directly correlate to the glandular system affecting the organs. Regular practice keeps you in balance and away from sickness.

At the same time, a healthy lifestyle promotes a balanced life. Choosing carefully what we ingest, be it food, information, quality of air and water, emotional environment, etc, keeps us healthy. I can't never stress enough the power of awareness. Conscious living is crucial to live a healthy life.

How does Astrology help us heal? Again, Astrology makes us aware of the energy we were born with, its evolution, and the 'transiting' energies that affect us currently. If we don't know that information, we end up acting from our unconscious. Once we know ourselves (conditioned self) and the energetic environment we live in, we can make conscious decisions on how to face our circumstances.

Reading Chiron transiting Aries in your Chart, identify what is the issue you're facing now. Then, look for an alternative healing method that most appeals to your soul right now. Just like the mythological Chiron did, you may want to try out more than one and see what works for you. Soul healing is very individual.

Like Chiron's own healing journey, the ultimate healing is Surrender to the Higher Self. In the end he willfully surrendered his 'immortality', he was ready to die, to surrender his Being (ego, self, individual identity) to the Source Power that gave him life in order to heal. This is the Ultimate symbol of the Healing Journey. We are learning how to come back and reunite with the Source of our Being.

If you are ready for your healing journey, I also offer alternative healing consultations. We discuss your needs and I can give you suggestions according to your astrology, according to the issue and your personality. I can design an appropriate personalized yoga and meditation program. I also work with Bach Flower essences therapy and energy healing.


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