Chiron in Astrology: The Wounded Healer in Your Birth Chart
Chiron is not a planet. It is not a comet. It is a centaur object orbiting between Saturn and Uranus: a misfit body that belongs nowhere and everywhere at once. That marginality is exactly what Chiron represents in your birth chart: the place where you feel fundamentally broken, and the place where you carry the most hard-won wisdom to offer others. The mythological Chiron was an immortal centaur who could not heal his own wound, yet he became the greatest healer and teacher in Greek mythology. He trained Achilles, Asclepius, and Jason. His wound was incurable, but it did not stop him from healing everyone else. That paradox is Chiron’s operating principle in astrology: the wound that teaches, the pain that becomes purpose. ...