Chiron
Chiron is the centaur who teaches every Greek hero and is wounded by a poisoned arrow he cannot cure, trading his immortality for another's release. In astrology he marks the place where you are both wounded and gifted, and where the only way through is to become useful from it.
Correspondences
- Tarot
- Major arcanaAlternateTemperanceNote
The teacher who cannot cure himself; temperance is the mixing of the wound with the remedy
Practice
- Invocation Approach
- TonePlain unglamorousAddressChironThe Wounded HealerThe TeacherRelationshipThe teacher who is still limpingWarningHe cannot heal his own wound and does not pretend toResonanceHealers teachers the chronically wounded those who help from experience
Nature and meaning
- Mythology Summary
Chiron is the centaur who teaches every Greek hero and is wounded by a poisoned arrow he cannot cure, trading his immortality for another's release. In astrology he marks the place where you are both wounded and gifted, and where the only way through is to become useful from it.
Details
- Astronomical Type
- Centaur asteroid
- Astronomical Note
- The first of the centaurs, discovered 1977 inside Saturn's orbit; an icy body that behaves like both an asteroid and a comet
- Discovered
- 1977
- Discoverer
- Charles Kowal
- Timing
- Day of weekNone, traditionallyNote
No traditional day or hour; it belongs to the modern set
- Qualities
- NatureWounded healerTemperamentMelancholic sagittarianGenderMasculine fluidSectNocturnalQualityNeutral teacherSpeedAbout 50 years
- Domains
- The woundHealingTeachingMentorshipThe outsiderThe bridgeSkillSacrifice for othersThe maverick
- Correspondences
- Note
Curated modern Chiron healing-herb set (sage, rosemary, yarrow, comfrey, lavender); it is a curated set rather than one derived from the herbs' own planet attributions.
ElementSecondary elementAnimalsCentaurHorseSerpentEagleChakraSecondary chakraDirectionCenterSeasonLate winterTime of dayDawn - Archetype
- PrimaryThe wounded healerSecondaryThe mentorThe maverickShadowThe unhealed teacherPsychologicalThe integration of the wound
- Magical Workings
- Optimal forHealing the unhealableTeachingMentorshipShadow workFinding the gift in the woundBorder crossingSkill acquisitionAvoid forQuick fixesDenialPityBest timingDayWednesdayHourMercury or jupiterSpecialDuring chiron transits or at the anaretic degree
- Modern Astrology
- RepresentsThe wound the gift and the teachingHouse association9QuestionsWhere does it still hurt?What did that teach me?Who did I become because of it?
- Occult Notes
Chiron has no classical rulership, day, metal or element; its correspondences here are the modern asteroid tradition's. It is included because Ceres and Vulcan are, and because Chiron the myth-figure belongs with the heroes rather than the gods - the body is a body.
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