Chiron In Aquarius

Chiron, The Wounded Healer, is in Aquarius, showing us the path of healing until 2010. Chiron in Aquarius indicates a period when great innovations will be made in all healing fields and we will see more healing through or within groups, alternative medicine, energetic healing, healing through technology, healing through networks, and unconventional, cutting-edge healing methods. Conversely, we can also experience wounding in these realms.

Chiron has a fifty-year cycle, spending a little more than four years per sign, so many of the issues that are beginning to arise today had their genesis in the people and circumstances born in the mid to late 1950’s. Those born between 1955 and 1960 have their natal Chiron in Aquarius, and may be the ones who are called on for help and healing as they have an intimate understanding of the issues being raised now. As Chiron returns to its natal position in our birth chart we experience a cycle of reviewing or reliving some of the feeling of having been wounded during our early years and an opportunity to release and transform what we once thought of as our Achilles' heel into healing ability.

Chiron’s message is we are only as strong as our weakest part; once that has been addressed and attended to we become more aware and stronger in those places, able to offer the benefit of our experience to others. At that point our perspective and our reality improve greatly. Freed of old pain we are liberated and able to more easily create that which our heart desires.

Aquarius! Aquarius!

If you are familiar with the song Aquarius: Let The Sun Shine In by the Fifth Dimension from 1969 you know the Age of Aquarius was envisioned as an idyllic time when the sun would shine and all would be right with the world. I was fourteen years old the first time I heard it and it's been playing on my inner stereo for the past few weeks. The jury is still out on the state of the world during the Age of Aquarius; I'm not sure it has been decided yet exactly when the Age of Aquarius began.

This year the Sun entered visionary, future-oriented Aquarius on January 20th and joined six other planets already there, including the planetoid Chiron, which has been back in Aquarius for the past year, for the first time in its fifty-year cycle since 1960. The slow moving planet of spirituality and illusion, Neptune, has been in Aquarius since the late 1990s.

Aquarius rules astrology and is the sign on of my natal Ascendant and my Chiron. When the Sun left my 12th house, which is the house of the subconscious and of undoing and crossed the degree of my Ascendant I began my personal New Year. With the Sun now in my 1st house of emerging, new beginnings, fresh starts and physical action I notice my energy shifting as it does each year at this time as if dawn had finally arrived after a long, long dark night.

Everyone has a personal New Year's Day when the Sun dawns on the Ascendant in their natal chart. Knowing this information about your natural timing cycle is one key to working with your personal energy cycles and the fine art of good timing.

The Sun, Mercury, Neptune, Chiron and Venus currently rubbing shoulders and sparking fresh ideas and ways of seeing things, with an Aquarian twist, makes this is a great time for starting something new, especially if it involves something is ruled by Aquarius: computers, innovation, invention, genius, the unexpected, humanitarians, technology, electricity, groups, friends, goals, aspirations.

Aquarius is the sign that rules wishes, making this a perfect time to think outside the box and aim high with your intentions and plans for the weeks and months ahead. As it said on a t-shirt I once saw, "Don't let the sky limit you."

New Year~Real Ease

As this New Year begins I look back over the places I've been, knowing as this year dawns, I am free to release that which no longer serves me. I can truly start anew. Without explanation or lengthy anyalysis I can open my hands and release back to the universe all those things that have already served their purpose.

As I write, I see for the first time the real-ease that is inherent in release. Surrendering the struggle to do the impossible and make things fit that I've outgrown, I breathe a sigh of relief.

Ease greets me and offers breathing room that draws me back home to my body where there is, once again, room to entertain the creative nigglings and impulses that push at the edges of my reality and inspire me to move in the direction of delightful potential.

All is well. I dwell in a new sense of wholeness with real ease.