Chiron Wound

In Astrology, Chiron shows us the area of life that we strive for wholeness from a place of early life wounding.

It’s in this area of life that we seek healing from our pain, but one that cannot be cured. Yet it is through our unwavering efforts to heal our own pain that we gain knowledge and experience to share with others.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you ~ Rumi

It wasn’t too long ago that I stood in front of my yoga class and spoke of “chasing” the cure. I had gone from healer to healer, ingested herbs, recited mantras, wrote journal entries, and prayed to god that my suffering would end. There was no gaping flesh wound that could be seen. My wound was deeper than any band-aid could mend. It was a hunger, an obsession to find something that would HEAL me! And once I was healed, my life would be complete and whole.

Through the process of searching to fix my own “immortal” wound, I unlocked my hidden superpowers.

My studies in astrology deepened, I learned about yoga, meditation, holistic health, gratitude, acceptance, unconditional love, compassion, presence, the ability to embrace my fears, and shadows in self-reflection. What I had been experiencing was my Chiron wound.

Chiron has both a sad and beautiful story.

Born a Centaur, half man and half horse, (symbolizing gaining mastery over our bestial nature) to Philyra a sea-nymph and Cronos ( Saturn). He suffered his first wound of rejection and abandonment soon after his birth. By all accounts, he never knew his father and once Phylira saw that she had given birth to a beast, she begged Zeus to turn her into a Linden tree.

Centaurs were known to be unruly and uncivilized, but Chiron was not. Apollo had taken Chiron under his guidance teaching him music, hunting, archery, and medicine. However, his fate took a turn once he was struck by the arrow of Hercules which was dipped in poison from fighting a group of savage Centaurs.

Being immortal Chiron was unable to heal the wound from the poisonous arrow, and here we see the wound of his suffering. His quest to heal his pain gained him mastery in becoming a healer, physician, working with herbs, homeopathic medicine, a philosopher and teacher. Although unable to heal his own pain, he was able to teach and heal others.

Yet it was only when he sacrificed his immortality to save Prometheus that Chiron was liberated from his wound and immortalized being placed in the heavens between Saturn (the end to the physical realm) and Uranus (where we begin our spiritual connection)

The unruly desire to heal our own pain is symbolic of Chiron’s lower half, the horse.

Through a process of acceptance, we begin to raise our awareness, allowing our superpowers to teach and help others heal from the place of our own wounding.

It is in homeopathic medicine that the source of the pain or illness is the antidote for the cure.

Short guidance key… wounding can be felt as a weakened place or overcompensation to mask the pain.