For most of us when someone mentions Astrology to you, your first thought is perhaps the daily horoscopes you read in the paper and the knowledge you have of your own birth sign. What people are not so much aware of is that your Astrology is the blue print of your life, it is the hand book you lost on the way down!
How Astrology works is through the interpretation of your Natal Chart. Your Natal Chart is a map of the heavens at the time of your birth, therefore it is very rare for any two Charts to be alike as this information is based on the TIME, DATE and PLACE of your birth. The planets move in relationship to each other every 4 minutes, so an accurate recording of your birth time is imperative to a correct Natal Chart interpretation.
For anyone, and especially those on the spiritual path, your Natal Chart is an imperative guide and wealth of information to help you along your journey. I believe that when you truly know and accept yourself for the person that you are, then there is nothing you cannot achieve in your lifetime. Your Natal Chart gives you the insight into what makes you tick and react the way that you do to certain situations and people, and through this insight you can learn to let go of the Self and the ego attachment we have to our emotions. Your Natal Chart can also identify periods in your life when you are concentrating on particular lessons, and you can see how at these times there is always plenty of positive energy to use to learn from, just as there is negative energy there to refuse to learn from.
Through a series of articles I am going to introduce you to the different planets and the energies that surround them and how they affect you and your growth on the earth plane.
Where Chiron sits in our Charts is where we arrive into this lifetime wounded and with a need to heal ourselves...
Chiron (The Wounded Healer)
The planet Chiron was discovered in 1977 between the orbits of Saturn and Uranus, making it esoterically what you could call the bridge between our discipline and our freedom. In my opinion to bridge that gap and walk that path, we must learn the truth about ourselves and heal what prevents us from seeing this. Many Astrologers, including myself, now consider this planet to be the ruler of the star sign Virgo.
Where Chiron sits in our Charts is where we arrive into this lifetime wounded and with a need to heal ourselves, and once we have learned to heal ourselves in that particular area, then it is where we can go on to heal others too. To this end you can expect where Chiron sits in your Chart to be a very sensitive area of your life, as it usually indicates an area where we lack confidence and feel very vulnerable and cannot seem to give ourselves a break at times, so naturally, it is an area where we can very easily feel hurt.
As this area is so sensitive to us, it is very easy for us to blame others for hurting us here, when what we are actually doing is already attacking ourselves in this area, and they are just reflecting this self-abuse back to us. So, what others are actually doing for us is mirroring this area as that place that so deeply needs to be healed within us. Like anything in life, the more we experience it the more we can learn about it and the more we have to offer in that area also, so the power of Chiron is in the fact that this incredible healing that we need, is exactly what we can then offer to others. To this end Virgo’s in general make very good healers, as their degree of empathy and understanding is often a lot more developed than that of others.
The placement of Chiron in our Charts is also often indicative of where we have experienced much pain and confusion in past lives, as this is an energy we bring through with us from the Spirit world to the earth plane. To this end our Chiron lessons are so very very important, as they, similar to retrogrades which we will discuss at a future date, are representative of issues that we have either ignored or found too hard to deal with in past incarnations, and therefore these lessons are getting harder and harder as we struggle to learn them.
