Chiron.

At the time of writing, Chiron is currently stationing retrograde not far from my natal Venus. With my natal Chiron also on my DC, this is really hammering home the whole concept of Chiron for me. What perfect time to write an article on the subject!

Chiron is not a glamorous entity. I have seen it written by some very weak/ scammy heads that this is a true love asteroid, a marriage asteroid. The truth is far more beautiful and complex than that.

Chiron was a centaur who was known as the wisest and noblest of them all. Son of the Titan Cronus and a nymph, he was the half brother of Zeus. Centaurs were usually considered to be deranged, violent and lustful- like satyrs, but Chiron was different. He had great knowledge of healing and medicine, and trained many heroes. However, in the end he could not heal his own wound, where he was shot by a poisonous arrow. He lives in the constellations forever, honoured by Zeus- with his inoperable, uncurable, unfixable wound.

Chiron reminds me of the good old Serenity Prayer:

“God, grant me the serenity/ To accept the things we cannot change/ Courage to change the things we can/ And the Wisdom to know the difference.”

Where Chiron is in our own chart reminds us of the things we cannot change. It is the wound that cannot heal that connects us to our powerlessness. Our unsolvable pain. Which sounds rather strange if you know how much I talk about our own power!

However. We are NOT powerful when we are disconnected from the Divine and the Divine Plan. We all must realise that we are a part of a great holistic whole, and we cannot be tuned into every single happening. There are still going to be things in our life that we cannot change. Pain will be an ongoing feature of our existence, as much as we despise it. But! The very magic of this powerlessness is the fact that it allows us to connect to something greater than ourselves.

That is the meaning of Chiron when it is talked about as the “Rainbow Bridge”. It is the healing crisis as power surges through our chakras which light up like a rainbow when we plug into the Divine at last. Chiron experiences will help us form connexions from inner planets to outer planets, from lower worlds to higher worlds- and stay safe, secure and serene in our rightful place in the present moment.