Mars Conjunct Chiron – The Spin Doctor

On July 14th, Mars is conjunct Chiron at 9° Aries. This is one of the important transits of 2020 because:

  • It occurs only once every 2 years, marking the beginning of a new Mars-Chiron cycle.
  • It occurs when Chiron is stationary retrograde. Slow-moving planets such as Chiron are most powerful when stationary. Because Chiron is stationary, the upcoming Mars-Chiron cycle will be even more intense.
  • Chiron is the only planet that ‘shares’ the sign of Aries with Mars. Because Mars goes retrograde later this year, Mars will spend a record of 6 months in Aries, however, no other planet, except for Chiron, will be in Aries. Mars in Aries and Mars retrograde will have a strong Chiron – wounding and healing– flavor.

Mars conjunct Chiron is the “Spin Doctor”. “Doctor” because Chiron is the Wounded Healer. And “spin” because Chiron is stationary retrograde, changing direction. Before healing can take place, Mars will spin the knife and stab through the pain.

“Spin doctor” is also a metaphor for someone (a PR, consultant, or spokesperson) who is employed to give a favorable interpretation of events to the media, on behalf of a political party.

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The spin doctor takes money to flip reality and make people in power even more powerful, even if that goes against other people’s personal interests.

We have spin doctors everywhere: politicians, government officials, lobbyists, journalists, salespeople and pretty much everyone who is knowingly distorting reality for personal gain.

We too, are spin doctors, and Mars conjunct Chiron is an opportunity for introspection and awareness, to understand why, how and when that happens.

Before we blame politicians and journalists for being “sellouts” we have to ask how much of a spin doctor we are ourselves.

Let’s take pandemic/vaccines for example, since these are important topics at the moment.

There are two approaches that take the concept of the spin doctor to the extreme: people who don’t take measures to curb the spread of disease for purely egotistical reasons “I do what I want”. This is wounding (Chiron) by putting one’s personal will (Mars) first.

And then we have the other approach: “Everyone should wear masks/get vaccinated/laws should be enforced”, even if that means to limit other people’s personal freedom (Mars).

If in the first case the selfish motivations are pretty straight forward, in the 2nd, they are less evident, because the approach is motivated by the “greater good”.

However, every time we are convinced we know what that “greater good” is, everytime we believe we have the right to ask other people to live their lives the way we believe they should, we become a spin doctor.

Mars In Aries – “I Am”

As long as Mars will circle around the Sun, personal will will exist.

We cannot ‘shut down’ Mars. Neither in ourselves, nor in others.

The more we try to shut it down, the angrier Mars gets.

There is a reason why Mars rules Aries, the 1st sign of the zodiac. Without Mars, there will be no more “I”, there will be no more life. We need Mars’ ‘selfish’ drive to live and fulfill its personal agenda.

And as frustrating as it is to live with other people that have their own Mars agenda, this is just part – and a prerequisite – of life.

Chiron – The Wounded Healer, The Wounded Wounder

Chiron is known as the Wounded Healer, and it is associated with the process of healing by exposing one’s deepest wound.

However, to get there, we have to go through a painful process of reconciliation. Chiron is not all nice and sweet. Chiron can be the Wounded Wounder just as much he is the Wounded Healer.

Chiron, the half-man, half-horse centaur, is a symbol of the duality we need to reconcile within ourselves.

The more we try to distance ourselves from that 50% we find undesirable, the more split we become at an identity level, and the more we distance ourselves from healing, which can only take place through the process of reconciliation.

Going deep inside ourselves and admitting there’s 50% of us that is selfish and cruel is NOT easy. It is always difficult. If it doesn’t hurt, if we don’t feel comfortable, it doesn’t happen.

At first, it’s almost impossible, because it goes against our survival instinct. That’s why it’s easier – as a first step to healing – to project the 50% onto the other.

Chiron is now in Aries, the sign of “I am”. The opposite sign, Libra, is the sign of the “Other”, the sign of projection. What we don’t/can’t see and understand within ourselves, we project onto others.

What is very interesting is that the Aries/Libra axis is very Chiron-sensitive. Chiron’s perihelion, the closest point to the Sun in his orbit is in Libra, while his most distant point from the Sun, aphelion, is in Aries.

This means Chiron is very good at doing the “Libra” thing, i.e. splitting and projecting (and later, hopefully, healing by reconciling) but it is not so good at “I am”, at taking charge, at claiming its identity as a 50% Wounded Healer, and 50% Wounded Wounder.

Mars Conjunct Chiron – The Spin Doctor

But that’s why we have Mars. Mars is in domicile (and very strong) in Aries. Mars has the upper hand here, and will “force” Chiron to expose the Chironic process of split/wounding and take ownership of it.

Chiron will also help Mars to see where he is too selfish and where he seeks – consciously and unconsciously – personal gain at the expense of other people’s personal gains.

Mars conjunct Chiron is our opportunity to see where we are spin doctors. Where we deform reality to seek personal gain.

When we do that, two beautiful things happen: 1). We understand when others do the same, and we are much less likely to be the victim of other Wounded Wounders, and 2). We find empathy for ourselves and others, and we heal.

Ultimately, Mars conjunct Chiron is an opportunity to align our personal will (Mars) with the greater will (Chiron).

And since none of us really knows what this “greater will” is, the best we can do is to aim to heal our inner Mars, by embracing our ‘selfishness’ and taking full responsibility for our actions.

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10 thoughts on “Mars Conjunct Chiron – The Spin Doctor

  1. This is really amazing content. Personally, I am very curious as to how all of this will play out. Thanks for the refreshing insights! This is 100% of the reasons why I subscribed!

  2. Definitely a brilliant description of Chiron. I find those people aren’t able to explain him adequately. I appreciate your take on Mars Chiron conjunction. I find it helpful for now and a good reflection for the future using Chiron.

  3. I love the way you write. I love the way you make me think, but, today my thinking was, what if we said not everyone needs to stop on red lights, and thus OK of they crash, kill themselves and others? I am not upset when I see the non-mask wearers as I protect myself by wearing mine, I have friends who go ballistic, or have seen people approach others and scold them.
    So my question is, as I truly respect your opinion, there is “the guise of’ the greater good and then the logical argument i.e. red light means STOP, for a greater good. At any rate I will be pondering on the Greater Good control factor . Thank you again, I love your work and learn a lot from all your posts.

  4. Thank you for the well explained information on Chiron. Big player in my chart. Have never be given better info on it’s role. Gratitude.

  5. What a Delightful Ponder to begin my day…thank you for your scholarship and wisdom

  6. EXCELLENT!! Yes, with 5 Libra placements (incl. Chiron and Neptune in 12th house), plus a Libra Ascendant, I DO KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN. The Mars-Chiron conjunction coincides with my starting a peer support group for people with anxiety disorder.
    I know I will be tested greatly, but this “coming out” as who I’m meant to be (after years of struggling with but ultimately resolving much of my Chironic pain), and at age 75, I’m willing to face whatever comes up as the next steps in my evolution.

  7. It seems to me that there is more than these two approaches. Labelling people selfish if they dont want to follow the popular opinion doesn’t make sense to me. Respecting others no matter their choice does.

  8. Very interesting… throughout my study of astrology I have put Chiron aside, as it is a “newer” discovery, however, I have lately been studying Chiron and I am grateful for your write up here… 🙂 Gosh I have quite a bit of Libra in my chart, don’t think I have any Aries though, but hubby has an Aries moon, we are both Libra sun… it will be an interesting journey for us both I think… 🙂 I hope to Goodness that COVID is sorted soon, I am amazed and appalled at the nastiness I have seen on f/b over this pandemic… Is it the Mars (me first) energy I wonder? Have a great day everyone, and be nice to each other… 🙂

  9. Thank You!! Very interesting and helpful astrological input on chiron in mars !!
    Would be very intereted if you do personal charts to !
    Please let me know and lots of Love to You 🦋❤🙏

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