You may wonder what’s all this fuss about Chiron. If you are familiar with Chiron in your natal chart, or have been following your Chiron transits, you already know how powerful Chiron is. Its influence is undeniable.
Just like Pluto, Chiron is tiny but mighty.
Because of its strategic placement – between Saturn and Uranus – Chiron plays a key role in our natal chart. In fact, Chiron’s symbol is a “key” – and not by coincidence. Chiron is the KEY that can unlock our chart.
In Astrology, Chiron stands for:
- Our Deepest Wound
- Holistic Healing – which only happens when we integrate the wound
- Our greatest gifts and talents – which only become gifts when the initial wound is healed
You may already be familiar with the “Wounded Healer” archetype. However, there are three archetypes associated with Chiron: the Wounded Healer, the Shaman, and the Alchemist.
These 3 archetypes represent the transcendental journey of the soul: we firstly suffer and explore our primal wound (the Wounded Healer). We then embrace it and heal it (the Shaman). Only after we explore the first 2 Chiron archetypes can we then transcend the wound and transform it into a gift (the Alchemist).
1. The Wounded Healer
The Wounded Healer describes our first experiences with the primal wound. At this stage, the wound is not yet acknowledged.
Some people brush their wounds off for their entire lives. Lurking in the background of their unconscious, the wound sabotages them in unconscious ways.
Most of us continue living with the wound, because we’re not even aware that there’s ‘another way’.
2. The Shaman
There comes a time when the wound is so painful, so acute, that it can no longer be ignored. This integration of the Chiron wound corresponds with the 2nd Chiron archetype, the Shaman.
We call this stage the Shaman, because a Shaman, or the Medicine Man or Medicine Woman, has the ability to travel between worlds.
This extraordinary ability bestows them with healing powers. This ability to ‘travel between worlds’ is a metaphor for the integration of the different areas of our psyche: the good, the bad, and the ugly.
When we hate our bodies, are ashamed of our secret desires, or are disturbed by our anger, envy, greed, or other ‘undesirable’ traits, we can never be whole, we can never fully be ourselves.
When all the different parts of ourselves are integrated, then, and only then, healing is found. The Shaman is the most intense Chiron developmental stage, but it’s critical to embrace it if we want to eventually alchemize our wounds into gifts and live wholesome lives.
3. The Alchemist
Finally, the 3rd developmental stage, the Alchemist, corresponds to the gift that naturally emerges when we heal and integrate our wound.
Our fear of public speaking transforms into great communication skills.
Fighting chronic illness eventually helps us discover a unique, holistic approach to healing.
The unexplained longings that make us feel spiritually sick eventually help us guide others on their own journey to greatness.
But how do we transform the wound into a gift? How do we do “the Chiron work”?
Chiron – Your Deepest Wound, Your Greatest Gift
In the “Chiron – Your Deepest Wound, Your Greatest Gift” we follow a 3-step framework that is designed after the 3 Chiron archetypes, 1) the “Wounded Healer”, 2) the “Shaman” and 3) the “Alchemist”.
In the 1st module of the course, the “Wounded Healer” we explore our natal Chiron placement. Our Chiron sign, the aspects to other planets, and especially our Chiron house placement, all describe our “wounding profile”.
The Chiron chart placement, as well as a series of inquiry exercises, will help you to identify your Chiron wound.
If in the 1st module of the course is the “What”, in the 2nd module of the course, the “Shaman” we explore the “How” – how we personally ‘respond’ to Chiron.
Our Chiron wound can stay dormant until a Chiron transit activates it. That’s why in this module we look at different Chiron transits from our past (some Chiron transits are, of course, more relevant than others) so we can identify how we “do” Chiron, and what healing looks like for us.
Finally, the 3rd module of the course, the “Alchemist” is the “Why”.
Our pain and suffering is not in vain. To achieve our greatest human potential we first need the experience of the wound. It’s our initial attempts to heal the wound that eventually alchemize into healing gifts.
We are not here by chance. We are all here for a reason, and when we do the Chiron work, things finally start to fall into place.
When Chiron travels through different signs (now it’s in Aries), it activates different houses in our natal chart, asking us to alchemize the wounding that corresponds to that area of our life, and transform it into a gift.
If you resonate with this 3-stage approach, join us in the “Chiron – Your Deepest Wound, Your Greatest Gift” 3-week transformation journey.
Each week, we dive into each of these 3 Chiron archetypes with astrology, psychology and healing tools so you can get a holistic understanding of your Chiron wound and of the precious gift behind it.
Learn more about the program, and join us here:
Chiron – Your Deepest Wound, Your Greatest Gift
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