After seven years of working through our existential and spiritual pain in the sign of Pisces, Chiron enters Aries. We move from the sign of endings to the sign of beginnings, from the Universal to the I. It’s a new cycle of healing.
How do you explain Chiron in astrology? Its influence is subtle, emotional, psychic. As an object in our solar system, it lies just outside the line of manifestation, which is to say beyond Saturn. To feel Chiron, we have to connect to our pain — that pain that runs through all of us as well as the stories and experiences that invoke the memory of suffering. And we find Chiron in our spiritual scar tissue, a record of the times where someone or something hurt us.
The purpose of Chiron in astrology is to help us heal. But while our healing at times feels quite personal — meaning our wounds are a story that we carve out our identity with — Chiron wants us to transcend the personal and into the collective experience. It’s not our pain, it’s the pain of humanity. It’s not our struggles with self worth, it’s compassion for all people who suffer with a lack of self worth. Chiron is like a knot that we have to undo for ourselves so that all humanity can be free from this knot. (Read more about Chiron in On Chiron, Suffering, and Knots.)
With Chiron in Aries, the knot runs around our ability to take action, to stand up for ourselves, to bravely move forward. Chiron in Aries invokes the previous times when we were scarred by aggression, violence, or even war. It touches on suppressed anger and frustration as well as defeatism. It’s power struggles in relationships. It’s our physical wounds, our handicaps, the times we’ve felt stuck. Chiron in Aries is the karma of inaction.
For this, we’re looking at the complicated side of Aries, working on our knots so that humanity can heal and feel empowered to move forward, to take action, and have a more positive relationship with the Aries archetype. Chiron unlocks a higher experience, but first we have to transcend ourselves. And with Chiron in Aries, we’re rising above Aries’s deep need to personalize.
If you were born with Chiron in Aries (roughly 1968–1977), you’ve lived this struggle your whole life. But while it’s felt deeply personal at times, you’re helping humanity heal its karmic relationship with anger and aggression. You’ve been learning to stand up for yourself and take action so that all of humanity can receive this gift. Over the next 8–9 years, you’ll be checking in on your progress of healing this part of your life while Chiron returns to the place it was in the sky when you were born.
It’s important to take note of what takes places as Chiron arrives in Aries. It initiates a story that you will be working through until 2027. While this amount of time may seem vast, it speaks to a larger knot that we’re unraveling in the tapestry of our life. Further, if we look to where Mars is in the sky on this day — this is something called an ingress chart in astrology — we see it’s coming up on Pluto. Whatever work we do over the coming years will be powerful and profoundly transformative.
On a historical note, for context, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated just two days after Chiron arrived in Aries on April 1968. That event, that wound of violence and the suffering it engendered, marked a new chapter of the 1960s. It also revealed a knot in the fabric of humanity that we are still working to undo — the knot of racism, oppression, and brutality.
Read More:
On Chiron, Suffering, and Knots
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Beautiful, Katie – thank you. I feel a big energetic shift over the last few days! Hope you’re well.
xoxo
Emily
If the past week is any indication of what I have to expect for the next nine years, I’d like to be cryogenically frozen and woken up after Chiron moves into Taurus.
Thank you for your beautiful insights.
Most Excellent, Katie! I appreciate you and ALL you do! Thanks so much! Been following you for years!
Namaste,
Phyllis
Wow, thank you, this article is quite illuminating! My 6th House Aries Chiron is quite highlighted due to its exact opposition to my Sun, loose opposition to my Scorpio Uranus, and loose conjunction with my 5th House Jupiter/Moon conjunction. By the time of my Chiron return, Pluto (my chart’s ruler, which also happens to be exactly conjunct Mercury in my sun sign of Libra) will have moved through squares and T-squares with all of the aforementioned planets in my chart, but will still be in the final throes of his square to my Uranus.
How very fitting that my Chiron return will coincide with that final Pluto square, that of the transformer and the revolutionary! Of course the wounded healer will then make an opposition to the revolutionary! My frequency has risen as I have written this….. a premonition of what is to come, and how much I will have untangled the knots 8 years from now!!!
Much gratitude for this article!
Thank you so much for this and taking the time to do so!! Namaste
Thank you so much for this article! I took a class on Chiron shortly before it Entered Aries in February of this year. She mentioned a lot of what you have in your article. She also said to make note of what happened with us on that day, which I believe was a Monday as far as harsh feelings, drama, etc. That morning I woke up feeling incredibly peaceful. One of my biggest issues in this lifetime has been battling… Making war… I always have a fight going on with somebody… Currently its with my very toxic masculine neighbor And his sugar mama.… Sun conjunct Mars in my chart. After Chirons move into Aries, I asked what is my deepest wound That needs healed. War is it. Most of the past lives I have remembered that were male have been about war, bullying, rape, toxic masculinity in all it’s forms. Most of the female life times I have remembered have been the polar opposite… Victimization, martyrdom, everything associated with being a victim of toxic masculinity. I feel that this is really going to get healed this time around. No more war… Only peace… In my head, my heart, and my home.
Shoot… It keeps telling me I have a duplicate message. I don’t. Anyway I really enjoyed the article.
Let’s see if it will take my comment now…I took a class on Chiron shortly before it Entered Aries in February of this year. She mentioned a lot of what you have in your article. She also said to make note of what happened with us on that day, which I believe was a Monday as far as harsh feelings, drama, etc. That morning I woke up feeling incredibly peaceful. One of my biggest issues in this lifetime has been battling… Making war… I always have a fight going on with somebody… Currently its with my very toxic masculine neighbor And his sugar mama.… Sun conjunct Mars in my chart. After Chirons move into Aries, I asked what is my deepest wound That needs healed. War is it. Most of the past lives I have remembered that were male have been about war, bullying, rape, toxic masculinity in all it’s forms. Most of the female life times I have remembered have been the polar opposite… Victimization, martyrdom, everything associated with being a victim of toxic masculinity. I feel that this is really going to get healed this time around. No more war… Only peace… In my head, my heart, and my home.