Chiron is an asteroid that overlaps the orbits of Saturn and Uranus. It was discovered in the 1970s, so its meaning and energy are still being explored, resulting in diverse interpretations among astrologers. My take on Chiron is that the Chiron wound is the initiator of a journey to our deeper wholeness.

Chiron in the 4th house can have wounds around:

How to Heal Chiron in the 4th House

• Recognize the unique nature of your emotional foundations and sense of home
• Face the vulnerability of your deepest feelings and needs for belonging
• Develop self-compassion for your emotional sensitivities and family history
• Release judgments about your past or emotional responses
• Cultivate a sense of Self that feels at home everywhere, beyond physical or emotional roots
• Intimately explore your feelings of not belonging or emotional pain, seeing them as guides to universal connection
• As you accept your human need for security and love, develop compassion for all beings seeking home
• Realize that your true home transcends any physical or emotional space

The Chiron wound involves a feeling of being different and uniquely broken. There is a sense of vulnerability you can’t avoid feeling. This is the initiation of the spiritual journey, if you are willing to turn toward the pain instead of away from it.

In turning toward it, you develop self-compassion. You bring love to the places in you that feel broken and unlovable. Through becoming intimate with the limitations of your human form, you develop compassion for every human, because we all suffer.

The next step in the journey is one not many people take, but it is the empowerment that I believe Chiron is here to teach us. It is to let go of the identification with woundedness. We recognize ourselves as unlimited spiritual beings having a temporary Earth experience.

We shift our identity from our human ego to our Soul. We hold the dual awareness of grace: compassion for our suffering combined with certain knowledge that we are not our suffering.

Through this process of spiritual awakening and Self-realization, we access our unique medicine that we then become a vehicle for transmitting on Earth. Thus the Chiron wound acts as a bridge both for our journey home to ourselves, and for our medicine to be brought into the world.