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 6th house can have wounds around:
How to Heal Chiron in the 6th House
- Acknowledge your unique approach to daily life and service
- Face the vulnerability of your physical health and work routines
- Develop self-compassion around your need for order or your struggles with perfectionism
- Release judgments about productivity or usefulness
- Cultivate a sense of Self beyond your daily roles or bodily condition
- Intimately explore your anxieties about health or work, seeing them as teachers of presence
- As you encounter your human frailty and limitations, develop compassion for all beings striving to be of service
- Realize that your true nature transcends your physical form or daily functions
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.
