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 8th house can have wounds around:

How to Heal Chiron in the 8th House

• Embrace your unique journey through life’s depths and transformations
• Face the vulnerability of your deepest desires, fears, and need for merger
• Develop self-compassion for your intense emotions and experiences of loss
• Release judgments about your shadows or perceived taboos
• Cultivate a sense of Self that remains steady through all transformations
• Intimately explore your fears of powerlessness or mortality, seeing them as initiations into greater truth
• As you accept your human grappling with power and surrender, develop compassion for all beings facing life’s intensity
• Realize that your essence transcends death and rebirth

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.